Monster Deer & Minimizing Gear
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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WELCOME to the 101st Episode!
As the title suggests, this fun discussion addresses two topics; big deer & compact gear.
Must-read book: Ryan Hatfield's "Idaho's Greatest Mule Deer."
Glory Day Story: Doyle Mooseman and the 48," 8x8 buck.
Big buck statistics: An entertaining (and eye-opening) look at your chances of shooting a monster mule deer (and how you can maximize your opportunities).
Mule deer's current condition (as a whole), and how you can help:
- Bad winters, high predation, loss of winter range, ever-increasing hunter effectiveness (long-range gear), and other factors.
- Contribute by aggressively hunting coyotes. And if you've never hunted mountain lions, now is the time!
Gear list discussion:
- Rifle, scope, & ammo
- Binocular/rangefinder
- Boots
- Pack
- Clothing
- Raingear
- Hunting knife
- Head lamp
- Fire-starting gear
- Maps/GPS/On-X Hunt app
- Sleeping bag
- Sleeping pad
- Tent
- Emergency communication device.
- LifeStraw & water filter pump
- Mountaineering stove
- Battery packs and/or solar charger
- Bipod
- Spotting scope & tripod/trekking poles
Podcast sponsors:
Siembida Custom Knives on Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the 101st episode of the podcast and the first episode of 2021. I'm Joseph |
| 0:08.6 | Von Benedict and this is the backcountry Hunting Podcast. |
| 0:13.0 | Today we're going to talk briefly about Big Mule Deer and tell a story or two from the |
| 0:19.1 | Glory Days back in the 40s, 50s, and 60s. |
| 0:23.2 | Then we're going to talk about whittling your backcountry hunting gear |
| 0:26.3 | down to the bare minimum, swapping quantity for quality, |
| 0:31.0 | as it were, and being sure that we're not packing more into the mountains |
| 0:34.8 | than absolutely necessary. |
| 0:37.3 | Yesterday I watched a Netflix documentary called The Minimalists, Less is now. Some pretty cool concepts, the one that rang true for me as a backcountry hunter is that the less you have the freer you become. |
| 0:52.0 | Free to move farther, faster, and with less effort and with less |
| 0:58.0 | likelihood of injury. All of this equates to more predatory efficiency. |
| 1:04.0 | In other words, more big bucks, bulls, rams, and bears coming out in your backpack. |
| 1:13.0 | Okay, first my favorite story about Monster Mule Deer in the Glory Days. |
| 1:20.0 | When I was a kid, my parents used to assign me to help an old cowboy with our November cattle butchering tasks. |
| 1:30.5 | We'd usually butcher from one to three beefs every November. |
| 1:35.0 | Depending on the anticipated needs of our family and friends, right? |
| 1:39.0 | Now Doyle had grown up... |
| 1:41.0 | Geez, a long time ago. I don't know exactly when he was born but he was |
| 1:47.8 | ancient when I was in my early teens but still very capable and he had an old truck from I'm guessing the 50s maybe even the |
| 1:59.0 | late 40s with a big boom on it outfitted to lift beaves to skin them and gut them and so forth and |
| 2:06.8 | he was kind of the town's go-to guy for this now remember I grew up in a town |
| 2:11.6 | with about 90 residents and we were 100 miles from the nearest |
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