Jake's Mule Deer

Jake is our youngest boy and this year he drew a mule buck tag. Jake is a journeyman carpenter and does a 14 in and 7 out shift in Ft McMurray. October 25 and 26 he and I got a chance to fill that tag. With the temperature hovering at zero and winds gusting to 50 mph scattering leaves and snow, we gave up trying to spot and stalk and pitched a blind on a canola field that Sandi and I had spotted good bucks on back in September. Just before dark a nice buck came out and slowly started feeding away from the blind. By the time Jake was ready the buck was at a lasered 348 yards, but Jake's shot with the 30 T/c and show hand loaded Nosler E-Tips made for some spectacular footage.