While I’m blessed to have the job I do, not all hunts turn out with 100% success just because we’re filming TV shows. The past fall found me with four unfilled tags in my pocket, two of which stand out most in my mind.
Going after mule deer in MT, I returned to the central part of the state, between the Missouri and Marias rivers. I’d hunted this place two season’s prior, and easily filled a tag with a nice buck (pictured below). Bucks like this, and bigger, were thick during that hunt. We saw an average of over 200 deer a day on that hunt.
This past November things had changed. While reports varied from exactly how many deer died-off due to last year’s terribly harsh, extended winter, most people figured a 30-35% mortality. After five days of hunting I’d put it more along the lines of an 80% loss in the area we hunted.
During that time I only saw one good mule deer that would have pushed the 175” mark. The next biggest buck was about 155”, with everything else being considerably smaller. My decision to leave that hunt with an empty tag cost our production team and the outfitter a lot of time and money, but we weren’t going to kill a mediocre buck just to get a TV show. We averaged seeing less than 20 deer a day, including does!
In early December I was back in SD, hunting a new place near Lemmon. This was an archery hunt, and prior to our arrival, the landowner whose property I was hunting on gave reports of lots of big bucks showing up. The ranch hadn’t been hunting in 11 years, and I was pumped.
“Don’t shoot the first buck you see, as there are lots of ‘em around here,” was the ranchers advise. So, on day one we got close to a dandy buck (pictured below), which I passed. We filmed the buck for nearly 30 minutes. Over the course of the next three days we saw only one other good buck.
Temperatures had gone from a week of near 0º to in the mid-50s the day I arrived, and most of the deer headed back into the farm lands, off the property I hunted. So, we went back and eventually found the buck I originally passed. He was bedded with about a dozen does, but miraculously we were able to move within bow range.
Reaching full-draw all felt good…until I let the arrow fly. What seemed like a slam-dunk shot through an open lane proved otherwise as my arrow bounced through the trees. I’d failed to see a tiny twig hanging from a horizontal branch, and that cost me the hunt. My arrow hit that twig and skipped across more limbs, sending it farther into the brush and the buck out of the area. It was a bonehead miss, again costing us valuable time and money as we didn’t get what we wanted for the TV show.
I’d like to get back to SD next year and give it another try in colder weather. As for our MT honey-hole, it’s going to need a few years, maybe more, to recover.
Looks like we’ll be planning more hunts for this spring to make up for the unfilled tags of fall.
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