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Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Gear Prep & Hunting for Coues Deer

Backcountry Hunting Podcast

Joseph von Benedikt

Backcountry, Rifle, Deer, Podcast, Elk, Mountain, Sports, Hunt, Wilderness, Cartridge, Hunting

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Summary

This episode takes us to Old Mexico in pursuit of coues deer, the Gray Ghost of the Southwest. These tiny desert mountain-dwellering whitetails are incredibly challenging—and fun—to hunt.

Guides and hunters with 40 years of experience talk us through how, where and when to hunt coues deer. We take a deep dive into rifles, cartridges, and bullets for coues deer, and discuss the vital importance of a good binocular and high-powered, tripod-mounted binocular.

The second half of the podcast is story time. Fellow writer Jeff Johnston tells the tale of his near-Boone & Crockett buck, and I share the story of my massive-antlered, battle-scarred old buck. This was a fun one, folks, recorded in the field hunkered around a cast-iron wood stove on a historic ranch once frequented by Pancho Villa. ENJOY!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Folks there are two types of animal around the world that are known as the gray ghost.

0:05.7

One is the Kudu bull in Africa.

0:08.0

And the other is a tiny desert-dwelling white-tailed deer. They live in the southwest of North America.

0:16.2

That ranges from Mexico, of course, into Arizona and a little bit into New Mexico.

0:20.8

There are very coveted species among people who like hunting a remote country

0:26.2

and rugged rigorous hunts. I'm sitting here with some good friends, some new friends. We got

0:32.2

Bob Rob, the legend himself of Peterson's

0:35.4

hunting magazine back in the day and now what you've been freelancing for

0:40.5

30 years now 30 years.

0:43.0

years.

0:44.0

Bob's lived in Alaska shot giant doll sheep falling off of giant mountains and lived to tell the

0:50.3

tails stop charging lines that wanted to get in his vehicle with him.

0:54.2

He's been there and done that, and he's probably among those of us that are just holding tags here,

1:00.3

accepting Ted or trusty guide. probably by far the most experienced

1:04.8

Coosdear hunter because you also lived in Arizona for 15 years. Yes I did and

1:09.1

I loved to hunt coosdear. Yeah awesome. Then there's Jeff Johnson, a good friend of mine, we go way

1:16.5

back. We kind of came up in the industry, the writing industry together, I think. You're in the

1:20.4

NRA, our frenemies.

1:23.4

That is correct, but hey, there's a T in that goose.

1:27.3

Johnston.

1:28.3

I'm kidding.

1:30.3

Yes, we did, we were our rival and Nemesis,

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