Spent four years in Grant County working in Monument. I lived in Mt. Vernon and drov sixty miles to work every morning and then home again each night, so I got to see th outskirts of the Murderer's Creek, Northside, Fossil and Heppner units every day. There are a lot of big bucks in that country. The biggest problem with those units is that so much of them are tied up in private land. The next record could come out of those units, but it will most likely be off the private ranch. John Cole out of Monument did have, may still, much of the north half of the northside unit tied up in his guiding business, and he might put a guy on a big one. But if I had to pick out the biggest buck that I ever saw, it was in the Fossil Unit, on the Longview Ranch. What a monster. Saw him in late november, still running does. Looked at him for about forty five minutes until it got too dark. I would guess him at 34-36 wide, 24 tall, heavy 4/4 mainframe with 3-4 inch eyeguards and stickers coming off everywhere. Truley the buck of many lifetimes, but like I said, could go his entire life and never get whacked being where he was.
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