Meet MAHULLA
Star City Whitetails 2012-2013 Buck Of The Year
This Virginia 20 point Monster Buck was taken by Al Clary of Hanover Virginia on Saturday January 5th, the final day of firearms season at The Hunt Road Hunt Club in Sussex County.
Mahulla was the #1 Buck for the 2012-2013 season at the Virginia Big Game Trophy Show.
Using the Virginia scoring system(oldest scoring system known to deer hunting) it scored 224 8/16.
Using the Boone & Crocket system it scores between 189-190.
Regardless of "red tape", I believe any of us would be more than happy to have Mahulla hanging on our wall !!
Here is the story of Mahulla...
This buck had never been seen live on this 4000 acre hunt club. The only knowledge of this buck was from a summer 2011 trail cam picture. Like many older bucks, Mahulla was basically a ghost. Al was so moved by the trail cam picture that he gave the buck the nickname "Mahulla", not only that he put the name on his license plate in hopes of harvesting him one day.
With this many acres to hunt, the hunt club members use dogs to promote deer movement. At last light of the final day of firearms season Al heard one dog down near a swamp on the property. Al quickly hiked about 500 yards across a cutover to a pinch point that he had hunted before. Mahulla popped out and Al got 5 shots off with his shotgun, several while running at the buck in order to close the distance.
Mahulla ran across the swamp, darkness fell and they couldn't find him. The search resumed Sunday, Monday and Tuesday without success. All hope of the buck's recovery had basically disappeared and Al's dream of finally harvesting Mahulla seemed to have turned into a nightmare, but on Wednesday the buzzards began to circle and they found Mahulla about 50 yards from where he had crossed the swamp.
What a great ending to a truly amazing Virginia Buck- congratulations Al...
The Big Game Trophy Show is held in Franklin Virginia and is sponsored by the Virginia Peninsula Sportsmen's Association for the last 74 years. Check out the link below past and present contest results.