Wife's first Nevada Muley

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My wife was lucky enough to draw a tag that was very close to our home here in southern Nevada. So I have been doing lots of scouting and looking for the biggest buck we could find almost every other day for the last two weeks. I hadn't seen anything really big yet but knew there would be some nice bucks if we did some hiking and got away from the roads. I didn't know how this would go over with my wife who is from the big city and having her first Muley tag I didn't know if she would like all the hiking. Boy was I wrong.

Last night I hurried home from work in time to go hit one spot I had seen deer in. Right off the bat we spotted lots of deer. We found a buck that was working his way ahead of us. It was a smaller buck so we let it go. Amazingly my wife was a trooper when we were hiking and didn't complain once.

This morning we went to a spot I had found over 30 deer in one canyon. There was 2" of snow on the ground so I thought we were gonna find some nice deer out. Much to my surprise we didn't see one deer in the two canyons I had seen them in on Tuesday. Maybe the weather or pressure was the factor, the deer were no where to be found. So what do we do? Take off hiking and we went close to 2 miles when we finally seen 3 little bucks. Still no complaints from my sweetheart.

So I went to my ole faithful spot. We stop and glass and its about 11:00 am so pretty sure everything is bedded cuz we didn't spot anything. My wife pipes up and says let's go hike!! Wow!! She is loving this! So we take off get about 3/4 of a mile back into the mountain. We sit down and start glassing, haven't seen anything when we hear 7 gun shots way down in the flats. So we start talking not even whispering. Then I look right across from us and there 220 yds from us bedded under some scrub oak is this buck looking right at us. We had been there for over 30 min and this buck never moved once. I was looking way over him the entire time. Well my wife got the 240 weatherby up and steady the rest is history. She shot him right through the shoulder he jumped up went 15-20 yds and tipped over!!

My wife is hooked and was so excited to have taken a very nice first buck. He is a 27" 5x3. He has an extra point right below his left eye guard. I want to thank my two brothers for coming and helping me spot and there for all the excitement. I'm just glad to have a wife willing to join me in doing something I love! Congrats Natalie on your first of many more monster Muleys to come!!

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Wife with my two brothers.

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My wife was grateful to have her three personal guides!
 
Pffft.... I like how you had to put the deer waaaaay back behind you guys in that last pic to make you guys look bigger! HA! ;-) J/K, I couldn't resist..

Awesome buck! Congrats to your wife!




"Speak It Like It Is, Not Like It Ain't"
 
Very perceptive, Elkser!!

Congratulate your wife and welcome her to "the club".


Within the shadows, go quietly.
 
Yea I'm super proud of her. I'm just stoked I have a new hunting partner to enjoy the outdoors and to hunt with.
 
Happy for your wife and for you. My wife is my hunting partner too and it makes for some special experiences. Looks like you two will have many more in the future.
 

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