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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.
Joey
Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!
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.
Joey
Keep your slimy Paws Off My, Yours, Our,.. Public Land!!!