we were out filming last year in Montana and my whole intention was to do a
segment on whitetail hunting well with wildlife you never know what you're
gonna get we started off hunting a little Powder
River country for whitetail and you're gonna see us rattle up some bucks and we
got some really great footage but you know during that time we stumbled on to
a really decent mule deer and Guy being raised in Jackson Hole country in
Wyoming mule deer's our passion and you're gonna see us just kind of drop
whitetail hunting and go after this mule deer so today's segment is on actually
whitetail rattling a little bit and then our hunt as Guy takes a good quality
mule deer in Montana so let's go on to the Powder River Country of Montana for
a mule deer hunt we're in the little Powder River country hunting whitetail
you know I decided to start rattling and see if I could bring up a good whitetail
and guess what comes in this forked horn mule deer you know this country does
produce some gigantic whitetail and that's why we're here we're trying to
find guy a good trophy whitetail but look what comes up there's a little fork
horned mule deer he goes where's all the action in looking around
I'm scraping that Douglas fir there and and then the occasionally I'll rattle he
couldn't figure out what's going on he makes a big circle hare watching just
look and Pekin so ears ago and his nose going he's trying to get downwind of me
so he can smell me can't figure it out
this isn't quite what we were looking for when we start rattling we're looking
for a good trophy whitetail but I tell you a whitetail or smart
some people think they're smarter than me oh dear
and you know I got to kind of believe it sometimes I'll tell you one thing we're
smarter than this a little forking on mule deer I'll tell you that
look at him look at me this is your the ugly whitetail I've ever seen and then a
whitetail does step out look at us and eases off
the next morning finds us in a spot that's about two miles away from where
we were where we brought in that forked horn I got my buddy here doing the
rattling Tom Benjamin look what comes up now it looks like a little buck right
here he's a four on her side I kind of watch
this is Tom rattles he'll bring that buck right in in fact
I'm running the camera here and he runs in so fast the camera autofocus can't
keep up with it now watch this I'll just be quiet you just kind of watch this
sequence this is great folks
Tom rattles those antlers here he comes
what's going on here I eat comes right up to us lay this my camera can't keep
up with him the autofocus
what is that invariably what he'll do folks is you'll go around and get
downwind right here smell us and poom off he goes guy this really works I'm
telling you I I never dreamed he'd come charging in running up there 15 yards
from me it was great whitetail a lot more aggressive about it in the mule
deer they come in kind of slow and cautious boy that white telling jokes
right in here that's the first one I've ever rattled up like that and then just
tangled him a little bit like that and hit him together a few times I'll tell
you what he was right there at about 40 yards from us he just kept closing he
charged right up there about 15 yards that give a person quite a thrill yeah
you know you came right in you got a nose white tail come in they holding it
only takes him about 10 seconds to figure out something's wrong and then
they leave so you got to be pretty quick yeah he was with him well within bow range
right there with that yeah we get the big one yeah it's gonna be really
thrilling find a big one the next morning we decided to hunt the river
bottom of the little Powder River getting up on a point we can look across
and Tom and guys spot a decent whitetail with some does they get set up here and
Tom starts rattling and you know that buck that's probably a quarter mile away
he hears that rattling and here he comes now watch this folks he gets closer and
closer yeah we see him tom he's coming in this is exciting watching a whitetail
buck move right in to us
but he does here he dumps down into the little Powder River and then he pops
back up on the other side Tom keeps rattle in here it isn't long before he
bumps up on the other side of the river on our side here he comes
he's getting closer and closer this is a peak of the rut for a whitetail what he
actually was doing over on the other side of the river was putting a scrape
out when he heard these antlers rattling here he comes
this is probably 2:30 in the afternoon
but during the rut like this a little snow on the ground probably 10 below
those whitetail bucks are really getting after it listen to him listen that
rattling
it's coming closer and closer I can't believe it
I'm standing next to a big cottonwood filming this too bad he is like a 150
whitetail that's the class of whitetail we're looking for but this makes for
great footage here
you know it's Tom uses that little meow it's made by Quaker boy and boy that
buck hears that and he just keeps coming and coming
it sounds like a doe in heat doesn't sound very loud but that whitetail can
hear it three four hundred yards away
now he's running he's really getting excited now
he's only 50 yards away folks he hasn't dawned on him that we're right there
he's still coming you'll see here in a minute the light go off in his head
right there he goes oh that ain't no whitetail look at his nose working just
let me out of here boy but watch this folks
he jumps four foot in the air boy look at that tail go boy he says that's the
ugliest white L I ever seen I'm leavin he's gone this is great but he has to
stop here going and look look at these years go back he's still listening to
that rattling but he knows that it isn't right goodbye mr. whitetail
the next day we find guy hunting mule dear he found a good quality mule deer and
decided to hunt this buck rather than try to take a whitetail
170 buck yeah congratulations guy I think you saw him earlier today - no we
filmed it a little bit watching the real patient and then you know kind of put
him to bed for the afternoon hate lunch and came back up here and caught him
he's rutting those goes yeah we thought he'd be up here when he fell we you saw
him earlier come up this draw it kind of caught us when we came back about two
hours ago and you saw him and another doe you know by midday that buck had
moved his way into this Canyon he's a 170 mule deer Guy being born and
raised in Jackson Hole when we saw a good quality mule there deer like this we
decided to go mule deer hunting instead of whitetail we eased up on this ridge
and this buck's down in this canyon with this doe now I want to tell you that
kilise Hill of a mule deer is a rut and that's what happens here this buck
doesn't have a clue where around now the doe knows were there and she tries to
take off and run here when she sees the buck he's just right on her he
doesn't even know we're there he has other things he's thinking about guy
gets down in a position where he's got a dead rest he waits here until I can call
the buck's trying to get away right here
guy is bearing down on him I call and that's just enough to break his
concentration for him to stop
right here and look at us that was a mistake he shouldn't of made great shot
wait a shoot and I just put it right on his heart and just squeeze it off well a
great shot he stopped he came up he turned the lap and looked at his dough
he just disappeared he heard that block when you hit him
that that buck never never had a second
way to go yeah I see him laying there good job
let's go take a look congratulations guy on a great shot on a good trophy meal
there and you know the thing about it guy waited several hours for that booked
to get in a position where we could really honey that's a great buck he got
yesterday guy thanks he's a real trophy real pretty buck he's real photogenic
heavy dark horn he was rutting those dough's and and we were lucky enough to
get on him and get a shot at him folks I like to tell you that this this buck was
taken on fair chase and remember fair chase is the only way to hunt and take
trophy big game