A Mulle Forum Wanted
 

This forum is dominated with whitetail hunting. Not all of us enjoy laying in wait, perched like a wounded osprey over some game trail waiting for deer. Some of us enjoy a more challenging hunt for a more challenging species. I think we should have a separate forum for mule deer and elk as well. what say you.

That's what they have the big game forum for. We speak Whitetail here.

I say maybe go to a different forum where they do have mulies to talk about with other arrogant hunters as well.

iSnipe

First of all, not a good idea to come in here and bash whitetail hunting. Secondly, check out the Big Game Forum. It says right on there for elk, mulies, and other big game.

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/big-game-hunting-6/

That's the link you need, your Eminence. :hail:

iSnipe

Who bashed whitetail hunting? I said it wasn't for everybody. Honestly, you don't see mule deer hunters with little trail cameras and silly scent suits and all that crap do you? That kind of hunting isn't for everybody. The big game forum doesn't separate whitetail from any other species, although I'm not sure whitetail should be considered big game at all. My point was, maybe a forum for whitetail, elk, mule deer because the deer forum is dominated with whitetail hunters.

Bash much?:rolleye0011:

BS. Then you have a **** poor way of saying it... an obvious lack of skill to get your meaning across clearly.

Matter of fact, your last reply even strengthens my thoughts about you in the first place.

Too bad they only offer 2 icons with 1 digit sticking out from their hand, because I had another in mind.

iSnipe

Ok, well when you ladies are done crying about the percieved "bashing" maybe somebody could address the point. Mule deer and whitetail hunting are two completely different hunts, I think a section for just mule deer is warranted.

mule deer suck, only "challenging" deer should get their own forum:s2:

Actually, you should have posted this in the Big Game section. Makes more sense to post it there since Mullies are LISTED SUBSECTION. Posting this here causes nothing but pot stirring.

As for addressing the point, what do you expect the rank and file forum members to do about it? PM a moderator because you obviously aren't going to get any support here, given your tone.

:confused: Uhm, have you read any of the posts or gone to the link that iSnipe posted for you?

IT IS CALLED THE "BIG GAME" FORUM! Just take the time to scroll down past the deer hunting and a whole new world will open up to you.

He doesn't want the mulie forum commingled with other big game species. He thinks mule deer warrant their own separate forum, like this one. He just has a ****ey way of saying it.

Muley 669, I am new here but did you seriously just bash whitetail hunting? Real hunters enjoy hunting anything thats in season.

You say this forum is dominated with whitetail hunters and not others. So that means it makes sense to have a special whitetail section and not others. Makes sense to me, but for the future just open your eyes and look around before rushing and jumping to conclusions.

Oh and P.S. not all whitetail hunters just sit around a trail cam hoping to see that deer come back and I am sure there are plenty of Mule deer hunters who do that as well.

I don't even own a trail cam.

Vas

Oh........ I would much rather hunt mulies also but lets face it. There are faaaaaaaar more white tail hunters than mulie, elk, antelope, goat, sheep hunters combined. A mule deer only forum might get only 5 threads a week.

Nah, he's not bashing whitetail hunters. :rolleye0011:

LOL. Perched like an osprey.
Sorry we dont have your gentle rolling hills and can see mulies from 600 yards away from our trucks with a spotting scope. Why come into someones home and bash their house? If you dont like it here, move on. You won't be missed.

go on google and search a mule deer only forum, we talk whitetails here all day and everyday

haha more challenging hunt hes an idiot im with fingerz42 must be hard looking at muleys 600 yards away through a spotting scope at noon while eating a bagel with creamcheese, deciding if you wanna shoot it or not,

I'm from central Nebraska where we have a fair share of both whitetails and muley. It is from my own personal experience that I believe it is tougher to kill a whitetail than a muley. Whitetails are wayy more skittish than muleys. I've drove my truck within 15 yrds of a muley buck. A whitetail buck would never allow you to do that! So I don't think it is fair to say a mule deer hunt is more challenging. Also like everyone else said there are many more whitetail hunters than muley hunters

Enjoyment
 

I have really enjoyed reading all these posts and can't help but agree with all the whitetail fans, lol. They are a tuff and challenging animal to hunt and I love it so.

Hey, MULEY669, there was one guy that was bashing everybody, he got banned from all the forums. I have not been here very long but, I dont bash anyone. You might think about bashing people or forums, because you get get to many complaints, you could be like R****** P****** . Just food for thought.

Via longhunter 66's signature line:

Well, it's hard for me to keep my knife sharp...

...because I shoot straight.

iSnipe :biggrin:

Yeah it is a terrible problem to have but I must say that I have a lot of troubles with that also!

Yeah right, Mulies are more challenging, spot from a mile away, walk up, bump him, he takes a few hops and always stops to look back, boom, drive up to him an load him in the truck.

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.
Lying in wait, on a game trail, with cameras, scents, grunts, ridiculous scent lock suits, this gizmo and that gizmo sums up whitetail hunting in America today. Throw in the unnatural modification of environment via QDM and AI practices and you have genetically engineered deer minipulated for horn porn. Sorry, not my idea of a challanging hunt.
Now all this came about because of an idea to have separate forums for species and a few got their panties in a bunch. How about a compromise, we turn this forum in to the Mule deer forum, and move whitetails to the varmit forum where they belong.:happy0157:

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.

Don't feed the trolls.

I appreciate this post SS. I have grown increasingly uncomfortable over the years with with the whitetail hunting community. I grew up in farm country of Illinois, hunted whitetails rabbits etc through my childhhood. My dad would put on a pair of Carhartts and a blaze orange vest and walk the edges of the cornfield. He carried an old savage 12 gauge and a few slugs in his pocket. When he got a deer the the neighbors would all come over and laugh and chat around the kill hanging in the tree, and off he would go to the neighbors when they got one. Every once in awhile somebody would shoot a nice buck, and then it was dang near a hoe-down. Stories were told, chili was served and it was a great time. We turned that simple celebration into horn porn, and it is a shame.
Why? I see all the gadgets, gimicks etc and those are all things we never needed. I use scent, it's called the wind, and it's what my dad taught me to use. We have commercialized hunting to the point of no return. Knocking on the neighbors door doesn't get you in the field because the land has been leased for the almighty dollar. The land wouldn't be leased if it were not for hunters near insatiable desire to kill the biggest buck in the woods. The real beauty of a trophy class whitetail is in it's rarity. We have sought to make it common place, and in doing so the beauty is lost.
Now in Montana the leasing scurge has reared it's ugly head. I blame it on eastern whitetail hunting. I have seen the Texas hunting videos and it is enough to make me puke, that ain't hunting. I am also tired of folks saying we all need to stick together, I call BS on this. I'm done sticking up for anything that prostitutes hunting the way we have. I look at the vast amounts of money spent by hunters trying to weigh the odds in their favor, at what point do the gimicks, cameras and crap like that become too much? Forget the antis, hunters are corrupting the sport from the inside out, and it starts with whitetail hunting. No other hunting has been twisted and distorted to the point of perversion like whitetail hunting.

Well said, deer hunting on a ranch, like you see on TV, is completely different from hunting wild deer not on a ranch. It may be hard for you to comprehend, but not everyone hunts like those professionals you see on TV, I know I sure as heck don't, I can't afford that. And don't say whitetail deer belong in the varmint section because that obviously isn't true, thats just being ridiculous now. You're rushing to a lot of conclusions about whitetail hunting so I take it you've actually hunted and killed a deer? And of course he was a P&Y or B&C buck right?

sure got that eastmans hunting journal lingo down pat for someone who points fingers at others for sitting on the couch watching videos:rolleye0011:

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.

I spent three months on the mountain this year. I spent the first two weeks on a back pack hunts hunt for elk, several miles from the trailhead. I went from 226lbs to 185 lbs in three months of mountain hunting, I don't sit on the couch junior.

delete double posting

this is a WHITE TAIL section ..lets keep it that way ..

Muley669 i guess this is not one of your better day's ..RELAX and enjoy the forum ..

oh, im sorry "grizzly adams" i didnt realize you were such a mountain man:s2: your probably typing your posts from horseback on a laptop you whittled from an elks pelvic bone, my apologies:hail:

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 don't even think macgyver could do that :happy0001:

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.

Go here!
http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/big-game-hunting-6/