King’s Outdoor World Blog

Unique Trophy Archery Buck

The 2006 archery season is starting to be a good one. Here is one example. Rick Pummell from Big Foot Fly Shop in Vernal, Utah just bagged a very unique trophy mule deer with his University Tribute bow. Rick had been chasing this deer for three years. He is 32-inches wide, 6 1/2-inch bases and green scores 196 5/8 P&Y.

This picture really shows the mass and extra character around the bases

14 comments August 30th, 2006

Coyote vs. Antelope Fight

This awesome sequence was taken by Victor Trujillo from Nevada. He was out filming looking for antelope just two days ago. He caught this hole sequence on video. Victor stated that this fight lasted about 10 minutes. Goes to show you that a coyote can and will take down an antelope.

12 comments August 24th, 2006

What’s Your Favorite Monster Typical Buck?

The 2006 hunts are here so let’s get some juices flowing with photos of some incredible monster mule deer. How will the 2006 season fair? Things are looking good so far. However, it will be tough to beat some of the awesome typical mule deer that have been taken over the last couple of years. Here is a recap of the biggest typical mule deer that have been taken. All of these bucks have been featured in past issues of Hunting Illustrated Magazine and most of them in our King’s Mule Deer Calendars.

How do you like your typical bucks? Leave a comment on what your favorite monster typical buck is?

Gavin Lovell was hunting during the early rifle season in the high country of Wyoming in 2004 and found this monster buck. This buck was hurt do to symmetrical deductions. Just what if that right side G-4 point would have evened out like the left side? Ouch! Gavin’s buck is 31 5/8-inches wide and officially scores 216 1/8 gross and 206 6/8 net typical B&C. Gavin’s velvet buck was featured in the Feb/March 2005 issue of Hunting Illustrated and also featured in the 2006 King’s Mule Deer Calendar

This buck was taken by Jason Gisi January of 2005. It is the new SCI World Record typical mule deer with a score of 221 2/8 SCI. It was taken fair chase in Mexico and is 35-inches wide. Just for comparison to the others listed here, this buck scores about 215 gross typical B&C. Jason’s awesome record typical buck was featured in our 2005 Special Winter Issue of Hunting Illustrated and also included in our 2006 King’s Mule Deer Calendar.

Wow! This magnificent mule deer was taken by Denny Austad in 2004. This buck is now the #3 record typical for Utah. It officially scores 221 4/8 gross, 209 7/8 net typical and is an amazing 40 2/8-inches wide. A true 40-inch typical buck. This buck has 31-inch main beams and a 33 6/8-inch inside spread. This buck has a true 218 3/8 gross typical frame. With no eyeguards and two cheaters on each side shows just how big this buck really is to still net score almost 210! Denny’s buck was featured in the March/April 2006 issue of Hunting Illustrated and also in the 2006 King’s Mule Deer Calendar.

What was the biggest typical mule deer taken during the 2005 hunting season? It was Jamie Gerein’s monster Saskatchewan buck. Pictures just don’t do this buck justice. Sporting a total gross score of 220, this buck has 3 3/8-inches of abnormal points. The official score is 216 5/8 gross and 210 2/8 net B&C. This 27 7/8-inch wide muley has main beams over 28-inches and inside spread of 15 1/8-inches. Jamie’s typical mule deer is one of the top bucks in all of Canada. It was featured in the July/August 2006 issue of Hunting Illustrated Magazine.

Myra Smith was hunting in Mexico in January 2006 and came away with the largest typical mule deer taken by a woman in the Boone & Crockett record books. Myra’s beautiful buck officially scores 213 5/8 gross and 210 2/8 net B&C and is over 38-inches wide. You can’t get much better than that when it comes to symmetrical - only 3 3/8-inches of total deductions. Myra was also wearing her favorite camouflage - King’s Desert Shadow! Myra’s record mule deer is featured in the new 2007 King’s Mule Deer Calendar and upcoming issue of Hunting Illustrated.

Last, but certainly not least is Randy Bedell’s amazing typical mule deer from 2005. This new British Columbia record typical buck has incredible tine length. The official score is 219 5/8 gross and 209 net typical B&C with an outside spread of 28 5/8-inches. The amazing part of this deer is the G-2 point on the right side is over 21-inches long. The G-2 on the left side is a full seven inches shorter. This is a clean 4×4 typical with eyeguards. Of the 9 5/8-inches of deductions, seven of them came just from the shortened left G-2 point. If this buck would have evened out on the left side G-2, I believe he would have been a new #2 typical in the world net scoring over 220! What a buck. Randy’s buck was featured in the May/June 2006 issue of Hunting Illustrated and also the new 2007 King’s Mule Deer Calendar.

16 comments August 21st, 2006

Help Needed from Hunters

I received this press release yesterday and finally got around to reading it this morning and thought this was very important to get out to as many as possible. It is truly a disheartening story. If you are headed to Northwestern British Columbia please read this.

August 16, 2006

Family and friends of missing hunter Tom Leonard of Quesnel are renewing their appeal to all hunters, guides, and outfitters operating in the Spatsizi plateau Provincial Wilderness Park for any help in locating the husband and father of two.

Tom Leonard failed to return from a fall hunting trip in Northwestern British Columbia at Spatsizi Plateau Provincial Wilderness Park last October. Tom signed in at the Eaglenest Trail Head on September 11, 2005 and continued by backpacking on his limited entry sheep hunt. When he failed to return home as planned on October 2, 2005, RCMP conducted a search and located his truck at the base of the mountain at Eaglenest Trail. Search and rescue was called in and they conducted a search using aircraft and ground trackers but there was no trace of the missing man. Due to weather conditions the search was called off on October 8, 2005, and the family was reassured that a recovery operation would be conducted in the spring when weather conditions permitted.

In late June, an extensive one week voluntary search was conducted by family and friends searching various areas of the park. Again poor weather hampered the search.

In mid July, and RCMP air search was conducted for 5 days but again failed to produce any answers.

On August 15th the Spatsizi Wilderness Park will be open to hunters. The family is asking all hunters, guides, and outfitters in the area to please report anything that is found and the exact area it was found in to the RCMP immediately in Dease Lake at (205) 771-4111. Since this area is so massive and rugged the family is in need of any help they can get to locate their loved one.

For further information, please contact Bruce Gordon at (250) 747-1742 or Kevin Christieson at (250) 992-9584.

Thank you for your cooperation regarding this matter.

1 comment August 17th, 2006

Arizona 2006 Gov. Tag Monster Mule Deer

Nothing to get the 2006 hunting season off with a bang than to hear about the Arizona Governor mule deer tag success. First crack on the season and a monster mule deer was taken. Reports are that this buck, taken in the velvet, is 41-inches wide and green scores 265 2/8 gross as a 10×11 point (I have also heard of a score around 244 gross. I think this is a little more accurate). There is mention of it being scored via SCI. I am just taking a guess, but it may be that it is due to the fact that the buck looks like it is missing the G-4 point on the left side. This would cause some deductions on the net score with a B&C score. I might be wrong, but just a thought after looking at the photo.

UPDATE: I just got the opportunity to see some kill shot photos of this buck. Truly amazing! There is one photo that is one of the most impressive kill shots I have ever seen.
Photos of this buck are probably going to start circulating pretty quickly. I won’t post anything here unless I get proper permission.

5 comments August 10th, 2006