Originally Posted by flags

This is exactly my point. Seems that when someone mentions hunting elsewhere you're real fast to say it is so much harder the way you do it. Expecting others to simply agree with you is a stretch. The guy that goes west and stumbles into a 30 inch wide 4x4 mulie on the first morning of his first Western hunt probably isn't going to believe you. And the guy that hunted the same whitetail buck over several seasons in a hard hunted area before he tagged him probably won't either.

Based on my pretty extensive experience, I simply haven't found the mulie to be overly difficult in the places I have hunted him and I have hunted mulies with rifle, bow, muzzleloader, handgun and I even shot one with a shotgun. Maybe you have found them difficult, but that doesn't make you right and me wrong. That's why I specifically said that every habitat has its own type of challenges. Rather than dismiss the experience of others, welcome their viewpoints because info shared benefits all of us.

By the way, I'm going to apologize to the originator for hi-jacking his thread. This is about his bear, which is a good bear, and not about the differences in different types of deer hunting.