Muzzle Loader Hunt

Scott and John went hunting this weekend on the muzzle-loader hunt. They hunted hard and they both got some big bucks. (Bryan) Scott says that John's buck is a buck of a lifetime. Here are the pictures.


John's huge buck that he shot in a deep hole. It took them 2 whole days to get the deer out but they said it was worth it. See John and Markell's blog for the story on getting his deer out of that deep hole.

That makes 4 4-points by the Barclays this year. It has been a great hunting year.

Here is the story told by John
"It was Friday morning and Scotty and i headed out for a long day of hunting. We didn't have any particular place in mind, we just wanted to hunt all day. We started out the day walking down from skyline into blue Meadows of six mile but only saw a few deer and never got a shot at any of the bucks. so we headed out for Ephraim canyon we had about an hour to kill before Markell was supposed to be there for lunch so we decided to push some trees while we waited. Scotty went to one end and pushed towards Lee Cox and Me. Scotty walked all the way through those trees with out seeing anything until he got about 50 yards away from lee and I and then he saw a buck hiding in the trees. he made a great shot and the buck didn't go far it was a 22" 4 point (it's in the pictures above). Markell and Kaydence came and made us some lunch and we relaxed until we were ready to hit it hard again. we went to a little different spot not to far away and started a push. Scott went on one end, Lee stayed in the middle top and i went to the far end. My area was just one big boulder field i couldn't even walk on the ground i was jumping boulder to boulder. i had only been walking for about 2 minutes when i stopped and looked off the edge of a cliff out over a aspen filled valley. i spotted there for about 5 minutes and then started to jump my way along again. I jumped about three times and climbed down to a small trail and walked between to very large boulders. just as i passed behind them i heard a sound. I ran to the other side to see a brute of a buck running across the side hill under the cliffs above me. I pulled my gun up and waited a split second until he stopped jumping and started trotting and i put my sights on his shoulder and squeezed the trigger and down he went "like a ton of ----!" (famous Johnbar quote) i knew he was a nice buck when i first saw him but when i got up to him i was blown away he was unbelievable. I could not have wished for a better buck. i was so happy all i could say on the radio was "Scotty he's huge". I'm so excited about this buck i don't have an official score but i measured him my self and he's 26.5" wide and 28" tall. there are lots of ways to measure on weird angles but that's just the straight up welder measurements. I'm tickled to death and just wanted to tell Scotty that i love him and thanks for all the help yesterday."