Bud Lucas with his 30″ Plus Trout Creek Mule Deer

As with many people that touch our lives in the course of more than 30 years, they do pass.  One such person is Bud Lucas from Klamath Falls, OR.  I first met Bud back in 1978, when I first started Burns Bros., Inc. as an ASE Certified Auto Mechanic.  I had been introduced by Jim Dunlap the CFO of Burns Bros., Inc (Truck Stops).  Bud Lucas was quite the hunter and did a lot of Mulie hunting down out of the Trout Creek Mountains in SE Oregon. 

Bud had MS, but could still get around with the use of a Quad.  He was always one that hunted the big mulies along the Oregon – Nevada border.  Over the years Bud harvested many a monster mulie and pronghorn.

Bud Lucas had own a furniture store in Klamath Falls, OR.  He was surely missed by me, the community and his daughter.  Bud and I never did get to hunt together over the 20 years that I knew him, but anytime he was in Portland visiting Jim Dunlap we always had lunch and spun a yarn.