from the mountain to the living room

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Here are some pics of my 2012 buck. It still seems a little unreal to have killed a buck of this caliber but having him on the wall helps!
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This is a photo a taken by another hunter who had shot and wounded this buck earlier in the year on the muzzleloader hunt. He was good enough to give me some pics he had taken during scouting this buck
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I was lucky to have my friend Tom with me.
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I always love the pack out.

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It is my first shoulder mount. I think it turned out great, I would recomend Paul Penny to anyone.
 
What a buck Corby! Looks great on the wall. Maybe this year will be my year for a giant muley. Nice work again on gettin that monster down.
 
Beautiful Buck congrats... Whats up with his ears ? Frostbite or just an old man that can't hear anymore (like me).

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That's one heck of a buck, congrats also.
The story about getting wounded and pics from someone else make me think about how intensely hunted these animals are.
 
I remember from a very young age looking at my dads trophys muleys on the wall. Your kids get to experience the same thing. Pretty cool.

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Great mount. The hunter that watched, filmed, hunted, wounded, and gave you pics. Must have had a hard time after you posted your success of harvesting this buck last fall. That is a very classy hunter to contact you and share his experience with this buck. Congrats on a great animal and an awesome mount. Thanks for posting these pics. If you would share some more alive pics that would be even better.
 
I have a question. You mention the deer was wounded by a muzzleloader in a previous season. Could you tell where that wound had been and how significant it had been? This is something that I have always been curious about. I am a taxidermist and often I see significant wounds to deer that they have survived and I find it amazing.

Congrats on a very nice buck.
 
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Here is a pic of the muzzleloader wound. The bullet went through both hind quarters. There was a significant amount of infection in the abdominal cavity. Who know if if he would have made through winter. He had gone a quite a distance when I killed him from where he was shot on the muzz. If you look at the live pic at the top of the post you can see where he was shot. From talking to the other hunter I know he did everything he could to ethically take this animal. As hunters we all know sometimes things dont work out as we would like.
 
Amazing. Thanks for the additional info and pic. They are hardy animals. I think he had a real chance of survival there. Glad you got him when you did though.
 
Corby
Great deer! I loved your cover story on him and your hunt. Sounds like it was intense, with those other hunters trying to "horn in" on your buck. That wound is amazing.
I once shot a Wyoming Whitetail through the hams with my 7mag. He ran almost a mile with a huge hole in him and the only way I was able to track him down was there was 4 inches of snow on the ground making his tracks and specks of blood show up pretty well. We would have never recovered him had it not been for the snow.
You boys did well this year! Good luck this coming fall!
 
My first muzzleloader buck was shot twice, both times by me. I spotted him, got to within 25 yards and hit him in the lungs. The buck ran up over the ridge, so I hiked around and made a cut off (I had been scouting the buck all summer), my second shot was at 100 yards and it hit his heart and he dropped. I am sure the lung shot would have killed him, however it did not drop him in his tracks as he ran for almost 1 mile. I this has happened to me twice one other time with my rifle, however with my rifle as the buck was running I hit him at 320 yards and he was as dead as dead. Needless to say the deer are very hardy animals, as both time the deer ran on me it was a vital shot (lung first). Now I only aim for the heart if possible as I have yet to loose a deer and don't want to start any time soon. Yet as we all know its called hunting and not killing for a reason, and things do happen and deer get away.
 
What a buck, and the story was outstanding also.

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Looks pretty sharp on the wall Corby. Heck of a first shoulder mount. I bet you have a hard time walking past him without staring for a minute or two!

Still gets my blood pumping looking at the pics of him to this day. Great life long memories. Thanks for the way youve treated me. I appreciate it more than you know.

Thanks Hogg. Most people just want to say that I was either making an unethical shot or that I was too amped up to make the shot. Neither are true. Just a bad luck common problem with a muzzleloader being dead on and then shooting a foot right at 100 after getting on the mountain. Makes me real bitter towards even picking up my muzzleloader ever again.

Im just grateful that a great guy like Corby was able to seal the deal on him. Congrats again.
 
LAST EDITED ON May-26-13 AT 09:10PM (MST)[p]That big brute must have been quite a boxer, given his cauliflower ears! ha.
I assume they previously froze, or something messed them up. Either way the ears only add character to an amazing buck that outlasted lots of tough times.

Hopefully he had a few good days with the "ladies" to pass on those amazing genes.
 

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