After hunting in snow for several days with no luck, I abandoned the upper basins that I had scouted earlier and dropped into lower transitional country. I harvested this great buck at 70 yards with my .54 cal Knight muzzleloader. He was taken DIY on public land. Although he is not overly wide (24 inches), he has good tine length, mass, and was almost perfectly matched from side to side.

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