Drought Bucks in Texas

Seriously, after chasing mule deer here for a couple of weeks during prime time, it appears the 4.5" of rain this year put a damper on the big buck production. I was talking to my AZ buddy about this and he says much the same, an extimated 10% antler growth decline and I'd agree.

Anyway, it never ceases to be fun. I helped my buddy stalk and kill this nice buck at 248 yds with a .280 and nosler partition bullets, topped with a Leupy VX3 (egads!)




A few days later we found this buck pushing some does around about 3/4 of a mile away. We were in an area of low brushy draws, little elevation, but we saw the direction they were headed and were able to "cut them off" so to speak. Made the 398 yd shot sitting off of sticks with the T3X, 139 Scenars, and a 4-18x LRHSi. Love the combo, and the scenars I've used so far have been serious performers.......bullet sized hole in and quarter size exit.....perfect. I've got another tag and my son is coming to town. Hopefully we can find one of the big 'uns.

Nice !!

Very nice!

very cool

Awesome!

Good hunting!

And sure enough good bucks for this year!

Nice bucks there.

Great great bucks. Ive got a friend that hunts a big place in NW Panhandle and he says the fawn crops and then hard winters has really hurt their age class of mature bucks. Im not sure about this years horn growth on what they do have. Im not sure how much you had to choose from to get those but they are nice.

Great bucks, thanks for sharing

It’s Muley time.

Beautiful bucks and great pictures.

Very nice buck. Congrats!

Great bucks, that one looks to have died of heart failure.

Those are studs, congratulations!

Beautiful bucks Jgraider,

that would stop most anything

Wow!
Beautiful bucks!
Congratulations!

Great job.

Long walks....long shots.... great bucks!!! OUTSTANDING!

Y’all did alright for such a bad year!

Nice shot placement.

Fantastic Muleys!
Congrats