Collecting a trophy mule deer is even tougher than a record-book whitetail. Mulies are significantly fewer in number than whitetails, and many of the big boys live in very wild places. The following SCI trophy bucks are worth a long look.

Join us in drooling over some more of our readers' Deer of the Year.

Buzz Tyre has collected countless whitetails in his over 50 years of hunting but never tried for mule deer or a Coues deer. That changed on Jan. 9, 2009.