Was able to find a decent buck this year! It's so much fun hunting mule deer. Last year I shot a decent four point, knocked him down, found very little blood and gave up after loosing blood and tracks the next day. I was disappointed, discouraged but it happens and life goes on. My neighbor came with me this year, who has never shot a buck bigger than a forky, but wanted to experience some more backcountry type hunting. On the third day I spotted the buck I had shot the year before and asked my neighbor if he wanted to take this buck. He was all over it, so we set up my pack for a good prone shot and he took him at 250 yards. We found my bullet from last year lodged in his neck between the muscle and hide. The bullet went under his spine and above all the arteries and stopped at the hide! Very cool ending to a terrible day a year prior. My neighbor killed a nice buck and I was able to kill a nice buck 3 days later. 
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