Another Nebraska Mulie

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Not the big brother I'd hoped for..... In fact I think I need my head examined.... Maybe committed. Not for the size of this young buck, but for where I shot him [location]. I walked two miles into the mountains this morning and came upon him with about 50 others. Made a good shot 150yds, high shoulder, 62gns H4198, 195 Barnes, DRT. As soon as I realized that he was down for good it hit me... Now it's time to get him out .. Shot him a 8:30am and got the last of him to the truck at 2:30pm, 3 trips... I'm 60 years old and this might be my last rodeo where it takes this much work to get a deer out. My legs cramped up so bad on the way home I couldn't hardly drive, and I started to get awful sick. I did manage to get my truck to within a mile [ a mile of ravine after ravine]. I envy you guys who have deer stands or hunt in river bottoms ;D... Retired from this kind of abuse until next season
Zen

[ET]

Panhandle

Congrats.

Ah, you’re just a middle aged young pup that needs a little assistance from an ATV.
Kidding aside retrieval does get harder with age so better methods for retrieval need to be discovered and employed. Just another lesson in life about adaptation with age.


Ed

[zakjak221]

Pan,

Pace yourself or get a young buck to help ya--don't quit the game!
Good story & pic, thanks for sharing it.

Mark

[tar12]

Is a ATV apossibility? Nice buck BTW..

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No ATV's in this country... The ravines I mentioned are too steep for any wheeled vehicles. When you get to the bottom where the mountains meet the prarie then you're good to go... I've still got a couple doe tags that I want to try the XTP's on.... I'll get those where I can get to them with a 4x4.
Zen

[DBinNY]

Nice shot and deer and glad you survived it Zen. I try to shoot them standing in logging roads ;D.

[dannoboone]

Yep. Anyone who thinks Nebraska is nothing but flat land because
of the view from I-80 needs to be taken blindfolded to a few of
the Nebraska canyons as well as the area you hunt. Let 'em try
to figure out where they're at!!

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Dec 3, 2011 23:09:42 GMT -5 dannoboone said:

Yep. Anyone who thinks Nebraska is nothing but flat land because
of the view from I-80 needs to be taken blindfolded to a few of
the Nebraska canyons as well as the area you hunt. Let 'em try
to figure out where they're at!!

You said it.. I live in Scottsbluff about 25 miles from the Wyoming border... There's a range of mountains just south of me and another just north with sandhills surrounding the rest to the east.... One thing I didn't mention is that I saw 7 Rocky Mt. Bighorns in the bluffs during that hunt. 2 rams and 5 ewes... Usually see an elk or two also. The Bighorns were planted 15 years ago and have really taken off. They usually let 1-2 permits out a year. The bull elk tags are almost as hard to get, less than a 150 statewide. 90 percent of the elk are killed in the cornfields that are at the foot of the Mt. ranges. Every summer they go to where the gettin is good. When harvest comes they head back to the hills.... Danno.. didn't you say you lived out here at one time?
Zen

[dannoboone]

Yes, was raised on a farm 5mi from Kansas, 40mi from Colorado.

We liked to hunt a canyon which stretched out over 10 miles. It
was great hunting, but there were places where we got mulies
and couldn't drive down to them. It was a two man operation
to drag even a field dressed deer out of there.

[wayles]

Nice Job Zen! Did you bone yer critter out or bring out quarters? I guess you won't find Mr. big again this this year. But maybe he made it and will be bigger next year. I have not seen the 30 mulie deer herd since the 3rd day of rifle season after Sherri shot hers out of it. A big forky was the largest thing I saw last saturday during ML season. Maybe after real cold weather set in and brings them back to the green wheat fields? They put cattle back on the corn stalks and volenteer wheat in the stubble. That does not help. They should ship my Pacnor next week so we will get together soon. See ya
Wayles