Stillwater165
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Well I wasn’t gonna post anything from our failed Nebraska muzzleloader hunt but it might just shed some light on a pretty bad situation. We headed out the second week of season , had some snow , had some cold , everything you want in a late season hunt. We hunted both the Sandhills and Pine Ridge Areas , hunted all day every day hard. We’re no pros but we’ve been in these spots before. Nobody filled a tag out of 3 of us , we could have easily but spikes , forkhorns and tiny tiny 3 points aren’t our cup of tea ! I kept a log every day of what we saw , where , temps , wind , etc. I take our hunts kinda seriously lol !!! I did have one chance at a mature 4 pt but as luck would have it my new Burris scope was junk ! Ended up at a random gun shop putting a new one on after my miss ! Well here’s what we saw , granted some of these deer were the same just different days. One old sway back muley doe with notched ears we saw every single day. In 6 days , 242 mule deer on public ground , 219 of those were does , 23 bucks. And out of the 23 bucks , only 2 were shooters and that’s stretching it ........ not very good odds ! In fact terrible odds , they need some definite changes out there ! Pretty sad I can take 2 boys out there and they let the young bucks walk but 90% of the rest out there kill anything with a horn. On a better note the boys had fun and we took some decent pictures. I’m perfectly okay with the big nothing in this deal !!!