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Want more mule deer tags? Then this podcast is for you! Learn more about the who, how, & why of the Muley Fanatic Foundation

As part of the recent Mule Deer Days banquet in Rock Springs, Wyoming, Robby Denning and Travis Hobbs did a short interview with Joshua Coursey, President of the Muley Fanatic Foundation.

By supporting the Foundation, you can help conserve and propagate mule deer now and into the future. When we grow more mule deer, we can increase hunting opportunity.  Listen in.

Visit the Muley Fanatics Foundation website here

https://www.muleyfanatic.org/mule-deer-days

to stay connected with Mule Deer Days and more

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Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

Interested in growing big mule deer? On today’s rokcast, Robby Denning hosts PHD in Wildlife Biology Randy Larsen of Brigham Young Universtity. Learn where the biggest concentration of Boone & Crockett bucks have come from, what it really takes for mule deer to grow big antlers, if you can really “shoot out” a unit’s genetics, how drought might be worse than winterkill, and why a gang member mountain lion named M42 should be on the Endangered Species list. They also list the top 4 factors in growing big mule deer. Follow Randy Larsen at @wildlifeprof on Instagram here https://instagram.com/wildlifeprof?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Join the conversation here

https://rokslide.com/forums/forums/rokcast.129/

Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

Today on the Rokcast, Robby hosts Josh Boyd. Besides being a very dedicated hunter, Josh is also a Hydrologist for USFS. Josh has measured and studied winter severity for over 20 years from SE Arizona to NW Montana. With some certainty, Josh can predict mule deer winterkill.  They dive into Snow Water Equivalent, where and how it’s measured, the data that comes from it, and how it can help you make better decisions when planning your mule deer hunt around winterkill. Winter severity could be the number one predictor of the size of a mule deer population.

Visit NRCS Snowpack Map here

https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/wcc/home/snowClimateMonitoring/snowpack/basinDataReports/

Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

In Today's episode, Sam Weaver lays out the 7th annual Rokslide Cold Bow Challenge here https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/2023-cold-bow-challenge.306071/ and talks about the available prizes. The Cold Bow Challenge open enrollment is Saturday, April 29th. Justin Davis, a Well Known Rokslider, who's harvested every Colorado Big Game species except a desert bighorn with archery equipment, joins in a discussion about preseason bow checks and gives valuable Bow tuning tips.  Sam talks latest Rokslide review articles along with the announced tag allocations in Utah and Wyoming.

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It’s Coyotes vs. Mule Deer. In this episode, Robby and Travis Hobbs sit down with Mitch Brunet of the Monteith Shop.  As part of his contribution to the D.E.E.R research project, Mitch studied how coyotes react to mule deer fawns when their primary prey population, cottontail rabbits, fluctuated from high to low.  Many hunters believe when rabbit populations are low, coyotes turn to mule deer fawns as a primary prey.  That is not what Mitch found.

Listen to the entire podcast to better understand the relationship between coyotes vs. mule deer, and rabbits.

Visit the Monteith Shop website here

https://https://monteithshop.org

& follow the Monteith Shop on Instagram here

https://https://instagram.com/monteith.shop?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Visit the Muley Fanatics Foundation website here

https://www.muleyfanatic.org/mule-deer-days

to stay connected with Mule Deer Days and more

All Rokcast Podcasts here

https://www.rokslide.com/category/podcast/

Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

Robby hosts Cliff Gray of Colorado. Cliff was an outfitter in Colorado for 11 years, amassing a huge pool of experience hunting mule deer after mid-October.  They chat about mule deer behavior at that time and dive into the story of one of the biggest bucks to come out of Colorado in the last decade during the October dates. They also talk about tips when hiring an outfitter.  You can hear Cliff as guest host on the Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast or follow Cliff Gray below.

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For Cliff Gray on Youtube here

https://youtube.com/@CliffGray

or Instagram here

or sign up for Cliff’s newsletter to become a World Class Outdoorsman here

https://pursuitwithcliff.com/

Keep up with Rokslide here

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Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

In today's episode, Sam Weaver hosts Tony Trietch to hear all about his upcoming Youtube film: High Desert Hide & Seek

Watch the film trailer here

https://youtu.be/8QMXpJUfaX8

Link to the forum thread here

https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/prize-giveaway-high-desert-hide-seek-a-rokslide-film-by-tony-trietch.304402/

The Film drops April 16th and you can win tons of gear for watching.  Subscribe to the Rokslide Youtube channel to win here

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9EggmiRWDFPUAm6iYPDe0g

Sam also talks Colorado Draw Deadlines, License Reductions, Colorado & Wyoming wolf litigation, Utah Draw tips, Cold Bow Challenge, MTN TOUGH Fitness, and the latest reviews on Rokslide.

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Robby hosts Brandon Diamond, Area Wildlife Manager in Gunnison Colorado for the last 22 years. They talk Colorado buck hunting, the current winter's effect on mule deer, how mule deer management has changed over the last 30 years, and how the current five-year season structure is affecting mule deer in the first three years of the plan. They also dive into how CWD is affecting big mule deer.  Will there be good Colorado buck hunting available in 2023? These conversations can help you become a better buck hunter and steward of wildlife

Colorado Five-Year Season Structure here

https://cpw.state.co.us/thingstodo/Pages/SeasonStructure.aspx

Mule Deer Aging Project here

https://cpw.state.co.us/thingstodo/Pages/MuleDeerAgingProject.aspx

Other similar Rokcast Episode here

Find Robby’s lastest book: Hunting Big Mule Deer: The Stories on Amazon here

This is the follow up to his first book available in the Rokstore here

or on Amazon: How to Take the Best Buck of Your Life.

https://www.rokslide.com/utah-idaho-wyoming-winterkill-update/

Photo courtesy of The Monteith Shop

What’s a punk rock mule deer? For decades, most hunters thought the does of the herd passed on the migration route to their fawns.  Turns out, that may not be entirely true.  

In this podcast, Robby along with Travis Hobbs, interview Rhiannon Jakopak, researcher at the Monteith Shop.  As part of her research for the D.E.E.R research project, Rhiannon used GPS collars to track the migration of 8 fawns in the Wyoming Range and then compared their migration route to the route their mothers taught them.  Fifty percent of the fawns had established a new migration route within a year of leaving their mothers. She calls these little rebels “Punk Rock Mule Deer”

Listen to entire podcast to learn how these fawns can give us hope for the future of all mule deer.

Visit the Monteith Shop website here

https://monteithshop.org

& follow the Monteith Shop on Instagram here

https://instagram.com/monteith.shop?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

Visit the Muley Fanatics Foundation website here

https://www.muleyfanatic.org/mule-deer-days

to stay connected with Mule Deer Days and more

All Rokcast Podcasts here

https://www.rokslide.com/category/podcast/

Although the calendar says spring is here, that’s debatable on many of the mule deer winter ranges in the West. High winterkill is already being reported in some areas.  Today, Rokcast co-host Robby Denning joins Travis Hobbs. Travis has been donating his time to deer feeding operations in Utah the last few months. Travis has worked with wildlife professionals and hunters to provide the most current update on winterkill in parts of Utah, Idaho, and Wyoming based on GPS collar data and field observations.

Follow Travis on Rokslide here https://rokslide.com/forums/members/ntrlbrnhunter.31415/

or Instagram here

https://instagram.com/ntrlbrnhunter?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=