Lets see some KS muleys

wildwilderness · May 21, 2012

Got lucky and drew a mule deer stamp for KS on my first hunt there. What kind of bucks are coming out of KS these days? Any pics?

Apexmtnman · May 21, 2012

Here's a Kansas "Muley". Kinda funny rack and he had kind of a long tail but he's a Kansas buck for sure.

wildwilderness · May 21, 2012

great looking buck! It would be hard to pass. have you seen many mule deer there?

YELUM · May 21, 2012

Yelum

bogey · May 21, 2012

Shot from a tree stand with bow.

wildwilderness · May 22, 2012

LAST EDITED ON May-22-12 AT 08:43AM (MST)[p]Wow Yelum, that's the biggest Mule-Y I have seen! how much did it weigh?

liecabucks · May 22, 2012

What tree?

Sit tall in the saddle, hold your head up high, keep your eyes fixed to where the trail meets the sky...

bogey · May 22, 2012

Its KS those green things are trees!
Actually it is along side the road in the pictures. I was just across the road in a little wood lot. The stand was only about 60 yards off the road and at the shot the deer ran towards the road dropping about 10 yards from it.....tough drag!

fireballer16 · May 22, 2012

How did you find out you drew? I haven't received an e-mail, and it is not posted yet?

wildwilderness · May 22, 2012

>How did you find out you
>drew? I haven't received an
>e-mail, and it is not
>posted yet?

It won't be online until June 1 so you call the licensing dept. and ask- they are very nice 620-672-5911

Packout · May 22, 2012

Ever since Kansas allowed unlimited Resident mule deer muzzleloader permits and liberal rifle res tags, the trophy mule deer bucks have gone way down on accessible lands. Of course there are some large bucks on posted private, but that is true of any state. 10 years ago up until even 2008 you'd be in muley heaven. Now they shoot the muleys hard. I have hunted it for a while and the year they opened it to Res ML unlimited it was a slaughter and has been since, the problem is they slaughtered the best and the best keeps getting smaller and keeps getting slaughtered. You can have a fun hunt, but it is not what it once was trophy wise.....

buccaneer · May 22, 2012

Here is the muley I was lucky enough to shoot last last year with a muzzleloder.

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TOPGUN · May 23, 2012

That's a beautiful buck---Congrats!!!

Apexmtnman · May 23, 2012

Wildwilderness

We hunt in the middle of the state on family owned land (my dad was born and raised there) and I have not seen a mule deer anywhere around there. My cousin who lives there killed one a few years ago but they haven't seen many recently. About 4 years ago a guy stopped by my uncles with a nice muley he killed by Russell but like I said I haven't seen one in 12 years of pheasant and deer hunting, lots of nice whitetails though finding property to hunt is getting very difficult these days.

hoopscoach · May 24, 2012

I got this guy west of Hill City. Haven't tried to draw since because of the uncertainty of drawing a mule deer stamp. I wish they would go to a preference point system with their mule deer stamps so you could "plan" to draw instead of it being a straight lottery. I don't have a good whitetail area out there so if I draw the tag and don't draw the stamp, I'm screwed. I need to find someone that wants to trade a whitetail hunt for a good muley hunt so i will have a place to go if I end up with a whitetail only tag.

"Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud"

JeremyKS · May 25, 2012

NickM · Jun 3, 2012

I wouldn't go to KS for a muley... Unless you lived there and could hunt them all season on private land or good public... There are some nice ones to be had, but few and far between.

wildwilderness · Jun 7, 2012

Is there decent public to hunt in units 1,2 for mule deer?

I was planning to go on private in 2 Nov 8-15, for whitetail and I put in for the stamp just in case- they do have mule deer on the property too.

NickM · Jun 7, 2012

There is public land in those units, check out the KDWPT website. However, you'd do yourself a diservice if you didn't go out there in July/Aug and knock on a few rancher's doors. Those folks in KS are the salt of the earth and I'd bet my last dollar that you could find some very good private ground to hunt on for a few days. Without that option(private) I think it would be very hard to find a good muley. Yeah the public may have some on there, but they will have lots of hunters on it. Also, don't forget what season opens up that first week in November... Pheasant season... Deer will be scattered all over the place after the dogs and guns get out there...

If it were me... It's a no brainer that if the weather is right you could put your tag on a nice 150"-170" whitetail, especially with a rifle... Chances of turning up a 180"-200" muley are just not as good.

JB148 · Jun 8, 2012

While whitetail hunting I have seen some of the biggest mule deer bucks I have ever seen in the wild. One toad probably would have gone 240 plus, mass and trash. At 50 yard he was a 12 x9 absolute monster.The monster mulies are there for sure. JB