this 99 hunt winner him and my son guy my son of course was videoing this now
let's go down with them and they're going to hunt this trophy mule deer this
buck was nine years old and they set on this deer and pattern name for over four
days so come on let's go down there and watch guy in our hunt winter hunt a
trophy mule deer that is really smart we are in northern Utah here hunting trophy
meal deer with our hunt winner this year it's Eddie Strickland his guide is Jared
Smith for the first couple days we set up and we look a lot of country over
during the mornings and the evenings and believe it or not the middle of the day
looking for that one trophy buck well the second day we're looking across the
canyon two miles away and guy and Jared find this buck now look at this buck I
know it's a long ways away but there's Bucks over 27 inches he's got some
cheaters on him that'll make him almost 31 inches wide nice and heavy he's an
old buck he's hanging out with a little forked horn and we catch him in the
middle of day feeding in this quaker patch we watch this buck he's got a
couple kickers on each side he's really nice and heavy I'll bet he's over five
inches at the bases you know they have set here for three days waiting for that
big old buck to come out you know he never came out they've set their day and
night waiting for him and the buck never came out after that first morning now
what are you gonna do you know what most guys would do they'd find another buck
or go off to some other Canyon or think the buck had left but not these two
hunters Guy and Jarrod really know how to trophy mule deer hunt they set there
and set there looked at other books like these right here
and pass them up waiting for that big buck to come out
you know finally the last day of the hunt as they were walking along here
trying to get into a position to look across to that quaker patch again there
was a couple little bucks up there that spotted them but they were able to slip
over there and hide themselves in that conifer patch again and they just got
set up when suddenly my son Guy looked and saw that big old buck and you know
what he was doing he was feeding right in the shade at noon that's right at
noon right in the shade right next to the conifers the pine trees he
was feeding not out in the sun just right there in his nest I call it his
his nest that's where he was living all summer and fall he just stepped right
out of that conifer patch right along the shade and was feeding they got in
position so Eddie could make a shot the buck was only about a hundred and fifty
yards away now let's watch Eddie he's taking his time here dead rest that's it
Eddie made a great shot on that buck that's him I can see the cheater
he's down
congratulations wasn't it strictly to see him right
there no I see what that little buck that was there yeah that's that same one
that was with those other two last night so twelve o'clock straight up noon
who would have figured finally Jared was sure the buck was dead so they were
able to move down on the buck look at this buck isn't this something
Wow congratulations Eddie thanks Guy yeah you know we we hunted this buck for
three days straight you know they had seen him in here and we thought he'd
given us the slip but we were just real patient and sat on the other side of
that Canyon and glassed over here and didn't push him and you know just took
our time until we thought we had them patterned and then kind of a last-ditch
effort we had to come across here and found him in his bed here he we found
him in a snowstorm the first morning and kind of got snowed out and so we didn't
want to really push him and kind of started thinking maybe we screwed up by
not but uh we were in here last night two nights in a row found the other
bucks that he was with where he'd been and just never had an opportunity to
kill him so that's what trophy mule deer hunting is all about you know patterning
these big bucks and hunting one buck being patient and taking them one on one
what a fabulous deer you know he's got the lot of character you got two
cheaters off his back back points here it's really heavy and webbed out dark
horns you can tell he's been living in this this conifer patch here for quite a
while and probably maybe spent the summer in here in this Canyon
well you're a lucky man yes twofold even to kill you know when to win a hunt and to
kill a nice buck like this well congratulations