Kaibab National Forest
Elsewhere there's a discussion about favorite camo patterns. More than one person says camo's really not that effective and I agree. Movement, or lack thereof, and wind direction are more important. Case in point, see video below. This is a mule deer hunt in OCT 2010 that my buddy chuck was on.
I offered to video his hunt over the course of 5 days and ended up with about 45 minutes of useful film. Below is about 2 minutes. Chuck's in front and I'm standing upright about 30 ft behind. Wind is in our direction.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1B4_J5W73Qg
Don't beat me up too bad, It was a learning experience, never filmed a hunt before and certainly was expecting this while walking down the road.
Last edited by ltdann; 02-23-2011 at 07:13 PM.
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Great use of Albeniz' Asturias and what an awesome video.
Love those moments when you get within a spitting distance of animals like that.
Too bad there was not a shooter buck in the video.
Looks like one of the bigger does got a little upset about something towards the end of it.
Last edited by Stonepointer; 02-23-2011 at 09:41 PM.
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It was my first trip to Kaibab. After years of hearing about it, it was golden opportunity to finally visit. The whole plateau screamed classical guitar to me. We didn't see a single mulie that wasn't fat and healthy. It was deer after deer after deer. I ended up shooting around six hours or so of vid over the course of the 5 days, then storylined it to about 45 minutes. It took forever to do the background sound.
What was amazing to me, was how many times we had unexpected close encounters while the camera was running.
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The elk are like that out here too. Most don't seem to afraid of you and just keep grazing. Our antelope are a different story though, you can never get more then a 100 yards from them and they spring off.
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How did your buddy do?
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LOL, we got to the last 20 minutes of the last day of the hunt and he took a 150 lb spike. We saw monsters, mostly on everyone else's meat pole, so knew they were there. We saw tons of does and fawns, literally hundreds.
We just about had the place figured out when we had to leave. The weather really put a crimp on the hunt, the deer weren't moving much.
If either one of us draws again, we'll be over the learning curve and should do better.
Neither one of us felt bad about the spike, we learned alot, put the time and boot leather in during absolutely miserable weather. We got to hunt the world famous Kaibab, saw beautiful country and saw more deer than anyone we talked too...just not a big buck. In short, it was a lot of fun.
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