Dustin and Jeremy with end of Muley Season Success.

Well it had to finally come to an end! Saturday was the last day of our Mule Deer permit. Jeremy Wassell and I have been hunting hard and was coming down to crunch time. We spotted Jeremy's buck on thursday at about two miles and decided we better get a closer look. We got as close as we could (620 yards) and Jeremy decided to shoot him with my 300 ultra. I dialed the minutes on the scope and let Jeremy take a crack at him. His first shot was over the back, but the second was dead on the money double lung! It took us about 40 minutes to walk accross to where the buck was down. It was one brutal boned out packing experience but I guess thats part of the deal. Saturday was the last day and I had been passing up a lot of decent bucks with every intention of taking the big one or nothing! All season long I had been chasing down ghost stories of big bucks people had seen,but every time it wouldn't be the one I was wanted. I had about 300 hours and I don't know how may hundreds of miles of boot leather into this thing so I was feeling pretty beat on the last day. I had a hunter tell me about a nice 4x5 buck that was on a piece of property I can hunt that he thought would go about 170 gross B&C. I never went over to check it out, but kept it in the back of my head that it would be a good bet on the last day. Well, my hot spot wasn't real hot the last morning, I saw a couple small bucks and passed on a 25" three point. Jeremy and I walked back to my truck and I called the landowner for my last ditch effort to find something I was willing to tag. We went into the draw where the buck was seen a couple weeks ago and there he was! I didn't take enough time to make a good enough shot and blew it at 460 yards! I shot right over him! I wasn't sure if I hit him so I took off running to where he was at. About ten does came out below me and he came up in the rear. I finally connected after a few attempts and anchored him in the shoulder. Needless to say I was real happy to put so much time and work into something and connect on the last day. Another boned out pack job that took about 3 1/2 hours but I think Jeremy and I are starting to get pretty good at it!