HOW TO: Go Mule Deer Hunting This Year
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Do you want to hunt Mule Deer this year? In this video, Brady Miller goes over what you need to know to help you hunt Mule Deer this year and for years to come!
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My strategy is live in the western mountain state that doesn’t mess with points and just get a great OTC elk and deer tag every year.
I can honestly say I’ve pick up tags for elk and mule deer every year for the last 19 years, since I retired from the military, and I’ve never carried points.
HOLY MOLY!
How?
@@Vetb_ Half priced cow tags in Wyoming, Controlled Hunt tags in Idaho, Over-the -counter or leftover tags in Colorado and a stray tag here and there in Arizona and New Mexico. If you want to hunt you have to do the work and search for tags.
@@richardkramer1094 you must teach us the Waze
@@Vetb_ By your handle I assume you are a veteran. Veterans persevere just as we were taught to do. Think outside the box, you must be willing to go where others are afraid to go.
I'm a young guy from the east coast and these videos confuse me. I'm trying my best to learn with the hopes of going to Wyoming, idaho, and Colorado in the years to come. I need to find a one-on-one class for this lol. It's rocket science to a whitetail hunter on the east coast.
I’m trying to learn as well. We will get it figured out and I look forward to when things click
There's no class. As an adult-onset hunter, it takes studying. If you need help call fish and game for any state and they will be willing to help as well. Wyoming is a preference point. If you arent ready or willing to hunt it now buy preference point until you are. Idaho is OTC/Lottery so it's pretty straightforward. CO I haven't hunted yet but plan to in the next year or two. It all depends on your budget and time as well. If you're strapped for time but can save up the cash in some states Outfitters are saved tags. You can hire a guide and learn a ton then get more into draws. Eff anyone that says that's cheating my first yr mulie was guided public land and a very nice 4x4. If you don't have the cash then look to OTC and preference point buy ins. Brady is 100% on point you can absolutely get on mule deer hunts if you know some general states and diversify. I'll hunt OR, ID, poss WA this year. Planning on ID, WY, poss CO the following.
Me too man I'm a maryland guy hunted whitetail my whole life . I'm slowly learning bit by bit. Honestly I think OTC elk is the easiest in 2nd rifle. Also Wyoming archery isn't that hard for pronghorn
So cool, wish I had the physical ability to do those hunts, thinking about getting an ebike…thoughts anyone?
Having said that I just did my first pronghorn hunt this year in Wyoming and I’m loving it, can make hard or as as easy I want to.
You guys are great!
Doing my first mule deer hunt this year in colorado
Right on, and good luck to you! Thanks for checking out the video.
Good stuff here. I have a Muley obsession as well. Oregon is an interesting option. Going to have to look at that.
Thanks for checking out the video! They are amazing animals!!
I need to get out there and try some western big game hunting. Where I live there is only whitetail and they are not even that big. The problem I have is I didn't grow up in a hunting family so I never learned the methods and strategies for big game hunting. It's damn near impossible to learn this stuff as an adult. No one shares their techniques and/or how this stuff is done. My biggest fear is killing a big game animal and then having the meat spoil because I didn't know how to clean and harvest the carcass properly. In my opinion that would be a terrible crime and I am not willing to risk it. I won't kill any big game until I have a strategy in place about what to do with the carcass once the animal is on the ground!
Brady if you write book on Mule Deer I would buy it.
Glad you enjoy all the content! I actually have one in the works that I’ve been working on for 3 years. I need to put some more time together to really get it finished.
Brady is the man!
No doubt about it!
Great Information Brady Thank you for sharing .
God's Blessings
Glad it was helpful!
Thank you, Perry! Hope you're doing well.
Great video good info Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed the video, Michael! Best of luck this season.
I live in socal where we have mule deer. things move over 5 miles a day and stay in high elevation/rough terrain. Want to try out of state white tail or elk hunt next year.
Good job
Points? Is this only for non-residents? How does that work?
Brady the mule deer man 👊🏻
Thanks buddy! I enjoy mule deer so much. Isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of them.
@@brady_j_miller it truly is your passion and forte.👊🏻 would love to hunt with ya one day
i got a real good map of un it 18b i drew for but all the maps i have don't show water tanks so where would i find a map i have scouted and have seen no deer
Do you not bother with applying in NM? Or is it just a roll of the dice, so it doesn’t count as part of your plan?
I was thinking the same thing. Assuming you are a resident as well, us getting a tag is easy. With 6% draw pool for non residents and no over the counter i get why he didn't mention it. A lot of good muley units in NM.
Hey Zack. I have never been able to draw a tag in NM for mule deer. I've even applied for some archery only tags with decent odds and I still can't pull a tag. So that is why I didn't included this on my hunt every year plan. There's definitely a lot of opportunity in the West, and if you're a resident of certain states, you have a huge leg up! Utah is another state that I love hunting, but tags I pursue are sometimes harder to draw there, and just don't fit in my schedule each year. Plus I'm happy to wait out in Utah and fill my year to year hunts in other states while I wait my turn. But I definitely apply in pretty much every single Western state for mule deer. I have a random goal to take a mule deer in every Western state. So hopefully I can start to cross off some of these states.
@@brady_j_miller I'm on the Insider alot Brady looking at NM for muzzleloader mule deer hunts, specifically units that GoHunt shows as great to 100% odds of drawing each year and went way out of my way to scout one of those units this year. I was hoping you were going to mention this hunt in NM in your video here and if you have found success down there - it certainly isn't getting alot of attention. Maybe that's a good thing and I should just go for it next year. Thanks.
@@brady_j_miller Great video! Thanks for answering this question. Can you do an in depth MD field judging themed video in the future? Or share some or the amazing phonescope footage you have
That the deer mount that broke in the background? That hurt me to see and i'm not even remotely involved with it.
Haha. Yeah. It hurts me to look at as well. My other giant buck was supposed to be next to it… but as you said… he’s still broken 🤦🏻♂️
No love for north or south Dakota?
I haven’t personally hunted them. So I didn’t mention them in this video and give advice on something I don’t have experience with. They are great states and I have points built up. Just waiting for a time to fit them in my schedule one year.
Can i take a doe with a Montana general deer tag?
Any opinions on Nebraska
How can I hunt with Brady help me out guys ..Happy hunting
Aren't there over the counter mule deer tags in Nebraska, Texas , North and South Dakota ?
Nebraska is a great state to pick up some OTC tags. There is some private land issues you'd have to navigate and plan around to find a place that actually has some decent huntable public land. I actually had plans to go to Nebraska this year to finally experience that state. But I decided to stick around the office and work on some new INSIDER enhancements we are pushing out later this year. I'm always looking for a new adventure and trying to piece to together the puzzle of learning a new state. So eventually I'll finally get to hunt mule deer in some of these other places.
I knew that Brady would be the man with a plan for mule deer. 🦌 As he and others know by now it’s my hope to get out to Wyoming this October for what I am planning on being a 10 day combination hunt for pronghorn and mule deer 🦌. I would do pronghorn first and enjoy that experience and hopefully get fresh camp 🏕 meat 🍖 for the following mule deer 🦌 hunt. My biggest issues are access in units that 3 points for both species would get me and finding someone to go with me on the trip from West Virginia. I am still kicking myself for not having a tag 🏷 in 2019 when I went with my youngest brother and Dad before the Idaho system went crazy.
I have 1-3 points for mule deer 🦌 in every non coastal western state. Hopefully I can make it to each one of those states someday soon. I saw that Utah general deer is easy to draw for non residents, but I know that they get a lot of pressure. Nevada I saw that the highest percentage for drawing an early archery 🏹 with 2 points is 35%.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts Brady, my brother likes mule deer 🦌 since they can take you into and beyond elk country but are much easier to pack off the mountain 🏔. Plus tags 🏷 are cheaper for the animal that is one third to one fourth the size of an elk.
Why does Brady seem nervous?
Step one go to Colorado
Step two, maybe just pick up an elk tag haha.
You lost me at hello
haha :)
Can we all agree Brady is on Adderall? Look at those eyes. He’s thinking faster than his mouth can express. I like him, but I’m scared.
Offseason blues? Or maybe I'm just alergic to bright lights that day haha
Well, now Colorado is gonna be blown up with "mule deer hunters" just what we need. More point creep.
The interesting part. I love helping other hunters chase their dreams. I've always had this mentality even before I even worked for a hunting company and just shared tips and hunts I went on with friends, family or any other person who wanted to read my thoughts. If I can help one person have a great hunt, I take that as a win. Each year I talk about ways to become a better mule deer hunter and even though I do give up some of the things I've learned, I feel like I should share what I've personally learned, as a way to give back to the hunting community.
the Nevada deer herd has gone to absolute dog shit !!!!! Deer numbers are terrible
It's not ideal and I've been chatting with NDOW about this for some time. I really hope Nevada can turn the tables and we get some moisture and feed on the ground!
@@brady_j_miller ya I hear you I believe it’s a combination of things
1. Moisture /precipitation
2. Horses there destroying the range land and are eating most of the food
3. Predators
4. Excessive numbers of tags
I live in Ely and I to know and work with many of the biologist in the Ely/Elko offices and know that there counts are not accurate !! Our local biologist Cody who is over are 11 spends more his time In His office looking at formal’s then real life numbers/data some serious changes need to be made to save our herds… I work for the state in forestry and sub guided on the side and hunt deer and elk from August to January and went six days this year without seeing a signal deer in a unit ….. and I run Swarovski optics I can’t blame it on the glass .. the animals just are not there
If I lived near Nevada I would totally enjoy volunteering filling tanks/hauling water for wildlife - no mountains in Houston, TX. :( Randy Newberg had a great video on that sometime back and it really got me thinking about what I could have done with my free time when I was single and had the time. If we want change but aren't willing to work for the results how can we blame anyone but ourselves for the outcome? But I am applying in Nevada and hope to hunt it someday soon so y'all put in all the hard work and make it great again for me, would ya please!!! :)
@@willfalkner4936 I like your comment and feel your hart is in the right place but you could haul water to wildlife guzzlers till you are blue in the face and out of money it would not help the situation Much we do not have ponds/tanks as you do In Texas.. but the feed is not here !!! The range is supper poor !!! I hunt lions all winter here in the snow and target deer wintering areas to help the deer but places that once held hundreds of deer in the winter are slim to none now ….like it’s real bad !!!! Going to take years to fix if it can be fixed