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My first deer hunt
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Feb 5, 2025
Video of me telling the story of my first deer hunt in Northeast Washington. I made some ridiculous mistakes that you will likely find amusing. We also have footage of us tracking the blood trail thru the snow a short distance until we come across the deer.
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hey guys thanks for watching gonna tell
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the story of my first deer hunt but
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before I get to that one shout out to
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ash and Norma for taking me up to their
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cabin take it's getting some great
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photos and footage and just making it a
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really special time for me and my son so
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we'd spent the last two days mornings
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and evenings sitting in the shooting
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house on a clear-cut waiting for a legal
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legal buck to show up and finally in the
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last half hour of shooting light on the
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last day we were going to be up there
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this three point buck emerges from the
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left side of the clearing behind three
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dough's in his family group and we can't
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take the shot though because he's he had
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coming out and standing right in front
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of one of the other deer the 50 Cal
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certainly can't shoot you know shoot him
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when he's got deer behind him that you
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probably may more injured so my heart is
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pounding though as I'm getting ready to
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take the shot
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just waiting for him to move away and
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yeah I told myself I'd be calm and
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collected on my first hunt and I'd uh
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you know but when that moment occurs
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when that legal buck appears my heart
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was racing and you know I got I got
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really excited thankfully I had ash in
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my to the left of me giving me some good
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advice as I waited patiently for the
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buck to move away so he moves away but
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his back is to me and he's about 50 60
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yards away and then he starts to quarter
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slightly and Astrix whispering in my ear
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drop him drop him and I get ready I line
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up to take the shot right behind his
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front legs and I pull the trigger and
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there's a very loud click and you know
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ash tells me hey you know do it again do
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it again
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because
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he thinks that maybe the primer didn't
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go off and muzzleloader but i gotta take
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you back an hour earlier where ash you
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know was walking through some common
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mistakes people make in these hunts and
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said that one of them is they forget to
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put the primer cap into the into the
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muzzle loader and you know i've been
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taking it in and out all you know
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multiple days multiple times as we go in
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and out of the shooting house and put
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the put the rifle away for you know in
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the house and and you want to unload it
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and remove the cap so I've been keeping
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the cap in my pocket well I felt around
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and I feel the cap in there now I should
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have opened the action and looked for
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the cap in the gun but I actually just
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settled for hey it's not my pocket that
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means it must be in the gun well when I
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heard that click so did the deer and
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they all took off kind of knew what had
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happened
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and opened the action and sure enough
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there's no cap in there I couldn't
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believe it the deer we'd been waiting
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for last two days scattered and I
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reached my pocket and searched more
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thoroughly and of course there's the cap
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I pop it back in ash and I are just
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beside ourselves or so mad that you know
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he had just mentioned this an hour
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before and we missed our shot well as
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we're sort of beside ourselves with this
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and frustrated you know the layout of
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the of the clearing is that while
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there's a clear area on the Left where
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they emerged from and a stand of trees
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that they had disappeared behind that
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they may reimburse dead-center twelve
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o'clock in what is sort of a shooting
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alley that's been cleared exactly for
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this purpose it's not more than fifteen
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feet across but sure enough as were as
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we're seeing they're whispering talking
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first doe appears and the second and the
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third and last is the three-point and he
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goes stands about forty yards away
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perfect broadside shot waiting there for
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me and Ashley whispering in my ear trap
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him take him
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and uh you know my heart is beating so
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loud at this point and I line up the
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site I pulled the trigger nothing
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happens
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ash to ash can't believe it but I look
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at and of course I have not pulled the
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hammer back on the rifle and my sort of
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buck fever I've totally forgotten that
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step so I correct it pulled my [ __ ] it
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pulled the hammer back and now he is
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almost the other side of the shooting
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gallery I've got maybe two seconds left
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and I line it up and pull the trigger
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all in sort of one moment and you hear
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this loud boom as the muzzle loader goes
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off and big cloud of smoke can't see
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anything
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I see all the deer scatter no idea
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whether I hit him or not but ash says
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you know it looks like you hit him I saw
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him flinch yeah then he starts laughing
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he says I think he's laughing so hard I
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think he's gonna fall out of the
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shooting house he still can't believe
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that we got a shot on him you know on
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the third try with the missing cap and
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the hole that whole mess so he's he's
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dying laughing we waited about 10
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minutes and then we go down and just
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check out the spot where we are the shot
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would leave the shot connected with the
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buck and there's blood on the ground
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and so we want to get more time but we'd
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go back and get his wife Norma my son
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Ethan and set out to to track the blood
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trail and snow which you can see in the
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video footage that we captured
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that is a absolute perfect shot
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graduation son
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