What Will He Score?

[Ardent]

I'm afraid I'm not qualified enough to make a proper judgement on the Mulie in post 1, but I know enough to know he's huge. Enjoyed track's and Demonical's pics.

 

[track]

Went out for another country drive to watch the fall harvest.................sure going to be another bumper crop with canola, barley and wheat.

Managed to spot big boy at a distance. He sure loves heating canola. Mother nature telling him to fatten-up for the upcoming rut and winter.

 

[Demonical]

As long as no other hunters with draws get onto that buck, I really like your sons chances!

 

[track]

As long as no other hunters with draws get onto that buck, I really like your sons chances!

Well there are 20 other people with mule buck tags.

Breakdown

12 Tags - Landowners
4 Tags - Outfitters
5 Tags - The rest of the province

My son has had good luck this year with his mule buck draw, however; he received the really big tag by drawing for the Rocky Mountain Billy Goat in southern Alberta. In theory, it should be a fun year this fall.

 

[angrysoldier]

what a very pretty deer. good luck on your hunt. i hope you get him.

 

[Hodaka]

That'll be a freezer full, too

 

[yidava25]

Epic mule deer! Good luck to your son.

Any guesses on these bucks? I wish they'd drop the velvet already.

 

[Demonical]

Gross scores: I'd guess around 155" for the top deer and 165-170 for that bottom buck. He's gotta be close to book, and very symmetrical. That's a pretty nice buck!

 

[yidava25]

Yeah the second one is also so much prettier. I'm having a hard time waiting till opening day! Hopefully he shows himself during shooting light, but they don't get that big by being stupid.

 

[track]

Well I found big boy in hardhorn this evening and think that I over estimated his score. Initially I scored him 190 gross B&C while he was in velvet, now in hardhorn I will have to knock him down to 178 B&C gross.

I guess we will have to leave him as a contingency buck and look for something bigger. Oh well, we have several weeks before November 7th arrives for the rifle opener.

 

[Crashman]

Well I found big boy in hardhorn this evening and think that I over estimated his score. Initially I scored him 190 gross B&C while he was in velvet, now in hardhorn I will have to knock him down to 178 B&C gross.

I guess we will have to leave him as a contingency buck and look for something bigger. Oh well, we have several weeks before November 7th arrives for the rifle opener.

Yeah, better walk away, that would suck to shoot a 178 inch deer!

Seriously for a guy out east, that is a tremendous buck! I wish you and your son good luck even if you look for something bigger!

 

[Demonical]

Track, good luck. There's bigger out there!

 

[track]

Track, good luck. There's bigger out there!

Thanks! I just have to put in more time scouting in the south end of the WMU.........most of the scouting has been in the north end.

 

[Demonical]

Okay peeps, here's another pretty good lucking buck. Pretty much any Alberta whitetail, with this type of side profile will be high 160's and maybe top the B&C minimum. If this deer has a 20" wide rack, he's either record book or just under.

Whatya think!?

P.S. This is the only pic I have of this deer. I've gotta get out there and swap out memory cards on this camera!


Edit to add: When I zoom on this pic, he's got G2, G3 & G4's that look to match perfectly side-to-side and he's got G5 points on each side. Looks like the right side G5 is bigger than the left side.