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300-inch
COLORADO
Mule Deer
64
14-year OlD bOy TaKeS THe largeST bUCK In THe laST 20 yearS
by Kyle lOPeZ
HUNTING ILLUSTRATED.com
Darn it, I didn’t get my fi rst
choice tag for our ranch.
But, after a few weeks I
found out that my uncle and I drew
tags for the Hayman burn area. I
was excited because my dad drives
by that area on his way to and from
work every day. He had been telling
me about the monster bucks he had
been seeing. There was only one
problem; we had to wait until the
third rifl e season.
My dad had been scouting
all summer and had seen many
nice deer. Some of the deer he had
scouted were 30+ inch bucks and
one non-typical that looked like a
monster buck. Dad followed these
bucks up until two weeks before the
season. The closer it got to opening
day, the less my dad was seeing the
deer. The day before the season
opener he didn’t see any deer at all.
“Beep, Beep, Beep!!” The
alarm went off. My hunting season
had fi nally arrived. I rolled over to
my nightstand and silenced the alarm
and jumped out of bed. My dad was
already up and ready along with my
uncle. I grabbed some breakfast and
my gear, my gun, knife, camo and, of
course, my orange. I ran out to the