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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up? Gunfighters got a request. Somebody reached out to
me and said, hey, can you do a podcast talking
about the difference in spott and stalk hunting versus blind hunting.
I'm gonna throw in there, spot in stalk slash, still
hunting versus blind versus tree stand hunting. Okay, so I

(00:25):
grew up doing a lot of stand hunting east of
the Mississippi. I'll be honest, I don't really like it.
It certainly is effective, especially if you're hunting small areas
of land. I much prefer spot in, stalk and still
hunting for blind hunting stand hunting. Pick a good spot,
be patient, don't move, don't smell, and wait. It's really

(00:51):
that simple. When it comes time to make the shot,
make sure you make a good shot. Spotting stalk and
still hunting is much more complex. It's much for in
its akin from going to playing checkers to playing chess.
That being said, some things to be honest and stalking
or maybe a little bit easier. You get to move
around more, which I really like. Also, smell, I'm not

(01:13):
gonna say it's not important, but it's not as important
if you're stuck in a tree a lollipop just sticking
out there. I can't really control what the wind is
doing in relationship to you and where the deer are
or you think they're gonna be for your spot. In
stalk hunting, I can look at a plot of land
unless the wind does some kind of crazy change. I
can generally approach where I think those deer are, where

(01:34):
I know those deer are in a manner that they
don't smell me. Even if I were to wear garlic
scented deodorant, it wouldn't matter because I know how to
read the wind, and I know where they are, and
I know where I should approach from a lot of
times now the wind can do crazy things and switch around,
or could be blowing a different area than you don't
know in thermal patterns with mountains and valleys, But you

(01:57):
get the idea. It's a little bit more forgiving. They're
so like I said, you can move around also, especially
out west. This may sound crazy to people that hunt
out east, but I can maybe bump an elk or
a mulei or something. He might run, but I might
get back on him two or three times before I
get a good shot. Generally, with the amount of area
and stuff. You're hunting back east. If you spook a
white tail, he's pretty much gone, probably going on the area.

(02:20):
You can hunt him and cover miles and miles, and
I generally know where elk are gonna go because he
doesn't just go crazy and cover mountain after mountain, might
get another chance at him. So there's that, but it
is it's a lot more multifaceted. Shall we say no,
I've done an episode on spot install hunting. I'm gonna

(02:40):
plug that in here and put this out and then
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(03:02):
bucks a month of the Patreon and you get a
lot of cool insider content. But I don't want to
prolong this. I'm gonna plug in that episode and hopefully
you can learn about spot and stalk and still hunting
if you're not acquainted with it. Today we're going to
talk about stalking, not stalking as in stalking women talking

(03:22):
about spot and stalk hunting.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
I'm talking about.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Getting primitive with whatever it is, a rifle, a bow,
a handgun, or whatever it is, getting out in the wilderness,
stalking up on a living animal, killing it and eating
its flesh. That's what we're talking about today in Gunfighter Life.
As always, I'm your host, Michael Mulido. A little bit

(03:48):
about me in this podcast. I've been very blessed by
God to do a lot of things, first and foremost
in life.

Speaker 2 (03:54):
I am a Christian. I make no apologies for that.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
It's first and foremost in my life and everything that
I do this podcast is no different. All the things
that I've been blessed and grace to be able to do,
I take no credit for those.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
Those are all a gift from God.

Speaker 1 (04:08):
I grew up hunting and fishing at a and shooting
at a very early age in the South, that's the
Southeastern United States for those of you outside the US.
You know, in the backwoods of Virginia, hunting and fishing
in a world that doesn't really exist even a few
decades later, like I did back then. Some of my

(04:28):
earliest and finest memories are walking around the woods with
a gun or shooting. I joined the Marine Corps at seventeen,
whereby God's grace I made it back after two combat
tours and Iraq alive, not because I was better or deservative,
because God chose to save me. And after that, I
was an urban warfare instructor for the United States Marine

(04:50):
Corps under Mahabi Viper, where I taught urban warfare and
desert warfare to troops going overseas, both our military and
foreign militaries. I also worked for LA, whereby God's grace again,
I worked with the nastiest streets in the country in
LA doing regular patrol work and fugitive recovery, whereby God's

(05:10):
grace again I made it out in one piece. Also
served in the United States Army both full time and
part time National Guard in different combat MOS is different
MOS's primary Infantry eleven Bravo. I've been a longtime competition shooter.
I did my first formal shooting competition in nineteen ninety eight.
I've been very blessed by God with talents to win

(05:34):
anything from precision rifle to action pistol Steel Challenge USPSA.
I've competed a muzzleoad or archery.

Speaker 2 (05:42):
You name it.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
I've been very blessed to compete in and even you know,
even hatchet throwing things like that, I've competed in. But
I've been very blessed to win a lot of competitions
in rifle and pistol. Those are kind of my bread
and butter. Rifle was really my first competition passion, and
then pistol later in life, because I figured if I
was gonna have to defend myself with a gun and
was most likely going to be a handgun. I was

(06:06):
a commander of a tactical team, an SRT team special
response team most of you would consider it a swat
team in a very large metropolitan area. I was blessed
to be the commander of that unit, and by God's
graceful He's also been a private contractor and work for
some three letter government agencies, which I won't mention because
not a part of this podcast and not really important.

Speaker 2 (06:27):
And I don't stand that to brag.

Speaker 1 (06:28):
Like I said, all that stuff is a gift from God,
but I say it to say that I come of
this from a real world perspective. I am right now
a professional hunter and guide, which not a lot of
people can say in this day and age hunting anything
from elk to buffalo to all kinds of exotic deer

(06:49):
on a very large ranch, which I'll get it to
at the end of the podcast. But I'm very blessed
to have that job, and very blessed to be able
to be a professional hunter and guide and like a
professional buffalo and elks. How many people in today's day
and age you are blessed to be able to say that,
I'm professional firearms instructor and trainer, FBI certified and RA certified,
all those things. So I'll get more into that at

(07:11):
the end of the podcast, but today we're talking about
spot and stalk hunting, which is something that I love.
There's a quote by Jeff Cooper or Towns in Whalen,
one of the big time guys decades ago in the
hunting and shooting world, and I'm not sure exactly which
ones that, and I'm not as sure of the exact quote,
but it's.

Speaker 2 (07:31):
Something like.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
Men's stalk alone in the wilderness, or men's stalk with
a rifle alone in the wilderness, something like that, And
I would say there's something intrinsically just I don't even
know how to describe it. Just something that if you

(08:00):
have done it and don't do it, you feel like
something's missing. And I think if you've never done it,
you just are missing out. I don't know how else
to put it, but grabbing a weapon and stalking a
living animal in the wilderness and taking it and butchering
it and consuming its flesh is just something I think

(08:23):
that every man, if he feels called to, should experience,
and not everybody is gonna do that. I get to
their vegetarians and vegans, and I'm not putting that down.
I get to their pacifists, and that's fine, that's certainly
not me. But I certainly do not pretend to be
any better than those people. But if that's not you
and that appeals to you, I encourage you to learn

(08:44):
how to spot and stalk, hunt. I encourage you to
learn how to hunt and how to spot and how
to stalk. And you don't need a gun for this.
You don't need a license for this. Do you do
the kind of stuff I'm talking about, Yeah, you need
a license, but you can practice this in a park
with squirrels.

Speaker 2 (09:05):
You can practice this on whatever, wherever you are.

Speaker 1 (09:10):
I'm sure there's something you can try and spot and
stalk on It might not be the same, but it's
a similar.

Speaker 2 (09:16):
Skill that you can develop. You can do it with
a camera.

Speaker 1 (09:19):
Your goal could be to get super close to get
a really good picture, and you could get the skill
of spotting and stalking and maybe even still hunting without
a gun. And that's totally fine. But let me tell
you about a recent blessed experience that I had. It's
a buffalo hunt, which is something I had always wanted

(09:40):
to do, and in today's world it's kind of hard
to do. But I'm very blessed, like I said, to
be the steward of a ranch, one of the stewards
of a ranch, very large hunting operation where they have
buffalo and elk and fallow and access and sika deer
and rams and all those things. And this was a

(10:02):
buffalo archery hunt, which you know, hunting buffalo is a
rare thing.

Speaker 2 (10:06):
Hunting buffalo archery is another rare thing.

Speaker 1 (10:10):
And the client that I have was a great guy,
really meek, very wise, older gentleman. I think, at least
I think he was wise because they didn't talk a
lot easily. People talk less when they're wise, So seeing
he was a great man, I was really honored and
humbled to be his guide on this buffalo hunt. And
we were going out after the big alpha male of

(10:31):
the buffalo.

Speaker 2 (10:31):
Herd, and.

Speaker 1 (10:36):
Our first attempt, we had quite a few people with
us trying to film and stuff like that, and it
didn't work out. And I was very blessed to be
selected to be his sole guide, literally walking in this
giant wilderness ranch with just him and I and I
had a rifle just in case, but he was armed
with a bow and we were trying to stalk up.

(10:57):
So first we had to locate these buffalo and we
didn't know We kind of knew kind of where they were,
but not exactly. We had to locate them and stalk
up on them. And if you know anything about archery hunting,
you have to be in a lot closer than you
do with a rifle, so we had to stalk in
pretty close. This guy told me he was comfortable at

(11:19):
no further than forty yards. So let me just tell
you about this experience. We start looking for these buffalo.
We had scared them once before with some more people,
so we kind of knew the general area where they were.
We sat down for a while. It was a beautiful,
unseasonably warm day. It may have been January, I remember,

(11:41):
was February yet or not. I would have to check
my phone for the dato on the pictures. But we
sat and looked, enjoying the beautiful day in God's beautiful
creation Psalms nineteen. The heavens declared the glory of God,
and the earth shows us as handiwork. We didn't see anything,
so I figured they must be in another area since
they didn't pass us. So we started stalking through the
woods and on the edges of fields. We went back

(12:03):
and forth, checking a couple of different fields. These are
planes bison, so they are more of a field species
and a forest species, although.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
They can be found in both.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
And we checked a couple of fields with no bison,
and then we found him.

Speaker 2 (12:19):
We found first I spotted.

Speaker 1 (12:20):
The female, and then I figured the alpha male was
somewhere close at hand, and we spotted the big buffalo.
Heard now, the alpha male and the ones below him,
there's not much difference unless they're standing exactly side by side,
but this one had kind of a more blonde mane,
and I had known him from seeing him in times past.

(12:43):
And I talked to my hunter and I got him
set and I made sure that he knew which buffalo
was the alpha and the biggest of the group, and
we tried to stalk in close to these bison. These
bison had already been spooked once before, so they weren't
having it. There was not enough cover, not enough trees,

(13:04):
and not enough permissible terrain. There was a deep canyon
between us, not a deep canyon, but a sizeable canyon
between us that prevented just a flat out stalk of
walking up on these bison. We got in the position
which is a guide's You know, part of a guide's
thing is knowing the lay of the land and knowing
to read the wind and
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