Last weekend my father made the trek to western ND for our yearly mulie hunt. He loves the Badlands and we both look forward to this every year. This year we each had one doe tag. My father filled his Saturday morning and I got mine later that afternoon. This is always a relaxing hunt with plenty of time to visit and catch up in person. I don’t care how old a son gets, there are few things better than hunting with your father on a beautiful fall day! Thanks dad!!
ND Mulie and WT Hunts
- Thread starter Buschy
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Yesterday I had the pleasure of hunting on Upper Deck’s family ranch SE of Bismarck, ND. Upper Deck (Ryan) lives in Kansas, but the ranch is here in ND. His father, Jim, asked me to come out and spend the day with him trying to find a good whitetail buck. Not a problem as I am always up for a day of hunting! I got to the ranch well before sunrise and we headed out to overlook some CRP and rolling hills. On the walk in, I spotted this buck cruising around obviously looking for does. We watched him until legal shooting light at which time he walked to within 40 yards of us and stopped to try and figure out what we were sitting in the grass. Jim pulled the trigger and dropped him straight to the ground! Our hunt lasted a total of 15 minutes.
Jim is not as serious about hunting as Ryan and this was his best buck ever (though they have some bruiser WT’s on the ranch every year). I told Jim I would mount this buck for him and we would add it to the “trophy room” at the ranch. Ryan keeps most of his mounts at the ranch and they are nice enough to let me keep many of mine out there as well.
We took pictures and spent the remainder of the day processing the buck, playing cards and pheasant hunting. Ryan’s family ranch is absolutely loaded with pheasants!! They believe is providing quality habitat for wildlife and it shows. I will be having Thanksgiving with Ryan and his family in a few weeks and we are going to put the hurt to the roosters again. It was a great day spent with a great guy. Congratulations Jim and let’s do it again next year!!
Jim is not as serious about hunting as Ryan and this was his best buck ever (though they have some bruiser WT’s on the ranch every year). I told Jim I would mount this buck for him and we would add it to the “trophy room” at the ranch. Ryan keeps most of his mounts at the ranch and they are nice enough to let me keep many of mine out there as well. We took pictures and spent the remainder of the day processing the buck, playing cards and pheasant hunting. Ryan’s family ranch is absolutely loaded with pheasants!! They believe is providing quality habitat for wildlife and it shows. I will be having Thanksgiving with Ryan and his family in a few weeks and we are going to put the hurt to the roosters again. It was a great day spent with a great guy. Congratulations Jim and let’s do it again next year!!
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Goldtip
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Good looking batch a meat you laid on the ground. Congrats to the man for killing is best buck ever!
upper deck
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Looks good Buschy. Thanks for spending the day out their and helping my dad fill his tag. Thanksgiving might be a few rough days for the pheasants.
elkkill2006
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Very cool! What cool hunts.
hardscrabble
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Looks like a good time had by all! A fun couple days of hunting for sure
Bwana
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Looks like you are enjoying the season too, way to go Buschy!
montanadogs
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Bushy, Looks like you had some nice hunts. Boy do I miss chasing ND ringnecks, I almost wish I was stationed at Minot again.
