RIPPED OUT FENCE WIRE

Honing antler points on stiff brush is instinctual. Sometimes a snarl of man-made wire is too hard to resist.

SOUTH END OF A HERD OF NORTHBOUND MULE DEER

Mule deer lack the dramatic tail "flag" of whitetail deer. They also fail to use cover as well as their whitetail cousins.

BUCK IN THE BRUSH

A buck mule deer's antlers fork at right anglers. Seldom do you find individual tines such as you would on a whitetail buck. Also note the head and face pattern.

CUTTING THROUGH CORN STUBBLE

Both Colorado deer species have a taste for corn and spend fall and winter nights picking kernals from waste ears in the stubble.

SPIKEHORN MULE DEER

A mule deer buck at the end of his first full year of adulthood. If he survives about 3 more years he will sport antlers of 10 total points or more.