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Ah ha! Gotcha, I bet you thought this was going to be another funny story of Garrett and his pranks. Well, I am sitting here after just coming home from a week long trip in UT on a moose and muley hunt. (FYI- Sarah just said that no one would know what a muley is so here's the definition, mule deer, aka muley for us country boys) Anyway, it was a great trip, we had snow and rain and even some good weather at times. The writer that I took shot a shiras moose which is the smallest subspecies of moose in North America.

The next 5 days were spent trying to find a trophy mule deer which was not an easy task. We walked about 10 miles a day in all the different weather conditions but to no avail until the last night. We spotted this buck coming out of a canyon to feed and after a couple of minutes its was decided that he would be a good buck to take. He is an old deer that probably wouldn't have made it through the upcoming winter.

This was a dream hunt for me as growing up I loved to look at old photo's of Papa and Great Papa who hunted in what was considered to be the the mule deer mecca time period. The 1960's, I used to watch slides of their hunts and the trophies they shot over and over again. Then we would go out to Papa's garage and look at all the horns of these trophies. This hunt in UT was a reflection of those times that Papa shared with me when I was a kid.

It was a great trip, but it feels so good to be back home and in the arms of the two and 3/4 people that mean the world to me!

Hope everyone is doing well!