John Dudley: Mule Deer Hunt

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 79 minutes

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John Dudley joins the podcast to give a detailed account of his successful Mule Deer Hunt in Eastern Colorado. With days of zero wind we went back to traditional mulie hunting of long hours glassing open and bedding country. Thankful that @aron_snyder came over to glass with me on the morning that my buck was spotted. This bucks safe place area was super deceptive!! Although this looks like a flat tumbleweed pasture it was actually a diverse section with a lot of unseen pockets and rolls and drainages unseen to the eye. The section was filled with 2 year old corn stalks under the dead grass, volunteer dried wheat, thorns, sand burs, dried switchgrass and head deep entanglements of tumbleweeds. It was a mess. What made it worse is when I got close enough for a shot after hours of of a stalk I just couldn’t see the bucks vitals and arrow deflection was no doubt a problem. Getting archery close to this buck once with all the other eyes in the field or bedded animals you didn’t expect was hard enough. But I had to do it THREE times over two days. The key here was just be so methodical and take advantage of the brief pockets of wind gust. Honestly this is where I praise Yoga and ability to balance while crouched and on one leg for a long period of time while I would be slowly trying to weave my foot that was up in the air down to the ground through the mess without making a noise. I’m proud of this one because it was a level 10 chess match. Nock On ArcheryKifaruBecome a Patron!

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0:00.0	Welcome to CaffaroCast everyone. I'm Solo, Franks and Idaho hunting Mule Deer, and I have got
0:06.0	the great John Dudley on the other end of the mic. We're going to talk about our recent Mule Deer hunt
0:10.4	in Eastern Colorado. Thanks for coming back on me. Yeah, no problem, dude. I always love having a
0:16.0	chat with you. It's always good for a laugh. It's good for something. So, John was recently in
0:23.7	Eastern Colorado with my buddy Alex, and I was out there as well. And John was able to
0:30.5	stock in on a couple different times. And what was your final shot on that Mule? Your 23?
0:36.9	26, I think. Okay, because I was out with John for a couple days, and I came back in, and I was
0:45.2	planning on going back out to help. And then you said I have eyes on, and then, you know, and I'm
0:51.4	I mean, I'm in conifer at my house. And then Alex messages me, and he's like, this F and
0:58.1	deer is going to die. He's like, John is on top of it. And he films it. And I'm like, dude, I'm on
1:03.5	the East side of Denver. I'm turning around. And Alex's like, no, you're cool, man. We're good.
1:08.2	Because I was like, I was coming out, obviously, to help get eyes on. And then once he was like,
1:12.3	dude, Dudley's going to smoke this thing. And I'm like, yeah, I'm going back to do some office
1:16.4	work. So I kind of left you hanging. I apologize. But I I felt you were in good hands at 27,
1:20.7	so 27 yards away. I was like, okay, they're on top of it. But you well, three days in and that
1:27.2	stuff though, it's like, I could be at nine yards. And I wouldn't text someone saying he's going to
1:32.9	get it. I'd be like, well, we'll see. I mean, I've been in Alberta so many times where it's like,
1:41.4	I can't get any closer to this deer without like having a bark conversation with it. And I still
1:49.1	cannot like see what I need to see to get a shot. It's just tough. I don't I posted a few videos
1:58.0	where I shot mine. And you know, people were like, how do you how how did you even see it? And how
2:05.6	in my case, I'm like, look, we were high rack and we were we were standing in the back of the truck
2:11.9	getting elevation, trying to watch them bed. And when they bed it down, I'm like,
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