BIG AND BROKEN - An Idaho OTC Mule Deer Hunt

None of us set foot here and we just, I mean, at the trailhead we talked to two

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ers who have been here for two days and haven't seen an animal. I think it's exciting. I think that's part of the I don't know. I wouldn't call it anxiety, but anticipation, I'm happy to see

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, be honest, like we're 25 minutes from the truck, a fire in the truck, a glass cup, a dozen

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, yeah, it's about a dollar. . Fisher, that's a long way from any of us having

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ed Idaho this way. I had two deer tags, two oak tags, they were on all the counters, general tags, with those tags we could degrade it to a black bear or the wolves of the Somme.

You know, let's find out what I don't have to offer. The way I explained that the country is just big. I didn't expect the canyons to be as wide or as deep as they were. It's weird that you like these cannons and caissons that you can't really shoot with the big gun. I just saw two shooting books over there, one shooter over here, our only problem right now is the shooter. The Bucks are like miles away, yeah, and there we go, I mean, they weren't real. Spode I definitely know we were here, we're getting ready to leave, you're going to collapse off this knob again or you're going to, we're going to do it in glass on both sides of this, then there's just a little dollar on the Reg right there. with a bunch of other bucks on the crest and we just didn't see each other enough, which is a glass, I guess not, he's pretty well built Lorenzo, either way he looks tasty, he's healthy, he's a four point, we should probably kill that deer, yeah.

I'm sure it's four points. Lorenzo and I neither of us felt comfortable shooting that far, so we made a plan and ended up having to go around the base and down to this rim rock above it. We weren't quite sure exactly where it was, on the ridge we ended up standing a little high above it. Kelly took him right to the top back hard. I don't know, I think we've seen a lot of deer. I'm thirsty. I don't know more water to avoid starting to eat snow. Oh, we have about two tables full. We are definitely in more of a water crisis than California.

I would say the water can be a little sandy, but we always have a filter. once we melt it too because I mean the drops are the tabs that will kill anything in it, yeah, so yeah, it's good, it just made a protein in it, plant or animal. Well, we have discovered that the water we got from the ice and the stream is quite dirty, yes, we can't even look through it, isn't that how people melt it in the stream that boils on top of the stove and then mixes it with snow and mixes it with the snow into the platypus, lets the snow melt and then Filtering it from the platypus into the jeans, we basically found out that reverse osmosis on our own would get a watery oil role in this equipment.

You have to boil it so I can purify myself and pour it on my feet. It is a beautiful country, but a big and

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mess. I don't really walk on the ridges, it just cuts off, this is where optics are your blessing in a kind of curse that you can see forever, you can find animals, but getting to them as a multi day adventure 660 right there is crazy , he's still very far away and he's like close like we could beetle like hit him, hit him, it's a two point point, I mean it's a bigger two point point, like it could be a small street, what do you think we have ?

I heard him, I don't know where he went, even though he was dead. That's exactly what I like coming to Idaho for the first time and you'll see that this is exactly what I thought my two labels would wear. Someone also put one of them in that test. I guess now we've seen four points that I have. a dead deer, Mike, man, you can hold for four points, we got equal straps and I'll hold for a better deer tick, well built back strap, Bobby, the filet mignon that he was, he was so far down the canyon he was. below that freeze line so to speak we had to go down so much elevation that it actually died right next to a spring, good mountain water, how's the water that you can look at before you drink it?

Yesterday I just had to hide it in your backpack. It was, it was, it was some, our few, we climbed to go back and get out of that Canyon. The skill is phenomenal, it breaks perfectly every time I don't understand it. I don't know, he's hit more of his mountain muscles. Other guys who go to the gym may have those disc muscles, but these are mountain muscles. I think I want a little heavy on the meat side, it's like a cannon stick, that's pretty good. 605, yes, where you bed or the water situation has made hunting whatever.

Basically, our hunts revolve around getting water. We are in the exact same spot where Brandon killed his deer yesterday and that was not a fun package. Alpha police. There's water. It could just be frozen meat cut with a stone. We make skim milk with the food we packed for five days here and it leaves us about five days tomorrow, so we'll have to go to the truck tomorrow tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow night, go get more food and then figure out what the second half of the trip will be, they went, he went and he went, I can't speak, he has something basic about to go up and try to catch him, see the trees, it's almost another truth that she is in, really, steal, no, no. what you want to do, but he is on the other side against Lorenzo and me.

I feel like we wanted to see a different country, part of the good thing about having the type of tax that we had and having those general taxes that we were able to hunt down. open drive in the state so all the next canyons don't have a road hey this doesn't have a road mmm-hmm let's do it that's our search tomorrow okay we were logging we were unloading all our gear this truck backed up next to ours and we started talking to him and they mentioned that they had taken a deer and wanted to know if we wanted to see it and of course we wanted to see what they absorbed and they ended up holding this deer. and I think everyone's jaw dropped right there.

My name is Dusty Evans. I am from Pasadena, Maryland, which is a suburb of Baltimore. Three other friends and I drove 2,100 miles here and back, well some of us were sleeping in the back of this Ram truck for part of the way, but this is my first

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deer and it's the deer of my life, but We did it in a rural area where we hiked six miles and left your camp or hunt every day, so yeah. super super proud of that, I've never seen a dollar drop. I mean, I've seen trucks. I have one in the test range, but I have never seen a buck while hunting with the dropper.

Nobody in the hands of trucks like this. I'm going to shoot unless I have a 5-inch dropper, a new standard. Is incredible. We have to get out of the moose. We can't shoot one in this unit. So today, the last day of that season, I think there are too many elk there and I did it. I don't know they're cool sheep yeah and it looks like a lot of oh yeah no they like a lot of them reason reason on the plus side a pop tart was amazing we decided to move again we ended up moving quite a ways south to an area that it's probably some of the best deer habitat we've hunted it's a plan C and we know there are deer moving through here because we know there are deer in the bottom of this yeah so there have been deer moving through here from just the looks All in all, this is one of the best things we've been to in all the time, this big open hillside here, in this tight little space here, the sage swift oak, it's got it all, but no, honey, I think Brando and I are.

Both very surprised that there are no deer here.