BELOW ZERO - Colorado 3rd Season Mule Deer Hunt

going high is kind of a double edged sword, either you're going to be interested in

deer

or we'll be on a note, dear, if they have their food, if they have water, if heather covers and there will be no pressure money and those won't migrate down until they have to live up to my theory of going up right now, even in the third

season

in Colorado, the first week of November will pay dividends if you can get away from people and then

hunt

deer

like deer meant to be

hunt

ed. on your terms chains Oh yes, by participating in this hunt, this will be Neville's first

mule

deer hunt.

He grew up in the Midwest. You know he's a big bow hunter, so he's had a lot of whitetails, but he's never hunted

mule

deer before. Oh yeah. It's afternoon I want to go out to the damn winter wonderland, I hope Sam gets here tomorrow, he can probably tell, yeah I think that's going to start pushing him down when we get here. I guess we probably had six inches, maybe seven. since we got here we've probably had another seven eight yeah there's a lot of snow. October snowstorms are bad because, you know, it melts, but just like November snowstorms, man has a scratch on this place to camp, pack up as fast as we can and play golf. the mountain and go hunting in some low country still finds good snow, but not as high, nor ten thousand and seven feet of iron, it would have been nice if he hadn't had that extra dump of like six inches with him to be okay, It will just be nice.

It's all about the drive to do it faster. I just want to get here safely, not get things. We are literally 20 yards from the top of the hill. I really regretted my entire decision in Delhi right then and there, especially taking the vehicle that, hello, we already burnt. After two full days of hunting and obviously feeling really bad, I turned to Neville and said, "Hey, you know, we may have destroyed the entire initial part of our heart, a quarter and 10 down by 6, we have to tap". down, oh, shoot, best moment of the hunting trip so far, right there, oh god, I want the 70, look at the one next to him, catch three dollars and a lot of money, right there it turned into a bunch of junk, smaller funds across the country, over here, he parted ways with the other two bucks let's walk downhill just surfing right now not that maybe he's looking to get some sleep he's also feeding but he's definitely taking it very cautiously he's looking around it's an amazing level really good a good dollar we have a thick thick patch of Juniper on our left and if he goes into them we won't be able to see him at all and he's working his way up to a patch of Juniper a box at $700 right now from 2,000 yards away he's Ryan, he's in He's in the juniper trees, we decided that our best interest at this time was to gather all of our gear that we need and that we can't hunt effectively to tell him that these benefits are so far away from our place that we have to return again and again in November.

It's a lot of challenges, we'll be sitting up there, we'll film it right above that room, a big old 4x4, it's super wide, it's so far away at the moment it's hard to get footage. Oh well, find out where it's going. Lie down and go up there and shoot this back into the pit. You know how to kill beer. Climb high. I don't care what

season

we sold that deer pretty far away. You know, you look at it and you prepare yourself. Okay this is going to be a decent idea and then once we got to the top we also realized that it's about 20 degrees colder than where we normally were AB and in the truck we went up there and we wanted to sit and wait because I saw that big guy giant 4x4 job, this little sagebrush and flat is waiting and I think our best bet would be to wait until it came out to submit a photo, see that steam coming off the gypsies.

It had a bed. 14 in the truck I need a couple of gears in them I lost them all under fifty here 68 yeah that guy is like the door 9:30 yeah I'm too cold right now to be marines around us. My toes are numb. I don't even know what toes are anymore, I think Jays on the negative, probably on the negative, yesterday it was 14 in the truck when we left and went to the top, the food is probably less than 10 and today feels brutally cold, it is a moody dip. in negatives, sure I have two blocks here, do you think there might be a bigger one with them, that's as strange as a flat, that you can't see them because of all these falls, so we could walk straight to it, hopefully, we'll find one big.

She helps at a Navy shipyard, yes, we took about three more steps, this gentle warm-up. I think it tastes like two hours, it might even be on fire right now. I won't even know now. I can't find a deer literally anywhere. In sight, all this amazing train, so let's walk slowly back to camp, there's been a lot of Bucks in the sage plot above us, oh, okay, if someone weighs wooden pots long ago, There is nothing to do, because maybe they will freeze. I'm going to sit in his tent right now, probably drinking beer and smoking cigarettes because well, that terrain is super flat, you don't understand that there are slopes, you're there, work, start with the second group on the right, where you see dr.

McClendon campus no dirt early is dr. Berger, so when I looked through my scope sometimes I couldn't see anything and he could see things and while all this was happening, which lasted 15 or 20 minutes, I took off my gloves, I was ready to shoot, so I had my finger . in the trigger hand on the barrel, all that stuff, your adrenaline is pumping at that moment and therefore you don't really know that you're cold, but once that moment passed, with a dollar, I finally went up the hill looking to Neville as he could feel. the pain in his face 450 yards I said well what's going on at a junk show I remember my first deer hunt this is my first deer these days we'll have some venison okay what to do what to do with the tough one because all the deer are in these sagebrush areas and then it's hard to hunt them because he goes into space, we stumbled I know so it's like you get lucky try it one more time and at night and then do something different tomorrow what to do different tomorrow, well tomorrow is the last like a full day of hunting to the edge it could be a four point now this is like your 154 point okay let me call buddy he won't try to get close we can get a lot we can catch him in the sage .

It's completely flat, so we're guessing 450's probably getting ready to shoot all day. I don't know if they got our winner once we were done and now they're gone, you see 10 bucks is dead right now, but A shooter nowadays can cash in because nothing's going right, I have no idea which one that is, I don't think so, so it was blowing this way. Well, I was scared by a coyote deer that was a deer. I know if it's going well. You know we are. We're all set in ourselves talking about how we ruined so many other opportunities beforehand and we're here right now instead of just trying to keep warm by jumping on our really gay TP, let's run around this edge right now and mark this back. side where we checked a little here and there but we really weren't seeing much there and that right there saved our search oh my gosh that just happened yeah it's down for 400 yards well frost me son speeches talking about all. our sorrows Honestly, I have no idea what these cubes are.

All I saw was a gigantic frame that looked super wide, a 400 yard shot and you just turned around, looked at this Canyon for four days straight and saw a couple snoozing a tiny little box. yeah, I just killed, oh my god, a big white face. Wow, I can't say anything right now, what's up our asses, man. I'm not kidding and I shot the biggest day of my life. Yes, I don't know. What to say Colorado, an unreal place, you never know. Obviously I expected us to take two bucks in Colorado, but I think going through what we did, all the struggles, all the low points, to see, to see if you're like that, is one thing. finding an opportunity to make money on public lands is another thing and then making it all work out the way it did and just getting off that big rollercoaster of emotions that you know, honey hunting with Neville on his first mule deer hunt is literally going to be the hunt. that I will always remember over time.

It's like this is terrible. This is the worst thing I'm doing. But it's always when you come back and look back. It's like that's the best time, baby, I've ever had. All my life, I'm killing a big fat burger, it's saying my name in a small restaurant, be a big fat burger. I think a burger would be a great decision. I could even eat a mountain house. I like those burgers and then I'll come back. to our house in the mountains, I mean, maybe I could sleep outside just to keep my feet cold. I really want to brush my teeth.

Yes, I forgot my toothbrush.