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A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 04:42 AM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 11:59 AM
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Enjoy reading your WTx annual muley adventures and seeing what you've found. Fantastic photos as always, especially the buck following the doe in this series. I'm curious why you decided to leave the SXS home this year. Maybe too loud or broke down? Just didn't feel like haulin' it? Regardless, that's some interesting landscape and looks like the deer could easily disappear at any time. I don't see any field equipment, windmills, powerlines or other structures - just a great place to hunt! Congrats on the trip.
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:23 PM
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Thanks for the pictures Ranchman
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:28 PM
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Thanks for the pictures Ranchman Always excellent pictures
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:44 PM
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Enjoy reading your WTx annual muley adventures and seeing what you've found. Fantastic photos as always, especially the buck following the doe in this series. I'm curious why you decided to leave the SXS home this year. Maybe too loud or broke down? Just didn't feel like haulin' it? Regardless, that's some interesting landscape and looks like the deer could easily disappear at any time. I don't see any field equipment, windmills, powerlines or other structures - just a great place to hunt! Congrats on the trip. Thanks. I left the SXS at home for two reasons: one I was planning to only stay from Monday afternoon till Thursday at noon and two is that I had already killed my mule deer buck during the season. I planned this trip to ride the rough ranch roads to only take photos and look at deer in the rut. I ended up staying till Saturday at noon and had I known I was going to stay I would have taken the Ranger. 95% or more of the deer out on this ranch are not bothered by the sight or sound of a SXS or any vehicle for that matter. Vast majority of the deer have already seen the vehicle or heard it way before I see deer. They have tremendous eyesight. Most of the deer will not even pick their heads up once they know you are there and get within very close range of them. There are not many places on this ranch where you can get over 1.5 miles from a windmill, solar well or water trough. They are just hidden down in draws or in cover. I think the rut was over for the most part since most of the bucks had already lost a lot of weight. Last year they were in rut around the 5th-6th of Jan. I got to the ranch Monday afternoon and first group of does I found did not have a buck with them. The next group of does had 6 bucks with them. It was like that the next five days with does being with bucks or alone. I only found bucks traveling the second afternoon real late. I found 3 bucks scattered over a mile stretch from west to east that were all moving from south to the north. The next day I found those bucks with groups of does. One of those bucks I found again on Friday evening about 3 miles to the north coming out of a drainage and he was alone. The group of does he was with the last time I had seen him with were no where in sight. So I am thinking another buck had taken them from him or they were all bred. All in all I saw a lot of deer, bucks and does. Just did not see any really upper end mature deer that we know are out there.
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:51 PM
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Tough country. Great pictures.
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:51 PM
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as always!
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 12:59 PM
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Thanks for sharing and nice photos.
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 02:27 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 02:50 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 04:36 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/12/20 05:01 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 01:50 AM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 01:58 AM
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Great pictures as always Sir
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 02:50 AM
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Great pics as always! Looks like you had a good time!
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 02:57 AM
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Great pics as always! Looks like you had a good time!
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 11:54 AM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 02:32 PM
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You sure saw a lot, just not the one. That's still a pretty cool experience and some great pictures
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 03:11 PM
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Simply amazing! Thank you for sharing the pictures, STX.
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 03:16 PM
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Great pictures as always. That one with the lazy ear makes me smile
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 03:54 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 06:21 PM
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awesome pics
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 07:28 PM
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Great pictures as always Sir
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/13/20 10:05 PM
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Re: A few West Texas Mule Deer
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01/14/20 02:23 AM
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