Year 2000 saw us have another great season bowhunting for mule deer and antelope. Two mild winters in a row has really helped to increase the populations for both species. There was plenty of good muley bucks around and some real giants seen and shot at. The antelope numbers were really back and the buck quality was also quite good. Everybody had at least one good shot at a nice deer or antelope with several hunters getting many opportunities.

We took 17 hunters who killed 10 mule deer bucks for a 60% success rate with most of these bucks making Pope and Young. Return clients holding out for really good deer kept the success rate down. The biggest buck was a heavy 185 score deer taken by Jan Seski from Pennslyvania and guided by Blaine Walburger. Byron Christie from Texas killed the next biggest deer with a 55 yard shot. It scored a very symmetrical 165 Joe Coleman from Tennessee and Craig Chandler from Kentucky came together on a one on one hunt and took 2-160 class bucks with under 25 yard shots.

Mike Van Dorfy from Texas shot a last day 155 buck and Ron Okonek from Wisconsin and Jerry Allen from Texas also got nice 150 class bucks. The bucks shot by the other hunters were all nice deer they can be proud of.

It was also great to see the antelope coming back. We had some really exciting decoy action with some bucks charging in to under 15 yards. The best antelope, a 76 incher, was killed by Aaron Arnell from New Jersey with Rich Mowry also from New Jersey as the decoy operator. Mike Worrell from Pennslyvania. and Ron Okonek from Wisconsin both got nice antelope and mule deer bucks. In the end we took 6 antelope bucks for 8 hunters.


Thanks to everybody who came antelope and mule deer bowhunting and made it a fun and successful hunt. Special thanks to Blaine and Susan Walburger and Jan Allen who all work their butts off to give everybody a great hunt.

The year 2001 season is booked full and 2002 is booking up quickly so call right away if you are interested. I hope to see you up here soon.

  Yours truly,
  Mike Ukrainetz