The "elusive" mule deer (pic)

AndymanSavage · Oct 29, 2009

I know that big bucks can be hard to find, but this stupid doe would not leave my buddy and his family alone on the deer hunt here in Utah. There were several does begging for apples the whole time they were camped and this one even burned it's tongue on the griddle. I'll see if I can get one of the videos they took....hilarious.

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NoShot · Oct 29, 2009

Caption:
"Breakfast ready yet?"

cool picture!!

walleye1121 · Oct 29, 2009

Should have gone with the "buck" wheat pancakes

Amiehunt · Oct 29, 2009

Did she have a bit of a limp, 2 little buck fawns with her? Just west of Monticello right?

dutch · Oct 29, 2009

Wow that's crazy!
We used to feed them out of our hands in the winter but during the fall? and with all that fire and noise going on. lol...

dutch
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AndymanSavage · Oct 29, 2009

>Did she have a bit of
>a limp, 2 little buck
>fawns with her? Just west
>of Monticello right?

exactly

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adamsoa · Oct 29, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Oct-29-09 AT 04:16PM (MST)[p]Come on now we all know that you were in the Bookcliffs. There was probabally a 40 inch 3 X 4 hiding behind the grill.

Bookcliffs.........the only deer dumb enough to come over to breakfast before you shoot them.

Cool pic though

HornHungry · Oct 29, 2009

LAST EDITED ON Oct-29-09 AT 04:28PM (MST)[p]She is famously known as Matilda, been around for a few years and her fawns from previous years hang around with her and they are kinda friendly...She shows up every at Camp Ground.

hindquarters · Oct 29, 2009

Thats one nice photo shop job you did there, you just need to blend in the bottom of her head and neck a little better.

Amiehunt · Oct 29, 2009

Thats not an altered image. I have pics of this doe in my lap eating fritos at this same campground. Come on don't you think if he was going to alter the pic it would have horns.

Triple_BB · Oct 29, 2009

Cool pic. We have some deer on the edge of town that will eat out of yer hand. I used to buy a bag of carrots and go feed them. Drove the G&F crazy that people would feed them. They were in a closed area, didn't see it as a big deal...

BigBucksNBulls · Oct 29, 2009

I SWEAR i seen you guys!!!??? I sent you a PM

muledeershedsrock · Oct 30, 2009

My dad had a Pauns archery tag last year and told me one day that he left camp around 4:30 in the afternoon and headed to his hunting area. about 10 min into his trip on the 4 wheeler he realized he left his chap stick in camp. Any one who has spent day's on end traveling on a 4 wheeler knows the importance on chap stick. He turned around and headed back to camp, being gone about 20 min.or so. When he came around to corner to camp he seen something move under the canopy. Just then a nice 4 x 5 buck walked out and walked back across the road. My dad had seen this buck and 3 others on a regular basis bedded across from camp. After investigation he found that bucks tracks all around the camp stove and noticed that most of the hardend bacon grease was licked out of the pan. He then remembered that he noticed there was no grease left in the pan the previous day. Only thing he could figure was it was the high salt content that it was after. Later he thought he should have put up a trail cam to catch it in the act. Hind sight I guess.

NVPete · Oct 31, 2009

On any given night in the town I live in, you could locate 20-30 deer. On the ball field a block from my house, there were a forky and 12 does and fawns feeding the other evening around 4 o'clock. My neighbor said he heard a couple of bucks clashing antlers after dark. I have video from about 20 yds. this summer of three small bucks plucking apples out of a tree in someone's yard. I heard the police arrested or ticketed someone for discharge of firearm for killing a buck in the town.My neighbor (a widow lady) was sitting watching tv with her front door open when she was amazed to see a small buck standing at the edge of the porch watching tv with her! I witnessed a decent buck in someone's front yard, wondering what he was craning his neck for...he was curious about his own reflection in the window!Another time, I saw a doe and her fawn standing amid someones laundry on the clothesline, probably drawn by the odor! I have deer come into my yard all summer to eat peaches that have fallen on the ground, even with two large dogs roaming in it!They know where all the newly planyed gardens and shrubs are all over town, even where the foolish people that feed and water them live! One of the "pet" deer was taken on the outskirts of town this year, I heard a 28" 4x4. One of the e-mailings I received this summer, a fawn followed a beagle through the doggie door, the owners came home to find the dog and deer curled up on the sofa!Last winter, about the first of March, I had decided to go on my first shed antler hunt out in the hills...imagine my surprise when I found the first shed of the year (a forky) in my wife's raised garden bed! I'm sure there are a lot more stories floating around town I have yet to hear about! Thanks for sharing your pic... did you serve link sausage and maple syrup too

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NVPete · Oct 31, 2009

Here's another... I followed this buck around for about 10 minutes during the open muzzleloader season last year, videotaping him while he browsed on bitterbrush. He acted as if I wasn't even there most of the time!(picture is snap shot from video I took)!!

spotit1st · Nov 1, 2009

The doe at the camp chef looks like a photo shop to me as well, if you look at its back legs it appears he has none it fades into the brush. Got another pic to prove me wrong?

257Tony · Nov 1, 2009

>The doe at the camp chef
>looks like a photo shop
>to me as well, if
>you look at its back
>legs it appears he has
>none it fades into the
>brush. Got another pic to
>prove me wrong?

Look closer. The one leg is there, but it blends in with the brush, the other is hidden behind the front leg. Also there is a dip that the back legs are in which helps hide them. Nobody on this forum is good enough with PS to make a pic that good.....

treedagain · Nov 1, 2009

cool pic thanks for sharing

LoveBigRacks · Nov 1, 2009

Eel.... sounds like the epitome of a hunters love/hate relationship right there. LOL!

LBR

eelgrass · Nov 1, 2009

This one lake I used to backpack into had blacktail deer all around it. It was about a 12 mile hike and no way to get horses in, so it was seldom visited, so it's not like they were used to humans. The deer drove me nuts!

Everywhere you took a leak, the deer would visit. After the salt, I guess. They would chew on my pack, pull all the laundry off the "cloths line", dig in my fire pit and eat the charred wood, and generally keep me up all night. I yelled, threw rocks, and even fired my pistol up in the air. Nothing stopped them. I had serious sleep deprivation after about 4 days. I hated night time and I hated those deer.

Eel

AndymanSavage · Nov 1, 2009

>The doe at the camp chef
>looks like a photo shop
>to me as well, if
>you look at its back
>legs it appears he has
>none it fades into the
>brush. Got another pic to
>prove me wrong?

haha...no

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spotit1st · Nov 1, 2009

Tony, I am not a photoshop genius but anyone who even attempted to photo shop a picture in the outdoors could pull it off there is plenty of the same stuff in that picture you could pull from to make that pic look real, I still can't see the legs in the back I do see a part of his back right let but it dissapears suddenly which tells me its a photo job could and may be wrong but thats just the way it looks to me.