Colorado Whitetail

[goin deep]

I shot this deer in southeast Colorado last week. Unfortunately it had 6 chipped/broken tines and a broken main beam. He scores 154 5/8".

Brian

[Capt Vince Pierleoni]

Congrats! They do alot more fighting out west where the buck to doe ratio is tighter. I'm curious, was it an either/or deer hunt (muley or Whitey), or were you targeting Whitetails? Why did you settle on Colorado?

[goin deep]

Most of the bucks I saw were busted up from fighting. This buck had a broken jaw and we felt he probably wouldn't have made it through the winter. I did have an either/or whitetail/muley tag. I archery hunted Muleys in Eastern Colorado a few years ago and was amased at the big whitetails I saw. I ended up shooting a 170s Muley on that trip and wanted to go back for the whitetails.

[machzrcr]

nice buck! i lived and hunted colorado for 12 years! awesome place where abouts were you hunting?

[ray koziatek]

He does have a nice rack and a good taxadermist can repair the antlers ,yes some say it gives the rack. class.. well i shot enuf "deer with class" my mounters get repaired as of 4 years ago.....I'll bet my grain feed Indiana buck is a tad tastier...

[33canuck]

[BLOCKHEAD]

Hard living in eastern Colorado. I used to kick up some bruisers while running the mutts. Always was too busy chasing elk during the season.

[goin deep]

machzrcr, I was hunting in the Two Buttes area.

[FX]

Nice buck - a brawler for sure! Congrats!

Shawn

[machzrcr]

nice! the farthest south east i hunted was Colorado springs. a lot of elk and muleys there for sure. did see a few whitetails nothing big where we were though! Like most people we focused on the elk and antelope hunting! but wouldn't mind going back and trying to find some beauty's like yours in the creek bottoms!