The Great One Mule Deer — What That Huge-Antlered Deer From Askiy Ridge Is, and How to Get One

If you’ve looked through the Askiy Ridge (Alberta Hunting Preserve) artwork, you’ve seen it: a pale, patchy-coated deer with huge ears walking across the snow under a rack so big and twisted it hardly looks real.

That’s the Great One mule deer. The Alberta store page promotes it directly, calling it “the majestic Great One mule deer”, and everything in the picture fits: mule deer ears, a non-typical rack far beyond any normal trophy, and a fabled-looking coat.

What a Great One Is

Great Ones are the rarest animals in Call of the Wild. They are special level 10 “Fabled” animals with unique antlers and fabled furs, and harvesting one always earns the Great One medal, whatever the trophy rating. Only a handful of species have them: whitetail, moose, red deer, fallow deer, black bear, mule deer, tahr, gray wolf, wild boar, roe deer, ring-necked pheasant and red fox.

They don’t just appear. Each reserve keeps a hidden tally for each Great One species, and you have to harvest that species there until you reach a tipping point. After that, replacement animals have a chance to spawn as a Great One. The game doesn’t publish the number, and players report everything from under a hundred to several thousand kills. That’s why it’s called the grind.

Where to Grind One

Advertised Great OneAskiy RidgeDrinks 15:00–18:00 · 19 species

On our verified Great One listSilver Ridge PeaksDrinks 15:00–18:30 · 9 species

Mule deerRancho del ArroyoDrinks 14:00–17:00

Mule deerParque FernandoDrinks 15:00–18:30

• Askiy Ridge is the one the studio advertises with this Great One. Deep snow shows tracks clearly, which makes finding herds and need zones easier.
• Silver Ridge Peaks is on our verified Great One list for mule deer, and has fewer species competing for your time (9).
• Pick one reserve and stay there. Progress is per reserve, so splitting your mule deer harvests between reserves slows you down.

Mule Deer Daily Routine

Mule deer feed overnight and into early morning, rest through the day, and drink in the mid-afternoon (about 15:00–18:00). That afternoon drink window is the easiest daily check: sit near the water in good time and watch the herd come in.

The Grind, Step by Step

1. Pick your reserve (Askiy Ridge or Silver Ridge Peaks) and commit to it.
2. Map every mule deer need zone you can find, especially drink zones. More zones means more animals per session.
3. Harvest every mule deer you can legally take, any sex and any score. Every kill counts toward the tipping point, so don’t save them for trophies.
4. Run a loop of zones: feed zones early, drink zones in the afternoon, then back to feed zones at night. Rest your zones between visits so animals come back.
5. Glass every animal. Once you’re past the tipping point, a replacement might be the Great One. It will look obviously different: a huge, wild rack and a fabled coat.
6. Don’t panic when you see it. Take your time, use in-class ammo and make one clean shot.

Gun and Ammo

Mule deer are class 5. These cover it cleanly:

• Ranger .243 with .243 Soft-Point

• Whitlock Model 86 with .30-30 Soft-Point Round Nose

• .270 Huntsman with .270 Soft-Point

• Martensson 6.5mm with 6.5mm Soft-Point

• Bow: Hawk Edge CB-70 with 420 gr Broadhead arrow

For grinding, a rifle with a scope and a flat trajectory saves time on open slopes. Askiy Ridge also adds the Laperriere Outrider .30-30 lever-action, a nice fit for medium game in timber.

Fabled and Rare Furs

Fabled furs (Great Ones): Cinnamon Stripes, Cobweb Enigma, Dripple Drizzle, Dusky Drift, Milky Way, Petal Puff.

Rare furs on ordinary mule deer: Albino (Very Rare), Dilute (Rare), Erythristic Isabelline (Rare), Erythristic Red (Rare), Leucistic (Very Rare), Melanistic (Very Rare), Mosaic (Rare), Piebald Variation 1 (Very Rare), Piebald Variation 2 (Very Rare).

More Pictures

Frozen creek below the peaks Lookout on a snowy ridge Hunters and deer in a snowy clearing Pronghorn on Silver Ridge Peaks, which shares the mule deer's range

4 official images from the game's store page. Tap any image to enlarge.

For everything else about the species (behaviour, every weapon that can take one and the trophy table), see our mule deer guide.

Great One details from the Alberta Hunting Preserve store page, our verified reserve lists and community reports (the tipping-point system is not officially documented, so treat kill counts as anecdotal). Furs, classes and need zones from our species database. Written October 2026.