Txhunter58' s 7x8 mulie (PICS)
 

Just got back from an early rifle high country hunt in Colorado. Waited 8 years to get picked. Backpacked in 4 miles. Hunting area was another 1-1/2 miles into wilderness. Sundown of opening day, stillhunting timberline and saw a mature buck. Put him down with one shot from my 270 loaded with 140 grain Hornady light magnums at 150 yards. He is still in velvet. 29" wide main frame. Including double brow tines on both sides, he is a 7x8. Just shy of 6" bases. I am sure he is no record breaker, but he is really a great trophy to me. Packing him out on our backs about 5-1/2 miles was a killer, but I never hurt so good!

I am going to have him mounted in the velvet. Looks cool to me. If anyone knows how to post pictures and wouldn' t mind posting a few, shoot me an email and I will send them to you.

Good hunting!

Txhunter58

I hunt, therefore I am.

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Txhunter58,

Congrats on your hunt. Sounds like it was well worth the wait as everything fell into place after some hard work to get there. I have access to a site but the link is at home computer but I' m sure someone will help with that.

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open a pic album on Webshots.com. It is free. Thats the only way Iknw.
http://community.webshots.com/user/midnight250
here is some of my pics. the other 300 I lost in the puter

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Good on ' ya, TX. Just curious, which GMU? Would love to see pix, if you can. The quality of bucks in CO. has gone through the roof since we went to draw tags only on deer here ' bout 5-6 years ago. To illustrate the point...A hunting buddy and I were coming out of Cebolla Creek Canyon from our elk area a couple of years ago and ran into 2 25" + 5x5' s, a 4X4 and 2 3X3' s feeding on the side of this remote road. After driving about 15 mins., we hit CO 149 and were shocked to run into 7 5X5' s all together grazing at the edge of the pavement. 2 were 30" +, 3 mid 20' s, and 2 right around 20" None of these animals were more than 50' away. I have 3 points in this GMU and should draw for next Fall...

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Congratulations!!

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I can host/post the pictures for you. [email protected]

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should be in your inbox treedog. Thanks!

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I see u just posted this a few minutes ago, i dont have them yet but when they get here ill get them up for ya.

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Here they go...

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NICE, very very NICE. Congrats txhunter58!

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that is one he!! of a buck. Congrats!

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Shooot, that lil ole thing?

lol, THATS worth a 5 mile walk in my book. Congrats TX.
RA

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Thanks for the kind comments. A lot of work went into that hunt, before and during. Definately worth it! The biggest thanks goes to a guy who goes by the handle of Deerking (doesn' t post much in this forum). Lives and hunts in Colorado. He has started a business called Antlerquest. He helped me pick out the hunt to put in for (drawing) and sent me photos of the area and a topo map with several hotspots circled. I killed the buck in one of those circles!

I did a swap hunt with him. He came down and got a blackbuck here in Texas in exchange for sharing one of his secret hotspots. He didn' t go on the hunt, but put me in a position to get this buck if I was willing to work hard enough.

Hope you guys have the same good fortune!

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thats a great buck. well worth a five mile hike. congrats :)

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What a trophy, congratulations.

KC