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First muley
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12/15/14 01:06 PM
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Joined: Sep 2005
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Duckhawker
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Three of us went out to the Eastern Trans-Pecos to try to shoot a mule deer buck and two mule deer does. We worked very hard and walked a lot of miles. This is our first year hunting the property and I had never shot a muley, so I told myself I would shoot the first 4X4 outside the ears I saw. We walked for twenty minutes at first light on Friday morning. There was a ridge to our left and a big creosote/mesquite flat to our right. We spooked a doe on the ridge who ran, only stopping for a second before running again. She had a fawn trailing her. As we are watching the doe run away we hear rocks falling and look up the slope and see a buck. I put the scope on him, see that he has four points on one side and decide to shoot. The buck looks at us, looks at the direction the doe headed, and nonchalantly begins walking that trail. I waited until he paused and shot him at seventy yards broadside. He ran about fifty yards before falling. We hunted the rest of the weekend and did manage to get two does. We saw three more bucks and none were as big as this deer, so I made the right choice taking him so early. He was over two hundred pounds on the hoof.
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Re: First muley
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#5477871
12/15/14 01:07 PM
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Joined: Nov 2009
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erniejs
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We get old too fast and wise too slow
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Re: First muley
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#5477894
12/15/14 01:22 PM
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Joined: Nov 2011
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S.A. hunter
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You made it look easy. Congrats.
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Re: First muley
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#5478014
12/15/14 02:20 PM
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Joined: Apr 2011
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Western
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Nice West Texas mule
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Re: First muley
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12/15/14 02:49 PM
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JRJ6
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Re: First muley
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#5478287
12/15/14 04:07 PM
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Joined: Jan 2011
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Erathkid
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Nice one. Congratulations.
Life is too short, as is. Don't chance it. Don't text and drive.
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Re: First muley
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#5478295
12/15/14 04:12 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
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tdecker22
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nice job. Congrats to you.
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Re: First muley
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#5478678
12/15/14 06:48 PM
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Creekrunner
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Great picture of a happy hunter. Congratulations.
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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