Ep. 71 | Couse Deer Hunting With Chris Denham

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🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Chris Denham, Arizona resident and recognized expert of “Grey Ghosts” from Western Hunter Magazine, joins Jimmy, Mark and Paul Neess to talk Couse deer hunting in the Southwest. If you’ve never heard of these deer before, imagine a scaled down whitetail living in the desert mountains that has mastered the art of blending in with its surroundings and remaining hidden. Why would anyone ever want to go after a small whitetail? Well, if you ask Chris (And us), there’s just something special about these critters that makes them arguably one of the coolest deer to hunt, completely regardless of size. In fact, their petite stature almost adds to the allure. In this episode, we chat best practices for getting into Coues deer (Spoiler alert – it ain’t huntin’ ‘em from the road!), the optics-intensive nature of hunting these tough-to-find creatures (Cue eyeroll because Vortex is stressing the importance of optics), run-ins with border patrol down south, navigating rough terrain and the fact that going on this incredible hunt doesn’t have to be a 9 year waiting proposition at all. As always - let us know if there are any topics you'd like covered on the Vortex Nation podcast by asking us on any one of our social media platforms and using #VortexNationPodcast.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and Good Food. All right, what's up everybody, got a good one for you here.
0:20.0	Gonna talk about a topic now, this isn't a hunt year round but I guess it could be
0:25.8	Jim we're gonna talk about hunting okay but we're gonna talk about hunting a very
0:30.6	specific animal the gray ghost. Now the term gray ghost I feel gets thrown around a lot.
0:41.7	I've heard the kudu, which I've never hunted, called the gray ghost.
0:47.0	Different continent.
0:48.0	Different continent.
0:49.0	Yes, she can get away with it done.
0:51.0	Yep, I've heard Columbia Blacktails, which are very near and dear to my heart, called
0:56.4	the Gray Ghost.
0:58.4	And oftentimes the Coosdir in states like Arizona, New Mexico is
1:05.0	Mexico is often the old one it's called the gray ghost as well which is gonna be the old one it's called the gray ghost as well which is gonna be the subject or topic we're going to talk about today
1:14.0	because to me that is the true gray ghost. I'm joined here by Paul Nice, Jim
1:21.4	Hamilton of course and our very special guest, Chris Denham from Western Hunter
1:26.5	magazine and Arizona resident, a host of... A recognized expert on Grego.
1:33.8	Yes, exactly Paul.
1:35.3	So Chris, why don't you, if you can introduce yourself,
1:37.8	tell us a little bit about what you have going on and your history
1:41.6	and we'll jump in.
1:43.0	You bet, yeah.
1:44.0	But I agree, Greg Go is the first time I ever heard that term used was with Kuzdir.
1:48.0	And yeah, I was born and raised in Arizona.
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