Mule Deer Fanatic

A Craig Colorado man named Darwin Vesely has killed a 203 inch monster buck. According to the Craig Daily Press, the current mule deer record for Moffat County is 197. The monster buck was killed on Nov 3, 2007 in unit 2, Douglas mountains.

Read the full story at the link above. This guy was after a coues whitetail, but got a real nice mule deer instead. I’d say he came out way ahead.

By Tony Mandile

Ron Green’s hard work paid off when he finally stalked close enough to take this 183-inch buck mule deer in Arizona’s Unit 5 near the northern-central part of the state. Photo courtesy of Ron Green.

Ron Green began his 2006 deer-hunting season with a bow in hand. The 34-year-old engineer from Mesa, Ariz., intended to put his tag on an elusive Coues white-tailed deer during the September archery season in Unit 5.

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Mikes Outfitting in Alberta has something to show when it comes to Magnum Muley Bucks:

Brad Carter (cousin ?) buck

I think you ought to sign up with Mike. Tell Mike you found him at Mule Deer Fanatic.

Here’s a few more:

Cris Draper has this story on his website: Utah Outdoors

NEW POTENTIAL WORLD RECORD MULE DEER!

This mule deer buck green scores 407 3/8. The current world record scores 355 2/8. It will smash the record. The current world record was shot in Alberta, Canada in 1926. This buck was shot this year on the Alberta and Saskatchewan border.

Tell Cris you found his site at Mule Deer Fanatic.

What is the point in being a Mule Deer Fanatic?

It’s always nice to see mule deer, especially a large buck. You can always enjoy stalking a buck. Photographing mule deer is also very enjoyable. Reading about mule deer is  exciting. Hunting mule deer, if you can draw a tag, is getting right up there. Ultimately, though, a mule deer fanatic wants to harvest a trophy buck. If one is fortunate enough to have several trophies on the wall, that person really qualifies as a mule deer fanatic.

In order to frequently have the opportunity for a trophy buck, there has to be an investment ( and an incentive ). The investment may be made by purchasing expensive, high-quality, guided hunts. Alternatively, success can be achieved by a DIY hunter who simply has a lot of tenacity, desire, and knowhow.  Some have been fortunate enough to have access to great mule deer hunting by owning enough of the right property.

I believe it is getting harder and harder to be consistently successful. One thing that every mule deer fanatic needs to do is exert influence, as much as possible, toward better mule deer management. One should not consider himself a true mule deer fanatic without doing all in his power to promote an abundance of mule deer.

The idea of abundance has not been a high priority for game managers. It is, in fact, scarcity that is most popular today. Game managers must cease their love affair with predators before we will ever see abundance again. Weather, habitat, human encroachment, hunting, and even poaching combined do not cause the scarcity that is caused by predation.

If you want to be classified as a mule deer fanatic, I believe you need to be like a nagging child that won’t go away – when it comes to voicing your wishes to those that are in control. Interestingly, individual game biologists are not in control, even though you should certainly talk to them. Even heads of departments are not that influential. None of them is elected. You really need to go after state Governors and legislators, who are elected. However, if you want to get to the top, then talk to the US Fish and Wildlife Service, or more importantly the Mule Deer Working Group. I believe this group has become the major factor in keeping scarcity in place. They would much rather fund a study to prove that predators don’t have a negative impact on deer, than to fund serious predator control – the former accomplishing nothing and the latter benefitting mankind.

Here is a link to this group. I wish that all mule deer fanatics, everywhere, would overwhelm this group with a common cause – mule deer abundance. Read their conservation plan and you will realize that “conserve” means to feed predators and reduce hunting. If you don’t like that too well – then do something about it. Send an email to every person in the group and let them know that abundance will not be achieved until predators are controlled, and that when mule deer are once again abundant, then we will consider feeding the predators. Show that you are a dyed-in-the-wool, true-blue MULE DEER FANATIC.

Clik to Link to this hunting fanatic

Check out Mr. Kevin C. Paulson. He says:

I am obsessed with hunting, conservation and getting to know great people.

Go ahead and be one of the great people he gets to know.

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You will need to be knowledgable about mule deer in your state. You will also be asked to share information with our subscribers on an ongoing basis. There will be something in it for you as well.

Happy Hunting and may the Force be with you

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I think it’s one of them 2-legged 2 points!

Even though Mule Deer are much smarter than whitetailed deer, if you could find a whitetail dear like this – you’ld really have something. This post comes from my whitetail hunting friend, Mr. Rex Howell. A link to his site is provided in the sidebar under Deer Camp Blog.

Thursday, February 08, 2007

Trophy Dear

My brother Paul, who just had his 50th birthday and is NOT going through a midlife crisis, sent me this pic.
This beautiful (single) woman owns the Huddleston Ranch in Texas.
All 8000 acres of it.
Trophy deer galore.
If you look hard you will notice that there is a deer in the picture too!

If you’re really a Mule Deer Fanatic, you already know it.

If you aspire to be one, then you are a MDF wanabe, and that’s cool!!! All Mule Deer Fanatics start as wanabes.

Here is a Definition:

• you hunt mule deer in every state possible every year
• you read about mule deer from every source you can get your hands on
• during the off-season you dream about hunting mule deer
• you subscribe to several hunting magazines
• you have a mule deer calendar on the wall
• you have a collection of mule deer pictures and videos
• your wife, if you have one, thinks you like mule deer more than her
• your wife, again – if you have one, has a sign over the bed that says, “When I die, bury me in the woods so my husband will come hunting for me.”
• you have acquired some functional, if not expensive, equipment and know how to use it
• you have set a standard on the size/type of buck you will shoot (at)
• you have harvested one or more mule deer bucks which meet your standard
• you have one or more mule deer mounts on the wall
• you still get buck fever but try to control it
• on the night before the hunt, you have trouble sleeping
• when you hunt, you are never in camp during daylight hours
• you have gathered a pile of mule deer antlers
• you want to do something to improve the situation for mule deer