2010 Colorado Mulie Buck!

[pierce33]

Thought we would give 3rd rifle season a shot up in NW Colorado this year. Its some nasty steep country up there, but if you put in the work it usually pays off. This year it paid off big time! After numerous miles of hiking and seeing zero deer we decided to head to the oppisite side of the mountain we normally hunt. We walked in about a mile from the road and started glassing the far ridges, about 2 miles off I spoted this guys in a small burn out ravine. I humped it all the way to where I thought they were and all the sudded I saw the ass end of this guy and a doe about to cross over a ridge line, 3 more steps and he would have been out of sight and I would have never saw him. I got prone and shot in about 5 seconds of first spotting him! One shot from the .300 WBY and he was dead right there. I knew he was big, but I never would have thought he was this big! It was the afternoon of the last day of season, I guess all those miles paid off!!

http://i576.photobucket.com/albums/ss202/ranger33_375/IMG_4189.jpg

[waxthis]

Excellent photo!! Congrats on that awesome Mulie. That area is a bitch, but thats what it takes to get those big guys. Nice job!!
[Beer]

[StagLefty]

WOW=Congrats-work paid off [Beer]

[Irving]

How much meat will you get out of something like that?

[henpecked]

very nice

[ronaldrwl]

Congratulations, very nice. Did you field dress him on the spot or carry him out?

[BigBear]

How much meat will you get out of something like that?


Enough to last a few months!

Hey OP, I'll be awaiting my shipment of fresh jerky!! [ROFL1] [Beer]

[Dinosdeuce]

Very nice. The big ones are never easy. Glad all your hard work paid off.

[4gunfun]

WOW that is 4 times the size of my antelope! Nice pic.

[pierce33]

Thanks for all the compliments guys! We boned im out on the spot, there was no way we were making a 3 mile hike with the whole animal! Just the caped head weighed about 40 pounds! I'll probably get about 60 good pounds of meat of this guy. Enough to last for quite awhile, with 11 big game tags this year I am really going to have to do some eating!!

[Chase723]

Damn![Beer]

[oinco]

Thanks for sharing the pic and story! I have not had the luxury of even seeing a mulie that big in CO. Keep us posted on the other 10 tags!