welcome today's show we're down here in southwestern Wyoming hunting mule deer
it turned cold and snowed it's going to be a great hunt down here with my buddy
Wendell Front just opening day for us it's a nice little four point I did see
a really good buck but he's back tangs were a little short went up through the
quakers so stay tuned - a great show this year I am taking Ike along and both
of us have permits and both of us going to hunt
there's two bucks here one like a 25-inch four point but always come and
check this ditch in here every time I hunt here because there's always always
a buck or two in here and sometimes there as many as I don't know ten or
twelve bucks right down there you see that Quaker patch right in front of it
as a mule deer there he's going straight away now
Wendell called me years years ago that this would be nineteen years ago he
called me and they had a bad winter in Wyoming he couldn't get any hunters and
he had a good place and I know it's good because my dad and I would used to when
we were down there hunting on the agenda a Jindal adjacent adjacent place you
know this guy this ranch had some really good mule deer on it so I knew who he
was was in the nineties wasn't yeah in the 90s so he calls me one day and he
like to invite you to come down and take know he wrote me a letter come down and
see what we have wasn't an email no it was a letter it was after the winter in
1997 I think 93 93 bad winter yeah so I hunted down there and we didn't see
a lot of bucks and I killed a 175 old buck had no front teeth and I told him I
said I want a hunt every year that's it ain't easy okay you got it
so we've been hunting down there for 18 19 years I think this year is going to
be 19 that's nice buck finally got it yeah 31 inches wide
well folks we got two good bucks there but the best one and you're looking at
there's got really good fronts and he's about 24 inches wide but he's backs if
you look they're they're really what we call claw crab he's not really got anything
for the backs but he does have a cheater we'll keep looking okay you showed up
two days before I did because I got stuck in Canada on a on a caribou hunt
with the same place but the it snowed like a winter storm I've never
been in and we got stuck for a week and so will your which delayed everything
and I I didn't show up for two days and you guys kept finding deer and on my way
home I Corky you text me oh we're in trouble
we're in trouble they're finding big deer they're finding big deer we're in
trouble because this was going to be we didn't
plan on this old guys versus new guys this thing started from the new guys
pounding their chest be perfectly honest and the old guys go on whatever you guys
can't even whatever and it was a first I think the first year we had two hunts
down there competition is on yeah oh I don't know I see a nice mule deer it's going down
Yeah right yeah listen we're you know folksy you get the young whippersnappers
here you got Corki Wendell son and of course my son and and you know us me and
windell we just kind of do our thing here and look at a bunch of deer but these
two guys started in on us old guys staying they're gonna find the biggest
buck and do this and that they're scared because we've seen two bigger mule deer
than that and now down see they started this years ago they're like all the old
man we're gonna we're gonna go get the two young whippersnappers we're gonna
kill bigger deer we don't tell them about our deer so they don't even know
how big a deer we see cuz they're not seeing any oh yeah right oh he's no deer
right so we split the ranch cuz the creek runs right through the middle
ranch and what you guys doesn't matter anymore apparently because last year you
guys were just hunting whatever the heck you wanted of course we're old guys
we're sitting there doing us first we're doing a stock and all of a sudden here
all sudden here comes Mike and Wendell well thanks for that blew that
stock hey we we go anywhere we want apparently
well folks its turn pretty not better than was this morning the Bucks are out
early and Wendell spotted Bucks got to cheaters on it that Wendell seen
before and we're going to need to slip right up here and get up and get set up
and they're kind of moving our way through the sagebrush and see if I can't
get a shot or getting out there
well I hit that buck and he went down like a ton of rocks and if you notice there
that sagebrush and brush there is almost chest deep so he come in here and we got
the the two old men me and Wendell huntin and Ike and Corki Wendell's son or
over on the other part looking for a big buck but I think they're going to have a
long ways to go the find a buck as good as this one so
for now the old guys are one the young guys is zero hunted hard of course all
all of us hunted pretty hard for the time we were there in the last day last
night last shooting light working I shot a deer we thought oh we got him we got
him there's no way they're going to shoot they didn't even shoot a deer so
we got him anyway and showed up and they played a trick on us
dropped him he's down look at this big old gnarly pucker congratulations to Ike
on a really great deer he is as wide as we thought he was he's over 28 inches he's
heavy but let's go back to the ranch where me
and Wendell are setting this up because they don't know we've taken this buck of
mine and so we're gonna play a little joke on them up here so stay tuned to
this look at all the junk on this hole boy oh yeah twenty twenty eight and a
half twenty and a half good work good work
beat the heck out of my buck what buck the one you shot tonight that buck is an
inch wider than my buck we can back it up here
oh never mind I'm sorry we kind of like set you guys
up but it was pretty cool I know your buck is bigger mine width wise I will say
that your buck is wider than mine but mine is really nice looking so that started
this and we keep it going so it's the funnest time someday Ike
will get a bigger one I did yeah the 192 with all the others right yep
I was there for that we'll see you next week on Eastman's hunting TV show and
remember fair chase only way to hunt and take trophy big game see you next
week