I have waited 15 years to draw a deer tag in my
home state of Wyoming all deep Forks he's good he's close to
180 guess that's not your buck
[Music] no I am pretty dejected at the [Music] moment conditions are pretty
brutal out here so we're just trying to stay warm and 45 minutes of light left
basically shoot him now I don't see him I see him
my gosh with 3 minutes to spare we got 3 minutes to spare
tall back end but spindley he's pretty deer he wasn't here when we came through the first time there's a couple of
little guys out there sparring and doing things not what we're looking for but he's pretty
that's not exactly what we're looking for but uh it's a start I have waited 15 years to draw a deer
tag in my home state of Wyoming we're blessed here cuz we get to do General hunts every year
but everybody wants to draw a really good tag and I've always wanted one of these late season rut
hunt tags and they're very very limited here in the state of Wyoming as they should be and
today's my first chance to get out I've drew the tag this year and we're out we got some weather
to push these deer down a little bit lower as you can see we got a bunch of snow it's single digits
perfect morning Dan Pickar and I've glassed up I think eight nine bucks just nothing we really
want to go after yet we saw a big big three-point this morning it was a long ways away but as you
can see these ladies are behind me hanging out getting some groceries and we're going to keep
on it we I've got about 10 days left in the season to hunt was waiting for this weather
to come in and we got it we got the weather we need and we're just covering country glassing
putting the sigs to work so we can just tear it apart save our feet and our bodies for when we
really need to get after it and get on the go and find a big buck and get him knocked down
so to kill a 180 Buck is way harder than what it sounds like on public land I don't care how hard
the tag is to draw just because of the condition of our deer herds now throughout the West right
and you hear stories of guys seeing giant bucks on these tags but historically these tags around
here don't produce real giant bucks right real 180 plus not known for it not not historically
there's some big deer that are killed every year yes there's always outliers right and and no
matter where you goere no matter where you go I don't care if it's a general or I don't care if
it takes 20 points exactly exactly but some of the hardest tags to draw still don't produce as a
whole big deer true big deer they're going to have a fight going to be like Gladiator are you not
entertained look at him dude ears pinned back puffed up chest out
yeah definitely the more dominant Buck look at him he just
walked that other Buck right out of there doesn't want anything to do with
him no the big guy just literally is pushing him right out of there
this is the best part
how's it going buddy you look like lunch come back in 10 years all right so day three update
took Saturday off to spend with family chill get some rest and I was out this morning by
myself and I found a whole bunch of deer tons and tons of deer there's every day that passes
more deer come into the unit that's what we're seeing with the migration and I found really
big buck up high this morning that was no way I was going to get to him especially solo I
have 5 days on this tag and every day man this tag gets better and better and better but I got
the A team with me tonight hey hi got all the kiddos hi happy and my wife Grace is running
the camera um we're not going to get too crazy it's pretty cold but we brought snowsuits and
everything we need in case we find a big buck that we want to go after we've got everybody
all lined up and ready to go so Grace can film maybe I can shoot that's what you looking at
I'm looking at a boy deer so it's a buck is he nice yeah is he nice enough for Daddy to put
a tag on yeah yeah you think so what do you think yeah I don't see him though should I shoot him
yeah he's looking right at us not bad I think we should look for something bigger if you want to
well that's not the freak buck that I saw in here this
morning but he's but he's awfully pretty big 3x4 pretty handsome
nice not what we're looking for he's on private
property anyway he is 100% engaged in the rut
it is game on I spotted a big buck yesterday morning from a long ways away and we got a hot
tip somebody else saw a big buck in the same general area we're thinking it's probably the
same deer snowing our visibility is going to be a little limited but it's okay everything's
that we're everything we're going to be looking at is going to be pretty close but the deer are
moving this is apparently like one of the best migrations in the last 15 or 20 years locals
are saying I mean I'm a local but I'm not 15 year local so I couldn't pick a better time
to be out here with this tag I'm just stoked I've seen more mule deer bucks than I've ever
seen in my life it's been spectacular when you get a tag like this soak it in you got
to make sure you enjoy it enjoy every minute of it because you just don't know what's going
to happen but it is prime time deer are rutting they're moving we're going to go get 'em
I think a lot of guys would have the idea that okay I drew the tag there's going to be a
booner behind every tree you know it's and it's not that way at all or even a couple
180+ers to choose from no it's not it wasn't that way and it wasn't that way on
this hunt no we chased a ghost around that I had spotted gotten a long long distance
glimpse of and you had gotten some Scuttle butt about and oh he's on the highway he's
on National Forest and he's on public and dude we could not find that deer we could not turn
that deer up we looked for 4 days for that deer and we never turned him up and we saw a lot of
bucks well seeing lots of tracks today big time deer movement yesterday afternoon before the storm
hit we've seen a lot of deer we haven't seen much for bucks today and honestly haven't seen as many
deer as we thought we would we're exploring a new part of the unit we haven't been into yet
just covering country that's kind of the name of the game on these late season migration hunts On X
hunt makes that part of the game a little easier a lot easier when you turn on that 3D feature
whether it's on your phone or your desktop you can see the funnels that these deer are going
to travel in you know they're not going to come over big huge Cliffy mountainous stuff they're
going to look for the easy stuff the funnels the low spots the Saddles and with On X we've
been able to pinpoint some of those locations by pulling it up and taking a look at it and really
finding those easiest places for those deer to travel so when you're hunting some of these late
migrations like this make sure you're using On X to help you locate the areas in the terrain that is
going to funnel deer movement that's been kind of key for us it's let it's we've seen a lot of deer
thanks to that that scouting technique so just a little Pro tip for you how to use On X when you're
out buming around looking for deer so time to get back after it I don't even see him now
got he's past his ears yeah he's all deep Forks he's he's close to
180 he's a little
narrow but I mean four solid Forks he's got 2 in eye guards 24 in
wide right
there 374 yeah he the
one
well we uh we're just waiting now they're in this Timber up here behind us right up
on that Hill they didn't really go very far so we're just waiting for him to come
back out they should be right up in there it's pretty windy though so hopefully they do come
out we did see a glimpse of a doe in there so they haven't gone anywhere but conditions are
pretty brutal out here so we're just trying to stay warm and 45 minutes of light left
basically he's not coming out smart buck want to walk up there
he didn't want to leave those does you know the beauty of a rut hunt a late season rut
hunt this is an older deer but he's just the lack of hunting pressure because of such limited tags
and then those does he's like I'm coming back out stand up stand up shoot him now I don't see him
oh he just walked behind the trees okay to the left to the left now up now up look through the trees to
the back side of the meadow I see him he got too many sticks down there yeah I know he's moving
right I got
him [gunshot] you got him he's down reload you get high he hasn't moved a muscle oh my gosh
with 3 minutes to spare we got 3 minutes to spare he's down he hasn't moved I got him in the screen here
unreal smoked him at 200 yards in the last Light Dan's like there he is there he
is I could not see that buck and then he came across the very top of the opening
and I was on on him I dial my scope way down guys that's a tip for you in this in
low light like this dial your scope down in magnification you can gather more light that
way and that's the only reason I could see that buck 14 Power Scope and I shot him on like six
power holy smokes Dan was super patient with me I was struggling
to see that deer he's like there he is there he is there he is I was like
I can't see him he's down hopefully he's down for the count Dan thank you good job
buddy high shoulder wow better than I thought Todd better than I thought oh man look at that
buck so this this Buck was a dream you know to pull the tag to get to see the migration that
was the locals were all saying was the best migration in 20 years you know and to get to
see that to get to take my kids out one evening and film a really nice really weird three-point
buck that was really cool just the whole thing was a neat experience you know I said when I
drew the tag that I want to enjoy this to the to the fullest I don't I mean yeah you're not
going to pass up a buck on the first day but I'm glad that everything happened the way it
did because we got to experience the entire hunt you know we hunted for 5 days we had a
few more days left but we'd seen what we needed to see and and I just shot by far the biggest mule
deer Buck of my life what a stud I could not be happier absolute monster buck in the snow
in the cold just amazing absolutely amazing Dan parar is one of a kind I tell you what man he
hung with me the whole time pushing me hard we got on this Buck this afternoon and I knew soon
as I saw him the first first Glimpse I was like that's my buck that's my buck this is why these
premium tags are what they are always wanted to hunt mule deer in the Rut here we are he was
all rutted up with Doe's awesome Buck awesome Buck hey guys thank you for joining us on this episode
of Beyond The Grid and Eastman's hunting TV and remember Fair Chase is the only way to hunt and
take trophy big game dragging down the mountain sliding it's perfect uphill from the road