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Well ladies and gentleman boys and girls of all ages, I've been a busy sob this year with my scouting efforts so I apologize for the delay of my 2010 Hunt Adventure thread. I have a Utah archery muley tag in my pocket and am after BIG!! My hunt starts in 10 days and I'll be hunting my family?s cabin property here in Northern Utah/Chalk Creek area.
I don't want ya'll to think I'm a cocky hunter who thinks I know everything about big bucks because that's definitely not the case...but the past couple seasons I've learned a great deal about bigger class bucks by passing them up, patterning and repatterning, and letting them get bigger in hopes of slaying a true monster muley. I've had a great deal of luck in my bowhunting career but most of my velvet collection consists of dink 3 points I've stuck opening morning after opening morning after opening morning...now I want a true wall hanger...something with a ton of wow factor to him!! But we'll see what happens :-)
Last season I hunted a specific buck I dubbed "The Admiral" for twenty something days straight without a single shot...my first year of tag soup ever. I believed then he was over the magical 200" mark as a straight typical with no eye guards...this year I've spent countless days and hours behind glass since April and have located him only a few times. The first sighting was end of May and he had baseball bats sticking straight out the side of his head with giant fist-like clumps on the ends. The last sighting was last week when I watched him stand up to feed into the darkness within 10 minutes. I had been watching a group of bucks he was bedded with all day long and he honestly took my breath away when he stood up...I want him dead bad!!
This season I originally set my goal at 200" or bust with him still in mind but have recently lowered my goal to 180" or better. I have good reason why I've lowered my goal but feel really good about my options still. My biggest reason is I consider myself a killer and I'm not eating tag soup ever again in my life period!! I know exactly how hard it is to hunt this one specific buck and know the chances at a kill shot on him with a bow are not great by any means so I have several other nice typicals in mind.
I'll show you what I'm currently calling my back up buck...if I get a shot opportunity of this dude opening weekend I don't think he'll be a back up buck anymore lol I'm thinking he'll be more like a dead buck!! My Alphamax and I are pretty damn blood thirsty right about now :-)
[IMG]http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/861981010_002.jpg
http://www.monsterhuntclips.com/video/947/My-2010-back-up-buck
The next video is of a buck that's been in the same canyon for a few weeks now and is comparable in size to about a half dozen other bucks in the area?they should look start turning into great bucks in a year or two. http://www.monsterhuntclips.com/video/952/Another-option
There's no question that I've put in the time scouting but another thing I do quite regularly is shoot my bow. I have an Alphamax32 fully loaded and we're ready to kill kill kill!! I have no clue how many arrows I've launched into foam 3D targets this spring/summer but imagine it's in the thousands. I'm shooting with a 1 pin Sure-Loc Sportsmans Special sight and it's dead on so I'm really anxious for the next week and a half to pass by so I can draw back on my buck!!
Stay tuned and I'll do my best to keep ya'll up to date on how it all plays out this time around...
~Z~[/img]
Well ladies and gentleman boys and girls of all ages, I've been a busy sob this year with my scouting efforts so I apologize for the delay of my 2010 Hunt Adventure thread. I have a Utah archery muley tag in my pocket and am after BIG!! My hunt starts in 10 days and I'll be hunting my family?s cabin property here in Northern Utah/Chalk Creek area.
I don't want ya'll to think I'm a cocky hunter who thinks I know everything about big bucks because that's definitely not the case...but the past couple seasons I've learned a great deal about bigger class bucks by passing them up, patterning and repatterning, and letting them get bigger in hopes of slaying a true monster muley. I've had a great deal of luck in my bowhunting career but most of my velvet collection consists of dink 3 points I've stuck opening morning after opening morning after opening morning...now I want a true wall hanger...something with a ton of wow factor to him!! But we'll see what happens :-)
Last season I hunted a specific buck I dubbed "The Admiral" for twenty something days straight without a single shot...my first year of tag soup ever. I believed then he was over the magical 200" mark as a straight typical with no eye guards...this year I've spent countless days and hours behind glass since April and have located him only a few times. The first sighting was end of May and he had baseball bats sticking straight out the side of his head with giant fist-like clumps on the ends. The last sighting was last week when I watched him stand up to feed into the darkness within 10 minutes. I had been watching a group of bucks he was bedded with all day long and he honestly took my breath away when he stood up...I want him dead bad!!
This season I originally set my goal at 200" or bust with him still in mind but have recently lowered my goal to 180" or better. I have good reason why I've lowered my goal but feel really good about my options still. My biggest reason is I consider myself a killer and I'm not eating tag soup ever again in my life period!! I know exactly how hard it is to hunt this one specific buck and know the chances at a kill shot on him with a bow are not great by any means so I have several other nice typicals in mind.
I'll show you what I'm currently calling my back up buck...if I get a shot opportunity of this dude opening weekend I don't think he'll be a back up buck anymore lol I'm thinking he'll be more like a dead buck!! My Alphamax and I are pretty damn blood thirsty right about now :-)
[IMG]http://www.monstermuleys.info/photos/user_photos/861981010_002.jpg
http://www.monsterhuntclips.com/video/947/My-2010-back-up-buck
There's no question that I've put in the time scouting but another thing I do quite regularly is shoot my bow. I have an Alphamax32 fully loaded and we're ready to kill kill kill!! I have no clue how many arrows I've launched into foam 3D targets this spring/summer but imagine it's in the thousands. I'm shooting with a 1 pin Sure-Loc Sportsmans Special sight and it's dead on so I'm really anxious for the next week and a half to pass by so I can draw back on my buck!!
Stay tuned and I'll do my best to keep ya'll up to date on how it all plays out this time around...
~Z~[/img]