A SHORT SEASON

I left my optics at home so I would film more. Now, I’m just sitting on the hill while Chase and Zach glass. And I’m slapped again, but not by the wind.

I found a buck at 900 yards with the edge of my eye. Gray light isn’t gray, and your headlamp is costing you deer.

I used to be afraid of what lurked in the shadows. Then I got lost on a night so dark there were no shadows. And now everything has changed.

“Take your boots off now, you’re 80 yards away,” I speak into the radio. Josh is on the other side of a canyon trying to get within bow range of a bedded Coues deer. Killing one with his bow is the only dream I know he has. And now, he’s 80 yards away from making that dream a memory. Josh

n 2019 I had a Unit 10 archery elk tag. It is one of the top 5 archery elk tags in Arizona. I waited 13 years to draw it. I did not fill the tag. I passed bulls I should have killed. I missed bulls I ranged wrong. I blew stalk after stalk after stalk. I picked up broken antler

I‘m sitting above a deep canyon with my eyes buried in glass. I’m panning left and right, while Josh and Ricky are panning right and left. We’re looking for fuzzy antlered mule deer. Josh has a tag and his bow. The three of us have been in this exact spot doing this exact thing at this exact time of year

I just finished a Google Search: “How to Glass for Big Game”. Maybe you’ve done similar. I was curious what the results would look like, as this is something I think about each time I sit down on a rock and pry open the legs of my tripod to settle in behind the glass. There’s no shortage of strategies, but