Las Glorias Muley

I was lucky enough to get invited to a cousins ranch, to hunt eather mule deer or coues deer, he had tags for both, I had hunted the previous season and ended up taking a shoot at a really nice coes deer and clean missed, it was bedding at 400 mts (about 450 yards), but that is another story, I knew some good areas for spottig deer, as I got to the ranch on a saturday evening, I didn't miss a second and went ahead to this area.

Once I got on top of the first series of hills, I got to see a couple of coues deer, small buck and doe, they got spocked and I went ahead to the next hill... as I got to the top I saw another coues deer doe looking away from where I was, very intrigued by what the doe was looking at, I sat down and started glassing towards where the doe could not take the eyes off.

I did not see any movement for 15 minutes, I was looking in to a deep wash with thick brush, when I got to see a deer leg at 450 yards. I had to stare at that same spot for another 15 minutes until I actualy got the deer, It was 5 does, a small forky and "the big buck". It was getting late and I was running out of light.

The deer started moving closer but very slowly, I could not contain myself for a long time, I waited for the deer to get at about 300 yards, as they got to where I wanted just waited for the buck to stop. Pulled the trigger and nothing happend, a couple of does went ballistic, but the big buck just cuddled into a couple of small brushes, put in another round in the chamber and this time I got him, the deer went down.

Since I didn't have much light I gatther my thing and went down hill to get my buck, I called in the radio for back up to help me get the deer out, but help was too far away and I had to move fast. i got to the deer just as the sun went down, I had to take a couple of pictures before preparing to pack the deer out, I had to use the timer and ran back and forward to see how I was doing on the self picture taking, I guess I did alright.