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Chasing Wyoming Antelope Bucks – Dylan Heide @fishhuntwyo
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This week Drew has Dylan Heide @fishhuntwyo on the Tricer Podcast. Drew traveled out to Wyoming to hunt antelope with Dylan. After the hunt was over these guys got together to record a hunt recap podcast on the scene. This is a wild story of a great buck that includes everything from a great stalk to potential poachers and two great bucks. If you love antelope or just love a good hunting story, this podcast is for you.
DYLAN HEIDE
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Transcript
Introduction to the Tricer Podcast
00:00:01
Speaker
You are listening to the Tricer Podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners. We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet. Amen. Go. All right.
Dylan Hide's Invitation for a Wyoming Hunt
00:00:25
Speaker
on scene in wyoming the transfer podcast uh super stoked to be up here um there's this like special kid up here special needs like make a wish kid named dylan hide and he's been bugging me for like a year like please come home with me please come home with me like i'll pick you up at the airport you can stay in my house i'll find you a buck Just come up, please." And I was like, fine, I'll come up. We picked my tag. He said, no, I don't have the tag, at least. But no, seriously, dude, what a cool time. My friend Dylan hides with me.
Successful Antelope Hunt with Dylan and Jake
00:00:56
Speaker
Jake Belinda is here. We just came up here and just smashed two giant antelope, day one. And Dylan just went a bone beyond for me. If you don't know who Dylan is, he's Fish Hunt Wyo.
00:01:09
Speaker
on Instagram. He's like a famous influencer. He's got a million followers. He's kind of a big deal.
00:01:16
Speaker
So Dylan, I had six points. Dylan's a residency person draw pretty much every year. Um, I put in for it and drew it and Dylan's a flat to my house. I'll pick you up the airport. We'll make this thing happen through my kid in the plane. And, uh, we flew up here and we made it happen, man. So how are you guys doing? What's up, Dylan? Dude.
00:01:36
Speaker
I remember it completely the other way around. Pretty sure there's a stranger knocking on my door and like, dude, I got this tag. Will you take me out? Here's $15,000 because I sell all these tripods. Definitely not at all. Dude, it was a good time, man. Yeah. we Picked him up at the airport had Jake drive down. He's been hunting hard. He's a hunting fool man He's harder hunter than me. I feel like he's out here grinding away, but it's fun. He came out here and Picked up picked up. He picked up a Wyoming elk tag. So he was doing that and came down after his hunting trip and venture up there in Montana um dan
00:02:14
Speaker
Tell us a little bit about that Jake, well what have you been up to?
Recounting Wyoming's Best Antelope Experience
00:02:18
Speaker
it's oh What's today, September the 26th? It's elk season but had to take a quick pause to go see what Wyoming Antelope's all about. You got to see it first hand.
00:02:33
Speaker
oh yeah yeah yeah To me, I've antelope hunted twice, and that was pretty much the best one I've ever seen. So it was better than my other two experiences. Yeah, so we'll kind of recap the hunt, and then we'll go and do some other stuff. But was this your personal hunting antelope in Wyoming?
00:02:54
Speaker
No, I personally hunted a couple years ago in 2021. Okay. But it was with a bow on a different side of the state, not trophy caliber bucks in that unit. So it was, yeah, I seen quite a few antelope, but nothing the size and potential that we were seeing driving around yesterday. and Every quarter mile. Yeah. Yeah.
00:03:17
Speaker
I had told them, like you know what, like we're gonna get we're getting a Dylan's, sorry Dylan's buck, probably right away, but like I told them, I don't want to wait a few days, I don't want to kill someone the first day, let's get Dylan's buck killed. And then we're like going down the road after killing, we have both killed bucks.
00:03:32
Speaker
so And there's this, like, spoiler. We're both both boxes on the table right here. We're going down the road, and this buck's bedded, and he's just everything I want in a buck. I wanted, like, a mid-70s. Just, I didn't want a booner. I mean, I want a booner, yes, but, like, what I wanted to go home with was, like, a, you know, a great representation of species. I wanted something a little bit weird. Mine was just a little splayed out, got big old hooks on it. It was up there, and just, I had to pull the trigger day one, so we were pretty much done by, like, 11 a.m. or something. Dude, yeah. But, uh, yeah, I guess we'll start with, um...
00:04:04
Speaker
Dylan in this like
Antelope Scouting and Hunting Strategy
00:04:05
Speaker
this box. Yes, but what's this book called? Yeah, so I call mr. Biggs I've got some got some history with them. I Went out actually on my first scouting mission back in June when I found out I drew this like June I don't know 24th something stupid and Wyoming does tell you like last minute. Hey, you drew a tag. You're like, okay time to prep right now So went out and started scouting for antelope with something I love to do Antelope hunting is my absolute favorite out of everything that I do maybe compared to shed hunting. It's pretty dang close, but It's just such a good time. Antelope is one of those things that not a whole lot of people I feel like take seriously, especially in the state of Wyoming. And we don't understand how, a lot of people don't understand how good you have it here in Wyoming. It's just, you know, probably rampant. But going back to this buck, when I started glassing and scouting and just kind of taking a peek around, and the reason for it is because antelope stay put. They don't move. They'll stay in the same generalized little spot. And so if you can find them early, you can get on them and
00:05:01
Speaker
in Rifle season or you know, September whatever you want to do for bow hunting stuff So well the very first scouting mission I had and found this buck Literally the first day. It's normally you gotta come through like two three four hundred bucks before you find one that's 80 or close to and Dude found this one like right away and I knew he was gonna be a freaking giant and I Started chasing him just kind of getting some I'm not chasing him started getting you know videos and in glass and eyes on him and stuff like that trying to get Idea what he would what kind of a caliber of buck he was gonna be but knew he was a giant He's a no-brainer. You just shoot him kind of one of those deals. So anyway, I've been watching him June July August and I took the hard decision of waiting on this buck and not pursuing him with my bow and which a lot of people would think it's crazy, but in the spot he was in, I really don't think there's a logical way of going in there. If you had to get done with your bow, it's different, but I knew that rifle season was going to come around and have a lot better of an opportunity, and a lot more ethical opportunity, in my opinion, to actually kill them with my rifle, just because there's so many antelope in this drainage, you're going to have one chance with your bow, and if it doesn't count,
00:06:17
Speaker
I mean, I'd rather have the rifle on the table with one chance than not. So I just, as a hunter, that's what I was more comfortable with. So that's the the route I chose to to go with. and So I waited and waited and waited and waited while people are, you know, I didn't tell too many people about this buck because I knew people were going to be coming in here and looking at him and stuff. He's just that big of a buck, especially around here. Yeah. He told, he showed me and then you're like, don't show anybody. Don't freaking show anybody. We need to film this thing. Yeah. I know you live in Pennsylvania, but please don't tell anybody. You were, I mean, I was getting texts since June or July, whenever you did it.
00:06:56
Speaker
You put a lot of hours into watching this book. Dude, yeah. like To a point where like if you didn't get this book... it probably would have wrecked you. I know I think it wasn't meant to be evil like it would have been pretty tragic. It would have been pretty tough but I mean you know that's the challenge of hunting and I think that's something I kind of knew going into that which made it all the more hard especially putting in hours and hours of work but you know in life sometimes there's you put hours and hours of work into something that you feel is the right decision and the right choice and God tells you have nope and he humbles you real quick so that's happened in my life a few times so I think it's one of those things that
00:07:30
Speaker
I can't sit here and tell you that I would have been clean-faced, oh, like no no big deal, but I'm hoping that if the the, I guess, end result was different, I would have been humbled and been like, okay, to pick your head up, let's go. Because there's tons of antelope running.
00:07:47
Speaker
You did cry when you shot it, so I have to imagine you probably would have really cried. I don't know if I would have cried, I would have turned the gun on my filmmakers. Tears of Joy versus Tears of Sadness.
Executing the Hunt Plan Despite Challenges
00:08:01
Speaker
Yeah, Tears of Joy. Yeah, I was like, dang it. I really didn't want this to happen, but it happened. Yeah. No. Anyway, so backing up. Yeah. So this whole thing happened. So I didn't tell too many people about it. I walked into this area.
00:08:15
Speaker
So many times, so many hours, like over a hundred hours at least of scouting. The way it laid out, exactly what you're saying though, if you can kind of picture it, it's a giant ravine and your access is from the bottom so they can basically see you driving in. That's why bow hunting would have been so difficult. yeah It would have been like almost impossible. Unless you're like hiding in like that cabin. yeah like I don't know how you would have shot that buck. And the water source, it wasn't just one water source. No, because the whole creek. Yeah, so they can get water at any point. yeah so Yeah. So I had this laid out. He used to set it set up on this hill and he could oversee, like you say, in the canyon. And the only thing I could think of is, okay, what is their, cause every animal has like their strength for their sense. Elk, definitely their nose. They smell you. I don't care if you're two miles away, they're gone. Deer, they can hear you and and they like hunker down and, but they're kind of like, everything's kind of like heightened, heightened really.
00:09:08
Speaker
Um, but antelope, they're, they're eyesight. Dude, unreal. If you've never hunted an animal or an antelope, it's, it's unreal. I mean, they just see you from the furthest place away, unless they're on the rat and they don't care. You know, it's what we experienced. Like these bucks were just like.
00:09:26
Speaker
I want to have sex! I to to figured the wind would be like a third sense to them. Like it's not as big of a deal as eyesight. So I wanted to get up high to sneak over the edge where they can't see you. And they're looking down the canyon and opening morning came.
00:10:01
Speaker
flat tire right off the freaking bat. Dude. Can I say too, so outside looking in, I actually said something and I feel bad now. Like Dylan was like, this is what's going to happen. We're going to drive in. I'm going to hike to this ridge. I'm going to lay down. It is going to come like I'm going to shoot this buck. And it was like, man, his expectations are this is how it's going to go down. And he didn't even sleep. He didn't sleep for that before. This is, this is, I mean, we're getting to the side. This is a booty crocodile.
00:10:32
Speaker
This is once in a lifetime. For even somebody here. It's once in a lifetime buck. It's pretty awesome. But yeah, so we leave the tent and we're like all excited. We're in Dillon's Orange Trucks. It's Hunter's Orange, you know, get shot. Driving down the road. And all of a sudden it's like, ding, ding, ding. And the air's going.
00:10:52
Speaker
40, 30, 20. I mean, just like big hole, big hole. We luckily had a second truck that was coming with us and there's six of us. We didn't have tools or nothing. Once we were short, couldn't get the wheel off because I'm an idiot and I don't have tools in my truck. It's typical me. Well, he has the tools, but they're not for the custom. He has the custom. Yeah, custom fuel, assault. If you have fuel assaults, better get the freaking special little key for this. So we couldn't get it off. So we had already dropped the spare or just like screw it.
00:11:20
Speaker
All six of us into this rental truck, Dylan gets it on the wheel and we're doing like eight. Yeah. So we go flying down the road and again, I'm hoping, okay. I hope I send it to the right people and they're not too many people. People didn't know about this book because I was all worried. The only thing they could throw this whole thing off is if somebody else was in here. So we get to the spot and nobody's there. Okay, cool. That's good. But he is visible, but that's the thing. Cause he is visible. from Very visible from the road. yeah you very visible You could see him in in certain angles. You definitely could see him. They're definitely where he lays in the afternoon. You wouldn't see him.
00:11:51
Speaker
But if you're there in the morning, they're already dead. We'll get into it in a minute, but like I actually told them, people probably know about this bug. Typically, when there's a big animal, there's a big elk or a big deer, people are trying to kill this animal. This is the animal we're going to go after if they know. So yeah, so we dropped you off. So we we didn't want to bring everyone into the spot because we want to blow it out, plus my kids with me and he's a psycho. He's just like always talking and spinning and doing stuff.
00:12:15
Speaker
Apparently, he calls in by doing that, or calls in and what by doing that, because I get into my story in a little bit. but He brought one in on a string. but So we dropped Dylan off, and we fade back. Dylan's got like a private mile hike, I would say. Yeah, this is down this big canyon before the big canyon. And we go back like two miles to sit on the road and watch, just watch Dylan. We can't see the end of it, and then we all we see is like Dylan hiking in to the spot. And we see them lay down, everyone's up there, and then we're just sitting.
00:12:43
Speaker
And like I should probably talk about, so we're sitting there, we get set up like they get, they're still, when as they're still hiking in, two trucks pull up next to us, look at us, because we're looking that way.
00:12:55
Speaker
and Just punch it and I'm like, holy crap These guys are after that buck like yes no this is no doubt No doubt this buck and they parked in the exact same spot now It should premise this buck is on private and public yep and Dylan has permission and you know, he's pushing together This is a very hard mission to get we found out yeah so so the sheriff was like, holy smokes you got permission from this guy I'm not gonna say his name but And so these guys are poaching, like I know they were going to poach this buck and I think they won. So they come in, they have the exact same plan as Dylan. So as Dylan's coming in, I'm watching people behind him come in the same trail, same down the same saddle up behind Dylan. And we don't, and we're just like, I'm actually texting Dylan, like, Hey dude, there's people coming right now. Like you better, we can't tell. we army on the but So at this point you're, yeah so that's what I'm seeing it play out. and know You're up there. Yeah. So we, we get up there and it's it's like, wow, because there's this little strip of public all the way over here and the reason why we went in where we did. I asked the landowner for permission for me. It's one of those things you don't want to bug the landowner too much where you're like hey can my film crew and can this guy and can this guy and can this guy come.
00:14:05
Speaker
You know, what you probably are like, yeah, it's a little much. You know, you just ask permission. He said, yes, you leave it alone. You just freaking go, right? So he knows you're there. But I did see there's this little section of public that you could cross down the big ravine and up on top. And that was kind of another reason why we went up top instead of going up at the bottom. You know, we went up up the ravine is like, okay, cool. We can shoot from public and then kill him. And if he's down there on private, I'll just drag him to public. We can get our pictures and stuff and not bug the landowner and have respect for his property, of course. So,
00:14:32
Speaker
we went down and then sure enough we we see him like it kind of took probably what five minutes is all to find him but numbering yeah i mean It seemed longer than what it really was, but it really wasn't that long. It was literally playing out exactly. It's the strangest thing, man. Like I said, is like it's almost like God's like, this is how it's going to happen. It's like, it happened. It's weird, dude. But anyway, like you look to the left, slightly off the left. It's like when you go to sleep, you know like envisioning like a cool moment of how you wish it would play off and or play out. And it it just it happened that way. You look to the to the left, tell the film crew. So he had Jake with me.
00:15:05
Speaker
and Richard and Richard came along to Richard Mesmer just a buddy of mine tagging along for the hunt told him to get on the spotter so he gets on the spotter behind me we're trying to figure out where he's at okay he's right here where I don't see him he's right here no he's right there and I don't see him okay he's right here you know well it's his it's first yeah first light within 10 minutes of light like shooting light so it's everything's gray and I mean even though they're white they still blend in that that that time of day So anyway, we ended up getting it all like, okay, there he is. He gets on video. I might kind of get in position. I got these bushes in the way. I'm like, ah, I'll take my time. You know, we got all day. You know, that's what I'm thinking in my head, you know? And I'm thinking, dude, you better hurry up because this guy's coming to poach this buck. I had no idea. behind you Like I'd sneak down the hill, kind of like scurry down. And what's funny is like going back to the sense thing, that buck, as soon as we seen him, he's looking right up at us. He, as soon as we seen him, he's looking at us.
00:15:59
Speaker
or our direction anyway i don't know if he truly saw us or not but i'm almost wondering if our wind because our wind was going straight to him like i knew it was gonna when it was going straight to him i'm wondering if he smelled us and was like oh there's something up there i'm just gonna kind of look out he was not scared though again sex sex sex sex baby baby baby you know he's got one thing on his mind and there's four does right there so he had no idea he had like no care in the world we're out there and the does didn't see us so or smells or anything so sneak up i'm like okay he's broadside is down there and he is on private he's like 150 yards on a private i'll shoot him and so i'm like getting ready how far is he uh i think it's 380 yards some 360 360 so you're shooting what you're shooting i'm shooting a 6.5 prc with a 142 uh 123 LDAX And for us, he's a PH. Yeah. Yeah. Um, Christiansen originally was why I was shooting. Yeah. So anyway, yeah, the dead man's gun. We talked about that. So anyway, um, we're sitting there looking over the hill and, um, ready to go, like just breathing. And of course, like freaking.
00:17:07
Speaker
You know, I'm trying to calm myself down. And it in my perspective, it looked like he was getting ready to shoot at any moment. And I'm over there like scrambling to get the camera like, I gotta get on this thing. Yeah, he's not saying a word. He's so focused on trying to just get calm down. And I'm like, I gotta get on this thing. You're good. You're on. You got all your views on it from the very beginning. Yeah, this film is going to be sweet. You're I love film. Greatest animal film you'll ever see. Hands down. I've seen them all on YouTube because I'm a prom horn for that. This is going to be the best, I promise. Anyway, so getting freaked out, I got this vinyl harness on me and I'm laying down on my vinyl harness and I got my crosshairs. I'm settling down and I've got my dials sitting there. My heartbeat. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. But it's just a distance where it's like, it's right on him. And then when I'm bouncing, the top of the crosshair is coming like right at the top of his back. We know when you pulled the trigger.
00:18:01
Speaker
Yeah. so boom I'm like, okay, got to time it right or something. You know, i cause i I can't slow my heart rate down. You know, it's freaking freaking out. So anyway, um, sit there and slowly squeeze the trigger. Just how I thought. Oh man. He just.
00:18:16
Speaker
boom dropped Just freaking full of them and I knew as soon as it hit him looked up. You see a white button. He's down Dude, like the wave of emotion comes over me. We're like stoked. I pull up my phone Drew's like there's people behind you What we turn around there right there three guys you're set up like to shoot it was like oh my gosh that if it happened to any other if we would stop to change the tire if we would have hesitated to just take your time. If I would have said, I want to wait till my heart rate, like there's so many different things. It could have come closer. Yeah. Anything. Because we're all focused. Like, yeah, looking down, looking straight down the mountain that the ravine they were right behind us. And from our perspective, we're two miles away. We're using the BTX and the spot we're watching. And like, they're not jumping around like you would think they wouldn't be shopping for a buck. Like, don't say something happens. His hands like, like, like, like out. What just happened? What just happened? And I'm thinking like,
00:19:12
Speaker
He missed. Yeah. He missed. You can't hear it. The one thing about Wyoming, it's so open. And so when you cannot hear, even like she my broken rifle, you could hear it, like, theyre been without like the gun. And we didn't know what happened. And we're just like, dude, like they're coming, like, you know, and then then we get the text, like, when we saw him start, when they started hugging, um, now we're like, oh, he killed the buck. He killed the buck. And he texted the other buck.
00:19:38
Speaker
Yeah. So anyway, we look, we turn around and looking and then you really realize this at the moment or they're, these guys were sitting there on private. They're on disguise. Yeah. Put that together afterwards. Yeah. We put it together because they came over and we were just like, Oh, there's people right here. And then we start, Oh my gosh, they were going to shoot that. Oh my gosh. I can't believe this. Somebody else knew about that. You know, all these stocks are like, this could have went way differently, like completely differently. Oh my gosh. So.
00:19:59
Speaker
They come over and then Jake and Richard are probably like, yeah, whatever. We would have got them or whatever. And I'm sitting here like freaking out. No, this is how it was going to happen. but Yeah, dude. But they come around and start talking to them. And sure enough, they were watching that buck. They'd been watching him since last year. They lived up in Jackson, came down and took a look at everything and we're like, hey, can we come down and take a look at the box? Like sure, he's on private, so just let me drag him to public and I'll let you take a look. Again, we didn't really realize where they were at until I started looking at it later. I'm like, yeah, they're definitely on private. So we hobbled down the hill, texted them, they start flying over.
00:20:36
Speaker
to get down the hill and come over to where we were. and It was not an easy hike. No. For an animal, that's a thing. like It was not an easy hike. It was like down a... It's like a canyon. It's a canyon, up a canyon, like where if you tripped, you would have been rolling down this canyon, type canyon. Like it was a good... It wasn't the steepest thing I've ever been on, but it was like, wow, it's cheaper than I thought it was gonna be. Especially when you need get to the top. Especially when you're bringing a 10-year-old up there. Yeah. Poor guy.
00:21:00
Speaker
Then we got down there, like I ran over there to private, grabbed him, started dragging him. Luckily he's got these big ol' hay hooks, like I can just grab him and and yank him and bring him them over him anyway. So I like got halfway, I'm like toasted, like, oh my gosh. that My legs were jello by the time we got him to public. It was just wild, man, just wild. But got him there, everyone kind of admired him, took some pictures. And dude, there's the antelope that I've been I've been putting in the hours and time for, I mean it's... It boiled down to 20 minute hunt. Yeah. Opening day. it But it was
Reflecting on Hunt Preparation and Success
00:21:36
Speaker
the 20 minute hunt though. It was the 100 hour hunt the equal that you... That's what'm wanted in before to get it done and doesn't feel and that's what's hard to portray on times of video like what that You did all that work and that's where you're scouting in June, July, August, all that preparation and knowing and glassing for hours, every you know, going out in the mornings and stuff. You kind of knew exactly where to go and you envisioned how it was going to happen because you probably stared at that hill 30 times. Yeah, all kinds of stuff. no Being like, well, that's exactly where I got to get to.
00:22:13
Speaker
you know What's crazy is that those people, they played it up and we weren't going to poach and we were going to all the way to the public. There was a sheriff watching us all the time. We didn't even know that. We met the sheriff at like four o'clock after noon. He's like, oh yeah, we watched you, we figured you had permission. I was like, I wonder how you got permission on that property that's ruining permission. We're like, dude, those guys were going to poach that buck. 100%.
00:22:34
Speaker
and Yeah, it just worked out. It just worked out because like I said, if we were to change that tire, and we would, they would have lost it. We'd have got there. There'd been two trucks. There'd have been a whole different story. Yeah. Different dynamic. Totally everything. It would have been us calling the landlord to tell him they pushed the buck. It was 100%. We would have called. We'd have been like, Hey dude, they pushed the spot. Yeah. That's, it's sad because that could have been the way it played out. It's not, you know, it's not God willing. It wasn't, it it happened the way we were hoping it would. And it, you know, came together.
00:23:03
Speaker
But what, what the, I mean, you already, you taped them out and just for people listening, you know, so you put perspective that he was 80. Yeah. So I, I'm going to get a probably officially score today actually, but I think he's going to be anywhere from 82 to 84 inches.
00:23:17
Speaker
So if people don't know Antelope, that is equivalent to what it would you say? I think we were trying to talk here like if we were going to crack it. $3.70, $3.70 bull. Yeah, $3.70 bull. Plus, because I think $3.75 is the boon. $1.95 buck. Yeah. Almost a 200 inch meal weight, almost a 3.8 bull. We taped them at 84 and 3.8s last night. Yeah. And we weren't giving them much.
00:23:41
Speaker
No. And that's, that's a huge. So I think he's going to run and that, cause be honestly, they're going to be a lot more strict. It's probably going to run the high 83s, my opinion. Yeah. Somewhere at 82 to 83. Just give him some room there, you know, somewhere. I guess 85 and a quarter. So I lost. I think someone else, we all were guessing under this box. movies like eight What did I say? 83 and five days. Yeah. It's funny because like we had all these different guesses and the thing about it is like, I don't care how good of a,
00:24:08
Speaker
You know, hell if I were you are, you can never truly feel drudge an antelope like to a T. They're just... well You're looking at them. They're never like right there. They're five, six, seven hundred yards long ways away. This is my first time ever hunting them.
00:24:23
Speaker
And like the crazy thing is like, I shot a 75 inch buck or 70, don't hear 75 inch buck. The difference with 75 inch buck and 83 inch buck is astronomical, which is crazy. Yeah. But if you know, seven inches, you know what I mean? Like, and I look at some of the bucks we'll bring it in and like, I probably shot one of the bigger bucks shot yesterday, like in the butcher.
00:24:43
Speaker
Oh yeah. And it's, it's great, but it's only like percentages. Like, but you think it's an 82 is booner. So you're talking 82 to 75 is an extra 20% or 15%. You know what I mean? So that's a lot of mass and size to get there, you know, and it's got everything, man. It's got big old cutters, like six and a half inch cutters, mask. You can't put your hands around the basis, literally.
00:25:05
Speaker
I mean, it's got her thing, man. It has some cheaters in there. She can't count. and One of them broke off. But but that's a why that you know that's why you know you as a resident, Wyoming, I mean, animal hunting is a Wyoming thing. And that's like you said, people take it for granted. I think it should be a Wyoming thing that people just do and they don't know what. They just go out and shoot an animal. That's what's sad. Oh, hey, yeah, there's an animal. Cool, yeah, we got our animal. Good for you. There's 4 million of them. So go pick through them. You know how hard that is? I i was telling Drew right before the hunt.
00:25:35
Speaker
it is going to be incredibly hard for someone who's never killed a Nalo to just be patient and wait and wait because through them all. Yeah. That's why you all my scouting before season because you can't shoot them. You go through and you're okay. Yeah, there's a good one, but I can't shoot cause it's not a season anyway. So you just go through and you scout. That's how you're able to get a big one. Cause if you were to actually like, we're in the scenario with Grace right now, we didn't find a big buck. I guarantee you she's going to get a trigger finger here soon where she's like wanting to shoot. Like I want to shoot something, but,
00:26:03
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the hard part with Antelope is being picky and waiting and waiting and waiting because you're going to see hundreds of bucks that are all 75 and below or even not even 75 like just low 70s and below. I think most bucks you're seeing are probably like sixty five to seventy in that unit like My buck was noticeably bigger than the other bucks you were looking at. yeah I wanted to wait longer, but then when Dylan was like, yeah, you probably should shoot that buck. And it would just worked out. We'll get into my story. here yeah we just get into it i mean we with so We basically packed his antelope, we cut it up, took a bunch of pictures, enjoyed it, enjoyed it um packed it out, and that was it. It got to the truck.
00:26:42
Speaker
Well, all six of us. All six of us back to the same truck. and just full i mean It was like a yard sale, you guys. like It's like Dylan's truck's full of crap. There was just stuff everywhere. We were missing half our stuff. All we needed was a rifle, and I'll take some of what we really needed. I'm missing a tripod. Yeah, I'm hiding all the tripods in my basement. Nobody even knows. Yeah. So then, um yeah, man. So we jumped in the truck, and we just started driving.
00:27:05
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and there that
00:27:10
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We probably went to the end of that canyon that we were in. I mean, literally, probably maybe a- Three quarters of a mile. Three quarters of a mile. Maybe a mile. I don't know. And we're just looking at bucks, bucks, bucks, bucks, bucks, bucks. And it's just awesome. But none of them were like, my thing was like, I wanted it to be a little weird.
00:27:29
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And I wanted it to be a good representation of the speech and I didn't want you to tinker. I didn't, I knew I wasn't gonna shoot a booner. Like, I mean, I would shoot a booner if it came about, but I wasn't, I was just like, you know, he gave me like a mid seventies buck with some weird stuff going on. You know, I liked the big hooks, like the heart shaped hooks on top. The heart. Yeah. The heart. I liked the heart. Like we see some of that stuff, like, you know, I might get excited. And, um, we look off to our right and we're looking at some box and envelope all of a sudden. And one of the guys like, dude,
00:27:55
Speaker
Look at this buck petted and look over at my buck's pet and you just see a lot of mass and you see like that big heart shape on him. and And I'm like, yeah, but I don't wanna shoot him. We just got done with Dylan. I was like, I don't wanna shoot another buck. Let's just keep looking. And then we're like, okay, this is when we made the mistake. Not the mistake, we killed the buck. But we get out, we're like, let's look at him. And we're looking at him. And I'm like, no, what's up, dude? And then Dylan's like, dude, we probably should have killed that buck. I'm like, well, let's go get closer. Then once we got closer, we knew it was gonna happen, right? So this buck at this point is like $4.95 from the road.
00:28:31
Speaker
But, um, we had to make a stock on, which is kind of cool. Probably made a 400, or we had to go, it was like, they were moving. So we ended up making probably 400 stock to get over to where they moved to. Cause they were moving like towards the east on this ridge and we had my kid with me and I'm going to kind of tell him to get behind me. My kid's like just spinning in circles. Like I'm like, you need to be behind me. Like one thing, like when you're st stocking animals, you want to use terrain, right? You want to be able to try and like, especially in training like this, there's, you there's going to be like little breaks you can get into. So we're getting this little break or like,
00:28:59
Speaker
We get low enough, you can't really see us, you don't have to see our hats. Just look like a one big blob. You won't have to go behind us, it's like one big cow, right? Like I always say, we're starting to think one cow, not like four. And then you get the calf, Simon, who's out here. Yeah, and Simon's like on the side, just like, yeah, wait, wait, wait. He's like, go talk here. He's like, oh, man, walk, he'll walk, he'll walk. I was like, ah, shut up. It was fun, I wish I had one of the pottery now.
Host's Ethical Antelope Hunt Experience
00:29:21
Speaker
He's having the time of his life. He was just eating all the candy in the world, getting soda, chicken's a monster out of my monsters. I mean, just like, Tom, this is the perfect time for a kid like Simon. He really, really hoped, yeah, your wife's not listening to this, like, eating candy, what? No, I mean. Well, it gets a bit by the bug, though, I think. Oh, yeah, he's just hooked. I just got him his first ride. Well, he has a bunch of rides. Let's get him a crew more this week. We'll get him up here in a couple of years. Could do this. So, anyways, making the stock.
00:29:50
Speaker
And then we start crawling up and we get to a point and we look over it and this pocket is like 500 yards maybe and he's chasing these does. And I'm like, I don't want to shoot 500 yards. I'm shooting that, that Woodstock 30 out six this year. It's super accurate. I mean, I know for a fact that I can make that shot with that gun.
00:30:08
Speaker
But like my whole thing this year is I want to hang on the floor. It's like I'm trying to tell people like, you should get under 400 yards and you can kill the animal. Do your best to do it. It's like the non-ethics thing, but it's like, even though the weapons can do it, if you don't do that, shoot the the long range all the time. It's not really.
00:30:25
Speaker
It's hard to justify doing that. Yeah, and I shoot, I mean, I was at the range six days last week. I shoot the guns a lot, but it's like, I like the idea of getting closer. I like the idea of being able to crawl. So I'm like, you know, let's crawl. So now I'm dolly crawling. And little by little, my knowledge, as I'm dolly crawling, Simon is on his feet walking behind me. I don't know this, but so we're crawling up and, um, and then as we're getting up, I finally get up there and now we're like,
00:30:50
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ah probably four thirds or something. I don't know. Another buck comes in i because you're on that ridge in front of us on the right. Another smaller buck comes in a good buck, probably low seventies and runs my buck off. Like, I mean, way off, like runs him down like on eight hundred yards yeah they over ridge and like he's out of our life. And I'm like, you know what? Like,
00:31:10
Speaker
We're just laying here. like um'm fine I got all the time in the world. I got the new Tricer bipod, which is phenomenal, you guys. like These guys are here. Bipod? Oh, yeah. Oh, dude. I need one. It's sick. And we're making some changes to it. so like i'm'm kind I'm sure I'll picture it, but we're going to make some changes to make it even better. it's Dude, this bipod came in clutch. We're talking about the next level, dude. So we're like, we're like, we have all the way splayed out wide, on the gun. I'm just laying there, all of a sudden the buck comes back. He's like, and he's way over, like over 500 yards away. And I'm like, I'm not taking the shot. Let's watch him. He's gonna come in. Well, that's when we noticed there was a doe that was 40 yards away. Dude, 40 yards away. Yeah, we did not see until she must have been bedded and stood up.
00:31:52
Speaker
Yeah. So we got, I think it turns out there's like two or three doughs. I think it was two, there's two doughs, two doughs, one dough right there and then one, like two outer yards. And they're both there looking at us and we're laying there. And he's coming, like he gets closer, he's like 430. And I'm like, this whole time I'm like, Dylan, throw me numbers. I'm not gonna shoot him, he's gonna wait. Let's just take our time, it's all on film. Plus I don't wanna miss on film with everything too. I wanna make sure I'm like, I give you a good shot. pressure off Good ethical, we have some wind, not a ton of wind. We have some wind going, probably like eight miles per hour. Yeah, he's like, what's my wind? What's my wind? Like just right on him. Right on him. So I know i just thought, you know. Which is rare for Wyoming. Yeah.
00:32:26
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Oh, dude, it was ripping today. Yeah, it was blowing at us. So I mean, if it was left or right, and we're past 500 yards, we'd kind of start accounting for weight a little bit. But in this scenario, we didn't need to do anything like that. So he did 4.30. At one point, Dolan's like, you're going to need to shoot him. He's not coming in close. So I'm like, man, I'm not backing him. That's what happened. He said it. And I was like, no, man, I think we're going to be closer. I think he's going to come in across the playlist. I don't think he's going to go after this big group of does. So he comes to 4. He comes to 390. And all of a sudden, he just looks over at the doe right in front of us.
00:32:56
Speaker
and just takes off. I mean like at the doe it's 40 hours and just takes off towards us and it's like doing 330, 320. I'm just dialing backwards, I'm just dialing backwards, oh my god, oh my god, he's zeroed out and he's coming, he's at kid what This buck is spry right now. He's just like horny and like all like I don't want to give this buck a chance to take off again because He's just like running he's all over the place. And so he's a 200 and he's Hard quartering to I don't want to show very hardcore. I don't take a shoulder out. I put it right behind your shoulder He's actually still stepping. I take a shot and just put it right behind the shoulder. I mean boom and
00:33:40
Speaker
You hear that flap, I mean like you know we hit him like, I like nailed him. Bullet it goes all the way through him, but then the buck takes off and goes like probably 75 yards over this ridge with the does out of sight and we're like, I hit him, right? It's like those things where like, even though you know for a fact, like I know Rick, I don't miss that shot.
00:33:58
Speaker
I know I don't miss a shot. Oh, I should say too. So my bipod was all sprawled out, but we got closer. Now the bushes are away. I just put the bipod up and just turn the legs in a little bit. And I got above the weeds and it was perfect. Like three seconds, like in the, in the crunch time when it's half, he's a 400. And by the time you got to 200, it was on a sprint. You're already set back up. I was set back up in like, it was that bipod was so money. Like I use a bunch of bipods. I know like it's mine, but I'm like, dude,
00:34:24
Speaker
This biopod, we're going to sell like 10,000 of those next year. It is that it's red. It's a red. It's worth 12 ounces. It's it's just it's the real deal. It's everything. I want to make a biopod for five years now. And it's like, oh, I got it. It's close. We're gonna get it. Um,
00:34:41
Speaker
be the fish line by the end of the year. So anyways just hammer him end to end and I'm like he's gonna die he has to be dead takes off we're sitting there and of course the freaking game warden pulls up and what it's like oh no dude the whole time he runs and the first thing I goes oh yeah he's on private yeah but luckily he runs onto the private that Dylan has permission on yeah because we're right beside we're yeah just shot your life was to mu so it's like so we We were on the border and we knew we don't have permission. So it wasn't like we, you know, we knew what was going on. And we we were not on pregnant. We shot. We stayed on public the whole time. keep on I don't have permission to hide that property. So I'm hunting on this, but I know Dylan has permission to get the dog.
00:35:21
Speaker
if we like go get yeah basically so I'm like there's the warden I'm like you know what let's just walk back and talk to the warden before you anyway they were not gonna like there's nothing suspicious about like nothing more suspicious than not coming back to the truck right yeah at this point I think the warden has watched this whole thing he did not he did not know that we shot this buck so we get back to the truck we're talking and I give him my tag my license science talking to him the sheriff called him Captain Blondbeard super cool guy well turns out I am coaching because I don't have a
00:35:52
Speaker
Conservation stamp or a hunting license. No, I have I had the hunting license all the tag everything my partner's the conservation him I didn't have he was super cool. It's like a $15 conservation stamp. He's like dude just go buy it right now Oh and show me so I bought it right there. Like I showed him I'm like dude, I thought like literally and brought every every there was nothing else you could You super cool to shout out to Yeah, kept keptlon beard which is crazy. Just want to point this out. A conservation stamp is like next to hunting license as far as how important it is when you're in Wyoming. It's what they consider it to be. I can name several people off the top of my head who are not so lucky and they're like, oh, okay, here you go. Here's your fine.
00:36:35
Speaker
So keep in mind, I thought he knew I shot the buck, so I do all this stuff and I'm like, I gotta get my buck out of the way. You already shot it? He was cool. He was really good about it. like i super cool One thing you should know when you guys talk to a warden is like, honesty is key. like i'm not I am never trying to do something wrong. and there's an approach like i That's what I'm telling you on the podcast right now. like I messed up, I didn't know I did, but I wouldn't have bought an access permit. I got to buy everything I need to buy if it's not, and I guess I didn't have this one thing I put fast. Now I know going forward, right? It's just so hard with all these different states. There's so many rules, and so many different states. Yeah, it's ever-changing. Ever-changing. All those when you purchase something, it always goes to a little pop-up. Just read it, because those pop-ups are new information that might be coming out.
00:37:22
Speaker
Yep, so whatever, I bought my license and I was not coaching anymore. Oh, the another thing is your hunter safety card, so for people who don't know, I recommend to just bring a laminated put cape on it or something, but at your hunter safety card or however in your state. Some states yeah some states you have to have it. but they say yeah you do and it's In Montana where I'm at, you have to have it on you while you're hunting. really So that's why I have mine in my chest harness is because you have to have that while you're hunting in the field to be able to to represent it.
00:37:55
Speaker
Yeah so I had to show him proof of which is proof of hunter safety which is kind of weird to shoot out on the site. It's ironic because like when you apply for a tag the first thing they ask you for is your hunter safety. Yeah so that's why I had to pull mine up off the internet and show how my hair does. He's like a screenshot show me it. That was fine but super cool dude and then he left with my tag.
00:38:14
Speaker
He came back, luckily he came back. And then he gave you a ticket. No, I got you. You don't have your license and you just shot him. No, you don't have no tag. No, he came back in the tag. Super cool guy. So shout out to the, I hate calling him Captain Blombeer, but the sheriff was calling him that. oh up the she Super I mean every ah leo every leo we talked to is this really fun out here. Just having a good time Again, if you're honest, I'm gonna worry about yeah, they they're there to protect wildlife like that. Yeah and result, you know So and as long as you're doing your anything you're supposed to be doing it yeah you're this shoot heavens Yeah, like I said, that's where I walk back others as well. I got this time before we go do this There's a walking out to us Right. It's ah it's freaking like 80 degrees. should Keep that in mind. It's hot out. I don't want this guy wanting to walk across this field in his red shirt. yeah Oh, no conservation stamp. Definitely a ticket. Definitely take a ticket. You saw me over there. You didn't see my trunk. So anyways, um, so now we get everyone together.
00:39:05
Speaker
walk back. Oh, back up real fast. What we did is I did text the landowner just to make sure we could go out there and he did text me right back. He's like, yeah, thank you for asking. You're good to go. Cool. Yeah. And this really is like just double, triple, just Texas got to make sure we're getting, like I, you just, the last thing I want to do, especially your permissions guys is like,
00:39:21
Speaker
go in, abuse it. You want to abuse your permissions. If you want to make sure it's like, hey man, this buck. We knew he was going to be cool with it. was yeah I mean, you shot him in public, you ran there. I already had permission. It was not a big deal. but We're talking 20 yards under public. yeah under like It was like... There are invisible lines out there in BLM country. it's just i mean And that's the thing, though. If the game word really saw, and you ran in private, I wouldn't have really drug it out. Not a big deal at the bottom of the line. If we got down to the bottom of it, we would have been fine because we would have called and i'd had permission. but if he would've called the landowner and the landowner goes, oh, Dylan's taking so and so and so and so and so and so and so in there and like he didn't ask me fine but next time i go to ask for permission you'd be like yeah nope to three people i gave you permission you know so it was like one of those things you just do your deal jeligence and
00:40:10
Speaker
Call it a day. Alright, so now we walk up and that buck literally died like just out of the U of S. He probably went 75 yards dead right there. We knew he was dead because the doves were all looking back at him like, boy come on buddy, come on. And dead right there, man. Well, that that's what, so the guys behind us, they were at the truck, you know, our buddies jetting them. They were like, we seen it, a buck run over the hill and then another buck come.
00:40:35
Speaker
out of the hill, where they're like and it was a lot smaller. It was that little guy that we seen. We even got a few, we were like, was that? No way, that's him. You sort of start questioning yourself, dude, when you do it. You sort of start like, did I, what happened? And you're just like, I know for a fact where I hit the buck, hey, Zachara was aiming. I didn't want to ruin the meet. It went end to end. Well, that's what's cool about my job. I get that. I just quickly watched it and I'm like, yeah, you hit him. Oh yeah. Yeah. We watched it and it was like, oh, and dude, the footage you guys in this buck, like I'm running these 151 hammer hunters, the copper bullets, and I'm running my 30 out of six.
00:41:08
Speaker
factory rifle it's dropped in dimes it's like you know five-eighths MOA and it's uh it's they're going 31 60 so it hit that buckle like 3,000 feet per second I think it's one hundred feet per second that range and that big 30 cal bullet dude it like it blows his body up like a basketball it hits him it's like it like herbag more in the best yeah that thing was wild It was wild. So we get over to my buck and we'll talk about what the insides look like. it that That bullet literally destroyed lungs and there were no guts left. It looked like someone took a ah mixer. When I got it, i got it everything just there was no like knowledge when intestine there was no intestines left. It was just gone. dude
00:41:52
Speaker
That pile right by the way. It's surprising on how far he ran after seeing that. He was dead on his feet in his Moran. If I was shot in the shoulder, he would have dropped right there. But I didn't want to shoot him in the shoulder. I didn't want to ruin him like me. I'm like, hindsight might have been better because I don't know. The meat's fine. Yeah, it is great. I could have waited for him at the same time. He was so blow it and have him just take off on me. And like, they didn't have to take a running shot away from us. Like, it was just like, nah, you know what, just frigging, he's there. Boom. Done. And it made for some rat. We have him coming all the way in, slow motion, just pounding him, running off. I'm glad I hit the court when I did. Yeah. Cause it was so quick. Cause it happened. Yeah. I mean, it happened so quick. Yeah. It made me look like I really knew what I was doing. It was cool. It was just me being lucky. They came in and killed him. Um,
00:42:46
Speaker
go over to Everybody go to go over there and check them out. we We're able to carry them out whole to the truck. put them on the tailgate, on the rental truck tailgate, and then got them on the tailgate right there. It was nasty. It wasn't even gutted. It was like you popped a water balloon. Yeah. Like normally when you gut an animal, like, you know, the, the, the belly's bulging and you're like, you don't know about cutting guts. It was so deflated that it was like, what's going on here? I couldn't even get like, normally there's pressure that needs your knife. I had to put my hands in there. Like I'm hoping it was like, what the heck? It was, it was unreal. Like I don't want to share the pictures. Dude. Like DM, if you want to see the pictures, DM me, I'll send you a picture of what the guts look like. But there was like the nastiest, It looked like almost like a slushie. Like a smoothie or something. Like all seeded up like strawberry slushie or something. Yeah, those hammers they do is you get the whole core all the way through and it breaks three petals off. So they're just super lethal and they don't leave any fragments. I really like them. I killed probably, I don't know, 30 animals with them now. I made a ton of animals with them. Great bullets. And they're just so easy to load. I mean, you can
00:43:45
Speaker
load a group. Literally, I was loading pressure. You hand load a lot of your stuff. Handload all those, yeah. You can't buy those. So I hand loaded pressure with those and dropped back in the grain. See, to me, that's... I don't know. I think that's really cool, the hand loading stuff. My family's done it forever, but I never really loaned.
00:44:02
Speaker
That's something I want to get into, but it's just kind of another aspect of the font. It's like concerts in your own game. Yeah. and It's another ass, you know, which we didn't do it. We didn't do it. But yeah it's, and it was one of those things you gotta take care of it like right away. It was hot. Yeah. We had the luxury to I mean, if you can do it and take it to the processor. Yeah, it is. There's something said about putting work in, putting public land, loading your own bullets, killing animals to make you loaded. Taking your own animals to the processor. We drove it up to the processor ourselves. It's pretty cool, but I'm actually going to process it in one day for me and be done. Dude. I was going to bring it home and just keep on it and throw it into my kill bag. I'm bringing those kill bags home.
00:44:42
Speaker
36 inch kill bag like shot kill bags by some kill bags. They're phenomenal. It's seem like my second flight this year where I'm using these things I know I gotta get some after you showed me knows I got it's there's so legit for the segment it weighs nothing I rolled up into my care I put it in my in my check bag coming up rolled up and then I When I go back, I'll just throw meat in it. Have meat in it? It's 350 pounds and done. Well, it's just like me. like it So I'm from the East Coast and I have all that meat at my uncle's place you know in Montana. I got to take it all home, but i got I'm going to hunt in between.
00:45:14
Speaker
So if I would have those kill bags now, I'd be able to take that frozen meat, put it in it, keep it frozen, like you said, for days on end. And it's not the size of cooler, you know, like we're coolers if there's a lot of dry space that you're not using because it's hard sided, the soft side of it. I think after seeing them, like it's something to save some space on my travel. And then on the way home, it's like, I got my meat, I'm done, I can go home.
00:45:39
Speaker
And they're actually making, I've been like, they take my feedback, which is awesome. It's pretty cool. Like and my buddy, full disclosure, my buddy owns kill bags, tries to create a director. Totally biased. So so like all on the bag is actually one of my hunting spots. But no, I think we've been wearing kill bags forever and proficient, right? So but I've always been like a partner of using them for hunting and it doesn't catch on. So now it's really taking on the hunting. He's working a lot of traction hunting. He's probably like 25% of the sales. I think it'll go up. But like when I flew to Hawaii,
00:46:05
Speaker
you're able to pull your meat in there, get 200 pounds, and you can push all the air out. So that way, the big thing is the cooler is you get to film with ice completely, or you know there's no air. So you put the ice in there, push all the air out, and you're not going to have air kills ice. Yeah, not exactly. So if you have a big Yeti, you're stuck filling that thing up with ice, and with the bag, you can push all the air out. It's pretty nice. And that's like, I mean, not like again, me from the East Coast. but Everybody's always trying to come up with, how can I drive across country and then get my stuff back?
00:46:35
Speaker
I mean, like you're saying, these kill bags, it's going to see, I think it's going to, you're going to start seeing them a lot more, a lot more people utilize them in the kindest way possible. Most times you don't kill any anything. So it's nice not having a giant corner in your truck too. It's just a rolled up bag in the back of my, it's in my car all the time running season there. So right now I have i around the 60 and they're 55. They're making like a 45. The problem is the 60 is like, you could put 300 pounds. I put an out and a half into one last year. Wow.
00:46:59
Speaker
But you could, they're almost too big for flying because you can't get, you just, you go over a hundred pound limit, you need a hundred pound limit with, with me going back. So they're making like a 45. It's like 12 inches wide. It's going to be like the perfect flying bag. I'm real excited for that one. It's a little more squared, squared than, than, you know, I think it's like 12 by 12. It gets like 130 quarts or something like that and 90 quarts. It's going to be sweet. So that's coming out. Oh, you can definitely put two. I have a 36. It's like a perfect bag bag for an antelope, probably a mule deer. If you cut it up.
00:47:29
Speaker
You'd have to debone though. So yeah, that's it, man. Uh, antelope hunting, man. That was freaking fun. Dude, to top it off, cherry on top, and they'll drive it back to the tent. The rental car. The rental truck. Yeah, man. Hole in the freaking tire. Same side. Same side. Same everything. It's like... Flat tire on that one. Okay, who put something on the road here?
00:47:52
Speaker
yeah So there is definitely something on the road and I'm kind of scared to go back. So if you didn't fly a tire in Wyoming somewhere, you know we were hunting. Yeah. Yeah. But those two bucks that are sitting in front of us right now, I mean, they are, they are, you know, I've been fortunate and grew up in a taxidermy shop and they're great, great, great representations of us. It's a good hunt. Yeah. And to have it happen like that, I mean,
00:48:18
Speaker
It's, it's pretty cool. It's always awesome when someone's there to capture it. I think is the big thing, you know, cause then you can, you can rewatch it. You can get, you go, you sit here now, but like in the future, we're going to relive that moment over and over and over and over again, the rest of our lives. That's the coolest part. Yeah. Yeah. And my kids in the video, which is awesome. We got some phenomenal Jake, Jake, like if you're looking for like content, if you own a company, you know,
00:48:39
Speaker
Jake Blinda, dude, 10 out of 10, Jake. Dude, this guy is stuff, like, I acted like it was mine and I took credit for it and it's coming to post him this morning, but like, Jake really took him, so. I appreciate it, man. Dude, did you hire for services over here? Freaking... Jake's demanded. I like doing it, you know, it's like one of those things I love doing it and...
00:49:00
Speaker
I get to basically hunt with you guys, but just capture it. And that's where you know I like hunting, so I understand like when to move, when not to move. yeah Those are those small intangibles, I think, that make it a little more enjoyable for the hunter, because then you don't have to worry about it. if I know when I hunt with you, you're you're not thinking about, oh, is he going to spook this animal? like Yeah, and the real reason I knew that was because like last year, going to the elk hunt that we did together, once I seen you down there maneuvering around and stuff, on mike He knows what the freak he's doing, I'm not even worried about it. We brought Simon to scare the bucks. Yeah, we brought Simon. I think he might have brought that one. I think he might have brought that buck in. I don't know. He was over there, you know, looking glass smooth. He was finding the bucks. He did good, dude. Adam run was really sick says he uses off these but how can you just so good? Look at these dear look right here. He's finding bucks all dude, but so Encouraging. Oh my gosh. The first thing I've seen when he comes down doing I freaking knew you were gonna do it, dude
00:50:03
Speaker
I knew it and I'm like, I'm going to cry. Like that's the coolest thing ever. He's seriously the kindest kid in the world. Like every girl at church wants a date. My daughter. Yeah, your daughter, but she's three. three But cause he's so kind. Like never saw him he's just such a kind, like literally like the kindest kid, like the nicest kid, like so encouraging. So he's going to have a long and then, you know, you got to do it. It's a perfect time for that, you know? yellow fun In my opinion, it would be, it's a great,
00:50:30
Speaker
to bring your kids oh great way there cause you don't have to up you don't have to be quiet twenty four sound have to worry about how you how loud you're walking it's like a camarade yeah the wind it's all about hide and seek that's why it's so good cause you're like staying hidden you can teach your kids that but being upwind when you got a wind checker, when you got like all those other variables that are harder with deer. One thing I say about Wyoming is I didn't even need a wind checker because it's just going. which just great like You know exactly which way to way it's going. are there's coming Actually, and the other cool thing too with the Antelope is like if you wanted to and you're teaching your kids and you're out and just driving around, just go stock a buck. There's a freaking million of them out there. yeah Just not even if you're going to shoot it, just like, I'll see how close we can get.
00:51:14
Speaker
It won't get very close with an antelope, but at least gives you a good way to kind of train a little bit. They're visible. They're a visible thing. So to people that, you know, hunt deer a lot, you know, like you guys in California, you don't see a lot of animals all the time. No. Here is... Simon was like, Simon's like, there's deer by Walmart. We never see deer by Walmart in San Diego. Look at that deer doing. He never shuts up. He's awesome. He never ever shuts up.
00:51:43
Speaker
Dude, that's awesome though. Yeah, an Antelope, they like they can see you, but you can see them clear as day through the mirage. you'd see Like through the heat waves. I don't care what kind of binos or whatever you're running. The heat waves and there's a white butt moving around the hill. That's Antelope. Yep. Man, fun pod for everyone who said Dylan couldn't kill big things. We should talk about his booner freaking deer at some point too. Cause last month Dylan shot a booner deer. as we It was like a week ago. So Dylan Hyde,
00:52:12
Speaker
Dylan, Booner, Kurt, Hyde. You woke up. I don't like that name. You woke up with a Booner this morning. Two of them. yeah You woke up between Booners.
Dylan's Unexpected Deer Hunt Success
00:52:21
Speaker
I told him how to tell you. He's like, what do you mean? You're all looking at him like, seriously? Innocent mind over here. I'm like, I don't know. Hey, come shoot this the big buck I'm saying. Come shoot one of these big bucks. Dude, I can tell the story. You want me to tell the story? Yeah, let's end with this. So we built a holly antelope. Dylan literally did shoot of another better animal two weeks ago. So let's end with Dylan's deer story. We'll wrap it up. Okay. I'll make it as quick as possible. This is really hard to to describe real fast, but
00:52:53
Speaker
So Jake, backing up, like I said, at the very beginning of the podcast, is out there hunting west for elk. And he calls me at the beginning of the of the year, and i'm or the month. Oh my god, called i like the second day. timber yeah and I'm out here chasing deer on my side of the state. And he calls me, he's like, dude, there's some big deer over here. Like, you should probably consider coming over here. And I'm like, ah.
00:53:12
Speaker
be really cool but you know we'll see you know I'm chasing some cool deer over here well long story short kept kept saying it kept saying it sent me a couple videos and pictures on that all right why not you know I'll give it a shot so it drove all the way to the west side of the state met him there at the night we sat there and slept in the truck and and in his tuska and next morning we hiked into this basin and actually this is the funny part so this basin is like full of people okay oh yeah
00:53:40
Speaker
It's like, you know, I kind of really consider, I'd i'd consider going in this other spot because there's going to be people all over and I'm like, well, the nice part about there being peoples, we're going to see some, whether it be dead or alive, bulge wisdom. Either way, there's going to be people, you know, so we're, or there's going to be deer running around everywhere. So there's people too. So we hike into this section. It's only like two and a half miles deep.
00:54:01
Speaker
for high country, that's like nothing. It's right where I shot my bug. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Here's a spot that he he went in there and saying, yep. So anyway, we've gone to this little drainage and get in there opening morning. whichs like ah pretty good buck behind us. There's a buck. There's a buck. Yeah. Like people are whizzing bullets, of course. And you don't put deer running around. There's this buck running down the hill to us. And long story short, all these different things didn't work out. And it was like opening day. Oh yeah. Oh, that's why it's opening day. It's opening day. It's just like Orange Army. Yeah, it's it's crazy. Help, we're gone. Look at those people walking down the trail with their head down, bumping deer. They have no idea they're even doing anything. You did that.
00:54:39
Speaker
I did. We're going to get to it right now. That's how you killed this buck. Yeah, pretty much. Actually, yeah, I did do that. You're right. I didn't have my, I had my head down. He did. I know that's what mattered. So anyway, yeah. So we're hiking on our way out. Spoiler alert. Thanks Drew. We're walking down the trail back to the truck, you know,
00:54:57
Speaker
morning hunt's over. It's like 10, 30, 11 o'clock. Yeah, 10 o'clock. Yeah, somewhere around the trail. So we're walking back down the trail, like our heads down, like my heads down. Main trailhead. Main trailhead. Yeah. How many people use that? 10 people probably walked in front of us. Dude, at least. Yeah. At least. That's not even people before us or after us or people. Oh yeah. yeah Dude, heavily used trail. So I can back, and especially close to the truck, like we're 850 yards from the truck. If I'm going to head down, I'll just start here in this freaking jade over here. Big buck, big buck, big buck.
00:55:29
Speaker
What? I look up and I look back at Jet, his other videographer, I'm like, and Jake Jetson, fricking just don't face. Oh yeah. And I'm like looking over, I'm like, what? And I just see this deer, they're like 40 yards off the trail. He's got his head peered down through the trees. In the shadows. In the shadows. I can't really see a rack very well. And just pick up my bottles and I look and I'm like, okay, I can see he's got a frame, he's four points. I have no idea how big he is. And in this area, it's four point or less. I mean, this all happened in like 10 seconds. Four point or less? Or four point or more, sorry, four point or less.
00:55:59
Speaker
So I pull out my gun, and Jack went in, and I'm like, how big is he? And Jake's like, he's big, shoot him! And in my mind, I'm thinking like, okay, no offense, Jake, but you're from Pennsylvania, so what's a frickin' big mule there, you know? And I'm like, well, you know what, if Jake's sayin' it, whatever, we're by the track, boom, dropped him. Well, dropped him down, he's rollin' back, Jack another went in, boom, and 40 yards is like, whoa, what the heck just happened? You go from walkin' down the trail, dead pop, and you're like,
00:56:28
Speaker
Whoa! What the heck, man? Everybody will be able to watch this, because we're going to put another little thing together, so you'll be able to see all the nitty-gritty details. I've seen some of it, exactly how they're talking about it. So he must have been bumped by one of his other hunters. And I think he just happened to play there. Either that, or there's a meadow above him.
00:56:47
Speaker
that are above that trail right as close to the truck. I think it was overlooked possibly. And he just came down and laid down the trees too. Could have been. It's hard to say. I really have no idea what happened. It's the strangest thing. He was in the spot that you would never think that there'd be a deer there because you're almost back to the truck. The people hiking again, this is crazy. So anyways.
00:57:05
Speaker
Hiking down, shoot him, boom, dead buck. Okay, let's go up to him. And then the whole time I'm thinking, and I'm like even saying it out loud, gosh dang, I hope he's a good deer because I just, like, I feel like that's foolish of me to just shoot something I have no idea. You know, like, I have all this time I could put into this deer hunt and I just ended it just now. And I have no idea how, it could be more, yeah, opening more, it could be 120 inch deer and I just dropped him, you know. Turns out,
00:57:27
Speaker
walking up to him, he was the cheater buck that was in there and we're thinking possibly could have been the one that everyone was running after. yeah I also know people that have pictures of him now, which is kind of cool.
00:57:39
Speaker
giant f freaking huge buck like for right there just mind blowing I still don't understand mind blowing things happen for things happen for a reason why didn't play out earlier like it just dude God is so good man it's it's awesome but 190 inch miller dude right off the trail it's something that people have worked their entire lives for like in the mule deer side of things for something like that and they even see a deer of that calipers. And then shoot another one or 10 days later. Another over. Another over. Yeah, I was kidding with my buddies but I'm kind of serious like maybe I should just completely give up hunting in general because I have so much but yeah no it's such a good time I mean it's the hardest pack out of my life 800 yards. Yeah, both of these. Yeah, both of these, yeah.
00:58:26
Speaker
But yeah, no, it was a cool time, dude. That year, it was unreal. I don't even understand how it came together. There's still people that are like, I don't understand how this happened. Like I've gone, I know personally, there's people that go to the West side of the state, they do this and they hunt so much for something like this. And- Right place, right time. Dude. It happens. Some old guy shoots 200 spook every year in Colorado. Got to hunt. That old guy was me. It was 190, you know? Every year it happens. Always said that.
00:58:54
Speaker
It's mostly from the couch. That was
Social Media and Closing Remarks
00:58:56
Speaker
a good one. Jake, where can we find you? Uh, Instagram and YouTube actually. Pennsylvania. Yeah. So, um, Jake Belinda and The Void Hunt on Instagram and YouTube. Sweet. That one. Super infrastructure. Uh, you can find me in the mountains. Just kidding. Uh, probably in my house actually. No, uh, Fish Out Wild. I got YouTube and Instagram and TikTok. It was probably the three main things I used. So. Sweet. You ought to find me. Yeah.
00:59:24
Speaker
Until next time. Off to the next time, yeah. Going deep for Utah in like five days, going to kill a buck. I'm going to tear. I'm going to go use the restroom. Later, guys. See you again.
00:59:34
Speaker
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