Nevada Mule deer
- Thread starter Ikeepitcold
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This is the dink we got. A crap ton of hunters and low deer numbers and we packed out the best buck we could find in 5 days of hunting and a 5 mile pack out. All and all it's better then a day at work. We kept a positive attitude and kept our spirits high while we were on the pack out. I did find 2 separate Mt Lion tracks wich was cool. Meat for the freezer, good memories, and a perfect cape for the taxi to use for someone else. All in all a success.
packer58
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Ya the country is awesome. We had a good time. Just disappointing to have had such a great honey hole for years turn into crap. On the up side it's always cool to find a new honey hole for a few years and then come back. Maybe it will be back to the way it was. Thanx!
tdub24
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Congratulations IKIC, good buck for the conditions. Here's to hoping NDOW recognize their mistake and your honey hole once again is flourishing with too many bucks to count! Nice pictures too, thanks for sharing.
Congrats ikic. Hopefully he left you with some meat for all your help. As for your spot. Nothing gold can stay pony boy!! Thats the fun of being a hunter. Adapt overcome. Time for a new unexplored basin with resident deer that have never seen a human!
Kevin Root
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dhershberger
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Ya no doubt. NDOW doubled tags this year and with only two mountain ranges to hunt it was crowded. I will say we did better then most.
I don't know how they can think that this increase in tags can be good for the deer quality. But I am with you I hope they don't screw the trophy quality by this. I hope they know what they are doing too.
I keep gettin emails and texts of spikes and forkies. We may not feel the effects of what they did as far as tag numbers next year. But give it a few years and were going to be searching high and low for quality deer.
And lets hope this winter is as mild as last year. The last thing we need is a harsh one. It will be the straw to break the camels back.
And lets hope this winter is as mild as last year. The last thing we need is a harsh one. It will be the straw to break the camels back.
Ya no kidding! Could you imagine what would happen if we had a bad winter?! I bet NDOW would shit their pants!
ORBucksBullsBears5
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Congrats on the buck! A buddy and I were there in august hunting and my buddy said the size and numbers of the deer were down from2 years ago when he was there. My buddy ended up getting his and I shot over mine. People in town said it was way dryer than usual. Anyways way to make the most of it and at least you have some meat in the freezer!!
NVBird'n'Big
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congrats! +1 to lack of quality bucks this year. I experienced it in August and can't count the number of stories I have heard from close friends this week about how tough it has been this year.
nvarcher
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I know. We dropped it off to Wade this morning. Jeff the guy that killed the buck decided to have him mounted and put him in his office at work. He was going to give Wade the cape but changed his mind. Wade pays good money for high quality NV Capes too.