just give me the bear spray and back up let Adam and I handle it just keep filming
this week you'll be tagging along on a journey into the Grizzly
infested backcountry of western Wyoming for a hunt that truly embodies the
Eastman's legacy settle in for an episode packed with all the trials and
tribulations of a DIY backcountry hunt it begins with the legendary pioneer in
wildlife filming wilderness adventure and fair chase trophies define him the
son adds to the legacy and becomes the voice for a generation of letters today
the third generation pursues trophy big-game in places where success comes
from skill determination and grit now 60 years of hunting tradition comes down to
one defining moment we are the Eastman's we've been filming and hunting for over
60 years and three generations and these are just a few of our adventures
this is Eastman's hunting TV it's big-game hunting and it's as real as it
gets hi welcome to Eastman's hunting TV I'm
your host Guy Eastman today we're going to go on one of my favorite hunts each
year and that's a public land do-it-yourself elk hunt in my home state
of Wyoming any of you who live out here or hunt out here know that September
time is a magical time to be in the backcountry so let's not waste any time
let's head right into camp as it's the middle of September and these bulls are
just starting to rut during the bow season and let's go see if we can get
one of them on the ground just three short years ago I drew the exact same
tag and was fortunate enough to kill a tremendous public land bull
so we're going into one of my honey holes that I know they really like to
rut in there's a huge wallow up here he's out when they rut their temperature
goes through the roof they get really high temperatures around there to cool
themselves off muddy themselves up it also kind of puts her scent in there and
so when you see a wallow like this that has a lot of small ones different spots
it's usually the same bull he's just kind of marking his territory as the fog
began to roll in a distant bugle broke the silence sounded like a younger bull
but having no other options we decided to move in and set up
well that was pretty exciting I've been 20 25 yards I don't know
I heard three small bulls bugling and I thought I heard a bigger bull so maybe we
will have to come in here tomorrow and see if we can find the big bull this is
the last day of the hunt with bugling activity at a standstill we decided to
back out to a good vantage point and break out the spotting scope in hopes of
locating a bull to hunt during the rifle season in a few weeks as luck would have
it it wasn't long until we turned up a big bull feeding through a virtually
inaccessible isolated pocket on the mountainside a few miles in the distance
here's what we're doing rifle season hike up to that knob in the middle is
camp there as you can see you know both sides wait for it
fast forwarding a few weeks to the Wyoming rifle oak season I recruited a
friend Adam bender to do some scouting the day before I returned home from
Colorado it didn't take him long to turn up that good bull on the mountainside
just a short distance from where we spotted him a few weeks ago we saw his
track in September he's been in here all fall and I measured his patent it's
almost eight inches across his front track so you wouldn't want to meet him
coming down the trail when you're headed up I'll tell you that right now
that's a big grizzly just what you want to see when you're out come right
luckily this huge grizzly was headed in the opposite direction of our bull let's
do it got a bull up here that time I'd have spotted yesterday came back in this
morning found him again this morning it's four o'clock thinks about an hour
to get there but it should be perfect timing to wait for him to come out and
if he comes out on the hillside he's gonna be toasted so very good I could
while we made up the worst part that big steep face now we're gonna on the ridge
line got up here one thing I always want to do for I'd close the distance I stock
and make sure I'm y'all good and rested a little bit and cooled down not too
sweaty not huffing and puffing just in case some happens but I also want to
check the wind and the wind's good it's just coming drifted straight down not
long after we crested the ridge we ran headfirst into a group of satellite
Bulls we bumped these Bulls off the other side and split up the group things
are looking good to get this big bull on the ground this evening going up toward
the cow see you pop out right now
it's gonna come out coming up to the cow
ready
that's making a pack out a little easier as a vendor toasted didn't he
although the shot was only a little over 300 yards the hike over the bull was
probably twice that straight down one side and straight up the other there he
is nice Wyoming public land do-it-yourself
bull look at that a nice whale tail good beams pretty good sized body will
come back in the morning and pack him out but we're gonna leave him whole
we're gonna gut him up right here couldn't be happier
welcome back to Eastman's hunting TV before the break I killed a beautiful
DIY public land bull let's pick up the story the following morning as we've
recruited some bodies from the office to come help pack out the trophy well here
he is the bull from last night we finally got him drugged out from
underneath the tree where he was piled up he slid a couple hundred yards down
the snow hillside here but just a really nice public land do-it-yourself Wyoming
bull doesn't get much better than this shot him from that saddle up there about
350 yards he's ready to be broken down and taken to the meat locker so it was a
tremendous tremendous experience and and didn't come easy as you saw from the
footage it was straight up straight down in this country but that's what you have
to do back here a lot of times you just got to get off the beaten path and go
where other guys won't go just a just real trophy and I couldn't be happier so
we're going to get him broke down and packed out of here got the crew from the
office here to help me we had a great time back here and now it's time to get
the work started so until next time remember fair chase the only way to
hunt and take trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on Eastman's
hunting TV
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