The Rifle Hunt of a Lifetime! Utah Mule Deer Hunt

[@BestChef-y7f]

Nothing makes me more happy seeing a veteran happy great hunt

[@MuleyFreak]

We love seeing the smile on their faces as well thank you for the support

[@pcanderson2384]

Thanks Ryan and Hunter for your service! Thanks Muley Freak and Hunts for the Brave for documenting these hunts to share with the rest of us and for making these hunts a once in a lifetime experience for our veterans.

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for all you do to make these hunts happen, Paul! Couldn't do it without you.

[@CRR8980]

Thank you veterans for your service and thank Muley Freak for being able to help these guys live out there hunting dreams!🇺🇸👍🏻🦌

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching!!

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind comment!

[@adamzalewski6135]

That deers a real man ❤

[@dancole9832]

Thank you for your dedicated service, gentlemen. Thank you, Muley Freak, for recognizing veterans and providing such an amazing experience. Congratulations to all involved. Great job!

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching!!!

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

It's the least we could do! Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind comment!

[@fixitcorrectly7301]

This is as good as it gets boys. Thanks for your service Hunter and Ryan……. Great deer.

[@dougboer9172]

Thank so much for your service gentlemen

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for watching!

[@bryanheard5278]

Thanks Ryan and Hunter for my freedrom. Great job putting on these hunts. Muley Freak thanks for documenting these hunts. i always get a tear in my eye watching them.

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for watching. We appreciate your support.

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for the support, Bryan! Veterans are awesome.

[@vincetracy5469]

Awesome hunt congrats Ryan and hunter . Thanks for your patriotic achievements and all veterans. Congrats muely freek awesome way to give back

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind comment!

[@dougd490]

Great hunt, great people, great video. Thank you for your service and sacrifice for us all. O and Blacktail tastes pretty dang good!

[@richardwest-q8w]

Beautiful property. Thanks to all. Special thanks to the Property Owner.

[@MuleyFreak]

Agreed and amen!

[@gamehunter07]

Thank you, Ryan and Hunter for your service ! Thank you to Muley Freak and all the guys involved with these awesome once in a lifetime hunts for these guys. It was great to see them accomplish hard things in a great setting. Not being able to walk for 2 years and out there pushing thru on the steep mountains, what an inspiration these guys are. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for your positivity and thanks for watching!

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thank you for the positive and kind comment, brother! Truly appreciate your support.

[@RandyMan388]

It's always good to do good things. Blessings your way.

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching!

[@Growingupin1985]

Great guys for a great cause! If you’ve hunted long enough you have wounded and lost something you were hunting. It haunts all of us. A rushed shot, bad placement, bad angle, not ranged properly, etc.. He didn’t throw up his hands and pursue another animal, he never stopped looking and finished the job! We learn something from every hunt! Happy hunting to all!

[@MuleyFreak]

Amen! It happens for sure.

[@victorkeith12]

Heak yeah, awesome video and good job to the hunter that never gave up on this buck

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for watching!

[@jasondlion]

Beautiful story! I'm ready for 2024 bring it on

[@MuleyFreak]

Thanks for watching, homie!

[@jimothy-johnson]

13:55 just to clarify, it does not work like that. Demolition Ranch shot a .50 BMG through a house of cards at 50 yards and it didn't fall over. Bullets missing near things doesn't do anything. It's not an uncommon myth for people to believe though so you're not alone in thinking that. That Nicholas Irving guy (who calls himself the Reaper) is a former Army sniper who believes a .50 BMG will blow your arm off if it misses within a couple feet of you.

[@MuleyFreak]

Interesting stuff for sure.

[@John_439]

Not interesting, just basic physics. Stop spreading fudd lore.

[@matthewkramer6543]

Trust me when I say I hate to be that guy. But in this case, I just have to do it. Keep in mind, I’m usually one vouch for long range hunting, if the shooter and equipment is up to par. Par is a high standard when it comes to long range precision. I know TS customs makes a rifle more than capable, but in this instance, the shooter literally stated he would like a shot within 300 yards. The shooting was well over 2x that, at 660 or whatever. He started off with a a miss or bad hit… who knows. He then followed up with a pretty good shot, but pretty poor shot selection. Bad time to take that shot, as well as the first one! Brush was right in the way. Every time you guys said “this bucks hurtin”, during the pursuit, I was cringing. I don’t feel the shooter was up to the task of delivering a quality shot, in the vitals, at 600+ yards, consistently. Another thing I’ll add. I’ve seen so many videos of wounded game getting back up, after a concussed animal or CNS shot. When does it become the standard, to stay on an animal for 2 minutes, reading body language, after it goes down? I know for a fact, this isn’t the first time something like that has happened to the Muley Freak Team. It can be avoided, most of the time. I appreciate the efforts and recovery of the buck though. I am a Muley Freak fan, and I really appreciate the sacrifices these vets made for the best country in the world. I will also add, I’m far from perfect and have wounded game taking stupid shots. The biggest difference in my case, is I knew I’d made a mistake, and there were lessons learned with each one. I don’t think you guys feel the same way.

[@matthewkramer6543]

Let me know what you guys think about that comment. I’m debating even keeping it up, I do not want to be a hater against the hunting community. ^^

[@123-JDAWG]

I believe any ethical hunter or someone with common sense feels the same way.

[@gsnicholas8522]

@@matthewkramer6543in my opinion, what you said is spot on.

[@arttrumbo9496]

leave it up. I will leave my own comment. maybe if enough people speak up they will stop making the same mistakes of shooting game at too long of distances and not making follow up shots.

[@MuleyFreak]

We (MF) offer opinions in the field, but ultimately leave discretion up to the hunter (in this case a vet) and the guides who are being paid by the foundation to guide. With that said, we aren’t the guides. The guides are there as you can see. Comments wouldn’t be being posted if the shot was perfect, BUT, since it’s hunting and more often than not an imperfect thing. This sort of imperfect thing you witnessed happen can happen at a 100 yards, 50 yards, and even less, but since it’s not at 100 yards you’re picking the reason why “you believe” it happened and that contributing factor being the distance. If it was a 100 mishap you either a) don’t leave a comment b) choose another reason to hate (although you don’t sound like a hateful individual) we are there for support on this hunt and don’t personally outfit or guide it.

[@dkart004]

Thank you for your guys’ service. Whitetail(coues)>mule deer

[@hrs4me30]

Great Video! Mules vs WT on taste... have both regularly, twice a week depending on what gets pulled out of the freezer. Sausage there's no difference in my opinion, steaks I can never pin point what exactly is different but I always know which one I'm eating. Regardless the both go down happily. Shoot Straight!

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for your opinion there & thnx for watching! Check out our store www.muleyfreak.com

[@DemonBloodWolf01]

Never hunted or ate a whitetail im born and still living in utah so only hunted mule deer, elk, pronghorn, and turkeys to me i think I can't chose which is my favorite food I love all of them

[@MuleyFreak]

Not a bad choice in any of those!

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Appreciate you watching and thanks for the comment!

[@Buckboy909]

Thank you two for you service and Hunter congrats on the monster buck. Ryan congrats on the zombie deer. Can you tell me what they scored?

[@blaynemacpherson8519]

Great hunt. Glad you stuck with trying to find the find. Good example of why neck shots (knowing you weren’t aiming for the neck) are not a good idea. Some people take those shots.

[@MuleyFreak]

I don't think that was intentional, but yeah, neck is either hit or miss.

[@bige2259]

Beautiful land and very nice deer . Love the outdoors and being in the mountains just makes me happy . FYI , a near miss will never do anything to an animal. Doesn’t matter how big the bullet is either . Demolition Ranch did a test to see just what a .50 bmg bullet would do, and he built a little house of cards with poker cards and shot a Barrett .50 cal through the house of cards and they didn’t move . So there’s no way a near miss did anything to that deer on the first shot . A grazing shot would definitely input some energy but not a miss . No matter how close

[@MuleyFreak]

Amen 🙏…So where did the bullet hit then?

[@eaglecapoutdoors]

Way to get it done!

[@MuleyFreak]

🔥🔥🔥

[@doubledd1394]

Thanks for your service men! And def whitetail taste better but muleys are better than blacktail😂 hands down

[@MuleyFreak]

Good to know about black tails ! 🤣 thnx for watching!

[@doubledd1394]

@@MuleyFreak if you ever want to come up and hunt them I’d love to help you guys but yes not the best table fare but not terrible either

[@oswaldosanchez2141]

Semper Fi!

[@MuleyFreak]

❤️

[@justindownes7578]

Awesome

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching.

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind comment!

[@jedcooper443]

Gentlemen..thanks for your service..the guides should have gotten you closer than 660 yards!!

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching.

[@tinaharvey7755]

First and foremost great to see you taking out veterans! I'm not on social media hi-jacked my wives acct. Wondering if your shooter was using that so called wonder bullet that starts with an E and ends with an X? His hits looked good. In one season we had three failures of this bullet between 250 and 350 yds. on one elk and two mule deer, requiring multiple good, usually one and done hits out of 300 WM. Going back to good cup and core bullets or my favorite Nosler. Mule deer or Whitetail? They are what they eat but if one ever gets a chance to take one feeding on Garbanzo beans I highly suggest it. Unbelievable difference in taste and even color of the meat. Helps the farmers out too. Jeff

[@gentryandjill]

So what did you guys figure out happenee with that 1st shot?

[@clintdyson5765]

Thanks to our freedom keepers! We would not be able to hunt without all the sacrifice! And when it comes to taste of deer. Well I live in a special location when it comes to blacktail deer country. I hunt river bottom blacktail in the northern Sacramento Valley. They live on the edge of farm land. They just eat better than our blacktail that come out of the hills. I've always hunted out of state for mule deer in Idaho Colorado and Arizona. And hands down blacktail in my opinion is better that an ol mule deer that has been eating sage. But I think the whitetail I get to hunt in Wisconsin are just about as good as it gets. Make your tongue slack the roof of your mouth crazy! Lol

[@ColbsActual]

Whitetail tastes better but something about stalking a nice muley makes it taste so good

[@MuleyFreak]

🔥🔥

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Amen! Well put. Thanks for watching and thanks for the kind comment!

[@bobwilliams3634]

Mule deer taste better than whitetail Great hunt

[@MuleyFreak]

👌

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Thanks for watching!

[@jedcooper443]

depends on what they are feeding on..

[@KelliDowner]

Are you stationed in Montana

[@MuleyFreak]

No

[@jameshilbert4005]

I prefer Mule deer hands down!

[@BrettMcNary]

After you guys skinned the deer out, did you find any indication of the first shot?

[@MuleyFreak]

Could never tell where the first shot hit. We think after watching the footage more maybe it went through the ear, but it didn't seem like it when we were cutting him up.

[@patobrien7009]

One browtine is missing. I wonder if he shot it off.

[@braxtonkennedy71123]

Whitetail

[@MuleyFreak]

Muley ;)

[@suzyCook-f4p]

Brilliant to see one minute an animal enjoying and living it's life, the next seeing it dead . Thank you for sharing what you do

[@MuleyFreak]

Thnx for watching 👀

[@robfardy980]

I don't think I've seen a moose hunt on any of your videos, moose meat is delicious, burgers, sausages etc.., research newfoundland moose, the bulls get quite large on this island.

[@MuleyFreak]

We have several moose hunts

[@robfardy980]

Awesome, is there any video's uploaded, would love to watch them, love watching Big E ( Eric ), Tyler best mustache in the business, and Aaron when the 3 are on a hunt, you can add Taylor as well, nice guy.

[@EJFORTHREE]

Mules and whitetail are both good but I think muleys are better

[@JohnAngle-vw8yq]

The hunter is just following the advice of the guide. But there’s no way this shot of over 600 yards should have been taken. I appreciate these veterans and all that they have done for this country

[@MuleyFreak]

That he is…but why “no way”. How can you been so certain?

[@JohnAngle-vw8yq]

@@MuleyFreak His own words. He wasn’t comfortable or confident at that range.

[@haoEthan-nb5uy]

Hi my friend，your videos are really helpful to me and I will follow you forever! Besides that, I wonder if I can extend a collaboration invitation to you. Maybe you will like it. Looking forward to your reply.

[@hossport]

Congratulations Ryan, Nice job! Last year we had the same thing happen to us. I captured it on video, it’s crazy how similar the footage is. kzbin.info/www/bejne/paqYdnqLl517ebsfeature=shared

[@MuleyFreak]

Just checked it out! It crazy that buck did the same thing, the will power to live is crazy with deer.

[@hossport]

Hope you all have some good times and good luck this fall, Happy Hunting!!!

[@jaybailey8044]

Whitetail tastes better

[@chrisward4365]

Congratulations to Ryan and Hunter! I hate seeing people take long shots at game animals. Be a real Hunter and get him to the range where you can make an ethical shot. And quit promoting long range taking up animals.

[@MuleyFreak]

We aren’t the ones guiding them, but rather filming, supporting, and otherwise assisting how we can. There are professional guides accompanying them helping them make this types of decisions.

[@aaronvanwoerkom6401]

Don't be so quick to cast judgement. This same thing could have happened at 100 yards. The veteran and guide felt comfortable to take the shot, they lived with the shot, and ultimately worked hard to get the animal down. The bottom line is that our veterans are being provided time in God's mountains away from the hustle and bustle of every day life. Enjoy the hunt for what it is.

[@John_439]

If it could happen at 100 you have no right shooting at animals.

[@richardlopez9300]

Great buck so lucky to recover it. Those guides should of never let you take shot that far. Bad hunting ethics. 300 yards are closer.its better than flinging bullets and hopeing you hit it.

[@MuleyFreak]

We aren't the guides, but simply the filmers and assisters in helping these vets with gear and opportunities.

[@MrRDP21]

Awesome

[@MuleyFreak]

💪