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PNW Whitetail Muzzleloader Hunt 2021
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Feb 5, 2025
In this video you will learn about our successful whitetail hunt in Washington state during the early muzzleloader season is 2021. We hunted private land from a blind and public land in search of a whitetail buck. We encountered a variety of wildlife (deer, elk, bear) and eventually tagged out over a few days of hunting. Both kill shots are shown in this video. Some blood is shown as well as dead deer. Happy hunting!
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what's up everybody today we're going to
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talk about a recent hunting trip
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the early muzzleloader season in
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washington state
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and uh just a really cool trip where we
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saw a lot of wildlife and
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old me and my honey hunting partner uh
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tagged out
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on uh on um bucks
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and uh just just had a blast doing it
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all right so our hunt uh up in
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northeastern washington was really kind
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of a combined private land public land
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uh lots of access to public land but uh
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my friend up there had a private
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uh hunting uh cabin up there plus a
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blind that you'll see where we uh uh
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made uh made our our kill shots from
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and uh
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really is a fantastic location for this
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uh for this raised blind um
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where a lot of deer activities
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especially does that heavy dough
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um location that
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that we were
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set up around
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uh we were put out uh some bait like
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apples and some corn
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and uh but even without that just the
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the you know activity on the game cam
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over the uh over the months proceeding
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with significant lots and lots of
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wildlife lots of deer um some really
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nice bucks came through there but really
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this was about does now the regulations
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in our in our unit were annie buck
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um
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and uh so typically the kind of bucks we
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would see up here are like um you know
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your 1.2 point
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um
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somebody's three point or basket bucks i
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mean these were um really
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uh part of family group still right they
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hadn't left the uh the family group and
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uh so you'll typically have
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um you know two or three of these deer
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coming together and if you're lucky one
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of these one of these young bucks would
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come in uh with the family group we
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don't we don't tend to see a lot of the
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um the more mature bucks
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uh until the rut in this particular spot
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but like i said there's a lot of access
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to private land as well and so uh my
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friend was up uh you know sitting in the
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blind early on opening day
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i tended to hunt the public land and
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kind of move around and that was
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incredible experience just um
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some of the deer i saw up there i saw a
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herd of mules
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that i certainly
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unfortunately i saw on the day just
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before the opener um otherwise i would
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have had uh a couple of easy shot
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opportunities on some nice uh nice bucks
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there as well
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this is my buddy um with uh one of these
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family groups and he's setting up the
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blind and he's got this uh right in the
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middle of the the shot here the camera
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shot is
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is a spike let's take a shot on that
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spike
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all right so see he makes a good shot on
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the spike hits it you know basically
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through
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uh liver lungs gets a little bit of
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stomach probably a little bit further um
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probably closer to the stomach than he
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wanted although really just kind of
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ruined some rib meat that's it otherwise
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all the other meat kind of came out
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really nice so
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this deer made it maybe about 30 yards
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uh 40 yards before piling up
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so here's the exit wound
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there with blood and
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probably stomach contents because i did
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shoot him quartering to me
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that's about where he went in over here
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so
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and uh what's cool about my son and wife
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and his wife are there and and they got
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to be involved in just uh tracking the
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deer
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which is so cool when you can involve
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other members maybe who aren't hunting
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but part of the you know your group
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there and just get them involved in some
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way in the the experience you know and
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so come up here and i want you to follow
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this trail
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now do you see the blood
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all over here
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oh yeah i see that
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my son's now tracked a couple different
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deer
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uh that we've shot and uh something that
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he really
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gets excited about and so this was this
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was this was day one and a huge success
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from his standpoint
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i i can see it
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it's about 20 yards from us
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eat straight ahead of you
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in the trees
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to your right
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straight ahead where you're looking
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so we're gonna have to get ice
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less so from mine uh i encountered
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plenty of animals in the public land uh
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bounced a couple white-tailed does
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so
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and uh i just had an incredible
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encounter with a bachelor herd of elk
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uh that was just absolutely spectacular
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for me as a fairly new hunter um i just
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considered it kind of
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kind of a big achievement to sneak up on
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bachelor her develop
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and basically be within a shooting range
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of archery or muzzleloader about 20
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yards from from this elk it was oh it's
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just so cool and even though i got my
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deer later which i'll show you here in a
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minute uh this is probably the highlight
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of the hunt for me so
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i eventually after about 10 minutes i
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crashed this herd and they took off and
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i saw even bigger massive massive bull
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um that was with this group there's
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probably two four points the spike and
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then this just massive massive bull all
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right now my shot it was a little uh it
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was a little
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odd so
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the the deer was you could see him just
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to the left of the center of the camera
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shot he he was he was a two point is a
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little forky
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he was facing when he first came into
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view
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so i didn't really have a good shot you
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know you want quartering away quartering
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two or four broadside ideally for a good
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shot when when he gave me a broadside
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shot he was moving and i should have led
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the the barrel all the way through the
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shot but i didn't i kind of i took a
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momentary pause to pull the trigger
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we're done
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and so the shot ended up
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uh to the right of him a little bit
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further than i wanted and it actually
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ended up being sort of a very lucky
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miraculous shot where
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um it was an instant kill shot so you'll
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see here when the shot goes off i mean
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he doesn't he doesn't move at all um
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because i took out
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uh i basically took out the bottom of
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his spine and
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uh arteries and
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didn't
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blow out or ruin any of the backstrap or
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the tenderloin or any other meat for
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that matter like it was a
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it was an inch
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uh up down left or right uh i would have
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had problems but it it ended up in kind
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of the perfect placement so i was very i
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felt very blessed for that to be the
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case
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um and as always for you know the animal
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not to suffer and
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um he went he went straight down and
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literally didn't move after after that
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shot so
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now we're done
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let's go
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no he's dead