What's everyones preference??

Uttaxi1 · Dec 20, 2022

A high country Wyoming September cape or a full rut Colorado cape??? I'm not gonna lie, I'm kinda fond of the short haired ones. Probably because I haven't had the chance to harvest a deer that time of year.

tailchasers · Dec 20, 2022

Colorado cap. Shows season, terrain, age, more character IMO than a red short haired coat. Not saying I wouldn't like a red coat but just my preference. Those dark coats carry considered character of their home territory.

elkhunterUT · Dec 20, 2022

I really like the short gray September cape, but nothing beats a November rutting cape with a bright white face, jet black forehead, and dark gray body. A rutting muley is the icon of the west IMHO.

yoteduster · Dec 20, 2022

Like them both the ruttin buck is really nice but the double throat patch on the early buck is super nice also

Snoopdogg · Dec 21, 2022

Great work. Colorado cape for previously shared reasons.

Shadow · Dec 21, 2022

I’ve always liked the September capes but that rut cape is what dreams are made of.
Beautiful work on both bucks, those look as natural as any I’ve ever seen.

deerlevi · Dec 21, 2022

Rut buck for sure.

roadrunner · Dec 21, 2022

Seems like more of that grizzled salt and pepper gray shows more with later season capes.

kickerbuck · Dec 21, 2022

No question about it, dark horns and darker cape! Beautiful work those bucks look awesome!

30Hart · Dec 21, 2022

One of each please...

BrowningRage · Dec 22, 2022

No contest for me... those CO bucks are gorgeous. Its the reason I've hunted those Book Cliffs bucks in eastern UT, gorgeous capes.

WY bucks have some of the plainest, grayest, ugliest capes I've seen... My uncle killed a beautiful WY buck last year, never seen another like it out of the area. The one you posted above has some good color on it as well. I think they are the exception and not the rule...

Both mounts look awesome, all preference aside.

twdjr · Dec 23, 2022

I like the darker capes.

Sparks Shooter · Dec 24, 2022

The darker, thicker, later, the better. I was recently able to harvest my first December Muley and the cape was a trophy in itself. ——-SS

hornkiller · Dec 25, 2022

High country right off the red is as beautiful as it gets!

jims · Dec 26, 2022

The ginormous swollen neck of a mondo monster muley buck gets my vote!

HIcountryman · Dec 27, 2022

I have a couple early season mounts. But the late winter coat is beautiful too! Maybe mount up one of those one day but I'm sticking with the early season hunts for the foreseeable future

hogg_65 · Jan 6, 2023

The late cape would be my pick. If that late cape had double bibs. That would be my favorite.

BradA · Jan 10, 2023

Colorado cape. You do some great work really like the form on that Colorado buck.

HiMtnHntr · Jan 11, 2023

I like the full rut cape, but would like to have one of those rare ones that go gray in September but still have velvet antlers.

Bearpaws · Jan 12, 2023

Great work.

Uttaxi1 · Feb 5, 2023

This is the actual buck off the rut cape. Sureshot's son harvested. Been waiting for that pic to pop up. One of my favorite pics. Love seeing youth in the outdoors. Thanks again Scott.

Uttaxi1 · Feb 5, 2023

A pic would help!!

2lumpy · Feb 5, 2023

I love seeing the last July, early August bucks on the mountain, in the velvet. Thus the slick reddish brown look, in puffy velvet.

But with me there is always a “however”……., I can’t stand the nasty, dusty, look of an any animal mounted in the velvet. Especially after they have been hanging for a few years.

So…… for a mounted buck I like the early gray, before it gets to looking like a ruffed up prize fighter, in mid November.