Uncle Phil

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LAST EDITED ON Apr-03-16 AT 00:21AM (MST)[p]I had one whole side of the Family to help teach me what it took to hunt Blacktail Bucks but My Uncle Phil, brother of my Mom, taught me the ropes of hunting Muleys. We spent a least a couple weeks every fall chasing muley bucks in Nevada. Some years i'd have a tag, some years i was there to help him and maybe help a few other guys with their hunts. The hunting was good in those days, we took some great bucks but Uncle Phil always talked about a pair of bucks he took back when i was still a toddler as one of his greatest adventures.

As told, that i can remember, he was staying in a little one room cabin out by himself while working a Winter Range flooded with cattle that needed attention for the Spanish Ranch, not too far north out of Elko. He said that it was the last weekend of Deer season and it didn't look like he was going to be able to go hunting until the Ranch Superintendent showed up, told him to drop everything, and lets go get a couple bucks. Knowing my Uncle Phil, i know the Sup didn't have to ask twice.

Again, as told, they loaded a couple horses and headed off to a distant part of the ranch. Uncle Phil said he shot his buck off the get go and that they had to run down the other wider buck, on horseback thru heavy snow, before they got that one too. Phil told me that his buck, he never seen a prettier buck, that it's mainframe might not look it but it was a honest 30" wide and very tall, and had points coming out all over the place, supposed to, what he said, number over 30 scoreable points and he did win a fancy 30-30 rifle in Elko with that buck in one of their contests for big deer.

Until just this week, i hadn't seen these pics since those days i hunted with him back from the late 70's to mid 1980's. Must say, I remember the buck looking bigger in the pic long ago, still, a couple extraordinary Muley Bucks taken by a honest to goodness old time Cowboy and his Boss on a last minute, now or never hunt.

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Joey

Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!
 
Oh to be along for that horse ride and watch it all unfold! What a beautiful buck. That saw blade eye guard is fantastic. I don't imagine the antlers stayed in the fam all this time?
 
Joey,
That's a wonderful piece of your family history....and a couple great bucks your uncle and his super shot.
Thanks for sharing.
Zeke
 
LAST EDITED ON Apr-03-16 AT 08:33AM (MST)[p]Those are some great family memories ! Do you know where the buck went ? He's a great buck.
 
Awesome Joey. Thanks for sharing the photos. The old days are great to remember and see some great bucks
 
Now for the rest of the story. I know that i've told this part here before but here goes.

Uncle Phil was a bigger sort and kind of a mean guy. He was always nice enough to me but i was told many stories of his exploits both in athletics and in getting into fistfights with some very tough hombres. Apparently, he excelled at both and it wasn't too far into his twenties that he figured the best place for himself was off working the big Nevada cattle ranches and at that, he liked being off by himself.

After he killed that big buck, he took the rack into Elko, won the 30-30, got laid, got drunk, got in a fight, got thrown in jail, not sure of the order but that's how he told me, and sold the 30-30 to get out of the jam he was in. Anyway, with a months wages spent in a couple days, all he had with him when he returned to that little cabin on the winter range was his rack. He nailed it up in the cabin, the cabin later burned to the ground and the antlers with it. Darn shame!

These here are a few more bucks that i never saw pictures of. He killed a lot of good bucks in his day, including several more not shown here that i consider monsters, and who know how many that were lost or whatever when he was younger like in the above photo. He lived for hunting season and hunting big bucks, one heck of a buck hunter!

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Joey


Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!
 
He looks like he could hold his own in any tough jam!

The bucks are a fine collection of awesomeness!

Thanks Joey.

Zeke
 
Huge fan of those old grainy pics of days gone by, and with a big buck or two in the frame, even better! Thanx sage!
 

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