NM Buck from the "Good Old Days"

Agar426 · Nov 10, 2004

For those of you who still have hunts left, here is some inspiration from the good ole days. This buck was taken by my uncle in New Mexico back in 1964.

hornaddiction · Nov 10, 2004

Beautiful mount! Thanks for sharing.

Horn
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kingfish · Nov 10, 2004

Wow, great buck!!!

Agar426 · Nov 10, 2004

This buck was taken in what is now referred to in the NM proclamation as Unit 51. Back then (actually up until the '80s)it was all over the counter, and you could hunt state wide, with the exception of private land. It's net score is 255 6/8. The taxidermy is getting up there in years. My cousins and I are trying to convince our uncle to remount the buck on one of the pedestal mounts. The ones I've seen in taxidermy shops are pretty sharp!

Oats · Nov 10, 2004

I'd recomend Valentine Taxidermy (719) 547-3404 for a new cap and mount. My uncle went a few years without a harvest and got so frusterated he decided to remount a very old large non-typical. The new mount is Fantastic, especially with the different pedestal mount, it looked quite horrible.

kilowatt · Nov 10, 2004

Great looking Buck, is that Varnish stain on the antlers??

Brian

cbryant11 · Nov 10, 2004

great buck ,, i would love to see one that size in this years archery hunt. cbryant

Agar426 · Nov 10, 2004

>Great looking Buck, is that Varnish
>stain on the antlers??
>
>Brian

He put some clear shellac back when he killed it. The antlers were already that color, but the clear of course brings out the color more. He was only 17 when he shot it. It wasn't mounted until 1979 I believe.

eelgrass · Nov 10, 2004

I love those long sweeping main beams! It's been 40 years and it's still a great buck. Big bucks never go out of style.

Agar426 · Nov 15, 2004

Thanks everyone for the comments! If you think about the bucks that were taken back then, it is just incredible. Just in NM alone, when my uncle took this buck in 1964, if you look at the 3 year span from 1963 - 1965, the bucks that were taken in NM alone were incredible; the Mundy buck, and both NM state records (Typ and Non-typ) were taken in that time frame. My uncle even tells me that 30" bucks, while never really "common," weren't what they were looking for back then. They had their sights set higher, and it wasn't a long shot. Must have been nice to walk through the forest back then with a deer tag in hand!