My Buddies Nephue just got His Frst Deer with a Bow a few Days ago, it was 104lbs and to My Surprise was also in out Sports Page in todays Sunday Paper. Im a Trophy Hunter but I have Never put down anyone for anything they have Harvested that they or anyone else thinks is or is not a Trophy.
A Trophy is By in No Means Judged by the Size of the Animal but Mostly in the Memories of the Hunt. To those who think Size Matters More than the Hunt itself have lost the True meaning of Hunting.
Memories are the Biggest thing we bring Home from the Hunt, those are the True Trophies that we'll remember.

I could instantly tell you were from colorado or further north based on the fact that you were calling 8 and 10 pt deer, 4 pt deer. My grandpa is from colorado and he calls his nicest deer a 4pt and I consider it a very nice 10pt but he also calls cokes, pop or soda. Also what I call a mountain down here is a hill up there. And what is a ton of snow to me down here is a light snowfall for him.
I find it interesting the differences in cultures depending on where you are from. Everything from how many pts a deer has to what we call our soft drinks is different.
Just my .02 cents.

5x5 Colorado standard measurement

Then my trophy room is jam packed. Wow, only back for part of a day, and filling our forum with all kinda wisdom.

I have shot a large number of Whitetail deer. Both bucks and does. I would not think Mule Deer would be all that different. Maybe some year I will get out west and hunt Mule Deer.

I had only one buck that was just nasty to cook and eat. We turned the whole thing into sausage and brats. And the sausage and brats were excellent. Otherwise the sex of the deer does not seem to matter when it comes to eating here. I think it has more to do with the age of the animal, where it lives and especially eats, whether its rut season, what was the temperature when it was shot, how soon was it cooled, and very important.. did the person that field dressed the deer do a clean job. I have seen some real idiots when it comes to field dressing.

For instance, when I lived in the southern end of Wisconsin, the deer ate corn soybean, oats, hay, and basically better then a cow. And the meat reflected that. Up in the north here, other then bait piles of corn, the deer eat acorns, and forage in the woods, fields, lawns and marshes for what they find. They do taste different then those corn fed babies in the south. I hauled some venison south one thanksgiving to make a special roast I make, and while they ate it all, Dad did mention he could tell that was a northern buck.

Here is a photo of a thirsty 3 point taken from our dining room. Note the neck.

Yes MMm mouth watering.

Be careful with deer being that close to the house. I have a friend that used to feed them just off his patio. Until one season when rut was on and a buck came in for a snack, looked at the window and saw that reflection buck staring him down. Well you can guess what happened. After that he moved the feeders and such much further away from glass.

Wow, wouldn't that be a shock if a stinky big necked buck joined one at the dinner table.

We don't feed deer. We do provide water for the birds, but the deer seem to like the taste. There is a creek about 2 blocks away, but the deer seem to like our water. The covenants prohibit fences around our property.

One thing we have going for us is the glass on the opposite wall of the house beyond the dining room window gives a back light. Another would be the fact the deer have to kinda look up at the window glass, and so probably aren't so likely to see their reflection. What they should mostly see is a reflected sky.

We hope we never have a deer in our house.