- Location
- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
I’ll try and keep this short, was out a couple days ago at 1:30pm for a loop. Initially looking for a wt doe before the 31st but we’re still in the any mule buck window and wt bucks are open as well, so options were plenty. I wanted to cover ground so I was in the truck, hiking or sitting in some specific areas wasn’t what I felt like doing.
Quickly saw a wt doe and two of this years twins but gave them a pass and kept moving, shot a ruffed grouse and ended up finishing my loop near home by 4pm. Lots of light left so I deeked onto a power line cut that would take me back to my initial starting point, bumped a couple more does that hopped onto private property and then had one big solo doe just stand there 15-20y from the truck. She started to bolt but turned around and approached me, I sat there and waited and she did the same. Stomped her feet and flagged her tail like she was hot to trot so I grabbed my grunt call and blew her some lovin, she licked her lips and cane in closer. By this point I had decided I wasn’t going to get out and shoot her and just watched her till she took off, doe in heat is what it looked like.
So I get back to the fsr main road with plenty of light by 4:30 and decided to head back up and poke around an area till dusk and then head for home, as I hit the top of the hill I see three mule does pop onto the road from the low side. Then another doe and a big mule buck and a fifth doe, big rack so I get out of the truck and load a round. By now they’re heading up the high side hill but are in the open still. The buck stops and looks back at me and turns giving me an uphill quartering angle so I put one in the vitals, he goes down partially and turns and takes another step or two so I hit him again and he goes down like a sack of bricks. The five does just stand around looking at him till I start up the hill, I got up to him and cut my tag and took it in for a bit. He was big, just made the 4x3 cut with the one smallest tines measuring up. Two broken tines on the opposite side as well, I dragged him down the hill and got him field dressed before dark hit and headed home.
This is my first mulie so I’m pretty happy to have a big one on the ground, have been trying to connect with one the last 4-5 years but have never had the opportunity to shoot a legal buck when I have found them, got him home and got the hide off. Happy I passed on the does earlier, now I’ve got a month to cut a whitetail buck tag. Both shots were lung hits, the first was a pass through. I found the second under the hide on the outside front leg, it hit a rib on the far side before it went through the leg and got caught by the hide. Ammo was 165gr Interlock Hornady American whitetail, pretty impressed with it so far. This is the second big buck I’ve shot with it and it’s been great. Lots of penetration and expansion, will have to weigh it to see how much weight it retained.
Quickly saw a wt doe and two of this years twins but gave them a pass and kept moving, shot a ruffed grouse and ended up finishing my loop near home by 4pm. Lots of light left so I deeked onto a power line cut that would take me back to my initial starting point, bumped a couple more does that hopped onto private property and then had one big solo doe just stand there 15-20y from the truck. She started to bolt but turned around and approached me, I sat there and waited and she did the same. Stomped her feet and flagged her tail like she was hot to trot so I grabbed my grunt call and blew her some lovin, she licked her lips and cane in closer. By this point I had decided I wasn’t going to get out and shoot her and just watched her till she took off, doe in heat is what it looked like.
So I get back to the fsr main road with plenty of light by 4:30 and decided to head back up and poke around an area till dusk and then head for home, as I hit the top of the hill I see three mule does pop onto the road from the low side. Then another doe and a big mule buck and a fifth doe, big rack so I get out of the truck and load a round. By now they’re heading up the high side hill but are in the open still. The buck stops and looks back at me and turns giving me an uphill quartering angle so I put one in the vitals, he goes down partially and turns and takes another step or two so I hit him again and he goes down like a sack of bricks. The five does just stand around looking at him till I start up the hill, I got up to him and cut my tag and took it in for a bit. He was big, just made the 4x3 cut with the one smallest tines measuring up. Two broken tines on the opposite side as well, I dragged him down the hill and got him field dressed before dark hit and headed home.
This is my first mulie so I’m pretty happy to have a big one on the ground, have been trying to connect with one the last 4-5 years but have never had the opportunity to shoot a legal buck when I have found them, got him home and got the hide off. Happy I passed on the does earlier, now I’ve got a month to cut a whitetail buck tag. Both shots were lung hits, the first was a pass through. I found the second under the hide on the outside front leg, it hit a rib on the far side before it went through the leg and got caught by the hide. Ammo was 165gr Interlock Hornady American whitetail, pretty impressed with it so far. This is the second big buck I’ve shot with it and it’s been great. Lots of penetration and expansion, will have to weigh it to see how much weight it retained.
