2009_WY_hunt

My son Jim and I just returned home from our Wyoming hunt...Jim bagged his first antelope, a nice heavy horned 12".....Luck was with us and I too got lucky on a nice 13" pronghorn...We traveled over the Bighorn Mountains in search of the wiley mule deer and the wiley Topgun.....We saw several mule deer and even some nice bull elk....But the Topgun sightings were empty......I did however manage to bag a nice mulie and Jim passed on quite a few smaller ones....I think that Topgun has all the biggest ones tied up out there ...Find Topgun and you will find the big mulies......
 
I should have more pictures of the lopes when I get them from my son...
 
Later,
Randy


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You didn't actually think top would give away his hidey hole now did ya?  LOL  Congrat's on the muley and speedgoat man.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

That's a really nice Mulie. What's the spread?

MN:
 
Awesome job!  Congrats to you and your son!
 
Thanks for sharing and we are looking forward to see some more pictures.
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

Nice buck, what unit were you hunting in. Did you have any snow?

That's a decent buck, 'bog' ... nuthin' to be ashamed of on that one ...

All of life is six-to-five against, just enough to keep you interested. (Damon Runyan)

Gravity makes all the important decisions ... (John R. Powers)

NRA, REMF, PF, NAHC-L, NAFC-L, KC, NPPA

That's a good lookin mulie!! Makes me miss the high desert.  CONGRATS

Kraig Osborne
Hunter since birth, NAHCLM, USN

thanks guys....this is only my second mulie and I am really happy with him...
Deadeye, he was only about 22" wide...But certainly more impressive than most of our WI and MN bucks....He is going on a plaque in my den weather my wife likes it or not...(BTW my den is in the garage)

Car, this is a unit "M" buck from the bighorn basin...slight snow skifts each night...50 degree days

Here is another shot of him...

Good luck to everybody as we approach more hunting seasons,
Randy


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Congrats Randy. I think that's a heck of a nice buck. I'm jealous. Good luck the rest of the year.

dodgeman_29

Randy,
 
that is a very nice muley! I really like the picture, it shows off all of that 5x5 nicely. Congrats!!
 
Kent

The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government.
Thomas Jefferson

NAHC-L, NRA

I've been to the Big Horns several times just not hunting. That is a nice buck. and you should be proud of him. See any bears while you were out there?

No bears or bear sign...but a ton of elk...I saw over 50 in four days of hunting on the bighorn side....Some nice bulls too...We watched a 5x5 and 6x6 do a little sparring and the two split up and the 6x6 came closer to us, laid down and went to sleep....
 
Everybody have good safe hunts out there...we are gearing up for our MN opener this coming saturday....
 
Good luck,
Randy

Sorry I missed you Randy.  We were up high west of where we normally hunt for five days chasing antelope and didn't even get down to our regular area for deer until about the day you headed for home.  I got a real nice antelope buck that is at the taxidermist in Cody (see photo), but didn't get a crack at either of the two nice mulies I would have shot if given a little more time.  We also shot a lot of pheasants over my pointer the week before in ND and I will put a photo up of a tailgate full of cackle birds in a post following this one.

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Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

Here are just a few of the birds we got in ND before heading for our Wyoming big game hunt.

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Mike Stephenson
aka Topgun----30-06

Nice going, Top!
 
Congrats and thanks for sharing the pics!!  Nice looking lope!!
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

WAY TO GO TOPGUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Good looking goat. And that will be alot of glass for all of those birds my friend.  LOL

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

MN congrats on the mulie and antelope. Topgun congrats on the antelope and phesants.