we're gonna go along with our 2016 hunt winner Art's gonna be hunting in one of
my favorite places eastern Montana after big trophy mule deer
to add to the action Art's gonna bring along his buddy Tom
we start glassing up a few bucks
right away but rod has a particular buck that he's been seeing during the bow
season in mind for Art
as we cautiously move to new vantage point we make a
disastrous discovery
well folks we watch this deer for the last six weeks and watched him every
time we wanted to find him we could find him
my guy had put him to bed Thursday night watched him all evening we couldn't find
him the next day and this morning was opening day couldn't find him couldn't
find him I happened to glance up here in the sagebrush and some hunter who
obviously isn't a hunter in my opinion because they're not man enough to do
this during season 1 it's legal poached him one night
so here's 195 inch non-typical mule deer is just absolutely beautiful
and they have to do this it's unbelievable
after a quick call to the local game warden we find ourselves back to square
one on this hunt trying to locate another good meal deer buck for art and
a whitetail buck for Tom
we saw a lot of dear tonight we saw seventy-five bucks just tonight put
some glass on some really nice mule dear just want to put themselves on a good
spot well we could do is keep putting miles on keep looking
I think he's dead Tom ya I think so he went right behind those trees you hit him
good work Tom nice shot that's a nice whitetail it was a good whitetail yeah
try and see if you can find him
that's a really a nice nice whitetail for eastern Montana just so happened to
come across this one this evening and give me a great shot it's been warm it's
been 65 degrees maybe 70 had some wind yeah it hasn't been ideal hunting
conditions but we made this one work
well folks were on morning of day 4 we've been looking a lot of bucks I'm
going to finally caught one in a spot that we think we can get to them so
we're just gonna head up over this Ridge wind is good
they're just grazing feeding along into some Sage I think we can make it happen let's
go see what we can get done
when is great this buck is just over this Ridge wind's blowing right in our
face it's outstanding if we can just get weighted through a bunch of these deer
without spooking don't do that it will be fine right to go up there go about
200 yards and he should be within a hundred
well we'll just keep headed this way we're going to have to go slow keep glassing make
sure there's no deer that will get blown out
well that didn't really go as planned there's too many eyes we got too close
so I guess we'll just wait for him this evening he'll probably put himself in a
good spot for us again anyway so like I said we didn't bump him so well there's
just way too many deer going after him now those cool brush up and they're in
lay down and come back tonight as the afternoon heat passes we find a new buck
to pursue get really good deer spotted we've been watching for the last three
days and he finally put himself in a good spot we're trying on he's watchy real
watchy but see we can't get in front of him
can you still see him
We think Art's first shot hammers the buck in the spine
but the next thing we know the deer is up and moving again
Oh get another one ready let's not prick around anymore
yup he's hit Art
congratulations good work
oh boy he's a beauty his main beam is ridiculous we're here
with Art Jenke our 2016 EHJ hunt winner won this hunt by just subscribing
sending his in his renewal to Eastman's Hunting Journal I bet that's probably
the best 25 bucks you ever spent remember fair chase is the only way to
hunt and take trophy a big game