Mule Deer Fanatic

Here it is:

This is one of the prettiest sights I’ve seen, so I think I’ll post it a few more times.

What a beauty. It doesn’t get much better.

From the Denver Post:

It isn’t easy being pink – unless you’re able to stick a broadhead into a trophy mule deer.

This pink thing has a distinct focal point in the flamboyant personage of Keli Van Cleave. The first thing one notices about Van Cleave, who alternately resides in Superior and a suitcase, is that color. Her company, Pink Outdoors, pretty much says it all about a schtick that starts with a unique pattern of camouflage clothing and continues right down to the shafts of her arrows

“It may sound crazy,” she says of the seeming incongruity of pink camouflage, “but it works because animals are colorblind. Camo is just a breakup.”

Once an observer gets past the color thing, it’s evident Van Cleave is the real outdoor deal. She has taken the largest typical mule deer in velvet ever in Colorado by a woman with a bow. The rack scored 202 1/4.

Of course, she was wearing pink camo at the time. She added, “I’ve shown you can be in the outdoors and still look good.”

Growing up close to nature in Grand County, Van Cleave came by her skills naturally. She began bow- hunting at age 12, in large part because that’s what you do in an outdoor family that didn’t allow television in the house.

“My father had us in the outdoors all the time. I got my hunting genes from my father, but my pink genes from my mother,” she said of what has been a dual path to national attention.

2005 Mule deer harvested by Jamie Gerein.

2nd largest typical ever taken in Canada and largest in North America for 2005.

219 5/8 gross 210 2/8 net BC.

Large Arizona Buck by Debra Larson

Very large buck from Paul Drenkel collection

Large Yosemite buck

Good buck by Hunterman67

Pretty Buck in San Juan Mountains

Bachelor Bucks

Grand Canyon Buck

Pikes Peak Buck

Nice Buck

Backside View

Big Buck Mount

Snaggly Buck

Big buck Darth Stroker

Big ’07 Wyoming Buck by Craig Knecht

Large Wyoming Mule Deer

Sleepy Canadian Buck

Large Utah Buck

Good Velvet Buck

Cabelas Buck

Great Archery Buck

Estes Park Muley Buck

Nice California Buck

photo by mcarter on webshots

deer pic

This buck was killed in November in Central Utah

This Monster Muley buck was apparently shot right off the road. The hunter didn’t bother to go after it, but after talking to his friend, they decided it might be worth going back to look for it. According to folklore a number of people knew about this buck and planned on killing it, including some holders of Arizona Governer’s tags.

Scouting MPEG4

A couple good bucks from Johnyutah5