[url= http://[url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=74441&c=504&z=1"] [/url]]Double drop tine[/URL]

Just trying to figure out how to post pics.

Our friends came to visit for the day and Carrie took her first buck ever.

[url= http://[url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=74448&c=500&z=1"] [/url]]Carries first buck[/URL]

Not bad. My first buck was a scrawny 2 point.

This is Herman's buck. He dressed out at the butchers at 192 on the hook. He downed him 200 yards from where my old man downed his.

He rattled him out and took him at 50yrds. [url= http://[url= http://"http://www.hunt101.com/?p=74464&c=500&z=1"] [/url]]Herman's[/URL]

Jeez, this must be one happy family! Congratulations! Are these monsters normal for your area?

I wish I could have made it to Canada like the years before, had to make a choice between this and another hunt and am still looking forward to getting a big deer.

Wow, great animals!
You rarely hear of BC as a prime mule deer destination, but I'm a believer...
BTW do mule deer live all over the province, or only in the eastern side on the Rockies?
One question, do they have difficulty deciding where blacktails begin and muledeer stop like in California/Washington or is it more clear cut?

Great deer! Everyone seems to have done real well.

There are mule deer in most areas of the province except for the coastal areas where blacktails dominate. Blacktails and Mulies are pretty well treated the same in so much as the same tag can be used on either. There are some areas where the range of the 2 species overlaps a bit but by and large it is not too great a problem.

There are large mule deer hidden in all the regions and while most of our deer don't have the extreme spread found on "prairie" type mulies they make up for it in shear mass.

The biggest threat to our interior mule deer right is the spread of whitetails. We are seeing flagtails now in drainages hundreds of miles from their historic ranges. They are major competitors to the mulies and being more agggressive they seem to be winning at times.

[ 11-27-2003, 23:39: Message edited by: Cariboo ]

Beautiful bucks! I'd be proud to take any of the three. I especially like your fathers, I've been looking for a non-typical like that for years.

Cariboo summed up the mulie situation in the province. My only disagreement is that the whitetails are definitely displacing the mule deer, and the long term prospects for the mule deer's survival as a species are not favourable.

These bucks are average in the area we are hunting. The double drop tine is not really that big but was taken because of his uniqueness. My oldman passed on three before pulling the trigger.

I passed on many bucks on that hunt and in the end did not pull the trigger after three weeks. I was focussed on two deer in the 175 to 180 class that I had cornered. I ran into them three times but one morning I went into my series of cuts and they were burning. Where my hogs went I'll never know. It's a crime I tell ya!

I got an e-mail from Carrie and she tells me her buck dressed out at 198 on the hook. Looks like she beat out Herman by 7 lbs.