High Country Buck

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Despite the knee deep snow, we left the truck this morning two hours before light and headed for the high country. My buddy Justin made two great shots, and we spent the next 10 hours packing this guy pack to the trailhead.

 

[Oak]

That's a cool buck....

 

[Bucnutz.wis]

That is a neat looking buck - good work - Congrats !!

 

[hitman]

Nice buck. The adventure will live in your memories for ever. The stuff dreams are made of.

 

[belly-deep]

Gnarly old buck. Cool.

 

[mtmiller]

Sweet buck. 10 hrs packing or dragging?

 

[Big Fin]

Wow, that is one cool buck. Congrats to you and Justing. Would love to shoot one like that someday.

 

[Hem]

Cool looking buck.

 

[ADDDICT]

I am jealous man. Cool character buck. Congrats!

 

[mdunc8]

That's a funky buck. Congrats.

 

[shoots-straight]

Strange looking old dude. Way to go Randy

 

[JoseCuervo]

Sweet buck. 10 hrs packing or dragging?

I am wondering why they just didn't drive up to the road where they shot him in the first picture?


Needless to say, nice buck.

 

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Sweet buck. 10 hrs packing or dragging?

The real story:
The highways were horrible, so we ended up pulling off the interstate right at first light. We drove up to a high spot to glass from the truck, to try to spot a good one to make a move on.

After glassing for only a couple minutes this guys wanders out in the flat below us. Justin sets up, and after ten minutes or so the buck comes back out in the open. Justin makes two awesome shots at 275 and 245 yards, and buck keels over... right on the road in the top picture.

We literally did not drag this deer. We rolled him over to take pictures, once more to gut him, flopped him over to drain out the blood, and loaded him in the pickup.

I don't want to say it was complete luck with as hard as we hunt this area, but it's kind of hard to call it anything else. I don't feel the least bit guilty though after some of the other packs we've gone through getting way lesser deer out of the same drainage, including my mule deer from a week ago.

 

[elk_hunter]

That is a dang nice buck - super tall for a whitey!

 

[Sytes]

Very nice buck! Great character!

Those simple pack outs... or load ups sure elevate the appreciation for the heafty pack outs - the ones you tend to be familiar with!

 

[van franke]

Very cool buck, are you going to do shoulder mount or euro. Either would be sweet

 

[Dinkshooter]

Very cool buck, are you going to do shoulder mount or euro. Either would be sweet

Lifesize, with the grill of a Chevy pickup holding him up

 

[AZ402]

Sweet looking buck!!

 

[Dinkshooter]

Maybe a tire pedestal mount?:hump:

 

[fowladdict]

That is a cool character buck! Congrats to your buddy Randy.