09 Bow Mule.
 

Been at it for pushing 2 straight weeks, hunting half a dozen monster to world class mule deer. The turf is some of the toughest open country spot and stalk archery hunting in North America. I will try to keep a very long story short. I was daily putting on 2 miles in the morning with a headlamp to get into position on these deer that were stretched out in some very rugged country. I had numerous close calls on each individual buck in the varying 100 yard range, but only twice able to close on them into bow range. It was a very fragile situation and had to be played carefully. More often than not I was backing out to keep from spooking deer, however every other day I was in position to carefully bump deer to jockey for where I needed to be. I managed to close to an even 45 yards on the smallest of the big deer in the area, and was able to get drawn. His Green Gross comes in at 185 4/8. He unfortunately broke off his left G3. I saw him with the point 3 days earlier, it was right in at that 7 inch mark. Giving him what he had afew days earlier, he would have came in pushing 193 inch. All in all, Im mentally exhausted, physically drained, and happy as I can be about how this extremely tough hunt turned out. I think this one could very well be the poster boy for fair chase hunting. Not a hunt or a mule deer Im going to be forgetting any time soon.

Hope every one has a safe and enjoyable fall.
Keep a strain on er.

Congrats pack

Pack
Great looking mulie and congrats on a successful hunt what did he score?
G

thats a great muley!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
what are you shootin and where???
Congrats!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

love the character , congrats on a fine trophy !

congrats on another great muley

Great lookin deer pack!!!

Pack, you are the mulie man! Awesome hard earned bucks two years in a row now! And he was the SMALLEST one? Thanks so much for sharing this sucess with us and congrats, bud.:)

Tree

Even with a broken point he's a hogg! Congrats Pack.

Great mulie pack!

Well done, nothing like the gratification of success after many plans, miles and calories burned. Excellent field photos - I don't mind blood.

Pack
sounds like you earned this beauty buck. What a beautiful animal he is.

Congrats and best wishes
ticdoc

Hey Wes.... great buck and nice field photos......you will have to show me more pics and tell me an indepth story ...next year at the fishing tournaments .........SWEEEEEET

Nice looking deer man! Some times the hardest earned trophies, regardless of the score they recieve, are the most appreciated. God I love that coulee country.

congrats on the deer.

looking at the pictures i think i know where it was shot..but i could be really out to lunch. but i think i saw that deer opening day...near a compressor station.

Great job on a fine buck...

Nice to see your hard work pay off....

I would have broke down and cried over the busted point for sure :cry:


Congrats again

hey pack ,

beautiful mulie, its so much sweeter when the hard work pays off...congrats!!!

Awesome buck. Congrats on your efforts and sealing the deal.

Very nice job, Congrats!

There is no better feeling than after all the hard work and many attemps made that it all seems to come together and your sucsessfull.Congrats great deer.

Hey Pack......congrats on another great mulie....you have the knack of knocking them down. Love that first photo.........Marco

Good look'n Mule! persistence pays off!

To kill a deer like that in this kind of heat...unreal. Very nice work.

Big buck down!!

Pretty satisfying when the hard work like that finally pays off. Nice looking buck Pack.

Thanks a whole bunch guys! Im pretty proud of this one. This was one tough hunt. I see there is some nice stuff starting to filter onto AO here already,,, congrats to all!! Good luck out there boys!!

Great buck and story. It sounds like what hunting is truly meant to be.

Awesome deer, great story, When you work that hard it is nice to see it pay off, and with the heat we've had I know your work didn't finish with the shot.

Great story and great animal!
Congrats on the tough hunt!

Congrats on another dandy archery mule deer Pack.
Job well done.