holy cow look at that
that's a four by four
go get your stuff
go go go
wow i've never seen a deer that big ever
that is a wide buck
i guess this year was like more of a special year where we actually had time to hunt together yeah
because usually i mean we don't get to right how long has it been since we hunted together
maybe oh it was your you you and jeff in 2016 i think your deer permits
look there's another one okay i got him double kill
we just headed out to eastern montana bow hunting and hunted together we had a camera
guy i filmed you some it was just kind of a hodgepodge of hunting in different
places and just covering country trying to find bucks that were in good places to stock mmhmm
is he big enough
oh yeah
he's big enough
he's a three by four about 140
he'd be a good first buck but he's not that big one
you passed on your first deer i'm proud yeah he's a little far
out but i think we could have slipped up on him
he's still right there he's right there behind that brush i think we could slip up to 50 or 60
looked over a lot of deer i would say a fair amount a lot of young bucks
and i think that's kind of par for the course right now in eastern montana is
uh you'll go through a lot of just basket bucks three points small four points it's it's not
the most important criteria to a deer hunt to score but we're looking for a buck that
scores good or at least has you know four solid forks right good four point a decent looking buck
yeah for me decent looking buck because i never i've never killed a mule deer with a bow
some deer we're gonna go make a move
there's a big three point it's a three by four
there's a
there was another big buck they picked up
holy cow look at that that's a four by four
four by three
see that buck down by the bush
that's a big four by four
how far is it to the ridge yes from that deer to the ridge
97 to that rocky point how far to the deer
200 so it's 100 air shot down there
i nailed him that's a three by four
yeah he's not hit
missed him
oh well
you smell that he smells
go go go
wow i've never seen a deer that big ever yeah that's a big buck
i've never seen a deer that big
we're headed back in today to where we saw those deer
see if we can't get on some of those big bucks again
heard a buck bedded just over this ridge been on him most good part
of the morning so we'll give it a shot going for my first mule deer with a bow
big one two zero
we had a couple good encounters you know that's why we bow hunt too is you know the suspense the
your heart's racing and you know it's a chess match it always is those two bucks that we got
right up on the rim on the rim rock with and we snuck right up to 62 yards and they were bedded
and the sun was right at our back perfect right in their face and we like like called at them and they
were like huh like they really didn't key in on what was happening remember that right right and
i'm sitting there over your shoulder filming and i'm like oh it's a done deal it's a done deal
swinging a miss i haven't killed anything with my bow since 2016 yeah just a little
bit rusty choking that moment of truth i mean you practiced all summer yes oh absolutely i
shot a lot but there's a big difference between targets and a live animal for me what happened
i don't know jitters
were you shaking yeah my heart was pounding
how far
like 62
is it ranging before you shot yes right here
in the moment it's a game of inches it's a game of seconds yes
and if i remember right that buck stood up and your left and right was good but
i think the arrow just dropped right underneath his brisket and mmhmm
when you're under time constraints i mean the buck stood up and i mean more or less you have to rush
a shot kind of you don't know how long a mule deer is going to stay there sometimes they act like
that other times they hear a squeak or a mah and they're flying out of their bed and you don't even
have a chance right i don't know how many miles that we covered but we covered a lot of country
yeah glassing hiking getting up on rim rock and throwing up the spotter and just trying to find
decent bucks and playing the line game with our onX maps and that was huge too because you know
we're hunting you know parcels of public that are within private or edges and just small plots and
we just kind of let the wind take us and just kept checking country until we found deer really
there's some deer i think they're over by the other water tank there's quite a few deer just too far away
dude that's a big buck
elk
try that same spike
how far is he 700 he's he's over four
you guys are tim's high you're low
420
600
same
still high you're high you're low 490
470
you're still low
550
atta boy
560
that's a long shot that 560 doesn't look that far
i think the day that we spotted the buck that you killed
we saw him from the truck yep just driving along kind of towards the end of the hunt and there he
is there he is and he's with does i think which was really odd a decent buck with does and we
like drove by them and didn't really stop and we didn't want to blow them out we knew they were in
like a patch of timber it was like a long timbered ridge and we figured they're somewhere in that
that timber you know embedded down because when we first saw them they were on the edge of that
timber kind of down below and when we bumped them driving by they kind of went up
they just went towards that up yeah into the timber up that finger
and so we just had to kind of still on our way through there the big thing that day is we spotted that buck
we had that great west wind and i just had a feeling that day and we were going from kind of
tree patch to tree patch and just i mean at each tree patch right each tree or chunk of shade
spending 20 minutes just picking apart every little piece of juniper bush anything in sight
and just waiting looking for an ear flick looking for a patch of hair we probably took
30 40 minutes to go like 50 yards yeah once we kind of got down to the edge of the timber
yeah just moving super slow and we had seen some does kind of further down yeah that's right and
so we didn't know we were thinking maybe the buck was with the does or maybe off a little bit
and you were like hey there's there's a pet like there's a deer and you he was like 62 yards
i think he was closer than that because we moved in to about 50.
we snuck into a buck he's in that thick trees
we're just waiting
we have a great wind we're just gonna wait
we know that since we have him located
we kind of have the upper hand and we still have that great wind yeah so it's just a waiting game
i think did we sit there for like an hour and a half i think it was an hour and a half to two hours yeah
i remember thinking you know we did our part
if you get into that zone in that 50 60 70 yard zone and you don't have a shot the rest is up to them
either he's going to feed down the ridge down towards the does
into the timber and we're going to have to try to get on him
or if we're lucky he's going to feed out to us and kind of that opening to that pocket
and maybe get a shot
wait wait wait
he's 36 don't move don't move
36 tell me when draw draw
good hit good hit
got him
good hit
yeah watch them watch them
coming down left tim come here
video step right tim step right move justin out of the way
come left come left
zoom in zoom in
don't move
coming up the hill to the left
leave your stuff
hit that buck a little far back just uh back the lungs liver and we're just waiting him out now
but it's a good hit that uh broadhead's doing the work stopped on the far rib
tim was watching while uh we went back to get the packs we're just gonna keep a close eye on him
not lose tabs of him on this hillside
you see him where oh right there yeah he's dead
nice
got him that's a great buck dude yeah
it's a giant i mean he ain't a giant but he's giant for me
that buck chose you yeah as far as i'm concerned
yeah he came out of his bed and walked right up to you right like you can try and try and try and
mess it up and miss shots and mess it up and yeah
but when it finally all comes together it's just it happens it's easy yeah
a lot of times with deer hunting especially is you know patience kills the buck
i mean that's usually what it comes down to
but man i really believe in that mentality if you can get in the zone and leave the rest up to him
that's all you can do yeah yeah and if it doesn't work out you can still feel good at the end of
the day and be like that was a great hunt yeah you know i did all that i could and you know knowing
that process and believing in it and whether you punch a tag or not you're still going to
go home fulfilled i think yeah i mean yeah it was definitely the best stalk i've ever been a part of
those are the memories that i think of is a great stalk and that's one of those situations where
i don't care if i'm shooting or videoing or just calling a range like that's just a fun hunt
bottom line not the biggest deer we've seen but i don't care that's the best
that's one heck of a way to start out mule deer hunt with a bow
first mule deer with a bow wow look at his eye guards too yeah
i saw the big forehead yeah beautiful i knew he was good
i knew he didn't have the width but
beautiful forks
that's a good buck yeah
there i don't even know the last time i got a i've never done an animal
in the truck whole this never happens
not even antelope
there
right there yeah when you can get them in the truck whole you know you're doing it right
we had like a 500 yard drag to the road and and he goes whole that doesn't happen very often