This Wyoming buck was shot about two days after the New Mexico Curly Antler buck. I was hunting with my brother when we spotted this buck about 400 yards away. We had just come up a draw and slowly crested the ridge to peer over it. Over the years we have spooked bucks that were bedded within the top third of a ridge. We learned to take our time to prevent us from being busted and having to shoot at a running buck or hope they would stop and look back at what spooked them. When we first started hunting out west, many years ago, it seemed they were not as leary as they are now. You could jump a buck and they would take off and then after a 100-200 yards they would stop and look back. You then had an opportunity for a decent shot. In the past 20 yrs or so, they would take off and not look back. They became more like our whitetail bucks.
Across the draw and about ten yards below the top of the next ridge, this buck was bedded down. It spotted us and started moving. Joel was already on his knee and had his rifle up and I told him to take it. He was using using his 300 Browning win mag shot and dropped it. What we noticed when we walked up on this buck was his absolutely monster size ears.
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