out of any mule deer hunter i know you have the best hair
well thanks gotta bring something to the table
not that's a shooter, that's a shooter
got him kill him
just like that you know nine ten days of pushing hills hard
within a matter of a minute a buck of lifetime on the ground
what are we doing we're getting ready to go kill big mule deer
buck that's what we're about to go do that's all we need to know actually
a little cold last night got some weather which is good
before you were able to get down there i went over early i remember and uh
spent i think it was four or five days just in that country putting boots on the ground
and glassing and doing a lot of glassing you know it's big deep
dark canyons but it's not like in the you know country we come from with the timber
we're road hunting amateurs we don't have a proper ice scraper it's all right though
that's actually working good
all right we're just gonna go up canyon and we finally got some snow
and uh glass and cover country that's all we can do we know there's deer around
just a matter of finding the right one ready buddy yep
R for race
that's how you do it
what's the plan
the plan is we got a beat on some deer and to get to them
we got to go up and over this mountain but about 1:30 we got a bunch of time
they're still up feet this front that moved in so i think we got a good shot
got a good feeling about this
our tactics were just to cover as much ground and try and find the deer
and then getting a little later in the season close to the rut find them does and
hopefully get a big buck coming
just a good buck but not quite what we're looking for
there's probably like 10 more of those there's got to be
we're kind of perched up here we're on top
we've seen a fair amount of bucks today not any giant ones but some nice ones
three by fours four by fours pretty big two by three and a lot of does so it's pretty cold
it's getting colder about five o'clock let's see what we can find we're just gonna stay posted up
and see if anything else materializes there's gotta be something bigger in here
we were wading through bucks so numbers were good that was that was
great and awesome to see but you know you're seeing so many 130 inch 140 inch mule deer
bucks which don't get me wrong it's a great buck uh just not what we were looking for
he all of a sudden forgot about being spooked though
what's going on
just watching some bucks chase each other around
waiting for a big big buck
these are real nice deer but just not what we're looking for
especially back here in this country so
stuck it out till dark and uh it rewarded us with some pretty cool animals lots of
bucks today lots of bucks just a matter of time yeah that was good a lot of fun today
coming off the mountain that's all she wrote for today lots of bucks just nothing good
it was so nasty down there rocky but i didn't mess anything up
there's one little rivet missing on a thing but lance said oh it's tool
the legend himself rocky jacobson you know he's
founder of rocky mountain hunting calls
um you know bugling bull at the time when i met him a long long time ago
he was fortunate enough to draw a pretty good tag in idaho as well
he uh just wanted to come along
dan are you serious
he lets me take this hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of rig look we're going
through the brush you can't get through that creek okay i'm telling you
let's not let's not do that
well nice deer
but
not the one not the one there is bigger and we're seeing a lot of deer so still
pretty confident we can do better but beautiful deer
you want to have a b and c at this point i think we probably were at c
and uh meeting of the minds and suggested that hey let's let's go down and hit the whole country
and see if we can catch a big buck transitioning
all right we spent a bunch of time back up here in the high country time to shift focus and get
down the mountain and make some more plans i've seen a lot of deer and a lot of nice bucks but
just not quite what we're looking for i'm gonna head down and see what we can find
just no big bucks up here and this high stuff so
he's back over here
oh
kill him take your time
got him
alright boys
it came down like
see buck big buck put a good shot it's over and it's a matter of really seconds
all right you never know what the heck you never you can go from nothing to 170
yeah for sure
we're walking down rocky just throws up his arm he's like look at that one
that big old buck just standing there out of nowhere
we just walked up the straw this morning i don't even know where he came from
all we know is it's the rut and they're moving
that's what matters you just never know what's going to happen
holy smokes we earned that one fellas you know a lot of miles and a lot of days and
that's exciting dude what's a good buck it works out like that yeah
we've glassed up a lot of deer went over a lot of bucks to find one like this
that's a good mass to him too yeah good long deep fork yeah he's a chocolate horn
i mean that's he may not be the widest buck but he's got everything else yeah
i think he's a beautiful deer yep are you calling me to say you found one too
oh cool cool cool yeah buddy said nick he goes it's over isn't it i go yeah
i go why are you coming follow me i know it's not watching you guys no way
yeah where's he at he must he's got to be over up there yeah he heard the shots
right on man
look at that thing's a beast look at his body holy smokes dude he's all smelling
rutted up too i mean he's dude look at that
what the heck look at his eye guards holy crap
thank you guys so much yes yeah yeah sorry honey got more taxidermy bills
yes look at the chest on them man look at that that's a hoss thank you that is a hoss
we're surrounded around good people
and we kept positive you know we know what it takes and
we earned this one
for sure we earned this one this side is so impressive that is impressive
that is impressive we worked hard and that's that's
i love it
coming from what country we come from you know
and how we grew up hunting this is the only way we know was to pound the hills and
put in the time and that's why we appreciate it and love it
and we're so blessed to be able to come out here and do it you know
great stuff
hey and that buck i mean we decided to kill a buck like that from the beginning i mean
once you started absolutely so i don't think we didn't make a mistake
i have enough experience
in the hunting world to know that a deer like that you don't walk
especially after the time that we put in you know