2020 az archery mule deer

[huntfishchad]

Me and my good buddy went out late in January. We had a great day out glassing for deer. We ended up finding this buck around 4 in the afternoon. And after a few minutes looking at the buck we both decided we would be more than happy to wrap our tags around this buck. So we flipped a coin and I got to chase him while he sat back and watched. I had to make a small loop around to get out of sight of the bedded buck and come up out of the wash up a super steep embankment. Within the last 10 feet or so from being able to crest over and see the location of the buck I rolled a rock down the embankment. Thinking I just screwed up that stalk I glass back to my buddy giving me the thumbs up that he's still there. So I knocked and arrow and crept up only to get caught by the buck at 40 yards. He didn't know exactly what was going on but he stood up in the brush and walked away from me towards his does. Long story short I followed him over a thousand yards or so with multiple shot opportunities over 80 yards to finally get a shot I felt comfortable with at 51 yards and the rest is history. 

[BruinPoint]

Nice buck and thanks for sharing the story and pics!

[jim]

Congratulations on a great buck. 

[AZ8]

Great buck! Congrats!

[CatfishKev]

Nice, congrats!

[bigbuckfever]

Nice buck, your persistence paid off.

[Zeke-BE]

Congrats nice buck

[eom]

Nice! Congrats