I was 16 when I shot the big muley...too poor to afford film, let alone a camera. The antlers kicked around the farm for years, until someone appropriated them right off the front of the barn. I'll get you pix of the mounted sheep and the bigger pronghorn. I have the horns of the 80 around somewhere. I have killed many bigger than that one with a rifle, and was only proud of it because it was my only one taken with a bow...about early 1980's with a PSE LazerII.

We never took cameras into the field in my family...more room to carry water...pretty damned important in this desert.

When I was in my early and mid teens a 36-45 inch mule deer was not at all uncommon around here. We kind of took them for granted...how things change...! I've been shut out of our draw for a resident deer tag in Nevada for the last three years