192 gross Idaho buck success photos.

austin · Nov 12, 2004

Hunting opening day in unit 45 Idaho.
Corey (buglelk) found this buck a week before the season opener in an isolated canyon and got some video.
We decided to go in opening day and see if we could find him.
He was right back in the same canyon.
Thanks to Corey and Chad (bulldown) for their help on the hunt. Could not have done it without them.
The first picture was taken the week before by Corey on his scouting trip of the same buck.

supersider34 · Nov 12, 2004

Awesome buck. Congrats to you and way to go on the help.

kilowatt · Nov 12, 2004

Congrat to you on a fine trophy Buck.

Brian

264Magnum · Nov 12, 2004

awesome buck. congrats

wilecoyote76 · Nov 12, 2004

That buck looks bigger dead than alive! Great photos and great buck to boot! Congrats go out to you and those who helped get that big old boy.

austin · Nov 12, 2004

I thought the same thing wilecoyote. He looked nice in the video and pics but once I saw him in person I really got a better feel for how big he was. We were thinking mid 180's from the pics and he actually ended up scoring 192 gross.

studpile · Nov 12, 2004

Dandy.

massandtrash · Nov 12, 2004

Congrats on a beautiful buck!!

littlebuck · Nov 12, 2004

sweet!

hornaddiction · Nov 13, 2004

Congrats!

Horn
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Hawkk33 · Nov 13, 2004

Nice buck !

flycrewsupe · Nov 13, 2004

Beautiful buck, congratulations on your hunt.
Gary

Hornseeker · Nov 13, 2004

Very nice. Whats he net out at green?? Beauty!

Chef · Nov 13, 2004

He looks so majestic in the video still. Great looking buck and way to scout em and go back after em! Congratulations to the crew!

Chef
"I Love Animals...They're Delicious!"

ridgerunner · Nov 13, 2004

beautiful buck, way to go!

cbryant11 · Nov 13, 2004

awsome buck ,,,way to go cbryant

BULLSCAT · Nov 13, 2004

Awesome, awesome awesome!!!

csutton7 · Nov 14, 2004

that's a beautiful buck--super congrats--chris

austin · Nov 14, 2004

Thanks everybody for taking a look and for your comments.

I am not sure what the net score was we didn't calculate it.
My guess would be 184/185. I agree with the people that say you can't subtract bone off a deers head so only care about the gross scores.

BCBOY · Nov 14, 2004

Austin,
That's a Slammer no doubt!!! Congrats Big time!

Splash · Nov 15, 2004

Congratulations on a great buck!

IdahoBugler · Nov 15, 2004

Congrats to everyone involved on that one.

IB

BrianID · Nov 15, 2004

Great buck

BUGLELK · Nov 15, 2004

Mike,

Congrats again on a great buck! Here are a few more pictures of him alive from the weekend before...he definitely grew by 3-4 inches over those 5 days...

Corey

eelgrass · Nov 15, 2004

What a wonderful success story! I love it when a plan comes together!

Boskee · Nov 15, 2004

Congratulations on such a fine Deer! It's great to have such good friends that are there for you. I would imagine you're going to mount this guy but you might have a problem explaining to the wife just why you are taking a chain saw to your ceiling or adding a room on your home! HA HA This one may be a little hard to top next year. Congratulations again and enjoy!

OSOK · Nov 15, 2004

Beautiful buck.

Congrats!

TheKnack · Nov 15, 2004

Awesome buck..Congratulations!
Glad to see the work paid off in a big way.
Thanks for sharing.
Best,
Jerry

IdahoMuley · Nov 15, 2004

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hey man nice job two bucks in one year hope u bought another tag. lol just kidding nice job looks like you had a good year this year.

Muley Man!

190MuleyHunter · Nov 17, 2004

hrmm... something fishy about this story. How can you shoot 2 deer in the same season? Its not exactly clear who shot the buck up top but this guy in this lower picture is the same dude that is in the majority of the pictures of the big buck.

How lucky to take 2 mature bucks in the same year. I don't even get to seem buck this big.

Anyone else think something screwy's going on?

BUGLELK · Nov 17, 2004

Definitely something screwy going on here...

We need an explanation on this behavior Mike. I mean, come on, why didn't you buy an extra non-resident tag and shoot 3 bucks this fall? And don't give us the "vacation time" excuse either...

Dustin, Idaho has a "supertag" lottery which allows hunters to hunt any open controlled hunt in the state. This tag is in addition to a general tag. On top of that, a hunter can also purchase left-over non-resident tags, so shooting more than one deer or elk in Idaho is possible. Mike was lucky enough to draw one of the supertags this year, in addition to killing a nice buck with his general tag.

Corey