EP 251: Field Report from Jason and Devin's Archery Success

Anything to do with Western big game.

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And the hunts are upon us. We're going to have something to talk about here in a minute. Maybe we ought to call Jason. All right. He's out. Haven't seen him in about a week. Yeah. Well, him and Wyatt. Wyatt's been gone. Devin, you're gone, but we'll get to you in a minute. You got, you know, venison in the freezer. Yeah. And you're back to work. But why don't we just try Jason for heck of it? I don't even know where he's at right now. That's loose track. He's got a Utah tag. He's got, you know, his wife's got a tag later on. He's got kids with tags. I don't know where he is, but we'll just say hi. He's probably picked up and turned back a tag this week that we haven't even heard about. Probably picked one up and then returned it. Turned it back and waiting for his account to become open again so we could pick up another one. But hey.

I did maybe see one on the Colorado list that looked familiar. Oh, yeah. I'll try to get that.

Hello. Oh, he's huffing and puffing. He's in the field. He's in the field. What's up? I'll just hike him back to the bike. Let me get on. Oh, we're just taking bets and you're about to have a payday with somebody here. We're wondering, since we've seen you last, have you picked up a tag, turned it in, and picked up something else yet? Have we done that since we saw you last? Because we're just taking bets.

Oh, crap. Oh, service is not good.

Can you hear me? No, call failed. Well, yeah. It's hard to keep track of where everybody is. I came in and Devin's like, yeah, I got one. And I didn't even know what state you were in. It was a bad dash, dude. Not good enough. All right. All right. Well, he's in a good place if he doesn't have service. Yeah, that's right. Well, he's hiking off a knob or something like that. What is it, late morning? You know, time to go take a nap or regroup or something like that. But let's talk about you, Archibald. I want to know what Josh has been. I haven't even got an update from him. You don't know. Whatever I've been hunting a little bit. Yeah. I've tried to call you a new straight-to-boy scouting.

You're not in Nevada. Come on. Unless they haven't seen any. Somebody's. Whoa. Let's see.

Hey, we got you. Yeah. Gotcha. Hello. Yeah. All right. Well, we don't mean to razz you too much. We just always are dying to know somebody's in the field. Did you let an arrow rip this morning somewhere? Oh, no. Oh, no. You've got all six of them? I'm wondering why I even packed this bow around. Boat anchor? Yeah. Yeah. Well, dang it. Well, you're. Yeah. You're giving a heck. It's grind sometimes until it's not. And then you're calling us with all kinds of hooping and hollering and Spanish. I'm not sure. No adjectives. I'm not sure I remember. I'm not sure I even remember how it is. I'm hollering. Well, we had to check in anyway. We had a little wager here. I'm wondering if since we'd seen you in the last week, if you bought a tag on a turnback list and turned it back already yet or not.

Really? We have a wager. We got it. It's a 50-50 split. Whether you bought one and turned it back in in the last seven days.

So I got it. Yeah. So, all right. So we're going to go there. I got a turnback tag and then a muzzle. And then I'm like, you know, I just love to kill. So anyway, that made me feel really good. And then I went over and scattered it and then looked at my schedule and kind of had a reality check of what it was really going to tell. Well, I wasn't bringing that one up. We were talking about, did it happen again since then? That's what the wager was. What do you mean? I just turned it back last week. Your account's not open yet? Is what you're saying? You can't? Oh, I imagine it is because I think it went for sale yesterday. Oh, okay. I was, I may have seen it. I was for sure. You probably had a spotter posted up somewhere. That was his only job. Yeah. Was to work the list. No. Somebody on a knob. Yeah. Because I'm kind of picky. I'm kind of, I'm kind of, I haven't seen enough. I don't know.

And then you get one and you actually think you got a pair getting another one. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, it was pretty thin, you know, slim picking yesterday in Colorado. I mean, it's like the whole world was after about six good tags. It looked like, I think, note to everybody that second, third rifles, you'll see a bigger push of them when we get within the 30 day window when people actually got to commit and turn them in or not. So now we're kind of in a weird, weird time of year. Not seeing a lot of those. But anyway, as far as you, we got, you know, we got, you getting rained out, rained on, heat, heat, or just depend on the day. Heated out one day and rain out the next day? Yeah. It's freaking 90, 97. And right now I've got a sweatshirt on. I'm overcast and even been drizzled on. And every day it rains a little bit and most of the days it's super sunny and it's fine.

It's fine. It just makes it tough. Like it just, okay. So have you ever seen a pack of three coyotes blow out a deer on you? Yeah. You know, actually I have. Yeah. So yeah. Okay. And especially, yeah. In country that's flatter where a deer can run three miles in about two minutes. Yeah. And that's what happened. And I, I witnessed that, but I'm thinking, you know, you got an old freaking deer, no coyote's going to do nothing to a deer, you know, to a big giant mule deer buck. And you're like, so you're watching video and even everybody's yakking and chewing the fat, getting ready for the wind to get right, you know, and, and to make a stock. And, uh, I mean, a bobcat had already walked by these deer, like a freaking giant bobcat. And they were on alert for a second and then they were ignored it. And then pretty soon.

Coyotes freaking crouched, stalking the target buck, you know, and I'm going to take down no freaking monster, you know, but 300 pound buck. Come on. Right. On top of a freaking big headgear. And you're like, I mean, you're a coyote, you know, and, uh, sure enough, dude, full bore. They ran him, ran him for 300 yards. And, and then, yeah, 14 miles later, you know, no more tracks and then five rain storms and, and feed everywhere and water everywhere. They don't need to move. So like the water's great and the feed's great and we all like it, but it also makes it to where they don't really need to move. Yeah. And it, you know, they can get up and eat and lay down and they don't need water. And so now you've got less movement. And in some of this country you want movement so you can have some tracks to go on, nowhere to concentrate.

You know, if you have to create the movement again, you're going to bump them again. It's just, anyway, that's what I'm dealing with. Oh, man. Dang. That sounds like bow hunt. You think? Well, yesterday, yesterday. So we spoke, the weather's calling for Northeast wind five to 10. And I'm like, that's great. You know, it'll be a prevailing, you know? So anyway, we ended up getting on these tracks. I track my guts out, track them up to a dry pond. They feed, flip around and do a 360 and come out the pond the other way. I already came in and, and I'm going another mile and a half. And then they hit another dry pond and feed. And then I, I cut them where I'm, you know, I cut all their beds and know that's where they spent, you know, spent the all day long. Well, anyway, you get set up on them, you know, where we're roughly where they're going to be.

And, and I got a couple of really good friends, you know, set up, right. Wind totally switches freaking giant, giant, you know, rain clouds, everything switches, you know, boom. But as they're bounding away into the next county, we get to see what, what they look like, you know, for the first time, another set. And so anyway, here, here we are trying to do the impossible. I'm about tired of this. You know, you're out in the desert, you know, region G or H or some beautiful high country with frolicking bucks would be nice. Well, then you'll get up there and after about two or three days of hunting pressure, they're all in the trees and you can't glass up a buck. You'd be like, man, I'd like the desert, some open country. I'd like to go to the desert where I can hunt a track. Tired of stitting on a knob, I'm ready to go tracks up. That's right. That's right. Yeah.

So you always, you know, be careful what you wish for. And you always, you're always thinking grass is greener, but honestly, there ain't no greener grass in here. So it's unbelievable. No. Yeah. We've been, I mean, everybody in New Mexico, Arizona, Sonora, Southern Utah, and even parts in Nevada. I was, I went down to Vegas here Tuesday night and back and man, the desert's greening, greening up. It's amazing down there. So they said that they said Vegas has had rain every day for like two weeks. Yeah. Wow. I mean, it's, it's crazy. Well, you know, I know there was stench in the streets down there. I think there's so much water, whatever it, I mean, literally driving around it. I mean, I've been down there a lot this summer, watch my boy play ball. They run a lot. There's a lot of stuff rotting in the sewers down there right now because it's, it reeks. It was bad. No, it was terrible.

I don't think anybody, I don't think anybody can argue it. Vegas needs a good cleansing here and there. You know what I mean? So anyway, but I, it'll be, it's interesting. It's, it's, it's crazy times. I just can't believe how violent the weather is. Like, you know, we, and we've been lucky, you know, 20 years ago, you didn't hear about a lot of flooding and stuff, but the weather's violent. I mean, we're going along, we're hauling butt on a road that I know like the back of my hand and all of a sudden there's a four foot fricking ditch, you know, and, and just, you know, just, just heavy rain is wreaking havoc. Did you jump it or did you stop in time? No, you know. Finish the story there. I know it didn't need to go to the dealership this time. I just know John had that happen in Mexico and we know what happened there. He went for a loop. I love that story. I love that story.

You know, what's crazy is at least I have a hospital nearby. I mean, I'm thinking John's in Mexico. You're on your best behavior going as slow as you can, making sure no bodily harm happens, you know, but I did that in a snowmobile once with a buddy, me and him. It's, you know, pure white after a snow snow storm. And we were going about 40 miles an hour and came upon about a four or five foot ditch. And yeah, you just hammered it. No, you just endowed in it, man. And we flew into the side of the bank. And we were like 12 or 14 years old. I mean, the skis were bent up over like the windshield. Like it was bad. Like, of course, we didn't have helmets. When you're that old, you recover a lot quicker, though. Yeah, your bones are still pliable. You know. Like John. I hear Devin's voice. I guess he got done gutting his buck out.

He's going to come out and need to teach me how to kill something. He was here yesterday. Yeah. He made quick work. We haven't delved into his story. Just look for some horseshoes, man. They are lucky. He found a horseshoe in the middle of his hunt. I mean, he's got, we, we, he's teased us, but we're about to find out. We can keep you on the air if you want to hear about it. Well. You might have to hike back to it. Right. You caught, you caught me hiking out and I've got bucks to kill, but I'm wondering about, I don't know. I just think Devin's on, and Josh and all y'all. Bronson, you've done well so far. But Devin's on a killing streak. How? I'm a little, I'm a little jealous out here. I don't know about a spree. One doesn't equal a spree. You've got, well, he does. He did make quick work of one, which is something we all haven't done with deer. I mean, this year yet.

So, yeah, he's ready for round two and he's chomping. And then he's got elk. Oh, I know. I'm leaving tonight, Jason. Yeah. I love it. I love it. You know me. If somebody's buying a truck or leaving home, I love it.

Well, we still got you or did you lose you? You under a tree? It's good, but nothing's dead, so it's not that good. You know what I mean? Yeah. Well, we just thought we'd check in with you. We know you're standing on one leg with your arm in the air to keep service, but appreciate it. Yeah. Good luck out there. I'll be back. I'm going to work tomorrow, catch up, and then I got to regroup. And I got to let some deer come back into the county and then maybe have another go at them. You know what I mean? Yeah. All right. Well, drive safe. All right, guys. Okay. Take it easy. All right, guys. See you. Good luck. Sounds good. Thanks for going. Talk to you later.

Well, we might as well dive right into it, Archibald. Yeah. Well, I was just thinking what he said. It's so funny because in the last two weeks, I have seen two different times where coyotes were chasing deer. Full on. Well, so a couple days ago, I'm walking through these thick trees and I hear, I thought I jumped something. And this coyote is coming right at me. And there's a doe, I mean, just trying to stomp him. They're full bore. Really? Ran like 10 feet from me. I think it's the pups. They get kicked out of the den and they just. See movement and start. Yeah. They're just trained to chase movement. Yeah, and I was in the desert and there was coyotes and there was a group of seven. So you know they're pups. Oh, yeah. You could tell they're pups and they're the mom and they were running after deer. They don't know. You know what I mean? It's just, it was kind of a mess.

It's crazy though. Just last night, I was watching a herd of deer and it had just stopped raining. It was kind of one of those conditions. You're like, oh, this is perfect. And it was soaked. And it's like, this is a perfect, perfect opportunity. Deer were feeding into a spot where it's like, this is the best place to put on a stalk for them, you know? And I was just, I was just spotting for a guy. But, so it wasn't, it wasn't my tag, but I was just watching and I'm like, oh, this is going to happen. This is all going to come together. And all of a sudden now where I hear like this, I'm like, what the heck is somebody yelling? And I hear it again, like, oh, I'm like, what in the world does that sound? And it sounded like somebody yelling, trying to get a deer to look at them. Like maybe it's somebody else. Then all of a sudden there's coyotes.

And I don't know if it was a pup that was trying to kind of learning how to do whatever, but it sounded like somebody yelling. And those deer went from just feeding and fine coming up. You know, they'd been laying down because it'd been hammering rain and they're all up just moving to where now they start getting on edge a little bit, you know? And then all of a sudden you hear, then this coyote start just howling and yipping. And it just, you're like, are you kidding me? Like those deer went from straight calm, nothing to just, and the same kind of thing like Jason saying, those coyotes weren't going to kill any of those bucks, you know? But it's just, just put something in their mind. Now they're on edge and same thing. So now they're looking and listening.

And anyway, they got to try to get a start and got close, but they were just so on edge that it's just crazy what those stupid coyotes are. They can really hammer you. Well, then they get bigger and older and I have seen them kill bucks. Yeah. Oh yeah. Packs of five, four, five. Yeah, they could, but it's just, it's so they know. Just like us as bull hunters, we fail about 90% of the time. Yeah. It only has to happen once. Yeah. Eventually they figure it out. I think I really do. They run one into a stick and it loses its bounce and they trip and fall and one of them's on its throat. And I mean, that's it. That's something weird. Yeah. It's kind of like a something weird has to happen and we killed one. You know, everything has to line up perfectly. The wind's got to hold. The deer looks the other way, scratches its offside shoulder and you'll thread. Stars align.

But he was talking about those storms too. And that, those storms messed me up multiple times. Really? Because yeah, it's just, you can't get a consistent wind. And I'm sure there's guys out there that have been archery hunting that have, they're dealing with that same. Everything's consistent. The storm cloud comes in and just totally changes everything. Well, it was hard. That's what we were trying to do. I just found the bucks. Some bucks started up feeding, you know, and you're trying to figure out what they were. Luckily I was in the safety of a truck, you know, sitting there, but trying to glass out of it. I had to just stop several times because it was raining so hard. But I couldn't see through it. You know, I'm like, I can tell that there's some bucks. And I couldn't tell even what they were to get them going. And then by the time it stopped, you had 15 minutes.

And it was just not long enough. Well, I've been looking for it while you guys were talking about it. I'll find it later. But I had like a 220 buck on the Henrys. I was zoomed in on him, getting cherry footage. And all of a sudden this guy walks into the screen and just blows him out right there. And it's all while I was videoing him. And we ended up killing him the next day. But it was just that day. It was a bow hunt. So it's like when that happens on a bow hunt, it's usually over for that day because they're going to run. And then you're not all in the right position. You're watching them in a normal sitting. They run up and over a ridge. And I was like, all right, well, we're done. We're done now. But anyway, we killed him later. But, you know, I think the cow just ran into the deer, you know, more than anything. Yeah, they're just curious or whatever. But anyway.

Well, speaking of running into a deer, Archibald, yeah. Yeah, I ran. You had a – we already talked about your gallivanting up in the Silver State last week. But you came home for the Utah opener. Yeah. It was – I was up there Thursday. So the hunt starts Saturday. And Thursday was really slow. And then Friday morning I actually found this buck. I'd never seen him. I've been up there scouting. It's funny. I saw – you know, I recognize all these deer. And then all of a sudden I'm like, what is that buck? Just a big, pretty tall, typical four-point. This is a general unit. You've got to keep in mind, this isn't like a limited entry tag, just a general season area. So that was Friday night and there was people everywhere. You know, it's just – you can't – I actually purposely went far away because I didn't want people to –

and there's the same people that hunt there so we know each other for the most part. I was so far away because I'm like, I don't want them to see me sitting right here. Draw attention. The night before a hunt. Saturday morning, I didn't see a single target buck. It was so bad. It was slow. They were just pushed, you know, people everywhere. And anyway, so it would have been Sunday morning. I had my dad and brothers up there. And this buck is on this – it's where I killed him. He's on this knob. Same thing. This time, I had time. They were going to bed on the right side of the ridge. So I kind of took my time and I went up and they went below me. So I had to back out, circle around. Same thing. Those storms, it was raining and it just changed. The wind changed. Was this early in the morning? Yeah, it was a morning. Morning. Yeah.

And I was – unbeknownst to me, I knew I was close, but it was so thick I couldn't see any of them. I was like 35, 40 yards. And he was with like 11 other bucks. And I was just – I mean, dang near impossible. You can't move anymore when you get within there. And I knew I was within bow range, but I just didn't know. I couldn't pinpoint. I couldn't see any of them. And yeah, then the wind just – it was going everywhere. Yeah. So he was gone and I didn't see him again until Tuesday morning. And he was with only one buck. Oh, okay. And I'd seen this deer in the summer and he liked to bed further down this ridge. And so I said, this is my chance. And I had already burned about 10 or 15 minutes looking on the backside. So they've already been feeding. The sun's just hitting them. And I – You knew they were going to start – Yeah. Yeah. And a buddy of mine, Jason, was there with me.

And he said, oh, they're going to go west, you know, and jump the fence. I'm like, yeah, but I might have 13 minutes, you know. Like it's about a half a mile. And it's a great big long ridge line. And it's just an abyss all the way around. So they – This is where that – I was going to Alaska just before that. This is where your backcountry running preparation comes in, right? Spartan race. Spartan race. Listen, my knees have not been the same since that deal. I don't know. I kind of want to do another one to motivate me, but my knees are not the same knees. At least you did that because now fast forward to Tuesday. It was 13 minutes. 8,900 feet, nowhere. So I'm running. So I decide, okay, I'm going for it. You know what I mean? How far are you spotting from? Oh, it's half a mile from the trail, like the little knob.

There's this fence. I actually – I got to the fence, and they had fixed it recently. The ranchers and somebody, dedicated hunters, I don't know, fixed it. And so I'm like, holy cow, I can't. And I broke a rib jumping a fence once, so I'm a little worried about it. And so I just toss my bow in a bush, and I lay down and roll, and I got caught. So I'm caught in a fence. That was the only thing that slowed me down. Anyways, I stand up, and it was kind of like the first couple hundred yards was just like a run. I'm running. Then in the end – and I've hunted here since I was – that's where I learned to hunt with my dad. I mean, we've killed bucks on this ridge. We walked it. I know it. Like, it's just my place. Bushes and – Oh, yeah. I know the bush I'm going through already. Cow trails and whatever. Cow – so I'm on the trail. It's just like running on a track, man.

And the problem is, when you run that far – You're winded. I'm so gassed, you guys. It was bad. So I get – the one bush I really wanted to get to was another about 30 yards, and it was a little open. So I was kind of stuck at this bigger bush. And you know when you're like, you need air so bad, but you don't want to be huffing and puffing because you know they're going to hear you like, what is making all that noise, you know? And you can't shoot. So I'm trying to breathe as quietly as I can, but I still – You didn't have a mustard pack at the pound. Something, dude. I just needed oxygen. And so the bucks are a lot closer to me than I anticipated. They're already starting to feed. They were kind of angling at me, and I thought, this is good. Like, I need time to gather myself. And the three-point was first, and he's coming to me, coming to me, and I'm just like, this is going to be it.

This is happening. You know what I mean? They're at like 90, 100 yards, 110. By the time they get closer, you'll have your wind caught. Yeah, it just happened too fast. I was not – I'm just like, I got to breathe, you know? And all of a sudden the buck turns and goes straight west because there's a little gap in the fence, of course, and I'm like, he's going to go through there. So a little further than I was hoping for. And then the big deer behind him must have saw me ranging or something. He knew. He saw something. And I'm like, man, this isn't going to happen. He's too far, and he keeps walking. He keeps walking, stopping, walking, stopping, and I'm trying to catch my breath. Looking at you? Yeah. Looking your way? Yeah. And he's broadside as could be, and I draw back, and – Didn't he tell me he looked away? He did for a second. Okay. He saw – there's cattle, there's coyotes.

Like, he didn't know it was a me. Yeah. But he looked at me, and then he, like, fed on a bush, looked the other way at something. Yeah, and that's when you were like, Drew. Took him four or five more steps. I'm like, yeah, I better draw now because – He's in the gap. And, man, I was Drew back for – it felt like forever, but probably realistically 10 seconds, 15, which felt like forever. Because I was just – I gasped a little bit. I was tired. Anyways, the pin settled good, and I was like, holy cow. It feels good. And I just touch it off. And I played a lot of baseball. Okay. I'm wondering where this is going. I pitched a little bit. And you know when you throw a ball? I was like, oh, shiz, that's a ball. Like, I just – I something at the last second – I don't know, I was just fatigued, but I just – And I'm being honest here on a podcast on a public forum.

Maybe the arm dropped or something. It's all happening to everybody. It happens. I mean, it's real life. And, yeah, I just thought, oh, God, that did not feel good. Like, when my brain told me to shoot, the pin was there. Everything was good. But I just – I shanked it. I felt like – I was just like, it didn't feel good. And that's my thought process as the arrow's in flight. And then I hear smack. And Buck hits the ground. Drops. Doesn't move hardly at all. He can't move. So, I mean, I'm like, I just hit – The last three things I shot with my bow, I got nothing but bone. Bone crushing, just bone. And I'm just like, you've got to be kidding me. So, you knew you had to – Things like spinal cords that run through bone. Just bone, man. I don't know. So, you basically had to rush him. You didn't know if he was jumping up. Yeah. But you knew probably – And this has happened to me.

So, it's like flashbacks, man. And I immediately knocked another arrow and shot again. And I hit a bush in front of him. He was on the ground. Yeah. So, I'm thinking, okay, dude, just – I need to get up there. And luckily, he kind of kicked a little bit. And his head went right behind this big bush. I walk right down the cattle trail, 36 yards. Thwop. He dies on top of the ridge. Wow. That's awesome. He didn't move. I mean, it was just – Well – It was not the prettiest kill of my life, you know. But he died within a minute. But, yeah, that's how it went down. It was lucky. I found a lucky horseshoe and just stars aligned on that hill. When did you find that? You literally found one. The morning before. Oh, the morning before. Yeah. And I – yeah, it could be – yeah, it was old. And I thought, this is lucky. This is really lucky. So, if he wouldn't have dropped. Oh.

And he dropped down off the ridge. Well, if you perfect lung him or whatever, he's going down into hole. Yeah. Which is fine. Yeah. But it's just, man, it's a steep, gnarly cliffs. It's just – it would have been – and that thought crossed my mind, too, when I was standing there, you know, like, do I take this? Is this my shot? Or do I give him another 30 seconds and see if I get five or ten more yards? We've all been there. And then, more times than not, it's like, oh, that – he's gone. And that was my best shot, opportunity. Yeah. And you're waiting another day. I truly think it would have been, too. It's just – yeah. Well, congrats, man. He's an awesome-looking buck. I'm sure maybe Josh will throw a picture, part of the post or something on the podcast. Yeah, he's pretty. Just a pretty – Long time. Perfect four. Perfect velvet. And I'm a freak with velvet, so I didn't touch it.

He was – yeah. Oh, it's perfect. Early enough that it's, like, pristine. Yeah. Yeah. Probably just finished growing. Yeah. Yeah, he was just barely tipped out. I mean, it was just perfect velvet. Good-looking buck. Yeah. Deep tines.

Reminds me once, I was sitting in a blind with a client hunting elk. It was just an evening. It was the first week of archery season in Utah, so there's really not much bugling. But we had a bunch of bulls hitting water. It was a warmer year. There's this one pond. We had a double bull or whatever it was, a ground blind setup, and a bunch of big bulls coming into it. And so he's like, why don't you just jump in with me tonight? And I'm like, all right. So we got in there. And he had a tripod set up with his video camera in there because he had that for himself. I still kept it up. We got in there. And this bull comes in that night to drink. He's like, I'm going to kill that bull. And I'm like, are you sure? And he goes, oh, yeah, I'm killing that bull. It's only like 50, 55 yards. He pulls back and shoots. And immediately I can see the same thing.

I turned the video camera, but it's on a tripod. So it's video. So now I'm just watching with my eyes. And I see that they're like three feet offline. I'm like, what the heck? And the bull just crashes and takes off and runs up the hill. And I'm like, I think you missed him. He said, oh, yeah, I didn't feel that good. And I'm like, well, let's look. So I hit stop and was going to rewind and watch the thing. And pretty soon I hear crashing up on the ridge. And I look up there. He just died. And I can see an oak shaking still. And I'm like, I pull up there. And I can see a patch of tan. And I'm like, I think your bull just tipped over up there. But I says, I know your air was like three feet off. It wasn't. I don't know what happened. We rewound it. And that bull was drinking with its head down. And he shot. And the bull heard the noise, lifted its head,

didn't really start moving, but lifted its head. And it still looked like he pulled it to the left from the shoulder. The bull's head was to the left. It looked like it went forward. And watch the arrow. You could see the arrow still buried in the mud.

So we walked over there. And there's blood like fire hoses going everywhere. He clipped the jugular vein right there. Right under its chin. Oh, like that far. How far is that? Two and a half more forward? Yeah. And that bull ran 100 yards. There was blood. It was carnage. It was like spray paint. And so sometimes you get a lucky break. Stuff like that happens and made a very fatal shot. It is. That was so lucky. It just felt like it. And most of the time it doesn't happen that way if you pull a shot. You either miss or maybe worse. Maybe you hit an animal somewhere that doesn't make a quick death. But anyway, you take a break like that when it comes and hopefully learn whatever from it. But like I said, you felt good. And sometimes it's just, it was probably bowl arm fatigue or something like that. Yeah. You know, who knows. A lot of fatigue. More than the arm.

Well, and I've always been just probably, if anything, overly aggressive with stocks. Because I just, if you're too timid and scared to fail, you're never, you will never, I mean, it's rare that something lines, it's so perfect that you're like, this is a perfect stock. Well, and. Sometimes you have to just go for it. And even if it's not perfect, it might work out. They might hold up for 10 more minutes or bed in a weird place and all of a sudden you're there. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So. Well, and I think Jason's mentioned that his rule of thumb is he blows seven stocks before a successful. That's all. Yeah. We, we always just said that one out of, one out of seven you kill or if you're lucky. Yeah. No, that's, that's probably a decent ratio. I've been longer than that on some. Oh yeah, me too. But then you have other hunts like I've hunted elk for 15 minutes in the first, you kill an elk.

So that, that's a one of one, you know? Once like weird stuff happens and you do it long enough, it'll happen. But that, that's cool. So now, now, now you're thinking about maybe back to Nevada or something else, Arch. Yeah. Yeah. Just keep going. It's here. I mean. Now it's time for a streak. I can't believe it's almost September. Yeah. Now it's time to start a streak. Yeah. Yeah. Although you did have a good year last year. So you're following up. I mean, Jason. Well, and I'm not, I'm also not passing, you know, 18 inches of droppers and things like that. If I was doing that, I would not be on any kind of streak. I like to kill old mature deer. That was, that was hard deer to let go. So you get home, you're taking care of, then you sit. Oh, geez. I had a hero moment last night. I had a hero moment, you guys. So while I was in Nevada, what was that? Two weeks ago? Yeah. The 10th. Yeah.

The opener for a week or whatever. To the 16th or something. My wife called me and she's like, Devin, I've mowed the lawn, but the front, I've got like 10 feet strips up and the mower is like not working, you know? And I thought, well, is it out of gas? She's like, oh, I put some gas in it. I was like, well, just park it. It would only run for about 30 seconds and it would die. And I'm driving, I'm like, oh, there's the gas can with the mix for the wee whacker. Two stroker. And I'm like, I wonder if she put that gas in there, you know? So I get home last night and my lawn looks like freaking jungle. It's been raining here. I mean, it was. Every day. Every day it's been raining. The last thing I need to do is yard work, but I have to do it before I leave again. It's just get evicted from the neighborhood, whatever. And so I pump some of that gas out and it's gas. She put the right gas in.

It's not blue. And I start it and it's just, you know, shaking, rattling, making all this smoke, you name it. And I just dove into it, take the carb off. I sucked out the oil. Oil? Oh, yeah, I changed the oil. Fires right up, mowed the lawn. What was the problem? I have no idea, but I fixed it. Did you suck the gas, dump the gas out? No. I put some new fresh gas. New plug? Nothing like that either. I think it was a carb. I think it was a carburetor, but anyways. Maybe just all this weather had moisture condensation in there. Kind of bad, dude. I don't know. It's hard when you're gone for weeks and just, you know, we got a day or two in between. So the hero moment is you fixed your own lawn more. Yeah, she got home and I was like, she was going to go inside and said, hey, I'm just putting this last cover on. Let's see if this thing works. And then, whoa, pull it one time, it fires up.

Crushed it. No better feeling. Crushed it. So I just hit the deer.

Well, all right. That wasn't what the story was expecting, but. Got a kill. Yeah. Yeah. We'll count it. Yeah. Pollock, what about you? You've been out scouting and hunting a little bit, I think, this week. Yeah. Got any plans for the weekend? Yeah. What is today? Is today Wednesday or Thursday? It's Thursday. I am this week. This week's clipping on. So Thursday. Yeah, I'm going to go, I think, bust out the bow by myself. Maybe go chase a spike elk around even. I always, I have this dream in the back of my mind to find this like 370 spike by 19 or whatever. You know, I don't know. In line seven by club on one side. And I've seen them over the years, and I'm just going to go probably do some of that. I've got a deer tag too. Yeah. So. Good. Well. So do some of that. About there. Yeah, I'm going to, we're going to head out this weekend camping, the whole family.

Daughter made it home from overseas for all of her summer, so we're going to go camp for a few days and scout for bucks. And looking forward to that. Eat good food, barbecue outside every night on the camper. That sounds nice. Yeah. You knew how primitive and. It's not going to be primitive. Well, my camps are just like. Oh, yours have been. Okay. I was going to say, I've got a camp trailer and a propane grill. It's not going to be primitive. But I know. You're talking about, yeah, you ripped open a can every night. Yeah. You open a can of beans. Eat as fast as you can and just try to get at least five and a half hours of sleep. The bow hunts are tough, man, because you're up early to get your spot. The days are long. And then you're home, you know, after dark and eat something. It's 10, 30, 11 at least. And, man, the rotation starts over again fast. It does.

The days are long and the nights are short. Yeah. Nothing wears me out more than scouting in August or hunting in August. Because, man, your days are long. Like I said, if you drive either way at night, either two, it just adds to that. Yeah. Well, maybe by Monday, Tuesday, we'll have more reports. Yeah. Death and destruction. And I guess you saw two deer die this weekend. Do you want to talk about that? Well, I didn't see the one die. Yeah. A friend of mine, Jason, I've known him since I was a little kid. Super. The only cool thing about Jason is he's hunted up there a lot. He's guided a ton. Just a super good guy. And he always, like, even when I was a little kid, he always talked to me like I was a man. And I always remember that. And I've always respected him for it. Just a good dude. And he texted me. It was last Wednesday or Thursday. And he's like, you had it up?

And I said, yeah, I'll see you there, I guess. And so it was cool. He's going. And he had had an accident a couple years ago. And he was kind of like a brain injury. He got hit in the head real hard. And it just, he was an Ironman runner. And they said that actually with the reprogramming of his muscles and that, really helped him. So he can use his one leg and his one arm. And he shoots his one arm and he has a bite release on his bow. So he shoots with his one arm in his mouth. It's just awesome. Can't use his one arm and one leg. Yeah, and he's got his one quad works, he told me. And he can, so he can walk, you know. It's hard for him. And he just, he loves it, man. And he's out there. And I come around the bend. I was running late that morning. I just wasn't in a hurry. And I come around the bend at the top. And there's his side by side. And I see some orange tape tied to a branch.

And I'm like, holy cow. Like, that's a good sign. And there he is coming back. He's like, I'm glad you're here because I just shot a buck, you know. It was awesome. And we tracked it a little ways. And it was a great shot, hindsight. But at first, it was that clear blood. And there was some gut there. You're thinking, this might be an all-day weight. I said, well, let's go up and let's come with me. And we'll go hunt together. And that's when I found that horseshoe. And I said, we'll come back here. And we'll give him, like, let's meet at four or five. Yeah. And we'll come back. And so we tracked a little bit here and there. Same thing. It was about to start raining. And I was like, we got to move quicker. Yeah. That thing didn't go 150 yards. He just smoked it. Hit it a little. It was quartered away. So we hit it a little far back.

And it hit the opposite shoulder and went like, it was an awesome shot. Yeah. With a bite release. I mean. It was awesome, man. That's a guy making lemonade there out of a situation. We've talked to him a lot of years about hunts all around. And he's, I mean, I guess, yeah. You got to refocus and learn how to do something in different ways. He's been handed a scary situation. Pretty inspirational guy, man. Such a great guy. He's positive attitude. Yeah. He knows your family. Yeah. He's just, man, you just don't get better. Better guys. Just genuine. Yeah. He's genuine. And like you said, I mean, even when you were a kid, he respected you. Yeah. He's just like that with life. Yeah. I always remember that. He's just a good dude. So we packed that buck out, quartered it, packed it out. And then we went and hunted that night. Couldn't find the bucks.

And he's like, well, I didn't really think I'd be done the first day. What are you doing tomorrow? I'm like, you know where I'm going to be. Let's go kill one. Let's go get another one. He helped you glass, huh? Yeah. He came up there. He was there. And then he, you know, I met up with him. And he, I mean, he packed out. He came down, took pictures. And he packed out a quarter for me. Of your buck? Yeah. Wow. Cool. Just a super cool dude, man. It was a lot of fun. And it was just a special, just a lot of things meant, felt like it was, fell in place, meant to be in just one of those trips, you know? Like, it was just a special, special day on the mountain. Cool. Two days on the mountain. It's nice when you have one of those. I mean, there's so many that just don't go perfect. Yeah. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. Well, well, John, what about you? You don't got a tag.

No, I don't have a tag for a little while. So, yeah. Well. Cabin fever. That's it. Yeah. Well. Adam, when are you leaving next? Next Wednesday. Yeah. Yeah, you're getting there. Yeah. I've got another big stint up north again, up to Alaska. So, I'm looking forward to it. I feel really spoiled this year with two, I call them extracurricular type hunts. My wife looks at me like, what does that mean? They're all, and I'm like, I just mean bigger than usual. I don't know. Like, you know, outside somewhere that I can actually drive my truck and go hunt, you know? So, those you used to call once in a lifetime, and then every year your wife's like, there can't be a once in a lifetime hunt every year. I haven't used that term in 10 years in my class because I know better. So, now you're extracurricular. Yeah. And then here I do.

I get home a week early, you know, from that trip with my son, which we've already talked about. I'm up at the high school football game last weekend because we're here. You know, I'm just, you know, chilling. Trying to win husband of the month. It's not going to be a year, but maybe a month. And, yeah. So, she was, you know, helping out in the snack shack with a bunch of other moms. You know, basketball moms help out the football season, running the snack shack, and the football moms help out in the basketball season, how it works out. So, she was there for four others. And I get there at halftime. I was out scouting that night and got in at halftime. And it just so happened, like, the other, I knew two of the other ladies that are there. And their husbands hunt a lot, too. And so, they had a good hour and a half because there was an hour rain delay. And then a half.

And it was, yeah, they had conspired. They have a club now formed, kind of. Like, they're going to go, the hunting widows, you know, like they need a club. But, anyway, they talked all football game long about their husbands that hunt and are gone and all that. And so, then I walk into that lion stand and it was like, whoa, let me leave. I'm going out. I'm leaving, you know. They were good. They were there. But they were, they've got plans and I don't even know what they are. You're just lucky. Shopping, trips. I've heard trips, leaving town, shopping, and credit cards. I've heard those types of stuff. So, the closer that they end up, the luckier you are. Yeah. If it's Mexico, you know, you're in trouble. Yeah. I don't know. But I'm going to be gone. But I don't know how we got talking about that. But, yeah.

So, I, and they used, they were mocking the term once in a lifetime when I was there. And I'm like, Aspect, you haven't even used that term in 10 years. Yeah. It used to be a go-to. But that's, I've been married 25 years and I left that long ago because I know the eye rolls and everything that go with it. So, yeah. They're just, you know, big hunts. I don't know what to call them. But, yeah. I got another one heading up next week. I wasn't, I may have said this, but, yeah. The trip with my son was technically supposed to be last year. COVID, you know, opening up late in Canada. Postponed it for, and a lot of other people. So, I have two in a year that seem like they're, should have, you know, their own season in themselves. I've kind of back-to-back months. So, anyway. Looking forward to that. See if we can find a caribou first.

My brother and I are going to go get flown and dropped off and do that. And then be hunting the sheep again. So, I might be gone for a while, guys. That one's one I'm not going to get done. On paper, and that is a quote I tell my wife. On paper, and I tell this to you, John, when you come in and say, I need everybody's, you know. Schedule. Schedule. Well, on paper, I have stuff that goes back to back to back to back in Utah. But, just like Devin, you kill on day three, and now you're home. You've got a week of work or whatever else. So, it never usually goes like that. But, on paper, I'm gone for three weeks. And I always assume the distance. I always just, that's how I've always assumed it. I don't know. Yeah. So, you're thinking, unlike Jason's current Southern California or wherever he's hunting right now, we're probably not going to be able to call you. No.

Well, there is a window in between this caribou stint that we're going to go try and when I actually get flown out to my doll sheep hunt that I should have some civilization time. It might be one night in a hotel back in Anchorage or something. I don't know. If it goes the distance, it could be a mad dash. Get back, and now I'm taking right off. So, I don't really know. But, my suspicion is I'll have it there, too. I hope I don't have like four or five days. I'm really kind of dreading that because I'm going to go crazy sitting around up there because my brother is just going to fly home to Utah. And I'm going to be up there like, what do I do? Well, you're real good at inreaching us, too. Those are awesome. I need to be like better at that. I'm not good at that. Well, that's all you got. I can't text. I can't call. It's the only thing I can do is send an inreach.

So, maybe I'll drop some of those to you all. Yeah, you got the unlimited plan, so you can do that. I changed that last month before we went up to the Yukon just because. But, anyway. Maybe we could all learn from Devin. In between the hunts, you just purposefully plan the hero moments. You take the fuse out of the vacuum or something like that, and you get home, and the vacuum's not working. You fix it. Well, my thought was I need to moat now, and then she's going to have to moat the next two times. I guarantee. So, this better be running. I was like, I have to fix this, or I'm going down to Ace and getting another one because. Yeah. You need to bail it. If you go two weeks, it's like about that tall. Yeah. Even without watering it. You know, plenty of mushrooms in your lawns right now, too. Yeah, there is. So, anyway. Well, maybe we round things out.

We'll talk about we've got optics in stock. We need to call Wyatt and see if he's doing. Call Wyatt. Oh, yeah. Oh. I knew. I was just thinking. Is he in the field, or is he just. We don't know. He could be golfing. He could be golfing. He's in the middle of the day. He's guiding a hunter, but you don't guide all day long. So, I know he took some golf clubs, and we're going to find out if he's used them.

He might be sitting on a buck. You never know. He knows.

Wyatt's too smart. He knows.

Four. Three. Wyatt's like a coyote. He knows when you're on doing. He has a sixth sense. He heard the motor slow from the highway.

Yeah. You heard the squealing brakes as your part of the pleasure. Well, we would have been good at checking. Maybe he'll call us here before we wrap up, and we do answer. But he's out. I think he's guiding some hunters right now, archery deer hunters. But, yeah, teased him because I think midday he was going to maybe. He's not a golfer. He's a self-proclaimed non-golfer. But the other guy he's with, I don't know who he's with. But he's a pretty big golfer. And the hunters, I think, are golfers. So, Wyatt's being a tradition. There was some sort of a competition of some kind. Yeah, there was some skin games going to be played in the middle of the day. Yeah. So, I've fished during a hunt, but I've never golfed during a hunt. I haven't either. Maybe that's what he was doing. He was trying to read a putt. Could you see Wyatt down there on the green? I can't even. In camo.

Not in the Spider-Man position. Yeah. Trying to read the break. Yeah. Well, anyway, we'll check with him. He'll be, at some point, he'll be done maybe early next week. But we'll have to do another one of these early next week and get a weekend update. But, anyway, lots going on. But, yeah, like John, like you were leading into, we've had a busy week here. We've heard it all in terms of optics. Some people just have put off buying what they know they needed all year long. And fortunately, we've stocked up on a lot of mentoring. We've been able to help them out and get stuff out the same day. We've also had people set their binos down on a rocky ridge right next to them in the binos harness. And it takes off rolling 400 yards down the mountain. And it took, you know, hours to go retrieve it. And they find their binos out of alignment, which, you know, they're done for at least,

you know, until you can send them off and get them back. So, they're done being used. So, we've been able to get them another pair sent out, buy a new pair. Whatever. Had people back over their tripods and spotting scopes in their vehicle, which we're not laughing about that. But we've all maybe known people that that's happened to. Whether it be anything like that or you just know it's time, give us a call at Epic Outdoors. We've got a good inventory and stock of binoculars, spotting scopes, range finders, which it's been nice to have a lot of the supply chain issues work themselves out and us to have good stuff on the shelf that we've all missed for a lot of the two years prior. So, give us a call. Our number is 435-263-0777. We do, we are still kind of on a Monday through Thursday this time of year because the hunts are on.

They're usually somebody going to be here Monday through Thursday, one of us guys and a couple of the office staff ladies as well. So, but Fridays are tough sometimes just because we usually try to get out and either scout or get something in on the weekend or, you know, hunts are starting on the weekends as well. So, yeah. Yeah, I thought I'd just throw out there too. We may have a display model or two left as well. So, you know, if you're looking for a really good deal, I think we've got some Vortex and Zeiss and a couple others. So, anyway, if you're looking for one of those, we've got some if you're looking for a good deal. Anything else, guys? I'd like to shout out to Hoyt. Oh, yeah. I love that bow, man. Yeah. This is the first, that's your first kill with that bow, right? The new one. You got the RX-7 this year. That's the first one. You and Josh. First blood. First bone. Whatever.

First bone. I got the RX-5 last year and you guys are all feel like, I feel like I'm missing out. So, I don't know what's going to come out next year, but I'll probably just to be, just to have another one as a backup. That RX-5 is pretty deadly too, but. Yeah. Well, that's good. Congrats. Getting some on the board with it. It's hard for something to come in new to this office and make it out alive, really, for the most part. I mean, we get one gun, we all think we need one. There may be one marinating in my office that I'm praying about. I told you this morning, just put your name on it, dude. No, it's like, there's no chance. There's going to be a demo bottle if you keep drilling on it, handling it. That's true.

Which caliber are you looking at? Where's the alcohol pass just to sanitize that thing? It's that 300 rum. That 300 rum. Fierce. I'm just deciding if I'm making it. Somebody call and buy it. It's ready to go, ready to ship. The problem with guns is they've been taking months and months to get, but we've got one ready to go by Josh's. That's great. We've got a couple steel-barreled fierce rivals, but we've got an edge in to enter rum. Pressure's on now, Josh. We've announced everybody on the podcast. I'm just trying to decide if my whiskers are stiff enough to shoot a 300 rum. They're getting there. I can only see the bottom of your teeth if you smile. I know. You better go kill a spike so you can trim that thing up. You two are in November form, and it's August. I don't know what you're going to look like in November. It could be scary. When I say you two, I mean Archibald.

I don't know, man. Usually, yeah. You usually aren't quite as haired up early. I'm in August, bud. Yeah. So, it's going to be interesting. I'm not going to be able to eat. I'm going to have to lift my mustache to get food in. You're going to start losing weight, look emaciated. You're going to have to carry some of that hair gel in there to kind of lift it up. It takes me like 55 napkins to eat a taco these days. So, you've got this no shave until you kill. Is that right? And I don't have like a really bad killer's instinct that I feel like I need right now, which is bad. It might happen soon. Maybe go out and kill like just call it eight pup coyotes for somebody. That's true. I actually saw one on the ride over this morning. I think if you went out right now, you'd just lay them. I saw one and I didn't have a gun with me today.

Well, you guys are going to be – if something doesn't happen, you know, Archibald, you took care of your lawn. If you don't take care of this before another stint in Nevada and then Arizona, it could get – If I went to the end of November in the state I am right now – You would need oils and – It would just not. It's going to need to be thatched and a whole lot of stuff when you're done. Santa Claus. Thatched. Thatched? That's a new word to me. You taught me a new word. No, don't you thatch your lawn in the spring? It's when you run that thing in front. It pulls out all the old – Ayrator? No. Ayrator puts holes in it. Adam teaches me new words all the time. He taught me what pemmican was. I didn't know what pemmican was. Never heard of that. I'm going to need to be thatched and aerated if it's clear until November with this thing. Well, I don't know. By the end of three weeks in Alaska –

Well, if I get that long enough stint to meet a razor for a week, otherwise it's going to be three weeks. And once you get to three weeks, it's easy to let it go. Oh, yeah. Because it's hard. You can't use a blade normally anymore. You've got to get clippers and get it down to a level before you can use a blade. So, anyway, we'll see. I'm excited to see. Problem with me, I'm getting a little too many whites involved in my chin. I don't like to look at it. So, it reminds me of my age. So, the longer it gets, the more I don't like it. My wife actually likes it. But your wives must be able to like it or put up with it, too. Or you wouldn't have it either. But, anyway. Well, to all you listeners out there that are hunting, we wish you safe travels. There's a lot about kicking off, you know, in terms of hunts. Some new hunts kicking off here. Colorado archery is kicking off September 2nd.

A lot of archer hunts kicking off in Wyoming. But, hey, before we end, we just got the call from D1 and 0 Wyatt.

Bulls. Par 4 Bulls. What's going on? Oh, not a lot. You? We didn't know if you were lining up a putt when we called earlier, if we were interrupting a golf game or not, a skins game. Where were we? No. We were just at breakfast. Oh, okay. Well, we're just here. The podcast crew here. Pollock, Archibald, and John and I. Just checking in. Well, you should have been at the computer screen because a buddy of mine just missed a 231 elk tag. Well, hey, I'm on a waiting period, so I can't deal with that. And so is Archibald. So, Pollock. Now, Pollock, you just ruined his day. He's upset. Well, that's why I've brought my thing in with you the last two times because I wanted to get one live on the podcast. And Jason berates me for not working. We teased him. Remember, he's over there double dipping, looking for a tag, and then today it would have paid off.

I was under the impression I was okay to do that. Yeah. Could have been your opportunity right there. You are. But what's new over there? You got any death? Any venison hanging in the shade tree? Some really close calls is what we have going on over here. Okay. Yeah. We've all been on bucks a handful of times. Just hasn't come together yet. So, you've been wearing your rain gear? Looks like it was pretty dark over there this morning. Yeah. The rain gear is the cab of the Toyota truck. You don't leave it. Yeah. Yeah. That's where I was last night. We've been pretty fortunate. It's only been raining during the middle of the day. And on all our stocks, we've had pretty good weather. Good. What about we teased a little bit that you're being drug along into a high-stakes golf skins game over there. Have you won any money yet with these boys? We have not had a chance to play golf.

That's that middle-of-the-day rain. Okay. Well, we keep waiting. I think one of those fantasy golf tournament things that you got roped into with some of these guys back in the Masters or something, didn't you, like, you were winning that. You don't know. You were picking winners and winning. So, hopefully, that continues on this. Win a little spending money. Win a little spending money for the next concert or something you go to. Yeah. Don't hold your breath. I'm not much of a golfer. All that practice and you're not even going to get to go, Wyatt? Yeah. What's kind of our topic today? What have you guys been talking about? Well, we called Carter. He was walking in from a dud morning, as he called it. He's, you know, he's singing the blues a little bit. He was, you know, wondering about some high country in Wyoming or somewhere, a change of pace.

And we said, well, those guys are going to be wishing they had visibility and more open country, like desert country, like you're in. So, it goes both ways. But, no, Archibald told his account of his buck. And we're just kind of catching in on whatever he's doing here in the field right now in the next week or so. A lot of stuff kicking off. Yeah. A lot of hunts coming up. Well, that was it, Wyatt. We were just checking in with you. That's nothing. We was hoping you had a cool story to report. And you had your hands on some fuzzy velvet this morning. Yeah. I'm hoping so, too. But soon. All right. So, we'll get these guys on them. So, we don't hear from you. So, we'll probably call you Monday or Tuesday again. So, don't screen your calls. We'd like some fresh, good stories. Sounds good. Okay. Take it easy. Be safe. Later. Okay, guys. Anything else you guys want to add?

That was timely, though. We got him in at the end. Yeah. Got the crew. Well, all right. Good luck to everybody this weekend. And, you know, both here and you all out there listening. If we can help you with anything last minute, give us a call again here at Epic Outdoors. You know, we have had people calling us getting turned back tags in both Nevada and Colorado and shooting a member experience list right out to them. Josh is over there shaking his head. He's hurting hard right now because he's been hunting for an RGL tag. Wyatt just had to ruin his day, week, and life. But, anyway, wish you all luck and safe. So, yeah. Until next time. Good luck hunting. At Epic Outdoors, we help you reach your hunting dreams, whether it's helping you to develop a long-term application strategy or finding the perfect outfitter for your next hunt.

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