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Music Welcome back to another episode of cutting the distance podcast. I'm Dirk Durham. And at this recording date, it's November 20th, arguably my favorite time to hunt Mountain

White Tails.

With snowflakes dropping the higher elevations, I'm packing my bags to head up and try a little

luck at tagging a big buck.

After Jason Phelps talked about Kansas hunting on last week's episode, I wanted to compare

in contrast my experience rival hunting, those same

type of deer in Idaho. Now, as all you know, I love archery elk hunting, and to be honest,

all elk hunting. But what you probably don't know is whitetail hunting was my very first love.

Hunting white tails from 12 years old with my dad looked a lot different at age 13 and then a lot different today.

Back then, it was all big timber deer hunting pretty much.

Zero clear cuts, at least where I began hunting.

This was state land, private timber land, and sometimes private property.

Sometimes I'd get permission from these local farmers

who I worked for in the summertime putting up hay and come fall, you know, I'd ask him if I could

hunt and they would say, oh, absolutely. Because farmers, most farmers, they want to trim down the deer herd and the elk herd as much as they can.

Well, 12-year-old me, hunting, was riding around in the truck with my dad all day, looking for deer, hoping one would to magically appear.

But man, did they ever appear?

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