2008 Utah Muzzy, Public Land

74cj5 · Nov 3, 2008

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2008 Utah General Season Muzzle-Loader
Public ground, DIY hunt!
31" wide, Green scored at 190"
Congrats to my brother, Bern, who got the final trigger-pull!

Watch for the story in an upcoming issue of Muley Crazy Magazine!

backinthegame · Nov 3, 2008

Great buck...good job!

kicker · Nov 3, 2008

UUUuuuuhhhhhhhh................WOW!

I no can speak...........tounge mine is on floor.....duuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

rekcik

peakfreak · Nov 3, 2008

Freakin Sweeeeet!!!

oilcan · Nov 3, 2008

Great looking buck

Walkers · Nov 3, 2008

Great Buck! What region?

MuskegMan · Nov 3, 2008

WOWZA!

Nice job. I'm calling it the Vampire buck, cuz it was taken around Halloween and it looks like it's been sucking blood.

ICHABOD · Nov 3, 2008

Awesome Buck!
Congrats!
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"Yeah, I'll shoot him"

ELKOHOLIC · Nov 3, 2008

Congrats on a dandy buck. I think I might know that buck all to well. Sent you a PM.

Sanpeter · Nov 3, 2008

That buck was shot in my back yard... I wish I could connect on a buck like that someday, I've only seen a few like that around this unit.

Congrats to the hunter...

"With hurricanes, tornados, fires out of control, mud
slides, flooding, severe thunderstorms tearing up the
country from one end to another, and with the threat
of bird flu and terrorist attacks, 'Are we sure this is a
good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?
"- Jay Leno

74cj5 · Nov 3, 2008

Thanks for all the great replies, especially Kicker!!!

Elkoholic, I replied to your PM.

kicker · Nov 4, 2008

Okay I'm awake now. That my friend is a beautiful buck. I cannot imagine dropping the hammer on a toad like that and waiting for the smoke to clear to see if your shot was true.

Congratulations, how about a few details on the events leading up to caping him out???

Kicker

muleycraz · Nov 5, 2008

AWESOME BUCK!!! Clean the blood off the animal next time it makes for much better pictures lol. plus magazines prefer the clean photos anyway

74cj5 · Nov 11, 2008

Kicker,

I don't want to give too much away, but I can tell you that my brother got the shot at a mere 20 yards!!!

Thanks again for the great comments.

PineCreek · Nov 11, 2008

Very nice buck.Congrtats

Scrillznac · Nov 11, 2008

That thing's a TOAD! Nice job man.

BuckSeeker79 · Nov 11, 2008

Great buck! Can't wait to get the issue and hear all the nitty gritty on the beast.

Congrats!

brokentine1 · Dec 4, 2008

What a stroker!!! Thats a dream buck! Congrats

Salmon · Dec 4, 2008

What a slab!! Looks like a 50lb king to me. LOL

manny15 · Dec 5, 2008

awsome!

utfireman · Dec 5, 2008

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I chased him on the opener of the bow hunt this year. I watch a hunter come to 30 yards from the buck and the buck just sat down and the hunter had no idea how close he was to a toad.

Question for you, are you with the party that had twenty trailer's and almost a hundred people up there on the bow hunt?

74cj5 · Dec 5, 2008

utfireman,

No doubt he was a smart animal!

I am certainly not with that huge camp, and have stopped hunting the opening day of the bow hunt because of them! Luckily they only "hunt" Saturday morning, then pack-up and head out. I watched a group of 14 bucks leave the valley before sunrise as all the head-lamps flooded in! The rest of the season, my brother and I seemed to have it all to ourselves. Most the guys in that camp are dedicated hunters with tags in other regions, but archery is open statewide. I'm hoping that Utah goes through with one of the proposed tag changes to help break-up camps like that one.

Take care.

utfireman · Dec 5, 2008

Well, I am glad that he didn't go to one of those guy's. They had one nice buck running around the hole with an arrow in him.
So were you able to see this buck's friends before the archery hunt started?