I grew up in Jackson Hole Wyoming and you know Jackson Hole is noted for big
mule deer and I hunted them for over 40 years also i video'd for my father and I
video'd some big bucks this is the hunting season in Wyoming and this is on
public land now this buck here is come down he's
about a high 170 low 180 type mule deer and it's during hunting season we have a
special permit now I want to let you know that what's happens here is he's
running up here to look at a dole she's in estrus and there's another buck up
here and that other buck is between him and this doe now look at him here he
looks like he just looks like a Blowfish he just gets stiff-legged here he pins
his years back and watch him blow up his chest here he just gets almost a third
bigger he struts along here he says hey man I'm bad look at me I'm bad what he's
trying to do is intimidate this buck that you're gonna see show up here now a
lot of people think if the mule deer have the largest antlers he's gonna win
the fight and that's not necessarily true and in this case it isn't I want
you to watch what happens here this other buck that it's gonna come in on
the right here as a younger deer he's probably only four years old he probably
is 50 pounds lighter than the buck on the left but he's antlers are wider
they're not necessarily bigger but they're wider now let's watch this what
happens with these two bucks as one keeps the other away from his doe look
at the one on the right says don't you come any closer I'll watch what he does
right here now watch what he does right here the one on the right here now watch him I'll
watch this again the buck on the Left is gonna just move a little bit
our old buck is gonna move now watch a buck on the right what he does here he's
spitting at him he's actually spitting at her buck saying don't you come near
my doe well our big old buck here he's been
down this trail before he just said I'll just circle right around this buck and
so that's what he's doing now watch the younger buck following and
right here the younger bucks is thinking hey I got him on the move he's running
away from me I've got him I'm he's leaving right here the light goes off in
his head and he goes oh wait a minute he's between me and my doe now watch
what he does he starts running here he says hey come back here where our old
buck he's had enough of this he spins around right here and the two of them
get it on right here now watch what happens when they two of them get
together go right here and he Gore's him right there see how he gores him in the
shoulder ouch ouch boo because his antlers were
wider he was able to Gori now watch our younger buck go man I got my head hurts
from doing that ouch ouch ouch and the old buck he looks at me like Eastman you
didn't see that did you you didn't see me get whipped then he spins around here
and says man I'd sure like to get up there and get friendly with that girl
there but I don't want to go through this again out on the winter range I
come up on another buck and you noticed here he's got his eye put out fighting
he was gored in the stomach I missed the fight I am 70 feet away he doesn't see
me because he can't see me let me call right here notice here he is
one eyes been punched out and when I come up on him if I'd come up five
minutes earlier I would got him fighting a buck and the buck the whipped him was
only like a 150 deer now this is a public land buck that's found in the
high country this look at him the next year he did make it through the
winter this is what he looked like the next year he blew an antler off you
notice here he has he's kind of his cheater but you want to know
something that year right there was a last year two weeks later he died winter
killed but he was able to pass genes on and I guarantee you three years
later you'll find a buck out there that will just look exactly like him
they pass their genes and their antler genes on year after year look at this
big old buck isn't he something a good public land trophy mule deer this
buck I filmed on the winter range too and we call him corkscrew
look at that he's got double drops he's got what I call 190 mainframe he's 30
inches wide when he turns here you'll see he's got a six-inch cheater hanging
off one side of his rack but what makes this buck so unique is he's got those
two double drops and the one corkscrews down and I call him corkscrew you know
he came back on the winter range last year and he'd never had those double
drops he did have that long cheater but he just eliminated those drops which is
too bad this is also another public land buck that's found and is hunted on
public lands this is during December and these Bucks are down rutting down on
their winter range just a real nice trophy mule deer