Let's see some Mule Bucks

[JLS]

 

[Smokeybarrel]

Dead or alive, velvet or hard horned, big or small. Extra points for dead and alive pics...

Here's one I wish I had gotten better pictures of. Didn't have very good optics when I saw this one..



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[Smokeybarrel]

Neighborhood night stalker, always on my trail camera at night. Only time I ever saw him in daylight.

 

[Deleted member 16014]

Posted elsewhere on HT, never threw it on here I guess. I enjoy this thread a lot.

 

[jlong17]

We don’t get too many mature bucks where I hunt here in California, so this one was pretty special.
Cool story behind this guy. I had spotted him a few times last year and blew a stalk on him during archery season. Come rifle season, I spotted him again, but sadly whiffed a 300 yard shot. After that, the buck began to hunker down on private land. I’d take my little girl on “coffee car rides” where we look for bucks and sip on coffee and milk. We would see this buck often and admire his beauty. Fast forward to a few days ago and my little brother found his final resting place. He was only a few hundred yards from where I stalked him with my bow last September. Sad to see his life come to an end, but cool to have his horns in the family so we could reminisce about him every time we have dinner together.

Side note: I couldn’t tell if he was shot and never recovered or if he was a lion kill. His face was eaten off, and I’ve been told that’s a sign that he was a lion kill? Anyone confirm?

 

[antlerradar]

Two years in a row. The first was one of the wetted years on record, the second one of the driest.

 

[Carl 9.3x62]

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That's cool how the cheater on his right antler jumped tines.

 

[BlakeA]

Nevada 2018. Awesome cape on this one.

 

[MTTW]

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Do you know his age?

 

[Smokeybarrel]

Nevada 2018. Awesome cape on this one.


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Velvet stripping

 

[antlerradar]

Do you know his age?

I do not. Seen him a grand total of 4 times in the last two years. Shows up the last part of the rut on private land and then disappears to places unknown. I have some ideas though.

 

[ccc23454]

Rifle rack buck

 

[jeremy59]

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Nice buck

 

[Redman]

Same buck dead and alive.

 

[JM77]

That picture of my dad really inspired me as a kid. He took the picture of me on the snowy October day of my first deer hunt.

 

[JM77]

Top buck is my first on my own and as I got older, the bucks got a little bigger.

 

[JM77]

In the mid 90s I was beginning to find a whole new class of muley buck.

 

[Art Vandeley]

In the mid 90s I was beginning to find a whole new class of muley buck.

Those two look like they are related. Awesome pictures

 

[EYJONAS!]

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In the mid 90s I was beginning to find a whole new class of muley buck.

Please tell me you have more

 

[bigsky2]

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In the mid 90s I was beginning to find a whole new class of muley buck.

Same area? These bucks look like they could be related.