I shot this muley this morning about 11:00. Shot was 25 yards quartering away. We put a tape on him after we got him skinned out and came up with a gross score of 231. He has a few mass measurements over 6", his longest G2 is 20 inches and the long droptine is 11 inches. The only downfall with him is his short G4's, but I am not complaining.







I only saw this guy for the first time on opening day. I had only been able to get into this spot once this year to scout but have been in the area a lot in the past few years and knew it held good bucks. I thought I was going to get a crack at him opening day but he didn't follow a couple other bucks like I thought he would and went over a hill instead of around like his buddies. I lost track of him after that. There was another guy out there bowhunting yesterday and I am sure he knew of the buck but not sure if he saw it that day or not. I went back on thursday morning and had to set up slightly different due to the wind. I never saw him first thing in the morning and was figureing I would have to come back again. I had spotted another droptine buck that I had seen the day before as well. He is still fairly young with maybe a 170 frame and a 5 inch drop and sticker on his left side as well. I decided to sneak in on him to have a better look. I didn't want to shoot him but had nothing else to do and wanted to see if I could get in on him. I got into about 50 yards of him and decided to wait for him to stand. I had been there probably an hour and I was seeing other deer pop up here and there to browse a little befor lying back down. About 10:30 I saw the big guy standing on the side of a hill between a quarter and a half mile away. It was kind of funny because he was right below where the other hunter always sits. I am lucky he wasn't out that morning. The buck walked down a bit behind a rise into some chokecherry bushes and I quicly backed out without spooking the smaller droptine and headed for him. The wind was perfect and as I neared the base of the ridge that separated us I removed my boots and slowly crawled to the top of the ridge. I could see him browesing in the chokecherry bushes and ranged him at 25 yards. It was too thick for a shot so I waited. I only waited a few minutes when I saw a small opening through the bushes to his vitals, so I put the 20 yard pin on him and released. He gave a big kick and headed straight down hill. I could see a red spot on his side but it was a little further back than I had hoped. He stopped at the bottom of the hill between a couple small bushes and layed right down. I didn't figure he would go too far so I backed out and went back to town to get a buddy to help me get him out. When I had got permission from the landowner he said no problem but to only walk in and drag out. I wasn't looking forward to the drag as he was in the middle of the pasture in some awefully rough country. I stopped by the landowners to tell him I had got one and to double check on the no vehicles for retrieving. He said no problem and to drive right up to him ( Thanks Ralph ). When we got back to him I didn't see him between the two trees and I kind of got a sick feeling in my stomach. I then noticed his antler heside the one tree. He had moved a few feet behind the tree. We took a few photos and took him back to show the landowner. He ended up dying less than 200 yards from where I shot a 215 gross in 2005. He also had great mass with weak fronts.

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Wolf shot in South Western Saskatchewan, by Cabri


I have yet to see pictures of it, but I heard it was very big.

http://www.maplecreeknews.com/index....led-near-cabri

By Marcia Love
When Dave Napper spotted a timber wolf near the edge of his property on Feb. 27, the rancher said his first thought was to protect his calves.
Napper, who ranches north of Cabri, quickly grabbed his gun and shot and killed the animal.
Despite the oddity of finding a wolf in the area, he said he wasn’t too surprised when he saw it roaming around.
“I knew there was something wrong, because people’s animals had been acting strange for the past few days,” Napper explained.
A few days after killing the wolf, Napper contacted the Swift Current Conservation Office.
The Saskatchewan Wildlife Regulation allows a landowner the authority to kill any carnivore, other than the black-footed ferret and swift fox, without a licence if the landowner is protecting his livestock or property.
If the wildlife is killed under the agreement of the Wildlife Regualtions, it must be turned over to the Ministry of Environment, where the Director of Fish and Wildlife will determine the disposal of the animal.
It was determined Napper had acted in accordance with the legislation, and the wolf was turned over to Leader conservation officers.
Michael Banks, a conservation officer in Leader, said the animal has been sent to Canadian Co-operative Wildlife Health Centre at Saskatoon, where a necropsy is being completed.
The necropsy will look into the overall health of the animal and also examine stomach content.
Banks said wolves are not typically seen in this area, although there is a population of moose, which is one of the wolf’s main food sources.
“With the number of (moose and deer) we have in this area and from where the wolf was found near the South Saskatchewan River, there’s some pretty good cover-up area along the river, so he coud have just ventured out of there and got caught out in the open,” Banks said.
Although it isn’t common to see wolves now, Banks said the plains wolf was not an unusual sight in the area in the early 1900s.
“There were plains wolves all throughout here,” he said. “So maybe to some degree they’re coming back to their natural habitat.”
Napper said this was the first time he had seen a wolf in the area, but knew of timber wolves being spotted by Gull Lake last winter.
The necropsy of the wolf may be able to determine its age, as well as possibly shedding some light on why the animal was wandering outside its natural habitat.

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