CO 4th season deer success?

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I’m kind of surprised there hasn’t been any postings for CO 4th season bucks. Even with the very unseasonably warm weather, I was expecting to see some large bucks being taken. Anyone know of any special deer having been killed?
 
I don't have a picture of it but I saw a picture on someone else's phone of the supposed gov tag buck. It's hard to tell in the picture I saw because it's a rear view and they always look huge from that angle, but he looked like an absolute giant. Maybe someone on here has more info/photos
 
The guns in the hayfields here started going off the last day. I don’t have any evidence that means anything, but there are less forkies hanging around.

But there weren’t any deer in sw CO anyway.
 
I saw a really heavy, deep forked typical, 190 class buck taken on one of the gunny units. I don't have permission to post pics though.
 
Saw a real nice buck early yesterday, a real brute , on my hunt for a doe. Big neck still in the rut?
Crazy weather.
 
I drew 67 after 16 years. Grew up hunting the unit but haven't hunted it since high school. Found this buck opening morning 300 yds from where my uncle saw him during 3rd rifle.
I was extremely nervous knowing the weather was terrible but I'm tired of holding these points. Super happy with the results! By far the largest buck I saw from Sunday prior to the hunt, until Sunday when we left for home. I stuck around hoping to find something for other hunters with no luck.
192" with matching inlines!!
Now I can finally bowhunt at least every other year!!!
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I drew 67 after 16 years. Grew up hunting the unit but haven't hunted it since high school. Found this buck opening morning 300 yds from where my uncle saw him during 3rd rifle.
I was extremely nervous knowing the weather was terrible but I'm tired of holding these points. Super happy with the results! By far the largest buck I saw from Sunday prior to the hunt, until Sunday when we left for home. I stuck around hoping to find something for other hunters with no luck.
192" with matching inlines!!
Now I can finally bowhunt at least every other year!!!View attachment 61731View attachment 61732

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Sorry for the double pics, been awhile since I've posted pics...
 
Great Buck Zekers, I new there were a few nice bucks taken. I heard of one real bruiser out of another Gunnison unit, maybe it will pop up
 
Sweet buck, I showed up there just 20 minutes after he shot it. I saw another tanker shot over there that was like 212 main frame and went 230 over all. I did hunt 44 with a friend for 4th and it was a tough hunt. We passed up a buck on the opener that was would score better than what my buddy ended up shooting. Weather was just not conducive to getting bucks out of the high country. Saw plenty of bucks just no studs.
 
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Sweet buck, I showed up there just 20 minutes after he shot it. I saw another tanker shot over there that was like 212 main frame and went 230 over all. I did hunt 44 with a friend for 4th and it was a tough hunt. We passed up a buck on the opener that was would score better than what my buddy ended up shooting. Weather was just not conducive to getting bucks out of the high country. Saw plenty of bucks just no studs.
Yep seems like the two biggest deer in the unit hit the dirt second rifle season. It was slim pickings come 3rd/4th. Tons of 3 year old type deer with goofy genetics. Honestly glad that this year wasn’t the slaughter of mature bucks like we feared it would be.
 
Can you guys share the pics of the 230 buck please? Or direct me to where I can see them?

Thank you! Kevin
 
Can you guys share the pics of the 230 buck please? Or direct me to where I can see them?

Thank you! Kevin
I was shown a picture on a guy's phone and it wasn't shared with me but I'm sure sometime soon it'll pop up on one of these mule deer sites.
 
I turned down a couple of 180 class bucks and saw a lot of Deer. It was truly amazing how many and how healthy they all looked. I spent two weeks in 66. One day I went down to Blue Mesa and was just looking out across the water back into unit 66, I turned around and looked back into 54 and saw one of the most incredible Big Horn Rams I have ever seen, he was a true stud and looked Old and really big. It made my hole trip and I love the old west feel of the Gunnison basin.
 
I turned down a couple of 180 class bucks and saw a lot of Deer. It was truly amazing how many and how healthy they all looked. I spent two weeks in 66. One day I went down to Blue Mesa and was just looking out across the water back into unit 66, I turned around and looked back into 54 and saw one of the most incredible Big Horn Rams I have ever seen, he was a true stud and looked Old and really big. It made my hole trip and I love the old west feel of the Gunnison basin.
There was a hell of a ram in Red Creek this November
 
Colorado Boy that was the Ram, I showed Randy a picture of it down at the trading post and he could not believe it. He thought the Ram had died a year or to ago.
 
Colorado Boy that was the Ram, I showed Randy a picture of it down at the trading post and he could not believe it. He thought the Ram had died a year or to ago.
I watched him a lot this summer into early September. Didn’t see him all October guiding hunts. Ended up going over there looking for a buck 3rd season and initially spotted his white butt up in the rocks and thought he was a deer. Threw the spotter on him and couldn’t believe it. There was another ram further up the drainage that was rutting ewes. Always cool to see them.

Coloradoboy
 
That ram is fantastic. Amazing that he's still alive, but that's an archery-only area. Appears to be the same ram I bow-hunted there in 2019. The brooming on the right side seems to match. Had it been legal or ethical, I could've got him as he stood right alongside the road, as seen in this pic below. The Park service rules there require you be 100 yards from any road, even with archery gear. That rule has probably saved him more than once.

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I had 2 buddies that had 4th season tags in 44. One guy dropped a real nice 4x4 that probably scored 173-183. The other guy scouted for 4 days before opening day and hunted all 5 days and ate the tag. He didn't find anything over 170". The season timing would not allow me to get up there and help them out at all. Something about Thanksgiving..... caused problems at home.

They talked to 2 other buck hunters up there, that were still hunting Saturday that were prepared to eat their tags also. As many have mentioned, Unit 44 still has good bucks but not very many and even fewer great bucks.
 
I had 2 buddies that had 4th season tags in 44. One guy dropped a real nice 4x4 that probably scored 173-183. The other guy scouted for 4 days before opening day and hunted all 5 days and ate the tag. He didn't find anything over 170". The season timing would not allow me to get up there and help them out at all. Something about Thanksgiving..... caused problems at home.

They talked to 2 other buck hunters up there, that were still hunting Saturday that were prepared to eat their tags also. As many have mentioned, Unit 44 still has good bucks but not very many and even fewer great bucks.
That’s every unit in a nut shell. About the only thing favorable this year was the season dates. Conditions were down right horrible all November. If a person could witness about any top unit in Colorado with a foot of snow on the ground in mid/late November their attitude would be much different. Fact of the matter is killing big mule deer is tough, arguably the toughest thing to do in all of western biggame hunting. I’ve became cautious over the past couple years when guys with piles of points reach out to me time and time again asking for “the place to go” because so often with these 15 to 20 plus point tags things don’t go the way they are envisioned. Doesn’t mean that the unit “sucks” but there are so many variables that come into play when getting the stars to align. Whether it be a unit 18 second season tag or a 44/54/55/66/67 fourth season tag.
 
Hunted 70 with my hunting partner ( his tag) 6 days total in the field, over 250 bucks spotted. Total we saw 3 bucks over 160 and the largest being low 170s. Tons of deer, between the Brunot Agreement and CPW it has become a very sad unit for mature deer.
 

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