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DEER HUNTER

#224: Big Buck Blood Trail Deep Into the Swamp

DEER HUNTER

Kevin Vistisen

Education, Sports, Wilderness

4.7631 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On this weeks episode I'm sharing a hunting story from the past weekend. What went right, what went wrong and the emotional rollercoaster of putting an arrow into a mature, Northern Michigan whitetail buck.

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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Welcome to the deer hunter podcast, a platform created to entertain, educate, and evolve the modern day deer hunter.

0:45.5

Yeah.

0:50.3

All right, here we go. Welcome in everyone to this week's edition of the deer hunter podcast

1:01.0

friday the 12th of november just a few days away from michigan's opening day of firearm

1:09.4

deer season.

1:15.7

This week, what we're going to do is recap my hunt from last weekend.

1:36.7

I have a story to share that involves a large, mature deer on a first time in sit on public land and a blood trail into the interiors deep into a swamp that I have never been in before.

1:42.4

A little bit of ill preparation on my part. We'll discuss that.

1:47.2

I made some, I did a lot of things right this past weekend.

1:52.8

Like, I did a lot of things right that in the past I haven't done right, that put me in a situation.

2:35.3

And unfortunately, I did not ultimately capitalize on. There's a lot to unpack here. Oh, boy, what an emotional roller coaster this whole endeavor was. So as I'm recording this, it is Tuesday, the 9th. You'll be listening to this. I have this set to publish on Friday. I'm hopeful many of you are en route to your northern Michigan deer camps. I honestly, I don't know the opening day of the firearm seasons or around the other states. I can barely keep my rules and regulations together in my own state at the pace that I move. So anybody else that's going in,

2:42.9

got their firearm seasons open, opening, and you're looking forward to that, we are here

2:50.0

very much. Man, we're going to have some fun podcasts that are going to come out

2:55.3

of this deer camp there's going to be a lot going on here over the course of the next week and

2:59.9

I say week because I have a week I am departing tomorrow I am departing on Wednesday

3:05.3

right after work there's gear scattered about here right now.

3:11.1

There's lists, things getting checked off of list, things getting put on list, a lot of gear going together, rain gear, cold weather.

3:20.8

I'm going to have everywhere from 50 to 20 everything in between rain sleet snow

3:27.9

south winds west winds east winds north winds northwest northwest I'm thankful for that

3:33.7

there's a lot of north and northwest in the forecast for this coming week and the

3:38.8

temperatures and the weather looks outstanding.

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