glad you can join us you know over the last 40 years my family has been filming
winter range mule deer in Wyoming now the last ten years I've been documenting
several great big huge mule deer they have come in on the winter range these
bucks are found in public land and are hunted you know a lot of times these
mule deer bucks year after year come on the winter range generation after
generation and if you got good management they will look the same year
after year also particular areas will produce good quality mule deer that have
a genetic look to their antlers look at these two bucks right here I guarantee
you they're brothers even down to having the same cheater off
the same back tang they probably are a year or two years
apart from each other now look at the buck on the left I videoed that buck
this last winter on the winter range a good quality 190 type mule deer
now the buck on the right I videoed 15 years ago in almost the same identical
area if you look the two of them have similar antler configuration granted the
one on the right really a lot larger than the one on the left but still I
guarantee you those two bucks come out of the same gene pool look at the buck
on the left I took that buck old two years ago he's narrow heavy and he's got
some cheaters the buck on the right is almost identical I filmed him ten years
ago a lot of times that trait like narrow on high and heavy like that will
come year after year generation after generation if you got good management
you know about 11 years ago I videoed a buck that I tagged corkscrew and the
reason I did is because he had a dropper that's twisted down like a corkscrew for
about a foot actually he had double drops like if you look right here you
can see him the other one is a little short he has a 190 mainframe got a
cheater off one side well you know this buck was a really a
special dear very unique had a lot of character now this is 10 years later now
he'll pop his head up here in a minute and you'll look and off on his passenger
side of these antlers you'll see that dropper
it's quite a dropper in fact if you look at this buck you'll notice that he's
rack configuration looks a lot like corkscrew the racks on the 2 bucks
look similar even though they're probably 10 years apart I'll guarantee
you that these two bucks are related one way or the other now when he pops his
head up here you can look and see that he's got a big old dropper on one side
and it's got a ball on the end of it really you need
now I want you to watch something here he watches off to his left
two dogs start running and he's got his head down feeding but watch how he picks
his head up in a split second looks right at them looks around to see what's
going on and then up then he leaves you see that he throws his head up in a
split second he looks at the two does his ears are going he's trying to listen
to what's going on he looks to the left of him make sure there's nothing there
he then spins around and leaves now as he goes look I've got corkscrew on the
right and him on the left look at they're almost identical and rack size
and conformation isn't it unbelievable and these two bucks come from the same
area they've got to be grandfather and grandson and that's what you've got to
look at in different areas is that if you can find the area to produces Bbucks
like this and if it's got good management year after year you're gonna
have quality trophy hunting