Mule Deer Articles
08 May, 2010
The “Keene” BuckFor years I have always wanted to harvest a nice mule deer. My husband, Gary, is a taxidermist, and together we own a retail store on the Wind River Indian Reservation. He is often told many stories of a “big one” being seen somewhere so with some possible information stuck in our mind, I put my name in for a late season trophy deer tag. If unsuccessful my name would go into...
14 Apr, 2010
The year was 1949 and Sidney Torgerson found himself getting ready to head out for the final day of deer season. Since the opening, Sidney had been hunting approximately 20 miles east of Salina, Utah near Gooseberry. It had been an extremely tough hunt as deer numbers were down and there simply weren’t that many to be found. However, Sidney was a resilient and hard hunter; refusing to give up....
06 May, 2010
When my old friend, Greg Krogh, called me with news of available mule deer tags in Sonora, my initial inclination was, “Thanks, but no thanks”. But the more I listened, the easier it was to decide that a quest for trophy muleys with a good friend would be a great start for 2008.
Now, I have played the Mexico game enough to approach this opportunity with the appropriate cynicism. I am well aware...
Anonymous
15 Apr, 2010
As with every mule deer hunter, my deer hunt started while waiting for the results of the 2007 Wyoming hunting season. I’m a deputy sheriff so I had to work nights the day before we would get our results. My wife woke me the next morning telling me that we hadn’t drawn our elk tags, but that we did draw our late season deer tags! This was to be my wife’s first mule deer hunt...
Anonymous
15 Apr, 2010
This deer hunt started before I was born, 1961 to be exact. My uncle was heading out hunting mule deer and he needed a partner for the upcoming season. My father had never hunted and, in fact, didn’t even own a rifle. However, my uncle had an older 30–30 that he had traded for some vehicle repairs while working at a gas station and he offered it to my father to use for the deer hunt...
10 Mar, 2010
The Texas panhandle property that we have hunted for the last 14 years is really diverse. The landscape consists of dry creek beds with sparse trees, sand hills, and the flats are irrigated farm land. As the 2007 archery deer season approached, my hopes were up of seeing a truly big buck. This region is not known for monster mule deer and during the past five years, I’ve let the mature...
14 Apr, 2010
In 2007 I was lucky enough to draw one of the best tags in the state of Nevada––a Sheldon muzzleloader deer tag. I was extremely lucky because I only had two bonus points when I drew the tag! Terry, a friend of mine, suggested that I hire a guide and so, that very night, I called Tony Diebold. As luck would have it, he had an opening and I booked it immediately.
During the next...
13 Apr, 2010
2006 will go down in my hunting journal as an unbelievable year of hunting. On top of drawing three great hunts in Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado, I also did something I had never been able to do in over 30 years of hunting. During one season, I harvested the biggest mule deer of my life, broke 200 inches, took two bucks over 30 inches wide, with one that will probably make the B&C all-time...
Anonymous
15 Mar, 2010
There was a 170-class buck ten yards away, looking straight at my position. The big non-typical was only 25 yards out, and he was on full alert. With my heart pounding, I sat motionless, pinned and waiting for something to develop.
It was late August in southwestern Utah and I was hunting a piece of property where my brother, Peter, and I have been hunting for a number of years....
Anonymous
28 Mar, 2010
I began acquiring points for mule deer in Colorado. Seventeen points later, and after talking with the Colorado Division of Wildlife, we knew that we could draw any tag in the state that we wanted. After contacting several MuleyCrazy friends, a few huntin’ fools, and some local biologists, we decided on a unit and began planning our hunt for the trophy mule deer. When the draw...
