WHT_MTNMAN

Giant ram! So jealous!

Sweet bull, lots of cool character

Super cool for the young lady!! Great job to all involved

I have one you can have but I'm up here in the Pinedale/Clay Springs area.

Couple good bucks, always fun to be the one behind the trigger

Good luck!!

Here is an average to fine horned buck with some long tine length?? Guesses?? 20211028_081800_2.mp4 20211028_063408_2.mp4

I got lucky and got a voucher for 3rd season CO last Saturday. Spent Saturday and part of Sunday scouting, drove thousands of miles learning a new unit, glassed a bunch and 20+ hours in maps and calls to acquaintances. I came home went to work and drove back up late Thursday night. I found this buck right away on a knob I had scouted via maps and Onx. Took some video and bailed looking at more country. In person I couldn't get him over 175" so I questioned if I wanted to pass him. After talking with a few people that had had the tag in the past, others that have hunted it and those who lived in CO and others giving me their opinion on score I decided to try and kill the buck. Being by myself I decided to get in as close as I could in the dark, well as luck would have it, someone walked by me after light and proceeded to push deer everywhere. For some reason he didn't see the buck and about 20 min later the hunter went one way and the buck went another way. I shot this buck around 7:10am and packed him out in 2 trips by 2 or 2:30 pm. Scored 178 2/8ths.

Thanks for talking to me...I really got lucky but put a lot of miles learning the unit and lots of hours pouring over maps.

Landowners get them and they can sell them. 3rd and 4th season tags go for a lot of money unless it is a dry year with little to no migration and then people drop the price in order to sell them. Still expensive but not nearly what they can be...

Grossed 185. I actually thought he could hit 190 in person...his tine length looked incredible. Very pretty buck that I've seen for a few years and evidently a few others did as well.

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Yeah having been in CO a few times just never this unit I wasn't sure what to expect. Everyone and I mean everyone was telling me with the hot weather, lack of high country snow and the decline in the mature bucks in most of CO I figured a 175 class buck was good enough. I only had a 4 total days to hunt anyway, that made the decision a little easier. I talked with a guy that has bought a voucher for the last 5 or 7 years and hasn't killed anything over 170 yet. I didn't know what to think

Made a new post with pictures, Grossed 178 and 2/8ths Biggest Coues I've shot

What units??? I don't think you know where this buck was at.

20211004_070021~2_2.mp4 I found this buck Oct 5th still in velvet. Never killed him. So I'm not sure what he scores. I was thinking 170ish when I first saw him but by the end of the 4 minutes I filmed him I had changed my mind. Mass is always deceiving in velvet but I think he's 180-185. Maybe I can find him later. Couple shortened clips. Sorry for the double video. Can't figure out how to delete one of them. 20211004_070021~2_2.mp4 20211004_070021~2_1.mp4

This buck was killed also. So I got a score

I know the score. He was killed

Another angle front view. They always look bigger looking away. I have a horrible time judging this buck sometimes he looks 190" other times he looks 170" 20211112_161943_1.mp4

Similar yes but you can never determine species on antler pattern. Lots of 3x3 mule deer get killed every year that look like they could be whitetail, if antler pattern was the only key feature. This buck I killed in Utah with my bow few years back. I have Coues deer bigger than this mule deer.

I have 2 sons and a son in law. So why not??

Anything that touches Lances' hands shoot lights out so maybe I should start bidding higher than asking price. Hmmmm

Ugly (old) mount of a 100% mule deer

Thank you VETS!