 fresh start to a beautiful morning here welcome back to another vlog I'm actually not going fishing I'm standing in my bass boat right now but I'm getting ready to leave we're going from one cactus filled area to another that was just here in some turkeys that were getting off the roost a big oak tree across the creek here I'm coming down to just pack everything up my boat and leave and go down to the deer lease and I got ants all up in my boat apparently so I haven't been down to the deer lease at all very very long time and it's time to go down there and start checking things out my buddy mullet man who hunts on this lease he's been wanting to make a bow and I've got a bunch of extra bowwood so I was gonna take that down to him beautiful cabin here on the water and we're going from that beautiful sleeping arrangement it's probably sleeping in a hammock tonight so it's time to start roughing it get a little gruff little gruff going for the deer season thank you I saw the root beer colored skater from across the lake I thought I heard my name turns out you're fishing for a I've never heard the root beer skater before but that's that's old school dude makes sense that's from back in my young days and who do we have here yeah that's your fishing partner right there huh yeah when she's not jumping in the water it's always cool getting to meet a fishing freak on the water said I've been watching for like seven years since he was 12 years old that that that makes me feel crusty but thank you guys morning what's going on dude this is the worst part of the trip I know I gotta say bye sleeping you know what I needed I needed this trip a little bit it didn't it's a cleanser it's a sole cleanser yes it is it's this you know what this is this is a this is a spiritual tree this is not a fishing endeavor this is not a fishing trip this is a spiritual tree I'm your shaman I was like sitting there on my bare feet out in the water got around got corn all over the ramp I got bread floating in the water I was I was a I was a rampage yet for sure I was out there just back to basics back to basics back to basics people love that so you check that out on on John's channel I have to say John's my favorite fishing youtuber because of that reason you know he's gets excited about catching fish on bread and he caught a giant yesterday it was really funny so I'm gonna say goodbye to the cabin have some good times here and we roll to the lease in the last hour of this drive it's all soggy here at the lease I was not expecting this I mean this isn't the greatest weather to do what we're gonna do but I'm I'm actually happy about it gonna be make our lives a little more miserable camping out tonight but man it's just nice to see some water down here we've had bad wildfires fully stocked up on arrows in this truck all right we're pulling up to camp right now Mike's already here we got a little break in the clouds ahead of us so I think we're gonna actually jump in Mike's little adventure vehicle and go try to find a camping spot let's go build some camp y'all feels good to be at dear camp and I forgot how awesome this view is looking out over the wilderness here it's a good sound to hear honestly okay let's get out the gear let's go on an adventure did you do a rain dance on the way over here or something that's what happens when you go to making self bows like the engines right they bring you glorious dance the dance we're gonna be dancing literally where Indians used to live making bows taking the adventure wagon here so goal for the day is to get Mike's bow in a basically in a position where he can fine-tune it himself Mike actually was more into the stuff than I was like a few years ago like he was in it before way before I took over my passion because I kind of stopped you know what I wanted to do it I just well you have a huge arrowhead collection maybe not that's my years but it's it's that's my goal is to shoot a theater with an arrowhead I made with a bow that I mean that's awesome that's an awesome journey I know one thing we're gonna be sleeping where Indians slept a couple hundred years ago there's a vibe there's a gill net yeah meal tonight yeah I'll just sleep in a tree no big deal been watching a lot of alone lately this lens is fogging up bad it's gonna be our camp area tonight about a year ago I carried this stump down here and it about broke my back at the time but I thought it'd be a good work stump to you know if we ever need to do some bush grafting do some some work down here set up a camp it'd be a good good little thing to have so still raining but we're gonna get to work my question is though you know there's the occasional camper that comes through here like people that float the river but that's like more of a permanent situation that's sort of strange I mean that's odd welcome to the the new bushcraft overlanding primitive channel I mean Mike just started it just kidding but I do really enjoy this type of stuff we had to get a tarp set up because it's just continues to rain so got tarp set up to the overlanding truck we're gonna get a little fire going and then Mike's gonna get started with the hatchet on this wood so I don't think I've showed you guys the wood actually do a little sweeping sorry in the way of the Roomba here so this is Mike's piece of wood Osage you got a good good stick here Mike so I cut this down early spring and it is I would say it'd be fully ready in like another month this Texas heat but it's it's already turned brown it's significantly lighter this piece did not work or bend what's your draw length Mike 27 and a half that's perfect so 60 60 inches would be just perfect for like a 26 to 27 inch draw Mike's gonna get working on the hatchet right here I'm gonna set up a little fire since we have finally gotten several inches of rain the ground is really wet and we're gonna have a bunch of mosquitoes and it's a nice place to have a little fired little campground here at the river this is where we're gonna be sleeping tonight we got to figure out the hammocks up under the tarp but I really like that tarp that I got it's a heavy-duty one it's got tons of tie-offs on it got it off Amazon but it's really good this is my first time shooting my bow in the environment I'm gonna be hunting it it's kind of weird besides shooting it in my backyard so just shooting my little a little short bow right now I suppose probably that's like 38 pounds I think but could definitely kill a deer with it got a really sharp rod head thing is so quiet I mean this thing is just silent you're just you're just hearing a little whisper of a fletching I do not think a deer would jump the stream oh bold him you know it's like what is what is better extreme speed or extreme quiet oh dead deer inconsistent literally missed and then that's the thing you can't really correct your shot you get one shot look at this progress that is hard work right there Mike is working it down looking good you've got the cambium layer off nice to that yellow stuff yep I'm actually working on my bow so you guys saw my my bow video my latest bow so since then I've added a slight recurve to the tips just a hair and that actually changed the bend of the bow a little bit so I'm having to take out a little bit on this side to get that bow even that knot is is the problem it's giving me some fits so we're gonna make these in-camp modifications just using a knife just taking some shavings off sitting under here under our bushcraft tart with a cold beer Mike has found arrowheads and didn't you find like some pottery I found some game balls like Indian game balls that they basically use as marbles and then game balls and I found probably 10 hole points and probably 30 or 40 broken points yeah dude and I haven't found one whole point he's got an eye I don't know if you want to go this far but you literally could take one of those points I know I've thought about it but it's like what do you want to preserve that and just make my own there you go but the point is we're sitting next to these cliffs back here the point where India the point where there's some outcropping some caves there's some where there's been artifacts found in there this is the river a grinding stone dude see this is what's so cool we're sitting here where um some people a long time ago were probably doing the same thing so um maybe they're they're watching us laughing maybe they're thinking hey these guys are cool we will be with them in spirit maybe any deer cross their path get on top of it time for fire and we could do uh could do the easy cotton ball thing you know since we're here this is flint that I've actually gotten um from the property here we'll just get one of these little charred punkwood pieces go in and then we will put that into our boat archakings okay we got a limber here all right starting to smoke a little bit it's about to light up I needed to lose I needed to lose some weight before elk season I'm going to Alaska next week starting to look like a bow man just posted up a little light here in the back of the adventure vehicle I need to get one of those Mike brought some uh some little ready ready wise meals I got some boudin so we're set on food we just got to work on the hammock situation but uh Mike is committed to getting this thing what do you think to like a slight bend tonight yeah for sure tomorrow's hunting day I got my bow uh retillered to where it I actually brought that bow down I'm gonna guess to like just over 40 pounds just need to do a makeshift like cloth handle I've got some uh some like t-shirt material I'm gonna make just a makeshift handle where that arrow isn't slapping the wood and then uh put some string silencers on there and I think that bow is going to be ready to hunt Mike's working around he's actually using the draw knife that was sent to me by one of you guys from Kentucky that's pretty cool um very old draw knife pretty awesome and um just going to continue working down here look at that look at that snake in the grain that's gonna be awesome dude boudin is off the grill it's pretty tasty Mike's got his hammock set up right here I'm gonna set mine up just on the other side and we're gonna be little bunk buddies we'll see you in the morning hopefully we survived the night out here with the animals last time I camped down here had things walking right next to me it was kind of down here up top down here oh you did yeah so you came down here and up top yes sir yeah it's a little sketchy I'm glad Mike's here because solo it's a little weird not the deal enjoy the boudin and there we are a couple more Miller lights we won't really notice any of the animals see you guys in the morning we have a risen from our river camp now and we are getting ready to go on a pig hunt camp held up pretty well quite honestly I got this tarp I really never envisioned having two dudes camping um in hammocks underneath it I kind of got it just as like a little self tarp but it works out pretty darn good just tied it off to the roof racks and that way we get two on the same vehicle the only problem was every time Mike moved I could feel it every time I moved he could feel it so I never felt it yeah I'm not going to sit here and tell you like oh yeah perfect night's sleep I'm such a brave outdoors man that I just sleep well in the dirt it's not true um there was animals moving around but not enough to like keep us super up might get bit by bugs but I didn't because had the old bug net I just want to show you guys something real quick you know I kept these ropes in my bag thank goodness usually keeps pieces about three or four feet long I had this rope in case I needed to hang something up in a tree or whatever but all these knots that I have here they come out easily so that's kind of a um good little outdoorsman good little bush bushcraft rule so you don't have to deal with those knots later on so when I take my little clippy off here I'll slide that through and then I just pull this out really hard same thing up here I had to tie a loop so I did a bowline knot with a little um little escape tag pull that comes right out and just saves me a bunch of time and it doesn't mess up your ropes you don't have to cut things because of knots and keep using all of it and the other thing is toggles so if you guys don't know what toggles are they're just little pieces of wood little sticks they go on your ropes you can use it to attach rope to rope or you can use it for a ton of things hanging things it's how I'm hanging my backpack but also great for tying down tents and tarps so you just pull that right out of there and it's done you don't even have it not to undo off your tarp all right guys pretty big moment right here I've got the arrows with broad heads on there I've got a handle that we just last minute put on there I know it's nothing beautiful hey at least it's like semi-camoed there it is much quieter don't you see that dude it's bad the mathematics on that it's because the arrow's just flying I've got five inch fletchings oh my god that's terrible dude it's a full slider stand behind it's a curve ball oh boy we got the bow strung up here guys the only problem is it is not shooting arrows straight I've got to figure out what I need to do with my spine or I don't know tune my arrows to this bow well y'all it was hotter satan's taint down there we didn't even see tracks after we had so much rain so just come back in I'm gonna continue working on my bow I'm getting the broad heads to actually fly straight that's sort of important in the whole hunting aspect of it haven't even crossed that bridge I've just been shooting field tips so I'm gonna experiment around with that but video is over for today guys nice adventure camping at the river did a little stocking unsuccessful but man I can't wait till it gets cooler and we can just do the whole program the the whole goal here is to get in a blind or a tree or heck I don't even know hide in some brush and get a white tail deer close range with our traditional self bows thank you guys for being here God bless you and all your outdoor adventures smash that like button for the great outdoors I'll see you on the fashion now