I spent a lot of my winter filming wildlife. So much time, money and cold nights went into making this film. If you find some value or entertainment a follow would be appreciated. Thank you 🙏
One of the best bucks I've seen on the public land by my place tonight. It will be a damn shame if I can't find him again to get some much better pictures and videos. My god what a beautiful Public Land Buck!!
I can't tell you how much pressure I put on myself to be successful every year. The immense relief after having another bull down is insane. I have made this my life's passion to be the best I absolutely possibly can be at archery elk hunting. I will work even harder next year.
First 2023 tag filled! Thank God for the opportunity and the ability to produce a quick clean heart shot on this nice mature Public land buck!!!
#publicland
#buckdown
What an unbelievable morning! A few hundred elk came pouring out of a saddle above me. This was only the last half of them. The wind was miserable and oh so cold. I repositioned myself where the wind couldn't catch my lens and hunkered down to capture the majestic herd.
#elk
Back out of Twitter jail for posting my Bull elk harvest. 2nd year in a row this has happened to me. How did
@elonmusk
get
@SteveDaines
out of jail and his tweets restored but then for me it's different rules. See ya next year when I get another one. What a joke.
I got one chance at this buck. He was in an area you had to work hard to get at him. After this night I never seen him again. Shame but I'm glad I got the opportunity to share the mountain with this fella!
Not being able to hunt my antelope or elk tags this year put me into a serious depression. So happy to have been able to go deer hunt and put a positive spin to this shit season. I worked my ass off to make sure I was successful.
#publicland
#muledeer
#hunting
#imback
We went on a vacation to Grand Teton Park and I'll be darned if I wasn't lucky enough to spot one of the Grizzly Bear males just out of hibernation! 👊 🐻
#grizzlybear
#grizzly
Update: She passed away last night. I'm heading to my no cell service hole to sleep for the night but thought I'd let you know. I'm out! Hope you all had a great weekend.
I'd like to share one of my personal favorites. We lost so many good bucks last winter. There are a few out here with potential to be something very special in the next few year's. Hope he comes back in November.
#wildlifephotography
My 2019 archery Bull. Smallest bull I have ever taken. I'm still proud. Doing this solo with no callers behind me crap proves to be difficult at time's. Getting it done this way is the challenge I love to take on every year.
#sitkagear
#idaho
#publicland
#elkdown
#Archery
This girl broke my heart. Packed way in with just my camera equipment filming the mule deer rut and this girl walks up to me. I can't do anything for her. Truly ruined my day. Fish and game was contacted and I haven't been able to relocate her. Nature isn't what most think it is
Lowered my expectations by quite a bit after seeing how low the deer population was in this unit. Man I hunted it hard. Last night I decided this guy was good enough. Shot him in his bed after stocking into 120 yrds. He was done instantly.
#solohunter
#buckdown
#taggedout
Last night at camp. Knowing I only had one more extremely cold morning! Happy to be home with my wife tonight. Probably done hunting for the year.
#publicland
#solohunter
#muledeer
#hunting
Wolves took down 2 bull elk. I went back at the end of the day after the coyotes and birds worked clean up. Not much but bones and antlers left.
#wolves
#bullelk
I'm heading out to do some winter camping up north of me. Not sure what cell service will be like. Drop this here and talk to you all later. Time to dissappear for a bit!
She's extremely sick. Falling asleep on her feet. Only looked up once. So sad. Gave her some words of encouragement and a short prayer and walked away. I Unfortunately get to see all sides of Nature.
#wildlife
#nature
#elk
#naturelovers
Here is the first buck I snuck up on during the rut. He caught me by surprise as he wasn't where I thought he'd be when I crested the hill. I quickly handheld the 600mm and hoped for the best.
#muledeer
#publicland
#therut
It's funny... this never gets old for me. Other interests come and go but this has always been what I go back to. Thank my father for sending me out with a camera as a little kid and also letting me tag along when he was shooting. Love you Dad.
#wildlifevideos
#wildlife
#deer
Sometimes I wish I had something other than a cellphone on me when hunting. Love running into these guys during their rut. Had a few that were quite grouchy this year.
#publicland
#solohunter
Only video I got of the drop tine buck. Out walking the dog, no camera with me. Just a phone. Man I wish I found him under different circumstances. Cool buck!
Yesterday was the last day of deer season in my area. Decided this fella would taste better than my tag. 😄!! Got my elk and deer 10 miles from home! Truly living a dream. One more tag in Idaho for deer in November to finish things out.
#publicland
#muledeer
#hunting
Only came away with 9 small elk antlers in 13hrs yesterday. Worst start for me in a long time. 19°F this morning has me questioning my Ideas of what fun is. Haha.. keep grinding 💪
Buddy of mine shot his first mule deer buck yesterday. North Idaho guy that's always chased whitetails. So happy for him. We dropped him off at the taxidermist today and been doing a little day drinking to celebrate!
#buckdown
#publicland
#idaho