EP 332: The Epic Winter Hunts Giveaway Overview and Getting Stuck in the Colorado Snow

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Hey everybody, it's Adam Bronson here at the Epic Outdoors podcast. We got John, we got Cash, we got Wyatt, Devin, Logan. That means the only person you don't have is Carter. That's why you're hearing me. And Josh. Oh, I guess so. Sorry, Josh. No offense. He's been gone so much we actually just forgot about it. They will listen to this, so maybe we need to redo the intro. Josh, we acknowledge you. You're here. We love you. There is a seat here. So some furniture might have been rearranged in your office, but it would be good to have you back. But anyway, glad to have everybody here today. Let's give a quick shout out to our title sponsor, which is the Western Hunting and Conservation Expo. That's going to be February 13th to 16th, 2025, Salt Lake City. Our same booth location it always is. I don't know the number, but hey, you'll find us. You can't miss us.

We've got all kinds of paraphernalia hanging and dangling from the roof. The rafters, right? Perfect. As it gets closer, too, we'll have lots more to say. We'll have for sure the booth number. Yeah, we will. But anyway, put that on your calendars. But for most hunters, they already know what they want to take their wife to for Valentine's Day. This fits every year, so it's probably already on your calendar. Yeah, absolutely. And Devin, we already know about you get a twofer on this day. Yeah, pretty good. Winning. Winning. Small wins. But anyway, appreciate them being the title sponsor for us. We're looking forward to being back out there again. But today, we wanted a first, I guess, maybe slightly late doing this. It's been active and on our website and kicked off here for a few weeks. But we've just announced our 2025 Winter Epic Hunt Membership Drive giveaway.

We do a couple of these a year. We take a lot of pride in some of these hunts we're picking. Again, we have a lot of guys that put input on this. We want hunts that would be like what we would want ourselves. That's the easiest way to put it. We say it every year, but that's the honest truth. We don't want to just, we don't take free hunts. We don't take discounted hunts. We don't, you know, just whatever we can find. Most of these we're taking years in advance to hold spots or dates or keep our foot in the door on same hunts year after year. And we thought we'd just kind of announce that, maybe go through the hunts here and let everybody know that's online right now. These are for sale and they would count any purchase you have towards this or whether it be membership or gift membership for Christmas or tickets you buy in conjunction with anything else on our website would qualify.

Right, John, for our Black Friday special. Yeah, that's right. Just do it before December 2nd, which is that Cyber Monday. So, yeah, if you, this is going to be, you know, released right during Thanksgiving break. Yeah. So you're going to have one day on Cyber Monday if you want to do like a combo. Let's say you've been looking at a pair of binos or something like that and you need just a little bit more to get you over the 3,000 mark to get the free tripod. Then you can, you know, combine that with some giveaway tickets or whatever else you want. Memberships or whatever. Yeah. So keep that in mind. But obviously after this Black Friday special, this continues on until March 3rd. That's the deadline. That's usually a Monday. I haven't looked at my phone, but that's probably a Monday, John. Yeah. Anyway, March 3rd, that's the entry deadline here.

We'll do the deadline or the drawing, sorry, within just a couple of days of that. That is March 3rd is a Monday. So let's maybe take a few minutes and just go through the hunts that we're giving away. These are hunts. I mean, I might start off by saying these are hunts that, yeah, I mean, most of them are, you know, 10, 20, 30, $40,000 hunts. They're worth a lot of money. Naturally, they're going to have some entries in them. But, hey, I just got done doing a hunt this year, I guess of a similar type origin. I had a doll sheep hunt and mountain caribou hunt up in Northwest Territories with Arctic Red River Outfitters. That's a hunt that I actually won at our Utah Wild Sheep Foundation banquet three years ago. And those are hunts, yeah, I mean, I've been to that bank of 20-something years. But you don't, yeah, you're there to support and whatever.

But these are things that just kind of happen and boom, I had a $40,000-something doll sheep hunt. And it can happen. And we've heard from a lot of people here recently this year. I mean, they've been killing some great animals. We just got a whitetail in from Alberta the other day that all of us made us, every one of us want to go to Alberta next year. Or elk from this year on this giveaway that we're going to give away. A lot of great feedback from members that win these hunts. A lot of gear that we give away have a gear package as well. But let's just dive into it real quick. I'll run through these real fast again. Every one of these hunts are for 2025. And that's fairly unique too, especially when you're talking doll sheep, moose, and the caliber of elk and mule deer hunts that we have.

And that's, again, a testimony of the fact that we're buying these hunts ahead of time and continually buying these high-quality hunts so we keep our foot in the door. So it's really hard to find, Devin, like a doll sheep hunt for 2025 right now. I mean, we bought these probably two years ago. For, you know, and now it's time. So you can win this hunt early March. You're going on the hunt this August, September, October. So first hunt we're going to talk about is a Yukon doll sheep hunt. This is a 10-day sheep hunt. On the opening day, this is with North Curl Outfitters, Mack Watson. $40,000 hunt. But, you know, they specialize in remote horseback and backpack hunts there, the Clonnie and Southern Lakes regions. They have high density of sheep, high cure rates. We've had a lot of members, Devin, haven't we?

Hunt with Mack over the last handful of years and have great reports, killing great rams. You're going to kill a sheep. This is a 10-day hunt. But, again, includes all the flying days, everything like that. Everything's included in this one except for your travel and your tips up there. So high success, awesome hunt, great rams, $40,000. Again, this is for, you know, July 28th to August 7th, 2025. Can't beat that. It's very hard to get a doll sheep hunt for 2025 like we just said. So second hunt is also in the Yukon, but this one's for a giant moose. And I've actually been on this hunt. It's been, geez, 10 years ago. I can't believe that. 2014. Jason and I went up. This is a 13-day Yukon moose hunt with Dooling Stone Outfitters. Again, $35,000 hunt. September 17 to 29. That's as late as you can go pretty much up there. It should be the best rut dates up there. We secured that.

I've known Jarrett for years and years. I've hunted sheep up there. I've hunted moose up there. But this is a hunt, again, we pay full price for. Pick the dates we want. We've sent a lot of members of hunted here over the years, either on hunts they've booked or hunts they've won. You fly to Whitehorse, charter out from there. It runs a great camp. This is actually going to be a lake hunt, but a boat hunt on a lake. This isn't a float trip, but these lakes are big. You've usually got a cabin on them. Got great accommodations. If the weather's bad, you've got that. You're not roughing it out in a little spike wall tent or something like that. You've also got a boat. You can run the lake. These lakes are miles and miles long. They're big, so you've got a lot of maneuverability around the side of the lake to be able to hunt either side.

Get out in the middle, call, listen, do all that type of thing. But kill some great, great moose. His website kind of sells the story on that. So another awesome, awesome hunt for 2025, September 17 to 29. Yeah, and talk about the expo. Every year we take that moose that you killed with him to the expo, and every year I'm just like when we pick it up, it's like this is a freaking awesome moose. Yeah, it's not even a 60-incher. That's why Jarrett likes me to bring it. It's so awesome. Because everybody's like, oh, yeah, I want a 65-inch. You got 65. Yeah, yeah, we do. But would you shoot this? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's like 59 1⁄2 inches. Four-arm mass on the front times. Just an old age bull. It's true. Cool bull. But he likes it because it's not quite 60. And everybody that says it says he will shoot that thing. Yeah, it's awesome. Anyway, it was an awesome trip.

So that's another awesome opportunity there. John, why don't you talk about this next one? You've actually hunted this unit in Utah. This is a seven-day hunt. Choose your weapon. Southwest Desert. Seven-day hunt with Dusty Trails Outfitting. We've known Dusty forever. And he actually was with me on that hunt on the Southwest Desert. That's probably been 10 or 15, 12 years ago. Yeah, 12 years. Yeah, 12 years ago. 2012? That's the hunt he got struck by lightning on. Yeah. So before he was, you know. I don't remember that story, but yeah. Yeah, he was loading his four-wheeler and it was raining. Getting out of the back of his truck. Yeah, he was getting out of the back and it hit. And he was buzzing the whole night, you know. Just lucky to be alive when you get that close, you know. So, but yeah, this one's a $37,000 hunt and hunter's choice of season in 2025.

So I went through, put together, you know, the kind of the advertising for this specific hunt. I was shocked. I hadn't seen some of the big bulls that Dusty's been killing the last couple of years. But, you know, I think, you know, legitimate opportunity for probably 350 to 370 class bulls on that hunt. Yeah. You know, pretty awesome. Includes the landowner tags so you can choose your season. You're going to find out in early March. You're going to be able to choose your season before the regular Utah draw takes place. Keep in mind, these hunts for a non-resident take 23 to 25 plus years to draw. You know, most people are going to pick archery, early rifle, muzzleloader probably. You don't have to, but you can go in November if you want. But most people aren't going to when you have the chance to hunt September. But this includes a unit-wide landowner tag and guide fee for seven days.

So hard to beat that. Been consistently killing great bulls like John said. Last year included. So should be a great chance for somebody to hunt Southwest Desert Unit, which borders, you know, 231 and about. I mean, it's got great bulls. So anyway, awesome elk opportunity for this year, 2025. So, Devin, how about you want to talk about the next elk that we got? Next one is with Joseph Graham with Graham's Guide Service in New Mexico. He's got stuff in. And he covers Unit 34 and Unit 36, both sides of the Muscalera Reservation there. And this is a five to six day? Yeah. Yeah, I guess. Unit-wide tag. Comes with a tag value at 22.5. They do a great job. We get, I can't tell you how many good, positive reports we get from guys every year that hunt with them. They just, they're solid, man. They do a great job. Just lots of elk in that country. Oh, yeah. It's hard to, yeah.

Great flexibility on this. You know, you've got like the archery hunts are the same dates, you know, September 1st through 24th, roughly. You know, pick a window in there. But 36 has an earlier muzzleloader hunt there, right, Devin? And then they both have rifle hunts after that. I guess. We looked at the success rates on archery in there. It's incredible. It's higher than anywhere I could think of. Yeah, there's so many people that hunt 34 and 36 over the years, whether they draw their own tag and hunt there, whatnot. They, you know, you do a lot of license app people. A lot of guys ask for those two units because once they've been there, they love it because of the number of elk and the action they get into. Definitely. Yeah. So, anyway. Target-rich environment, no question. There you go.

Gives the landowner tag guide fee, again, for 2025, flexible on archery, muzzleloader, rifle, whatever season fits you and your schedule and preferences. We like those type of hunts just like the Southwest Desert hunts. So, you can, if you're an archer, it's for you. If you're a gun hunter of some kind, it's for you. So, anyway. Shouldn't be another great opportunity. Killing great bulls down there. So, what's next? Either Wyatt, Devin, or why don't you kick off the next one after that? Next one is a 231 unit, or sorry, unit 231 mule deer tag in Nevada with Greg Krog. Greg Krog's notorious out there for hunting big deer and getting them killed. I mean, he is a buck killer. It comes with the landowner tag, seven-day guide service, and then that also includes your pick of the season. It can be either archery, muzzleloader, or rifle out there in Nevada, too.

So, it gives a guy a lot of choice. And then once you're done with that hunt, the tag's yours, too. If you need to continue hunting, you could continue hunting on your own or rebook more days. Yeah, the one thing about all these hunts, you know, on this early giveaway that we do, we're going to do the drawing, you know, within, say, March 6th, 7th, whatever, a few days after the deadline. None of these states, Utah, New Mexico, or Nevada, have run their draws yet. So, when you have the option to book your season, you also, they have availability. It's not like, well, the only thing I have open is the, you know, first five days of the rifle hunt, which may or may not fit your schedule. They're going to be wide open. The state's not done their draws yet. So, you got all the flexibility in the world. And, yeah, 231, it's been a popular one every year.

You know, in Nevada, when Nevada's on, it's hard to beat. And 231 is one of those units that, when it's on, it's as good as anywhere in the West. And Greg's done well. Take a lot of great bucks for our clients and, obviously, his own clients for years and years over there. So, anyway, awesome hunt. Again, 2025, every one of these. So, Devin, why don't you key up the last hunt, maybe? Two more. Two more. Oh, two more. Sorry. Yeah. The next one's a Utah 2025 Utah mule deer hunt with bucks and bulls outfitters. Which, this is a hunt you can't even book if you wanted to. This is one of those that we keep our foot in the door on or it's gone. Yeah. They only do two blocks of hunts. One's late October, one's September 1 to 5. And this is September 1 to 5 where you're hunting summer type bucks, summer pattern bucks. And, yeah, I talked to them the other day and they have some great carryover.

Yeah. So, they killed some great bucks this year and some other bucks that got away that are going to be alive next year. So, it's valued at $22,000. Yeah, September 1 to 5 and comes with a landowner tag. Yeah. Not a lot of opportunity to hunt velvet mule deer with a rifle. This is a great chance. Yeah. No, it's not. I want to say the ranch is around 30,000, 20, 30,000 acres, private land. Yeah, and I would say the success rates for our winners on this one have been pretty high. Yeah, they've killed some great bucks. Yeah, they have. Unique opportunity, but September 1 to 5. People that know mule there, you flirt with a rut or you hunt, as Jenna likes to say, pre-scouted bucks.

Anyway, but pre-scouted bucks that are in a routine, right? Routines get deer killed and this is a chance to be able to do that. They're in velvet right out of the get-go. Opening day in this instance on a CW tag for most places is September 1. So, awesome hunt. Yeah, that's a rare one. Should we do the next one? Yep. All right, next one's an antelope hunt for two hunters. This is a three-day private land, central New Mexico with TG's Trophy Hunts, Ty Gore down there. It's valued at $9,000 and it'll be probably the end of August when those dates come out from the state. But this is an awesome hunt. I talked to Ty the other day and he sent pictures of the two guys that won this hunt last year and they killed big bucks. Yeah, they did. I think he said the one was 84 or 83 and the other one was right at 80. Yeah.

Yeah, the two photos that I used, the major photos that I used on this hunt, they're both from our winters last year. What I like about these, if you listened to my last podcast about antelope hunting, is you don't have to go alone on this hunt. Yeah, you've got a buddy. You're going to be there with somebody, which is how antelope are meant to be hunted in groups of people. And encourage people to shoot, encourage them to get shooting at something, talk them into it. I don't think you can hit that buck. He's 486 yards away. You know, whatever. Yeah, but he's only got one horn. Oh, I don't know. Those are the rare ones. It's all just, it's all. Just you guys remember that when you're on a hunt with Adam next time. You're not going to talk me into it. But it is, I'm ready for it. But anyway, that's a great thing.

So whether you've got a spouse or hunting buddy or you've got a kid or whoever you want to take, it's your choice. End of August, two tags included, everything. Food, lodging, everything. So awesome opportunity there. So anyway, that runs through the, I guess, one, two, three, four, five, seven. Is that right? Yep. And then we've got a gear package. Gear package. As well. We usually do this, you know, vary it up a little bit year after year. But we've got another package that you can either pick, again, as you refer a member, you get a name in for this. Or if you buy a gift subscription for somebody, you could actually get two names in, put them in yourself if you want. But this gear package includes the following. A Fierce Carbon Rage rifle in your choice of caliber. A Hoyt RX-8 bow. We appreciate both Fierce and Hoyt being sponsors of ours here at Epic Outdoors.

But that's basically their newest and greatest bow, as well as an awesome rifle in your choice of caliber. We're throwing a Leupold VX-6 HD 4-24x52 scope. Some Swarovski EL Range TA 10x32s. A Zeiss spotting scope, which is the Harpia 2370-95 millimeter. Awesome. Crystal clear glass there. And one of our Epic Ultra tripod and fluid head combos. So this all adds up to $15,000. And that's not funny math. That's just what stuff costs if you're going to get it. So anyway, that's a great, great deal. Got bino, spotting scope, rifle scope, rifle, bow, tripod. I mean, you've got a lot of gear there to put to use, to upgrade, or just to whatever. Just to put in a safe and use along with what you already have. So that's another great $15,000 value gear package, rounding out the eight prizes. And then we actually have what we always do, kind of a bonus ticket.

We vary this sometimes year after year, whether we give a tag or whether we donate a specific hunt or dedicate a specific hunt to it. But this time, you know, we've talked to Devin about this over the years as well. And rather than pick a specific hunt, sometimes just offering a guy $10,000 put towards an Epic Approved Outfit or Hunter of Your Choice. And then let you talk with Devin or one of us and book the hunt. Either pay for it or put $10,000 towards some bucket list hunt that you want to go on. Now, this is if you buy a 30-ticket package for $500 or more. Every increment above that, you get a ticket in for this. So there's no way to buy a specific entry for that. But for each $500 you spend on the 30-entry package, you get your choice of, you know, you get your knife and a headlamp. But you also get one ticket into this winner's choice hunt, which is $10,000.

We'll write the check for you towards the hunt of your choice. So it's always fun. Devin's helped several winners spend money. I was just thinking of the last guy who won this. He wanted a mountain caribou. Yeah. And he killed a giant. Yeah. It's like the luck continues. There was another guy that won one of these, and he killed a big bull. There was a muskox and then another elk we did. Yeah. It did really well. It's just fun. That way it's whatever you want or whatever you're itching to do or whatever. So put it towards it and go have an awesome hunt. So all the details of what we just read through are on our website at epicoutdoors.com or they're in the magazine. You can read about those. You know, we'll email you throughout the next couple of months as well. But we just wanted to highlight those. Those are out there. And do it here before this.

If you're looking at buying optics or something like that and wanted to add on some of these entries or something before the Black Friday, Cyber Monday deal that we're having, we want to at least run through them here real quick. So there you have it. And if you're not a member, this kind of creates the buzz of you can get in for one of these hunts for free if you join our membership. So if you're a podcast listener and you've never joined the membership and this year's the year you'll get a free ticket into one of these hunts. Yeah. That's right. So, yeah, like I said, any questions, check us out on the website. You can either buy ticket entries there or you can give us a call, 435-263-0777. So where does that leave us? Well, let's see. I'm going to give another quick shout out before we get into Colorado because we've talked a lot about Colorado this year.

We've talked about what I would say the high points have been. Yeah. So today's going to be a little brief discussion about other. The low points? No. I don't know. Just, you know, yeah, you don't always kill a deer. No. I didn't kill a deer. You didn't kill a deer. No. Jason didn't kill a deer. Devon didn't kill a deer. So we already talked about Cash and Logan smoking stuff last week. Smoking deer, I should say. No, smoking stuff. Colorado is kind of one of those green states. There's dispensaries, you know, all over the place. Smoking deer. But anyway, I mentioned it a minute ago in our Epic gear package, but I just want to do another shout out to Hoyt Archery. We all shoot Hoyt bows. Love them. Whether they be carbon bows, the RX 5, 7s, and 8s, you know, whatever. Or the aluminums, the Alpha X and stuff like that. They're awesome.

Anyway, they've been a great partner of ours here at Epic Outdoors. And just want to give a shout out to Hoyt Archery. If you're looking for a bow this next year, you can't go wrong shooting a Hoyt. If you want to upgrade, keep them in mind. Like I said, we love them. We might be having some giveaways in the future with some of their bows. They've been great partners with us and allowed us to have some of their bows to do giveaways with. But give a shout out to Hoyt Archery for being a great sponsor of ours here at Epic Outdoors as well. So where does that leave us, John? Let's talk about – you have – feels like a lot more to talk about than me. You ran into a lot. You used a lot of gear or saw a lot of different emergency-type gear being used there. Recovery gear. It was interesting. I'm telling you. Yeah. You took everything, luckily. I took everything, yeah.

Like you're talking, you know, recovery gear for your truck and everything you can. And I used every bit of it. For those of you that may remember, we're in Colorado or saw Colorado. It was mainly the front range. It was a weird storm. We talked about it last time about that weird kind of epicenter down in like New Mexico, spinning up Texas, Oklahoma, wrapping around. It was kind of an east-to-west storm that just kept pummeling the front range. They got three or four feet across, you know, I'll call it central and eastern Colorado, not the plains as much, but the front range. But, John, you were up a little bit further north, kind of in one of those wings. I was in more western Colorado. We got snotty windy weather and a little bit of spitting snow. But it looked like you were hunting penguins in that article. It did. That's what it felt like, too. Like, I did not know.

I mean, it was like a different world. I didn't. I mean, because 90, 95% of our storms in Utah and Colorado, they come from the west, right? They come from the west and blow through. Whether they come down from the northwest or come up from the southwest, that's our weathering pattern. That didn't have, that was bluebird. That was bluebird weather. Everything coming from the west. This thing got pumped up underneath and just kept wrapping around for like days. Yeah. Yeah. Well, before I got there. So, the night before the hunt, I took my wife on this hunt. I forgot to ask you about it. How enjoyable was it to gen like this? Well, we rented a cabin, right? Besides, she broke her toe in the cabin. Slipping on ice or what? No. Stubbed it? It was a rustic cabin, let's say. So, the logs didn't line up good? You can, you know. Okay. Yeah, yeah. Wood fireplace was our heat. Oh, yeah.

I mean, it was rustic. No bathrooms. Yeah. You had an outhouse? What? There was kind of an out bathroom. What does that mean? There was running water in one place, but not in the cabin. Yeah. It was super rustic. Sink? Like what? What do you mean one place? It was like a shower house with a toilet and a shower. Okay. Was it a communal one? Yes. Oh. Yeah. And then there were a bunch of really rustic cabins. Okay. Yeah. So, did you have to just put a little thing on the door saying it's occupied? Okay. All right. All right. Yeah. Yeah. So, but that's all that was available anyway when I got this tag. It was a left, whatever, turn back, whatever it was. Yeah, it was a turn back tag. And so, that's the bright spot. I didn't burn any points. What's the bright spot? Oh, that. On this hunt. Okay. But, yeah. Wife broke her toe. Wife broke her toe. Yeah.

How many quarters did it take to clean your truck? I saw it in the parking lot when you got home. That's when you know you better just put your credit card in. I went to the, however long you stay there. I went to the car wash and they rejected me. They said, you have too much mud. Oh, yeah. You have to go to a... Did they really? Yeah. What? You have too much mud. It doesn't take much. Which one? The drive-thru? Oh, yeah. That's a given, John. Yeah. I don't even pull up there. They probably laughed at you because it was pretty... But then... Then you had 10 cars behind you that you had to somehow get out of line. They've got kind of a side one that's outside and they just let me go unlimited time. Got all the mud off of it. So, it was great. Oh, yeah. That one. Okay. Yeah. Interesting. So, anyway. But we're not even there. It's the night before the hunt. And we leave here.

Oh, I think we left. Midday or whatever. Yeah. It was like 9 o'clock or something in the morning. And we didn't get there until, you know, it was snowing and bad weather. So, we didn't get there until 8.30, 9 at night. It was an all-day trip. But it was snowing pretty hard when we were coming up on, you know, the area the cabin was. And I drive by and it was... There was a... Like, kind of a ditch off the side of the road. And it was far down in. And out of the corner of my eye, I see some, like, lights or something down there. And I slowed down and I was like, Jen, I think there was a car off the road down there. And it was a long ways down there. The Good Samaritan's kicking in, Joan. Oh, she's like, yeah, we should probably go see, you know. So, we turned around, went back, and there was a car, two-wheel drive, you know, college students. Buried down in the deep.

That was buried down in there. And it was probably... My winch is... I would say it's probably 50 feet. At least, probably. Yeah. And it took every bit. It was all the way out to the red. Yeah, to reach it. And so, I go down there. The kid, like, he didn't have a hat. He didn't have gloves. He was just down there cold, you know. And so, I, like, go back up to my truck. And I grab an extra pair of gloves. And I grab a hat. And I'm like, dude, you've got to put these on, you know. So, got him a little bit warm. And then pulled my winch out. And I was like, I think the car is probably going to pull my truck off the road. Yeah. Because it was slick, you know. Yeah. And it's downhill. It wants your truck down there. But I'll try. And he's like, well, I got, I did call a tow truck. And it's coming.

So, I'm like, well. Did you pay a deposit with your credit card? Yeah. I'm like, I can try. I can try to get you back up on the road. But I got it down there. And the stupid car after you dig under the snow and get down under there, like, the hook on the frame is too small for my winch hook. And I'm like. So, I can't even go through it. Can't go through it. I'm going to wrap something that may or may not. Yeah. Hold. But about this time, I see flashing lights, you know. And then. Okay. So, I go up to the top. The tow truck slid off the road. What? Across. John, you haven't even started hunting. I didn't even know these stories. Oh, yeah. So, then I'm like, oh, my gosh. So, now you said, all right. Hey, what's your already charge? Yeah. Oh, 75 an hour. Okay. All right. 75 an hour. We'll get you back on the highway. So, I'm like, yeah, my winch hook's too big for, you know, his hooks.

And so, he's like, well, I've got a chain. You know, if you could pull me out, then we can try to chain him up and get him up. So, I turned around. I pulled the tow truck back up on the road. And then, I was pretty much in a good position. So, I just pulled out my winch. And then, we put a chain on the end. And luckily, we had him just, you know, be on the gas a little bit to help it out. Yeah. Pulled him right up. But it was steep. I was nervous. It'll scare me. Car scare me. Yeah. Because the bumpers are plastic. Oh, yeah. That's the thing. When you get the hook underneath. And then you're that steep above him. And that chain gets tight. And it's tight. Yeah. The whole bumper can go. You want to sign a waiver? Damage waiver? If I cause any damage by getting you back on the... At least he was okay. Yeah. He was okay. It was good. That happened to me once. And it was...

I heard, like, moaning down in the bushes. I thought somebody was really, really hurt. Oof. What was it? It was a guy. A kid in the car. Yeah. He was just scared. Yeah. Scary, man. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah. You got to bed late. Yeah. Walked in. Didn't know where the light was. It was dark. Jen stubbed her toe and breaks it the first night. It was the next day. Yeah. Jeez. I didn't know these stories. I do. The ones I know of are pretty good. We haven't even got to them yet. Yeah. And we're far. Like, this unit, there's nothing. There's, like, maybe one gas station in the whole unit. Like, in any way. Kind of crazy. And it wasn't even close to where I was. I was driving, you know, way far to get gas and stuff. Anyway. But, snowing, blowing, it was nuts. The first morning, like, I'm like, okay. Start going. And it was chain up all four.

And it ended up being chain up all four every morning, every night, every afternoon. Like, I had to. I can't remember. On and off chains all the time. Did you stick it out for the seven days? Yeah. I came home midway through the last day. Oh, wow. Yeah. I'm impressed. So. Because I, from all the pictures I was getting through the week, I'm like. Yeah. I'm out. I wouldn't have lasted seven. You did good, John. Yeah. In those, what, six or seven days, whatever it was, I saw 12 deer. The whole time. Brutal. Repeat that. How many? It was brutal. How many were bucked, John? Two and a half. The half didn't know this was. I know it was a buck. Like, he was so small. Okay. Button bucked. Oh, it was brutal. It was brutal. It was brutal. It was brutal. So. That's what I meant about. Yeah. Those conditions. That lack of deer. And John still stayed through seven. That's. Yeah. You never know.

I knew it was bad. But you thought. I mean, you pray for that when you go to Colorado. Yeah. Snow crushed the place. And then. Sometimes it really inhibits what you can even do. Yeah. There's a limit to it. It also concentrated people on the public land areas where you could get to. And so it was pretty packed in. And that led to more encounters with people that needed to be jerked back on the road. The next morning I had to pull somebody else out. And I'm like, I don't know why you're back here. No chains. You know. He had a Jeep, but it was like a. It wasn't a Liberty, but something like that. You know. Not a. A newer Jeep. A real Jeep. It was like a car. You know. Jeep makes the vehicle. Yeah. But it's not a Jeep. Yeah. Passenger tires basically on the thing. Yeah. So anyway. But nice kid. Nice kid. And a lot of them are just kids going to school and, you know, younger kids.

Drive what they drive. They're out driving what they drive. So it was fine. But super nice kid. Happy to see me. You know. You saw snow cats, John. Yeah. So then I know. Okay. I saw guys hunting that passed me. They're in a snow cat. We're talking the orange. Yes. Like 1950s or 60s. Tracks. Tracks. Tracks. Tracks. Like that. Jeez. That the ski resorts all used to drive. Then they have modern ones now. But that type of thing. Yeah. Yeah. That type of thing. And people are driving those on roads. Yep. And I'm chained up all four. Goner. And they just go around me. You know. I'm like. That's pretty useful. I've never seen anybody drive one of those on a hunt. I will say that. I haven't. Might not be a bad investment. I'm going to bookmark that on KSL or Facebook Marketplace. And what? Keep an eye out. I'm adding some alerts now. Yeah. Should we go in on. Divide it by however many is in.

Put it in one of the storage units. I'm sure there's guys that swear by them. I don't know. It's like the first time he's able to tell his wife. See. I told you. I needed it for hunting. I told you I had a used for that. 15 years. Oh. They're not that expensive. There's one in Spanish. Yeah. Look at that. But they're built in 1962 though. So that's. Look, you can get one for the same price as a four-wheeler. How about that 2012 right there? There's one right above us on the mountain right there. Logan's pulling this up on the big screen. That's right. For sale. That thing's got a plow on it. How about that one at Duck Creek in Orange? Yeah. It's a 1984 for 37 G's. G's. So yeah. It was. I'm out. I'm out. Just lots and lots of snow. Isn't that like the one you saw right there? Probably. Yep. Yeah. That's about it. Jeez. That one ain't cheap. They're holding their value. 35 on that one.

What? How about that 1945? Where? Look at yellow. Yeah. Pinedale? You know that thing isn't a clean one over. The weasel snow cat. That thing's been used in Pinedale. They use that 10 months of the year in Pinedale. Tell me I'm wrong. High schoolers take that to school. They drive that to the prom in the end of May. Yeah. In Pinedale. So anyway. Well. Yeah. Then I. Every day I was chained up all fours. And I said. And then one day near the last. It was second to last day. I thought. I bet I can get away with just. You know. Snow's melting a little bit. I can get away with like just chaining up the back. So. Chained up the back. And I got. Going up the road. I was going pretty high. And I got off the main. Trail. Right. And then. I was. Kind of going. And I thought. I should get back on the main. The main road. So I see the main road. And I go over and try to get in it. It looked like.

Just. It was level. Everything else. Footer. I went down into the main road. It was five feet below. Like. You can't do it. It had turned into. A river. A drift filled it in. Yeah. Yeah. And a drift filled it in. I could not tell. And I was five hours digging out of it. And. Like. I dug. My tires were still not hitting dirt. And. And then I had to like dig it all the way around it. Yeah. Put the chains on. That should be the keynote picture of this podcast. Yeah. Right there. I mean. It was. It was crazy. So. And that's after you've done some severe work. Some severe digging. Yeah. The pictures don't do it any justice. I was. Five hours digging. Out of there. You know how you. You dig like. For a snow cave. And you. Like. You push down. And then you push on the side. So you like. Take a square. Carve little blocks. It can't. The snow was coming out. The snow came out in blocks.

For five hours. That's good. The snow cave snow is all I'm going to say. But that's not good. Because it's. That's a. Yeah. It's got a lot of moisture in it. It's been frozen solid. Pretty much. It was. So. But as soon as I got. The truck dug out. It was still high centered on snow. But. I was able to get the chains around the front tires. And then. Luckily. I became a religious man. I was just going to say this John. And there were many prayers. You said you kind of went off on this deviant. On this little road less traveled. When you knew the good road is here. Sounds like a good church talk in the movie. Yeah. That's what I thought. Well. Yeah. There were. There were a lot of. A lot of. Praying going on. And I. Luckily. Was your wife. Was she back at the cabin? Yeah. She's back at the cabin. So. I had a laugh at John. I. I was trying to be a good friend and employee. And I texted him.

I didn't know. But I texted him as he was digging out. Said. How's it going? I said. How goes the hunt John? He just texts back. The worst ever. And sends me this picture. That I got pulled up on the screen. Yeah. It was nuts. So. Was that the last morning? No. That was the second to last morning. I was going to say. After that right there. It's probably when I have four tires rolling back to Utah. The whole morning was spent digging. So. I was. So glad I still had a shovel in there. You know. Well. At least you got. At least the gear that you brought. That you have. You got the winch on the power wagon. You've got four chains. I mean. They're not. They're not rusting away. No. They got used. Finally. Yeah. I need. I need a way. Like. Where I got stuck. It was nothing I could have winched to. Oh yeah. You know. It was just flat. Nothing. I need. You have to drive a T-post. Yeah.

Drive a T-post or something. I got a frozen tundra. Take something. Lambo. Yeah. And then be able to winch backwards or something too. But. Anyway. Well. Stuff to add. To my arsenal. But. No. It was. It was nuts. I think. I mean. The two bucks that I saw. Looked like they were running. So. My guess is it was. But the wind was blowing. The snow was blowing your eyes hard. You couldn't quite tell. The drifts. The drifts were so very high. And this. Well. Where I got stuck. For five hours. The day before I was able to drive. I was chained up all four. But. Just like. The wind annihilated it. I would drive in. In the morning. And the wind would blow. And you couldn't tell that I'd driven in. Yeah. And sometimes there were higher. You know. Higher drifts. Than when I had driven in. Wyatt knows that country. Over at Monticello. Out in the flats. How many coyotes I've hunted out there. Yeah.

Growing up. And I've. I've been. Just hauling. Trying to break drifts. Yeah. It's kind of like when you're on water. But when you're on white. And everything's white. You don't have a depth perception. No. What's big. And then all of a sudden. You just come to. And you're like. I am so dead. Because you're going 45 miles an hour. And it just stopped you. And you got. Back in the handyman jack days. And you're trying to rip off sage brush. And. Your only options to go back. And I've had some terrible. Experiences there. Like I said. Getting stuck. Without chains. And then try to put them on. And you're already deep. Anyway. But well. I will say. A little bit of free advertising. For old Elon Musk. Whoa. But. I got. The Starlink Mini. And. The thing is legit. Really? I can get service anywhere. Like. And I just sat it on the top of my truck. So. Like I'm stuck. No cell service.

What's his title now? Like. Secretary of Government. Downsizing. As a waste. Or what. Government efficiency. Yeah. Government efficiency. Government efficiency. That sounds more official than. Doge. Government waste. Doge. That's what it was. I was trying to think of that. Department of Government Efficiency. Doge. Part of the Avengers group. Him. And what's that other. Vivek Ramaswamy. Yeah. Yeah. Him. So that. That was awesome. I was able to just. Put it up. Tell my wife. Hey. I got stuck. I'm going to be late. Don't worry. Feel bad for me. I'm going to be hungry. When I come back to the cabin. When I see Jen at the Christmas party this year. I can't wait to say. Hey. What did you say when you broke your toe in French?

Excuse my French. That's the worst. I've done that. Yeah. You remember that story from my 2018. Oh. Chasing my kid around the house. Oh. That's right. Shattered my big toe on the door jam.

60 days before a doll sheep hunt. Oh. Just shattered in like 10 pieces. Yeah. I mean her whole foot was. Yes. I've got. It was bad. I've got some pictures. Yeah. Well. Anyway. Sorry John. Unsuccessful. But. Yeah. I mean. It was still fun. You're learning. I learned a lot. And. And. Just. It's. It's. It's. It's hard to keep going when you're not seeing any deer. Yeah. That is. But. I mean. Tons and tons of elk. And tons and tons of everything else. Antelope. You saw antelope by the hundreds. Yeah. Yeah. It was just nuts. You know. Whatever I don't have a tag for. They're there. When it snows like that. It gets cold. They herd up like. Crazy. Start moving. Yeah. But. Well. So. I. I. I was in a different place. I had nothing like that. In terms of conditions. You know. Where I. Where I was hunting western Colorado. They actually. I think it had a pretty decent second season hunt.

Like we talked about last podcast. Where they had some of those storms hit during the second season. Triggered a little bit of movement. And. And. And that first snow of the year. Whenever it is. It just kind of. It changes deer behavior a little bit. They pop. They stick out. Like sore thumbs. When everything's flocked white. Like Logan was talked about. It helps. And. You know. With that third season. It was cold. It was windy. It spit snow a little bit. But it really didn't have any new weather. And it just felt like. The deer where I was hunting. Were scattered. Some were down low. Some in the middle. And some were way up high. They were just a little bit everywhere. And kind of stalled out. I guess. So. Unit I'd hunted before. I saw a couple of. Really good deer. That honestly. Probably need. One more year. I mean. That's. That's all I think they needed. I would have felt bad.

Shooting either one of them. But I saw their bucks. But those are the two. That I. That. Initially gave me a little bit of a. Oh. Geez. That might. And then I just started looking at them. Nope. They're probably. Maximum. Four year old deer. That. You know. Nice. Nice bucks. One had a cheater out both sides. Which usually can.

You know. Get. And it did. It. It got me. That was perfectly symmetrical buck. With a cheater out each side. But he just wasn't. It wasn't quite there. It wasn't real wide. Deep. Deep times. Not real heavy though. So anyway. Might be for another trip. I guess. But. I ate my tag. I hunted. All the way through the last day. Same as you John. And. Didn't. Didn't see a deer I wanted to kill. But hey. I've been there. Been to Colorado before. And you kill a buck in a day or two. And it can happen. Pretty. Pretty quick. Takes one to end it. And. Just didn't this year. It's as simple as that. So. But. Had a good time. And. Probably try to find our way back. To Colorado somewhere next year. It seems like we try to do that. Or. Most of us. Try to do it. Play the games. We got to try to play to be there. Whether it be draw. Turn back. Land on or whatever. So. I've had enough time. Laps. Since that.

That. I'm slightly eager. Looking forward to going back. But a week ago. A week ago. You were. You were done. And this week. Well. Every. Everything's an opportunity. It's just amazing. What a. One week in your own bed will do to you. I mean. I've slept in my bed this year. This is true. This is true. And I'm not feeling picked on. Don't. Don't. I'm not. I don't need a pity part of it. This year. Between the Arctic Red hunt. And then all my other hunts. I mean. It's been. I don't even know. Don't even remember what my pill in bed felt like. It's been one of those years. Stuff has just taken to the max. Every hunt. Whether it be my hunt. Family hunts. You know. Whatever. And so. Yeah. It's just. But it's amazing once you have some consistency. You know. Sitting in your lazy boy. Watching a little bit of football in between. Good night sleeps. You're starting to think about it next year.

And I'm there. Yeah. You might. I'm getting. I'm starting to get weak again. Yep. I could get talked into something. In fact. This morning. Devin was talking me into a whitetail hunt in Kansas. And this year's rifle hunt's not even occurred yet. In Kansas. And he's. He's getting me going on it. Just telling you facts. I know. Well. Yeah. We're hearing about bucks that. You know. Get by on the archery hunt. And how many are sitting ready. Yeah. If you hunt an archery. Whitetail in the Midwest this year. From what I'm hearing. It was kind of rough. Kind of tough. So Devin. If. This time of year. What's. What's the best thing you can book. At this time of year. Or look at. Hunt wise. As far as for. Long term. Like Nick. 2025. Yeah. Let's. I mean Wyoming. Wyoming always kicks off this year. And Arizona. Because it's the first application period in January. So. This time of year. Yeah.

That's what you want to be looking at. I mean. Just about everything. I mean. It's kind of time. Like. Like. Speaking of Kansas. Don't wait anymore. Yeah. Talking to a guy this morning. That. Yeah. He's about. Booked up already. So. 2025. Yeah. Just due to the predictable nature. If you have one point. You're going to draw everywhere in Kansas. So. It's not like. It's not like. An Arizona. Unless you have. Max points. You know. You're not. You get lucky on the other half of the. Non-resident. As far as guarantee tags. Yeah. Stuff like Kansas. That you can draw easy. Even antelope punts book really early now. This. This time of year. Like New Mexico stuff. A lot of elk tags. Guaranteed tags. Wyoming elk. Even. You know. Like. With people that know they have points. Especially the general. That split into regions. Definitely. Last year. Like. It. It takes. Three to four plus points.

And you know you're going elk hunting. But. But guys will book up a year. Sometimes more in advance on that. It's. It's a lot of everything. Honestly. It's just. Just that time. So. If you're looking or thinking about something. Call us. Because yeah. The good stuff goes fast. Well. Yeah. And we're already. I mean. Of course. There's. There's natural stuff. Like spring. Mountain lions. And spring bear. That. Are kind of all the time. But I mean. That's. You can call them. Book one of those. If you didn't get enough hunting in this. This fall. Or. Yeah. Like I said. Looking at next year. Got spring brown bear. Had a couple. Cancellations come in on those. Devin. Yeah. For down. Southeast Alaska. Good price. Some of that. Some Mexico stuff's opening up. Yes. Coming right up. Yep. Both for December and January. If you've got opening time. For mule deer. Down there. Anyway. Just.

Yeah. I mean. You can. Pretty much nothing. You'd shut the door on. Like I said. There's certain things. Like if you want to hunt. Doll sheep. In 2025. Or. In some case. Even a stone. Or something like that. Or. Or. Brown bear. Or a big moose. It's tough. There's not much left. For those. Because the people. Book them in advance. And for years in advance. But. For other stuff. Yeah. Don't wait. It's the biggest thing. Is don't wait. Because a lot of people. You know. They'll put in. You know. For a certain hunt. That. Like. Like generals in Wyoming. Or stuff that you're fairly. Fairly. Close to drawing. And then not get. And then you wait. Till the mid. Mid May. Before you find out. You draw. And then you really do. And by then. It's kind of like. Colorado. Deering out. Guys. Guys book up. Before the deadline. Even comes in the draw. For some of those states. That have predictable.

Max point tags. Is a preference point. Draws like Colorado. So. Get with Devin. Or one of us here. To help start using them. That's what we're here. It's about to start over again. It's hard to believe. 2024. Slowly. Coming to end. It's going to be December. Next week. So. Crazy. Crazy. Crazy. So. All right. Well. Let's give a shout out. To. Phone Scope. We got. They've got their new. Carbon Pro Series. Mag safe ready. The thing I love about this. This case is like. I can keep it on my phone. It'll charge my phone. You know. I've used several others that. You can't charge your phone through it. And I always use. You know. The ones that you just snap on the back. And. It's magnetic. And. So I end up. You know. Having to take cases on and off. And. What not. This one you don't have to take on and off. Your flashlight works. It's not covered. So. It's. Pretty awesome.

And an easy way to just. Get the footage. Snap it on. And. Anyway. Just. Easy setup. And along with that. If you've been looking into any of the new. Phone Scope. Carbon Pro Series cases. Or any of the accessories. And you're looking to buy it soon. For Black Friday through Cyber Monday. They're going to be having a 15% off. Plus. Free gifts. The more you spend discount. On their website. So. If you go online. And want some Phone Scope accessories. You get 15% off. And. The more stuff you buy. The more stuff they throw in your cart. It sounds like. They also have. A walk-in discount. In their store in Beaver. So if you walk in. Want to get some good deals. On Phone Scope accessories. And products. You might get an even better deal. In the store. So if you're near Beaver. Stop by. If you're in the neighborhood. Beaver County. Luckily Josh is not here. I was just going to say.

I'll bet Josh will swing on there. On his way home. He might. But not to buy anything. Just a judge. He's. You get run out of town. Somebody see Josh on Beaver Main Street. He's in some hot water. I get asked about him a lot. When I'm around Paul. Do they still have rack meetings in Beaver? They used to. No. I can't see Josh showing up to one of them. No. I ain't riding with him. If we go there. But when did you say that goes through Cyber Monday as well? That Phone Scope. Black Friday through Cyber Monday. Awesome. Black Friday deal. Thanks for throwing that in Logan. Yeah. We said that last week about Kenetrek as well. They have a Black Friday sale going on 20 to 50% off on their stuff too. So. Check them out online probably. And. Yep. Take advantage. Those aren't like blowouts. Or I mean discontinued models. They're just. That's just a sale. So. Check them out. So. Anyway.

Anything else guys? Cash. You've been kind of quiet. But you were talking about last time. Yeah. You talked about three dead bucks last time. Yeah. Just didn't want to kill the mic without you having a chance to say something to that. I've said enough to run plenty of people off. Have you? I'm sure. I'm sure. I don't know about that. You're pretty. You're pretty low key Mel. Just straight shoot. You know what you guys did when I was driving the other night. We should have called you. I could have used you. You could have used this. Yeah. We should have called out of comments. We had Logan and Cash. Cash talked about three dead bucks. Logan talked about his saga for. Just a path of death and destruction of you guys. We just left the trail. It was. I mean that's why John and I today were just. Yeah. Kind of anticlimactic. But hey.

Just want everybody that says you guys are so lucky you always kill big deer. No we don't. We don't. If you want to see my tags I got stacks of them. That aren't punched. Stacks. Just from this year. So. Doesn't happen. Every time. Not when you're hunting for something good. And when you were driving Devin you were going to serve some death and destruction right? Yeah. I was driving home. Let's talk. Helping on something. I don't know if my eyes got real dry or something. But I had a rough go on the way home. Was it dark 30? Yeah. Yeah. The whole way. Going through the whole entire state of Nevada down 93. Just. You know you got to be alert. You do. I saw. There's horses. On my way up. Before I hit. Well. Yeah. Almost a window. I went through a window over this time. Yeah. And I bet I saw 30 horses within 20 yards of 93. There's no fence on that. No. It's open range. Ultimate route.

And so when I'm coming home I got through there in the light and then right about the junction it got dark. You don't have a light bar on that truck do you? No. I need to invest in that. It's a game changer across the desert. By the time I hit Panaca.

Well I'd have been pulled over. You'd have thought I was. I don't know. My eyes were. I was just tired man. So what do you mean? I've been packing elk meat all day. So what do you mean if I'd have been pulled over there? I just. I didn't look at your eyes and say oh. Hey step out. This guy's got problems. Show me your hands and step out where I can see you. Maybe. I don't know. I just was tired. You were red eyed. It was a quick trip. Smashed a bull day two and came home. Great bull. Yeah. Good. Sweet bull. I was kind of. I wouldn't say critical but I was checking. I was questioning you going up there. You're free and clear. Your season was over. And then you signed up for one more hurrah in northeastern Nevada. And he told me I'll see you Monday. And I'm like okay I pray so. He did. Devin. He's good what he did. Killed a great bull. Saw a lot of bulls. A lot of young bulls.

55 inch beamer and wide thing. 7x. Mid 40s. 45 wide. And 74 and 55 inch beams. That's pretty awesome. Good. Awesome bull. Not broke. Not broke which is rare. Yeah. Yeah it was fun. A late. A late late hunt. I almost did the dumbest thing. I was. I had seen some bulls about a mile and a half away. And I could see little ones and I could see three or four about 150 yards away. Like those bigger bulls will distance themselves from those raggers that are just kind of laying in the open. And I could see body parts. Just bits and pieces. Trees. Yeah. Bedded. And so I was headed that way and I. I don't know. I've hunted this country a lot. But it's just like you know those gut feelings. I was like. I hit this saddle and I look at this cliff line that runs right next to the road. And I'm like I know there's not a road over there. Like I just got to bump jump up here. Peek over. Yeah.

Into a canyon or something. Pop up over the top. Wrap around the one and only big giant cedar tree. Just out in the wide open. I'm standing there glassing for maybe 10 minutes. And I started hitting live trees really close to me. And just. Yellow school bus. Freaking yellow school bus. Like I don't know how he didn't. How close? A branch is covering his right eye. Like killing range. 400 wide open. Right. Rifle range. Oh yeah. Yeah. The bull you killed. Was he alone? Or did he have some other? He had three buddies. Wow. I could only see two of them. But yeah. I don't know. I don't know how he didn't see me. It was so lucky. Yeah. Backed away. We walked in with the rifle and game over. That's awesome. Yeah. It was fun. So you got home Sunday night. Sunday night? Saturday. Or Saturday. Yeah. Should have been. You left Thursday night. We hunted two days. Wow. Packed my house. Yeah.

Well you heard it here on the Epic Outdoors podcast. Devin gets stuff done. 48 hour elk hunts is what he's known for in Nevada. They don't all go that way. It always feels like you're hunting a very specific percentage of bulls of a certain age. And of those kind of bulls, what percentage of them are broke to pieces? Yeah. A lot. That's what I was worried about is I could see his left side and it's fully intact. Not a chip. Nothing. Maybe the third a little bit. And I could see the tip of the beam finally on his right. He's like, okay, he has a beam. Okay, he's not a unicorn bull. Not broke after his third or something. Yeah, he was fully intact and he even had a six point. So it was perfect. You had to let him get up. Yeah. Feet around. Sat in a cactus. Cramped. I mean, just stuff. Awesome. Well, that's great. Well, we're winding down here pretty much. Yeah. Thanksgiving time. Yeah.

Everybody be thankful. It's a good time to be thankful for whatever you got in your life. So anything else we need to shout out for before we take a break for the week? Nope. I think that's it. Logan, we good? We're all good. All right. Well, have a good week. Happy Thanksgiving, everybody.

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