#1 JOE KONSWINSKI Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
#1 JOE KONSWINSKI Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks # 1 is finally here. We started this countdown on November 24, 2014 Joe Konswinski of Michigan shot the biggest buck on Santa Rosa Island in our 33 year tenure out there. This buck of Joe's is a 210 buck as a typical 4x4, but when you add in all extra points, he had over 45" of nontypical points. What a buck! Joe gets the distinction of shooting the biggest buck. At the same time a misguided Dodger fan, Will Woolle
#3 PAUL PRUDLER Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Bucks
#3 PAUL PRUDLER Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Bucks Does this buck actually look real? You dissect this buck, and there's something about that makes it appear almost mystical. When Chad brought this buck in from this hunt, we all just marveled at it's massiveness. Paul's buck has such huge bases and the mass all the way out to the tips is truly phenomenal. This buck doesn't have the huge webbing mass like yesterday's entry, but his thickness all the way out is unheard of. If thi
#5 COLBY BETTIS Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
#5 COLBY BETTIS Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks In many ways, this may be the most impressive mule deer ever shot on Santa Rosa Island. It has no eyeguards to speak of, and only two nontypical points (one only three inches long)-- yet it scored a whopping 237. As a typical this buck is a high 220's buck. His frame is just huge, with G2-4's extra long. One more thing-- this was Colby's first mule deer ever! Good luck improving on this one Mr. Bettis! If you notice th
#6 JIM TONKIN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
#6 JIM TONKIN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks This was Jim's second big buck he shot on Santa Rosa Island. He was a crack shot with his scoped handgun. Andrew guided him on this hunt, but on his other trip I guided him and as we were stalking him, I asked him how close did we need to get for him to shoot the buck with his sidearm. He nonchalantly said, "We can stop here, I'm good". I was a little shocked since we were a good 300 yards out. True to his word, he sat d
# 8 MARK BUCHANAN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
# 8 MARK BUCHANAN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks This has got to be one of the most unique bucks I have ever seen. This thing has 4 beams. Are you kidding?!?! This is a buck that might show up in your dreams. A good dream, of course, but can this buck actually exist with these malconformed antlers.Wayne guided on this hunt. As his story goes, he saw this buck the hunt before but the buck got wind of their evil intentions and got away from them before clients Bill o
#9 SCOTT MOONEYHAM Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Bucks
#9 SCOTT MOONEYHAM Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Bucks This is one photo that doesn't show off the trophy buck very well, but this particular photo has so much going on in it that I couldn't not publish this image. While my father Wayne guided Scott on this trophy buck, it's my older brother Greg who is packing it out along with Scott behind him making sure Greg doesn't fall over backwards (maybe not the best gun safety technique though). Do you think these two guys are happy? Th
#11 RICK AREND Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
#11 RICK AREND Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks Just another great, big, and burly buck from 2006. Rick came out to Santa Rosa Island with his son Chris. They were a pleasure to guide and spend time with. To me this was a fateful hunt. I felt I was being given guidance from somwhere to hunt this area of the Island on this particular day. We were hunting up on the Burma road, and suddenly I got a sense I needed to head to Lepe and search it out thoroughly. As fate wou
#12 ANDY WOOD Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Hunts
#12 ANDY WOOD Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Hunts This picture is so priceless Only on Santa Rosa Island. A 34" double drop time buck next to the sand dunes of the Pacific Ocean. Wow! Andy is one of my closest friends, and guided he and his wife many times on Santa Rosa Island. This is his largest buck with us. I'm just waiting to see if he can top this buck somewhere else in the western US. Knowing Andy, I'm not betting against him. Fellow guide Travis Christensen gets
# 15 BOB WELLINGTON Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
# 15 BOB WELLINGTON Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks Mr. Wellington came with us five years to Santa Rosa Island. He hunted with us in 2001, 2002, 2003, 2006, and 2009. This buck he shot in 2003 was his largest. This was also the only year that I guided him. On this year he came with him friend Bumpy Moyer. Bob and Bumpy also shot Roosevelt elk bulls on this hunt. Nothing like being busy to make the days go by fast. On this particular fateful day, we were hiking off
#16 JAMES BROGAN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks
#16 JAMES BROGAN Top 100 Santa Rosa Island Mule Deer Bucks Is there anything more dramatic than to have a huge mule deer buck backdropped by the Pacific Ocean? This is just an awesome photo taken by guide Chad Wiebe. If you look at ocean, there is even a fishing boat see. Classic. Also there is the tip of Santa Cruz Island. While James' buck isn't overly heavy, it has everything else, highlighted by a huge frame. Look at his G-3's and 4's! I remember seeing this buck a couple
