big set of buck tracks like literally just minutes ahead of us
it's right up here larry let's go
are you on him
he's hit he is down
today we're gonna go on one of my favorite hunts each year and that's our hunt winner hunt
with rod paske at sizzling us outfitters to eastern montana and chase trophy mule deer
during the rut now each year we give away a hunt to one of our subscribers it's just a way we kind
of give back to our subscribers who've supported us over the years and this year's hunt winner for
the mule deer hunt was larry zeller from oregon larry's a retired state trooper and this is going
to be a lot of fun a great hunt with some snow and some bad weather and some big rutting bucks
larry and his son arrived in eastern montana from their home in oregon
barely ahead of a big cold front perfect timing for a mule deer rut hunt
larry and rod are hoping the snow and bitter
north wind will keep the bucks out and moving most of the day
it's the 15th of november and the mule deer bucks have moved out of the timber in search of does
the rut is finally here and the storm front should
add the edge the guys need to put a mature buck on the ground
this big set of buck tracks like literally just
minutes ahead of us it's still got dirt kicked up in it down in here
finding a big buck is one thing getting a shot at one
is another rod and larry are hoping they can turn the buck up again in a better spot for a stalk
thinking 170 180 type buck
yeah oh easy 170
if he's three by four because i didn't check both sides i know on this right side
he's a good buck good new rod he's got all of them that's what i couldn't see i went to grab my
was afraid didn't have backs because i saw the front did he have backs yeah okay
yeah wide check both sides i mean he's older
with antlers like this wooh
he looked good one of the biggest bucks
we've seen on here big big buck
and now the search begins
after a few short hours of searching this nice buck drifts out of the timber
to thrash a sagebrush bush and i think larry likes what he sees
just looked at a good buck didn't we larry
full four point yup four maybe five you know that deer we're just kind of getting into the
rut good it's the 14th of november and they're just starting to go good i don't know hopefully
we didn't make a mistake by letting him walk but i don't think we did and i bet we can find him
again if we want to look around a little more he was definitely a nice deer second big deer
we've seen today yep yep this one i think was a little taller and he stood up real high yeah
no these deer this time of year with the rut just starting
you don't know what we're going to see so i think we'll just keep on looking you know if
we get to if we think we need to we'll come back and see if we can find him look him up you bet all right
well 66 i'll be 67 next month
you can do it
there seems to be plenty of younger bucks cruising for does in the snow
but we can't seem to turn up larry's buck in any of these timber folds and creases
can't find the buck he's here somewhere
there's so many folds to this country that you can be hiding a lot of different places so just
kind of like process of elimination we just got to keep looking keep looking systematically
work our way through this country until we find him he's with five or six does so
it shouldn't be all that impossible to find just gonna take time
as the storm blows out of the area and the weather begins to clear off
the deer begin emerging into the open to feed
finally the hunters catch a break and a straggler lone doe leads them right into a
pocket where the buck larry's been looking for is laying atop a knob on the opposite hillside
it's right up here larry let me range him real quick
it's 195. we'll walk up here we'll lay my pack down if he
gets up to move i'm gonna blow on this cow call and stop him all right let's go
good job larry he's hit he is down
that was a great shot good work thank you that's a great deer
god that was great we better go up and look at him huh all right let's go
congratulations thank you very much it's a fine shot
well again congratulations to our hunt winner larry zeller remember fair chase is the only
way to hunt and take trophy big game we'll see you next week right here on eastman's hunting tv you