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here we're gonna try to find one of them
he's right behind this bush careful careful don't get too far that way
inch high half inch to the left
i have high hopes that this might be my year to find a good buck hidden in these
hills and burns but hunting for that type of buck
after the velvet is stripped off can sometimes be a tall order
just out to that rock out there
we've got a couple bucks spotted we think it's the group
from what that i saw last night down off here so we're just gonna peek over these
rocks and take a look down on this other side and see see if the
big bucks down there i hope he is
there's two bucks there i don't see the others
they're straight down there they're beating up this way
you see them ball
i don't see the big buck yet
problem is i don't see his other buddy he had that one buddy that was like 180.
none of these bucks are that
those bucks don't look like the right group
they're not big enough there's one that's real heavy and there's a 180 with
him those none of those bucks are that that's not
the right group of bucks i mean he's 26 wide
so
today we're in colorado hunting big bucks we've got a
buck spotted here real nice buck with two cheaters he's real heavy probably
28 wide with the cheaters maybe a little wider
he thinks he's hidden there's two young bucks below him and
he thinks he's hit embedded down in those rocks but we know there's a bigger
buck in here we've seen before so the hunt continues we're going to
pass on this buck
after blowing a near slam dunk stalk on a big non-typical
we spent the afternoon trying to turn up one of the two bucks we've been after
these big burns create a scenario where the older more mature bucks
drift in and out of the burn for feed about every three or four days
catching up with just the right buck can become an exercise in
frustration and patience
wrong bucks it's not our group of bucks it's a
three by four goofy spike by two or something like that so
we're back to square one if it would have been our buck it'd have been a
pretty sweet deal but it's not him so we're gonna probably go back and
look at those other two clearings again
he's the second big biggest buck we've seen
he does have the velvet on his horn he's got some
dried up velvet on his horn but i don't well i can't see him very good right now
he's behind the tree i can't see him it's not i'm pretty sure it's not
that bad i don't think his fronts are big enough
he's three and he's way too wide anyway he's too wide
anyway to be that buck as the hot morning sun
begins to encroach on our hunt we desperately pick apart the burn in
hopes of turning up one of the two big bucks we've been searching for
including one big typical buck my brother ike found
during the previous elk hunt
so
he's right there he's right behind this bush
careful careful don't get too far that way yet i'm going to just kind of
ease out there and get all set up
he's right in front of that old brush in that shadow
he's laying right above that black stump
wow
he's not gonna want to get up
he's really heavy he's a heavy buck
wow he's not going to get up
i think he knows we're here he thinks he's hitting
i mean i don't want to get up i promise i don't know how to get him up
getting a mature mule deer buck out of his bed for a shot can be a very risky
endeavor this is about a 50 50 situation here but
waiting here all day is not really an option at this point
all right
the old dog bark gets them again that's a risky situation
based on yesterday's experience getting a buck up out of the bed
is uh is a little tricky and anytime you use a squeaky dog bark
coyote yelp cow call you're always afraid they're
going to get up running in it and i think that buck was about to get
up running so i uh kind of pushed the shot a little bit
on timing but it was a nice close shot we got 133
yards so it was nice and close but did the old dog bark he got up boom put
him down that buck thought he was hidden he's just laying there
big old typical buck he's not real wide but he's heavy heavy
long tines just what we've been looking for just a heck of a deer
colorado you gotta love it so we'll gather up our brass here and go go
take a look at the buck he's definitely down
this hunt is officially concluded look at that it's bright red let's go
look
he should be right here he ran around and i hit him a second time he went end
over end didn't go as far as i thought it's right
here look at how heavy that buck is holy smokes
that is a heavy heavy buck it's compact but really really heavy look at that i
guard just a really big big deer look at the
back g2 on him is just really long
that was fun that was really fun we were all here i got to film the whole thing
from way up on top of the ridge yeah we don't uh all three of us in the
same spot on a hunt kill very often huh i saw that buck and in my binocular you
spotted him huh i said you need to shoot this buck
that's the one we've been looking for for
four or five days just really heavy i was heaviest buck i've ever shot
probably most people probably passing because
he's not real wide but they don't take into consideration
how long his points are and his back tangs that was really cool thanks for
spotting him dad were no question in your mind was it
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