I have hunted the same property for 5 years now, and while it can produce 180 inch bucks, this last year was the toughest by far. We hunt the breaks going down to a river in central south dakota, the farmers usually have the crops mostly cut by the time bow season starts which pushes the deer out of the fields and into the breaks where they are huntable. This year lots of rain kept them from cutting fields and there was about 3 times as much standing milo, sunflowers and corn as in previous years. When the crops are up the deer camp out in them and its real hard to put eyeballs or a scope on them. We saw a fifth of the deer we usually see last fall.
This was the biggest deer we saw, but no one killed a mulie off that property this year, will be interesting to get back this fall and see if we can find him what kind of growth he can put on in a year.
