Saskatchewan Mule Deer

[mikeo2]

Well my buddy is new to the Lloydminster area and he drew a Mulie buck tag for the Saskatchewan side. So I told him I would take him out and get him a big one (never dreaming that we would). We were just looking for a decent buck because the saskatchewan season ends on november 12 and we were out on the 11th. Well long story short about 45 minutes into our hunt this buck comes up out of a coulee bottom about 200 hundred yards away and I immediately tell him theres his buck. I hadn't got a good look at him because he was going away from us. My buddy jammed a shell into his rifle and I told him to hang on so I could get a better look at him. The buck turned his head and I could see he had deep forks and knew right away he was a shooter. The first shot my buddy hit him in the butt and I saw this so I told him to keep shooting. He missed his second shot and then on third he dropped him with a shot to the neck. I knew it was a good buck and my buddy was extremely happy. When we were gutting him we had a coyote come out of the bush about 100 yards away and stood there broadside, so my buddy takes a poke at him and wouldn't yah know it, he misses the coyote standing broadside. When we got home we green scored this buck at just over 195 and netted just over 189. Definetely a great buck. Sorry bout the tongue sticking out, we didn't realize it was until we got him into the truck and were on our way home, oh well.

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[Mike Hungle]

Nice buck! If you get him officially scored, please let me now the results.

[mikeo2]

Yah I will for sure, he doesn't even know if he is going to get them mounted, I did nothing but shake my head at him when he told me this. If he doesn't, I may take them and get them scored by someone. This is the same guy that has a whitetail that scored right around 173 typical and didn't get it mounted because they deers face was ugly. Now to me having the actual cape of the deer with the horns is half the trophy in itself, even if the face is ugly, I think thta just adds to the character of the deer. Sometimes I wonder about this guy, don't get me wrong he is my best hunting partner aside from my dad, but he passed up a chance to slaughter 2 to 3000 greenheads coming into a barley field just because he had a long week at work and didn't want to get that early.