Few things in Big Buck Hunting are as exciting as knowing bucks are on the move and could appear in range at any second.

You will feel as alive as you've ever been when the branches start cracking and the rifles begin to roar.

Welcome to the show today folks. I'm Joseph von Benedict and this is the backcountry hunting

podcast. I'm joined today by Master Mule deer hunter Robbie Denning out of Idaho and what I just read was an excerpt from Denning section on traditional deer drive as the hunting method as outlined in his outstanding book

hunting big mule deer how to take the best buck of your life.

Robbie man it's a true pleasure to have you on the air today. Thanks

for carving out time out of your schedule to record with me. All right, you bet. You man, you got to be

careful with that word master. I'm far from a master every every time I was out yesterday and I every time I get in the deer woods I figure out man I still got so much to learn here

You know that's funny. I hear you there but really a sign of a guy that's a true

disciple of any certain discipline and usually very very good at is a certain amount of

humility and a recognition of their I guess what they still have to learn like

you're saying so man I think the word

applies I've read your book cover to cover now I learned a ton from it I grew up

putting big meal there in southern Utah and really enjoyed as well but I don't have 10% the knowledge that you

have and you've shared in your book. Now listeners Mr. Denning's from Idaho as I mentioned

earlier and he's not only a die-hard

DIY public land hunters and individual he's an outfitter and if I

understand correctly an owner slash partner and a couple other cool hunting and scouting related businesses

including a website called rockslide.com and another operation or service called we scout for you dot com we're gonna go over those

we'll get Robbie to talk to us about those operations but first there's a kind of a cool

interesting fact about mr Dennning. He gave up hunting all of their species big game birds as I understand it everything in order to focus entirely on finding and harvesting monster mule deers.

So I gotta ask, what do you find so compelling about mule deer that you were willing to do that?

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