A Mulle Forum Wanted
12-10-2009, 08:47 AM
#31
Fork Horn
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Georgia
Posts: 249
Your just digging yourself a deeper hole muley. I've never hunted Mule deer, so I can't compare the two. Muley, obviously you have been watching Whitetail videos, because they don't depict natural hunting situations. I know the Whitetails on my property are nothing in comparison to the Whitetails I see on hunting videos. They are much, much more difficult to hunt on my property. A mature buck wouldn't be caught close to an opening on my property, unlike the bucks taken on vidoes where they just walk out in any food plot or other opening. Hunting videos make Whitetail hunting look like a piece of cake, but in the real world ,we know it's not. I'm sure it's the same for Mule deer.
12-10-2009, 08:48 AM
#32
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Orange county, NY
Posts: 2,949
Sounds like the depth of your mule deer hunting expeirence has been from watching videos sitting on the couch. How many mule deers hunts have you been on? I have taken several bucks of both species, and I can tell you high country muleys are one of the most challenging animals to hunt in North America.
as far as a challenge if you really want one try killing a buck, any WT buck in the thick NE woods. you can be 50yds away from one and never see it. if fact most WT are probably shot under 100yds Im betting most mule deer are shot over 100yds. my logic tells me getting closer to deer is more challenging than shooting them at more distant ranges.
12-10-2009, 08:56 AM
#33
Banned
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jul 2009
Posts: 211
sure got that eastmans hunting journal lingo down pat for someone who points fingers at others for sitting on the couch watching videos
as far as a challenge if you really want one try killing a buck, any WT buck in the thick NE woods. you can be 50yds away from one and never see it. if fact most WT are probably shot under 100yds Im betting most mule deer are shot over 100yds. my logic tells me getting closer to deer is more challenging than shooting them at more distant ranges.
as far as a challenge if you really want one try killing a buck, any WT buck in the thick NE woods. you can be 50yds away from one and never see it. if fact most WT are probably shot under 100yds Im betting most mule deer are shot over 100yds. my logic tells me getting closer to deer is more challenging than shooting them at more distant ranges.
12-10-2009, 09:06 AM
#36
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Orange county, NY
Posts: 2,949
your probably typing your posts from horseback on a laptop you whittled from an elks pelvic bone, my apologies
12-10-2009, 09:17 AM
#37
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: New Hampshire
Posts: 3,406
Hey Mulie, congrats! You stired up as much controversy about mule deer vs whitetails as you do talking football!
I promise not to add fuel to this thread if you promise not to talk about the Patriots!
I promise not to add fuel to this thread if you promise not to talk about the Patriots!
12-10-2009, 09:29 AM
#39
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2008
Posts: 564
Somehow I gotta believe that who ever set up this forum did so based somewhat loosely on the laws of supply and demand.
Take the bowhunting forum. It is largely an offshoot of the deerhunting forum as deer hunting dominates that forum to (but they do bring in other species to discuss). It could have just as easily stayed in the deerhunting forum. However, the demand from the bowhunters was high enough for the forum mods to create another forum where bowhunters could have discussions that were not pertinenet to gun hunters.
Now I am sure that if there was enough demand for a muley forum the mods would likely do so. Problem is that as much as you like/love muley hunting it obviously ain't so popular on this messaage board as you would like. Having a muley only forum that get a two or three posts a day is hardly the demand the mods will waste their time on. In short the mods seem to do a decent job creating avenues for us to discuss things if the demand is there. Obviously muley discussion are low on the demand side so there is no supply.
Take the bowhunting forum. It is largely an offshoot of the deerhunting forum as deer hunting dominates that forum to (but they do bring in other species to discuss). It could have just as easily stayed in the deerhunting forum. However, the demand from the bowhunters was high enough for the forum mods to create another forum where bowhunters could have discussions that were not pertinenet to gun hunters.
Now I am sure that if there was enough demand for a muley forum the mods would likely do so. Problem is that as much as you like/love muley hunting it obviously ain't so popular on this messaage board as you would like. Having a muley only forum that get a two or three posts a day is hardly the demand the mods will waste their time on. In short the mods seem to do a decent job creating avenues for us to discuss things if the demand is there. Obviously muley discussion are low on the demand side so there is no supply.
12-10-2009, 09:29 AM
#40
Dominant Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: WC FL
Posts: 26,323