Junior Mule Deer Sucess. Velvet Style!

I have held out on this video for almost a year now and finally decided to put it out there for all to enjoy.  This was the 3A-3C junior deer hunt last year.  You have seen the the pictures of this awesome deer and now here is the video of the hunt.  Enjoy!!    

The GIANT Mule Deer we named Lucky!

Prepare to meet the Mule Deer buck we named Lucky!  We found this buck in mid August and watched him through the archery hunt and into the elk seasons.  We were very happy to see that not one archery hunter when we were present atleast ever saw or hunted this awesome deer.  We had a young girl hunter that was a perfect fit for this mule deer. We just needed for him to stick around until the junior hunt opened so we could introduce the two.  After guiding elk hunter in the same unit for 21 days straight we could not waite to get back out there and look for Lucky.  Two days before the hunt we located him again and he was still in full velvet.  Then he was gone again.  Opening morning at daylight had him laying at 385 yards from us with no velvet left and not a care in the world.  While waiting for the buck to stand up for over 30 minutes as the sun started to light him up.  We glassed down the ridge and saw some other hunters walking the in the direction of the buck and glassing back onto the ridge we were on.  The decision was made to shoot the buck laying down before the other hunters spooked him.  He was only laying about 30 yards from thick cover that if he made it into we would not be able to see him again.  The rest of the story is why we named him "Lucky".


Here is another buck I named "Lucky 2".  I watched this buck all the way through the over the counter archery hunt last year because my two kids had the Junior hunt. Then about a week before the Junior hunt he was like a ghost and fanished.  Maybe this year!

3A-3C Deer Hunts!

With the draw to be out any day I thought I would expand on the potential that 3A-3C has for deer now.  It used to be a great elk  unit and now with all the number of tags the elk have taken a hit, but the deer are going to be on the up swing.  The unit has been changed to an alternative management unit so the age class of deer should get better this year and the years to come.  Since the big fire in 2002 the buck brush is every where in the unit.  The unit was just getting real good and then the Game and Fish opened it to over the counter archery tags and you could hardly move in the unit with out running into other hunters.  Now were back to a draw for all the hunts and the tags have been cut way back for this year, it is going to be good this year and just getting better for the years to come.  We spend alot of time in the unit glassing deer and elk starting in July and all the way through the hunts.  We have seen some awesome looking deer in the unit, some we have been able to harvest and others are still alive and getting bigger.  Here are pictures of the deer we were able to harvest in 2011 only.

Here are a couple from the prior year of the Junior Hunt!

Now a couple that are still getting bigger and smarter.

I will post some more live pics tomorrow that I have on my work computer.

If you draw one of these good tags give us a call and maybe your picture will be with the next big buck we kill.