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Awesome buck, more pics!

Good shooting! Congrats to your brother.

Chalk another one up for the San Carlos boys, great buck, congrats to the hunter.

Congrats to the hunter, awesome buck for sure.

Awesome job, congrats on a great shot and a great trophy!

I watch just about any hunting show, mostly just to see what gets killed. I grew up hunting and fishing in the west and 90 percent of the shows on tv are almost unrealistic to our hunting statagies down here. There are a few shows that are similar like Meat Eater, Solo Hunter, The Western Hunter and a few others. But I tell everyone who watches these hunting shows that our hunts are never like sitting in a tree or a blind over a food plot and having your choice of deer to shoot at.

Try and talk my buddy into not holding out too much since he only has three days to hunt, maybe four. Hopefully we'll get a buck down this opener and then it's my girlfriends tag next then mine... Where is the fast forward on this dang thing!

Perkele, that's a good picture, looks like the little guy is having the time of his life.

The game wardens are the one who suggest to the head honchos about how many tags should be issued per unit each year but the board gets the overall say.

HS - hunting/shooting LR - long range

Very true, hunting and hunting pressure plays a huge role in everything, probably the largest factor at that.

I also upgraded the rifle too, no longer shooting a 270 but that's a different topic, good luck on your scope and be sure to shop around, there are a lot of good ones out there.

I used to shoot a walmart special bushnell 3x9 on a marlin 270, killed my first buck with that rifle and a couple coyotes. Shot that scope for 5 years before I just flat got tired of not being able to see anything clearly past 200 yards. I upgraded to a leupold VXII 4x12 40mm and it made a huge difference (obviously of course). Great clear scope and makes life a lot easier when shooting in low light and longer distances. I had that scope on my rifle for a little more than a year before I really started getting interested in long range shooting and reloading and rifle building. So I upgraded once again to a leupold mark 4 6.5x20 50mm scope, won't buy another scope again, unless I start a new rifle project. Anyways what I'm saying is find what you want to be able to accomplish with your rifle and find a good optic that will support what your wanting to do and get it. People on here will tell you all day to buy leupold or buy vortex or zeiss but that fact of the matter is they are all great optics. So just find one that works for you and go with it.

Don't forget about predators, coyotes do a number on fawn crop in these southern units. I grew up in 34b and have seen the decline throughout life. There are many factors that are the reason for the huge decline in these units and I think you guys have nailed a good number of them.

Last year I let mine hang for a whole week. Just had the whole carcass (gutted and skinned) hanging in the shade under a tree before I butchered it up. Kept the bugs off and it was never cold enough to freeze at night so I didn't have to worry about it freezing and thawing every day.

That's my buddy Mike, red four door ford.

Oh, I just assumed it was a mule deer hunt. My girl friend has her mule deer hunt on 11/01 also.

Is almost here! I'm chomping at the bit for the rifle season to open even though I can't hunt until December. Love checking the page throughout to see what's hit the dirt so far. I can't wait until that first post hits. Anyone else getting a little impatient just wishing time would hurry up? Haha

Mocha, what mule deer unit do you have?

Great CWT, is he a 5x3 or a 4x3, I'm looking on my phone and the pic is a little small so I can't tell, looks like he's got a little nub coming in on his front to make him a 5 on that one side. Either way, great pics.

Anybody else have the first November hunt in there. I got my girlfriend and her uncle in there, if you got that hunt good luck to y'all and hope you can avoid the weekend crowds. Been scouting a few times this month and have already seen other people scouting every where.

Getting closer, can't tell you how many times I've organized my hunting pack and checked all my gear...

10's for quick glassing when going from spot to spot but 99% of glassing is on a tripod with 15's

Remington 700 in 300 Win Mag Leupold mark 4 6.5 20x50mm optic Hornady 180gr SST

Good luck charm is an old primos coyote hand call, always stays in my pack no matter what I'm hunting. Essentials is Copenhagen and baby wipes, I could forget just about anything besides glass and rifle (with ammo) and feel ok for the day. But if I forget cooenhagen the day is ruined haha!