Mule Deer Scouting Pic Contest!

Founder · Mar 5, 2020

PICK YOUR FAVORITE PICS!
Click any photo above, and then give the post a thumbs up.

In this photo contest, let's see some of your Best Mule Deer Scouting Photos. They can be regular point-n-shoot camera pics, digiscoping pics or even trail camera photos. Feel free to post up to 5 photos for the contest, but post them in separate posts, as only the first photo in each post shows up as a thumbnail above.
Post them to this thread and I'll let reactions (Likes) help guide me to picking the winners.
Share a little detail about the pics too! And keep in mind that big antlers and quality photos definitely help.

We'll run the photo contest for a month or so and winners will be picked early in April.

The contest prizes will be a Phone Skope Kit for 1st place and Pyro Putty and an Arch Lighter for 2nd place. Thanks to the folks at Phone Skope for the gear! If you don't already own the a Phone Skope, then get over to their site and get one......that is if you don't win one here! It's a valuable piece of gear to have with you for helping to preserve your hunting and scouting adventures.

Get Yourself a Phone Skope

Founder · Mar 5, 2020

Here's one I like. This is a high country buck from Wyoming.

yoteduster · Mar 5, 2020

Thus pic was from last August not real clear but he is a nice buck and he made it through this year's hunts seen him last week he should be a dandy this year and this is a general season hunt unit

wardsoutfitters · Mar 5, 2020

Here's a solid Mexico Buck

yoteduster · Mar 5, 2020

Here's another nice buck that made it through this year's hunt,seen hint 12 days ago should be another good one for this year he's also on a general season hunt unit

wardsoutfitters · Mar 5, 2020

Here's a buck we call Droopy #2 He was missed on two occasions last season and we're hoping to ground check him this year.

Bookhead · Mar 5, 2020

Bookhead · Mar 5, 2020

Bookhead · Mar 5, 2020

Bookhead · Mar 5, 2020

All of my pictures are Wyoming prarie bucks on public land

fullthrottle · Mar 5, 2020

Utah buck from a few years ago, heavily hunted general area. Hunted my butt off for him and a non-res shot him on the 5th day of the rifle hunt. Dang!

fullthrottle · Mar 5, 2020

Found this buck in Wyoming, was able to catch up with him the 3rd day of the rifle hunt. Lots of good memories come back when I look up at my wall.

fullthrottle · Mar 5, 2020

Good looking Wyoming buck, think he got shot by another.

SureShot · Mar 5, 2020

This is my favorite scouting pic. I found him a week before the muzzy season started. Unfortunately, I never relocated him again...

SureShot · Mar 5, 2020

It's not often that you get a photo of a buck in velvet with a snowy backdrop.

marley · Mar 5, 2020

Just a really pretty typical that I passed on a few years ago hoping I could turn him up again the next year but never saw him again.

marley · Mar 5, 2020

I missed this buck on opening day and before I could get a 2nd shot off another hunter got him. Biggest bodied deer I’ve ever seen and scored 197”

boomer · Mar 5, 2020

boomer · Mar 5, 2020

boomer · Mar 5, 2020

marley · Mar 5, 2020

A buck that I hunted this last year with my muzzy but never got a good shot opportunity. I’ll be looking for him again this year.

Rough Country · Mar 5, 2020

Alberta summer 2019, big non typical we called “Spork”

Rough Country · Mar 5, 2020

Alberta 2017, big typical buck we called skyscraper, harvested day 2 of the archery season 201” gross score

Muley_73 · Mar 5, 2020

Here’s a few pics of a desert buck that had me a little consumed a couple years ago. Many many hrs spent videoing and snapping pics of this public land buck.

Muley_73 · Mar 5, 2020

Same buck hard horned.

BlackBear53 · Mar 5, 2020

Awesome pics thank yall for sharing.

treedagain · Mar 5, 2020

treedagain · Mar 5, 2020

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treedagain · Mar 5, 2020

nontypical · Mar 5, 2020

Found this buck one summer. Bowhunted him hard; disappeared right before rifle season( at least to me lol).

nontypical · Mar 5, 2020

Found this cool buck while scouting for elk a couple summers ago. We had a big fire that summer; that's why it's so hazy.

nontypical · Mar 5, 2020

This buck posed for 20 minutes 100 yds from the road. Again scouting for elk when I found him

Letshunt · Mar 5, 2020

LuckyTag · Mar 5, 2020

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ridgetops · Mar 6, 2020

I located this giant in early July last year and then comparing it with pictures of a buck I found and had passed on during the prior year's rifle hunt. Knowing they were the same buck and that there was a good chance it would migrate to the same area again during the rifle hunt, my hopes were high. Instead it was killed during the archery hunt.

ridgetops · Mar 6, 2020

Then in August higher on the mountain, this buck came into one of my trail cameras. This buck instantly became my new #1 buck to try and find. Luck would have it that he stayed in the same area and I was able to kill him on opening day of the early rifle.

ridgetops · Mar 6, 2020

Who needs a pile of apples when you can find a goldmine, like this desert mountain seep.
I love this picture.

Bluehair · Mar 6, 2020

I like these live critter threads.

mta5672 · Mar 6, 2020

Here is a darn nice typical I watched all summer, he disappeared forever after he rubbed....My life story!

mta5672 · Mar 6, 2020

Another solid up and comer that hung out very close to where the big typical lived.

mta5672 · Mar 6, 2020

Letshunt said:
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This is a great picture!

muliefanatic · Mar 6, 2020

Nice pictures guys. Here are some I took this past season with my phone scope.

Hunting777 · Mar 6, 2020

New to the Forum. So here goes my first post.

fullthrottle · Mar 6, 2020

“Lucky tag”
^^^ who invited this SOB? Gad damn professional photography, Judas. Looks like a picture out of a calendar.

fullthrottle · Mar 6, 2020

By the way, great pic.

BOHNTR · Mar 6, 2020

Letshunt · Mar 6, 2020

KennyT · Mar 7, 2020

willfrye027 · Mar 7, 2020

Some amazing deer and photography on this thread!

This cute little California buck watched me set up camp from about 50 yards away. He was bedded right on the edge of a lake and didn’t leave until I swam up 10 yards away from him.

3TOE · Mar 7, 2020

This is my best pic!!! ???

3TOE · Mar 7, 2020

The unit I drew in NV this year for deer was loaded with elk. This is one of the better pics I took of a bull. I was so distracted by the elk every scouting or hunting trip I would lose focus that I should be trying to locate deer.

3TOE · Mar 7, 2020

I located this buck in velvet before our muzzleloader season then turned him up opening day. I blew several stalks on this guy trying to get a shot opening week. I got to watch him shed his velvet in the spotting scope & ended up developing an odd stalker type relationship with this deer after a week of hunting. As of the end of muzzy season he was still alive... hopefully he made it through rifle season.

Rimrock · Mar 7, 2020

In more than 50 years, I can count the number of droptine bucks I’ve seen in person on two hands. I can count the number of bucks I’ve seen with double droppers on one finger. We named this guy “D2” and chased him around with a stick and a string. Had several very close encounters, but had no shot opportunities. He was one of a kind...

Troubadour · Mar 7, 2020

Never saw him again......

Afternoon snooze.

This pic is from 2016. I harvested this buck 3 years later in 2019.

3bigelkid · Mar 8, 2020

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Cheesecanyon · Mar 9, 2020

ridgetops · Mar 10, 2020

Hey Founder, how about letting us post up one or two more "bonus" pictures to be entered, since we still have a couple weeks?

treedagain · Mar 10, 2020

treedagain · Mar 10, 2020

Founder · Mar 10, 2020

ridgetops said:
Hey Founder, how about letting us post up one or two more "bonus" pictures to be entered, since we still have a couple weeks?

Fair enough, 5 pics is cool.

fullthrottle · Mar 10, 2020

fullthrottle · Mar 10, 2020

boomer · Mar 11, 2020

boomer · Mar 11, 2020

bern · Mar 11, 2020

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bern · Mar 11, 2020

ridgetops · Mar 11, 2020

I can't believe I forgot about this picture when I posted last week. I have it framed on the wall in my bedroom. Anyways, I took the picture a few days before opening day and ended up killing the buck about 5 miles away on the last day of the hunt.

ridgetops · Mar 11, 2020

I passed on this buck about mid season two years ago, hoping he would be back last year even wider and heavier but he was a no show. Doesn't always pay to "let them grow", only to never see them again.

3bigelkid · Mar 12, 2020

since we get 2 more....

3bigelkid · Mar 12, 2020

liecabucks · Mar 14, 2020

Late summer scouting trip in the high country.

liecabucks · Mar 14, 2020

Same trip, new buck.

liecabucks · Mar 14, 2020

Also same trip, I bled my soul out hunting and scouting this buck the next 60 days ?

HalfAce · Mar 14, 2020

HIcountryman · Mar 15, 2020

HIcountryman · Mar 15, 2020

this was a double left beam buck with dropper i saw on private land. got private access about a mile away the next year. passed a nice heavy buck as rut started to kick in waiting for this guy. never saw him and ended up shooting a 3x4 as season drew to a close. i'll try to find better pic

HIcountryman · Mar 15, 2020

HIcountryman · Mar 15, 2020

BlackBear53 · Mar 16, 2020

HIcountryman said:
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That's a really cool looking buck HiCountry

Clint · Mar 16, 2020

Clint said:
Been trying to get this guy for 3 years.

HIcountryman · Mar 17, 2020

whoa clint that thing is a beast. hope he is still around for you to keep trying!

nfh · Mar 18, 2020

This one was while I was work a few years ago. He is on public land and this was during hunting season. Couldn't find him after work. but did see him after hunting season