Planning & Doing a DIY Mule Deer Hunt, with Hunter McWaters
Backcountry Hunting Podcast
Joseph von Benedikt
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Ever wanted to plan and execute a DIY mule deer hunt on public land? Here's how to do it folks, as showcased by Hunter McWaters. Hunter is the host of The Hunter's Quest TV show, podcast, and YouTube channel.
Hunter talks us through getting a tag, the e-scouting process, creating hunt plans A, B, and C, planning and arranging gear, and finally putting boots on the ground and your hunting plans in action.
We also discuss the importance of being ready to shift gears and roll with the unexpected; of preparing to chart and navigage long stalks in big country, and being able to make precise shots at distances most eastern hunters have never encountered.
Naturally, we go over Hunter's choice of rifle, scope, cartridge, and bullet, as well as tent, boots, and more. This one turned into a great hunting story interwoven with fantastic hunting tips and techniques. ENJOY!
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| 0:00.0 | Folks, if you've ever dreamed about coming west from somewhere else, it doesn't really |
| 0:05.4 | matter where, but somewhere far away from the west and making your own hunt happen, whether |
| 0:10.8 | it's for elk, mule deer, antelope, spring bear, whatever the case may be. |
| 0:15.9 | The process can be daunting. |
| 0:18.1 | I've got a good friend on the line with me today. This is Hunter McWaters with |
| 0:22.3 | the Hunter's Quest TV show YouTube channel and so forth. And he made a point of coming from |
| 0:29.5 | Virginia to hunt mule deer in Colorado last year without any outside intel. Hunter, thanks for coming on on the show it's great to see you again |
| 0:39.9 | here my friend yeah man thanks for having me i appreciate it and it was good seeing you the other day in |
| 0:45.0 | person and yeah happy to be here yeah you bet so we ended up running into each other at the shot |
| 0:51.5 | show down in las vegas the yearly Vegas, the industry's biggest yearly convention, |
| 0:57.3 | which is just an amazing event. |
| 0:59.9 | It's not a consumer show. |
| 1:02.1 | It's a working industry persons show. |
| 1:07.5 | And as such as a much different vibe |
| 1:09.4 | than like the DSC show or the NRA show, any of those. |
| 1:13.7 | But man, I love it because if you plan ahead, you get a lot of one-on-one time putting fingerprints on cool new products and spending time visiting with friends like you. |
| 1:23.9 | So, yeah, it was good to run into you. |
| 1:26.4 | Absolutely, man. |
| 1:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 1:27.3 | And like, you know, some of the, man. Yeah. And like, you know, |
| 1:28.4 | some of the, we were talking off air about, you know, some of the consumer shows. If you're a guy |
| 1:33.2 | like me, you know, trying to get established in the industry and stuff like that, like, |
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