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Mule_Deer_Crazy
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Been getting a number of calls and e-mails, so just giving an update on my raffle tag hunt.
Just got back from a week in the greater Entiat area. The lack of snow appears to really be putting a crimp in my style, so to speak! I've never hunted for mule deer in December in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaian shirt before - don't much care for it.
We saw 82 bucks during the week and glassed some truly awesome (and some ugly) mule deer country. We saw 7 bucks in the 150's, 3 bucks in the 160's, 6 bucks in the 170's, 1 buck around 180 and another I think would have broke 190 (maybe even net). I maybe should have taken the biggest, but it was the first day and his antlers tipped way out making him look funny? Anyways, it was the first day and I figured I could find him again later (which I couldn't).
Some may question my mental state - my wife certainly did when I let that biggest buck walk away (I still got the Swarovski indentation in the back of my head)! I really want a monster buck and decided I was going to try to gamble and pass up some really nice bucks in an attempt to get a monster. Obviously, the down side to this is that I may end up being the first idiot to kill a spike on the last day of his raffle hunt. But it keeps me in the field and that's what it's all about!
At this point my plan is to go back after Christmas and hunt the last week of the season. Figure I'll give it another 3 or 4 days holding out for a monster and then shoot my spike at the last minute.
I'll keep you all posted and thanks for the input over the past several months.
Just got back from a week in the greater Entiat area. The lack of snow appears to really be putting a crimp in my style, so to speak! I've never hunted for mule deer in December in Bermuda shorts and a Hawaian shirt before - don't much care for it.
We saw 82 bucks during the week and glassed some truly awesome (and some ugly) mule deer country. We saw 7 bucks in the 150's, 3 bucks in the 160's, 6 bucks in the 170's, 1 buck around 180 and another I think would have broke 190 (maybe even net). I maybe should have taken the biggest, but it was the first day and his antlers tipped way out making him look funny? Anyways, it was the first day and I figured I could find him again later (which I couldn't).
Some may question my mental state - my wife certainly did when I let that biggest buck walk away (I still got the Swarovski indentation in the back of my head)! I really want a monster buck and decided I was going to try to gamble and pass up some really nice bucks in an attempt to get a monster. Obviously, the down side to this is that I may end up being the first idiot to kill a spike on the last day of his raffle hunt. But it keeps me in the field and that's what it's all about!
At this point my plan is to go back after Christmas and hunt the last week of the season. Figure I'll give it another 3 or 4 days holding out for a monster and then shoot my spike at the last minute.
I'll keep you all posted and thanks for the input over the past several months.