Cam@strawberry
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Been thinking about this a bunch. Handful of guys I run around with swear up and down that a 200” mature mule deer is significantly more of an achievement than a 400” bull.
I don’t believe that’s true at all, over the years I’ve stumbled across 10 and maybe 11 200” deer in the field. 7 general season unit bucks and 3 on the Henry’s. Helped get all three of the Henry bucks killed 235” 218” and 207”. Counting last month 2 of the GS bucks were killed as well 215” and 202”.
I can’t say confidently I’ve ever seen a 400” bull on the hoof. I think I have, 1 time. I hunted (guiding) one for 2 consecutive seasons that would have been 7.5 and 8.5 yrs old. He was killed at 11.5 and scored 392”. When I was hunting him I thought he was upper 390’s at 7.5 and just over 4 at 8.5.
In my experience, the elk is far more difficult to achieve. Both in locating and actually hunting.
So what say you? What’s more challenging, the buck or the bull?
I don’t believe that’s true at all, over the years I’ve stumbled across 10 and maybe 11 200” deer in the field. 7 general season unit bucks and 3 on the Henry’s. Helped get all three of the Henry bucks killed 235” 218” and 207”. Counting last month 2 of the GS bucks were killed as well 215” and 202”.
I can’t say confidently I’ve ever seen a 400” bull on the hoof. I think I have, 1 time. I hunted (guiding) one for 2 consecutive seasons that would have been 7.5 and 8.5 yrs old. He was killed at 11.5 and scored 392”. When I was hunting him I thought he was upper 390’s at 7.5 and just over 4 at 8.5.
In my experience, the elk is far more difficult to achieve. Both in locating and actually hunting.
So what say you? What’s more challenging, the buck or the bull?