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hightopoutfitter
Joined: 26 Nov 2008
Posts: 56
Location: Richfield, Utah
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 12:58 pm Post subject: Brandons Utah Paunsaugunt Buck 2009 |
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After 14 years of waiting my brother Brandon drew out for Utah's famous Paunsaugunt. With the new 2009 hunt dates pushing the hunt back 10 days later in October I felt the hunt had great potential. I have been fortunate enough to draw 2 tags on the unit, 1992,1997. The unit gets into your blood and when you leave you can't wait to go back.
We hunted 6 days seeing a good number of bucks in the 22-26 inch range. On day 5 of the hunt we came real close to sealing the deal on a 27 inch 185-190 class mule deer. He had 9 lives I guess. The Cedar, Pinion and Juniper Country of the Paunsaugunt can be a hunters worst nightmare. The older bucks become ghosts when they want to be.
On day 6 we passed up a thin horned, 27 inch 5X4. We were seeing a lot of deer. As we approached a water guzzler we spottted Brandon's buck. I could see he was a solid box framed buck and with only a couple of days left in the hunt we decided we better take him. Brandon hit the buck in the lungs at 150 yards. The buck went about 30 yards and was down for good. The buck was 27 inches wide. This was a long awaited hunt and very memorable. We held out for a quality trophy and it paid off in a big way.
Brandon used a Browning A-Bolt .270 Winchester, Leupold VX-3 Scope and handloaded Nosler Ballistic Tips at 3060 fps. The bullet combination has proven to be awesome on these large mule deer. Great expansion and immediate results. Congratulations to Brandon on a great buck! I look forward to our next hunt together.
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HeavyC
Joined: 19 Jul 2008
Posts: 227
Location: Greeley, CO
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| Posted: Sun Oct 25, 2009 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Yes sir!!! Congrats to you both! :yes: |
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severetaxidermy
Joined: 27 Oct 2009
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Location: northern utah
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 11:04 am Post subject: |
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| Brandon is a very lucky man. way to lay the smackdown on a good one!! Nice to see utah still has a few nice bucks :) |
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hawkeye270
Joined: 15 Jun 2008
Posts: 161
Location: Fort Collins, CO
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| Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 7:08 pm Post subject: |
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| That is an awesome deer. It's interesting that he has weaker back forks on one antler and then weaker front forks on the other side. And weaker is a relative term. It looks alot better that way than having one really good antler and one weaker side. |
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hellomcfly
Joined: 29 Apr 2007
Posts: 248
Location: Denver Colorado
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| Posted: Sat Oct 31, 2009 12:22 am Post subject: |
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| Thats a real nice buck! he's got a really nice typical frame along some good width and eye guards, very nice! congrats to you and your bro :thumbsup1: |
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