 welcome back to the great outdoors everybody we are in it this is it this is go time it's all been leading up to this man my out my archery journey this year we are getting down to the wire so hopefully you've been following along if you haven't subscribed to the channel check out my outdoor content I do hunting fishing camping just all the greats I have been working towards this goal of getting a whitetail deer with a bow that I've made and today's video we're going to be scouting here at deer camp right in the middle of Texas beautiful hill country and we're just starting to get some cool weather thank you Lord so hopefully we're going to get a deer within 10 yards that's really the goal that's my confident zone and past that I just don't really feel confident with the traditional primitive style bow I do have my CP 28 this is going to be the backup plan if we can't get a deer within 10 yards but there's something about having an animal right there in front of you where you can you could hear every step they make their breathing you could literally see their their whiskers on their around their nostrils and everything it's it's insane guys it's the most heart pumping thing that I have found in the outdoors hopefully the work that we're putting in today in this video in the next couple days is going to lead to a successful archery tag filled on opening weekend so we are here a few days before the season opens today's video brought to you by bucks bucks hunting if you guys aren't familiar with it I'll leave a link down below we got some second new performance long sleeves for hunting this year really cool buck pattern nice fit to it face mask built-in hood all of that perfect for hunting this weather that we're in right now of course have hoodies and all that kind of stuff but also accessories packs so I actually got into deer camp last night I was able to scout for just a little bit I wrote around the ATV checked a couple of feeders that I usually see some deer at and I saw some bucks and that's an opportunity we could have is to get like a smaller buck or a coal buck I haven't seen any big bucks running around just yet this morning I got up early and I actually went and sat and I found the perfect candidate for what we're looking for I found a lone doe she hung around for probably 30 minutes and I sat in a rifle tower blind and just kind of looked out wind was perfect what I've been looking at this week is we're gonna have an east wind sort of strange we're gonna have this like straight out of the east wind towards the opening day I'm going to be putting a ground blind out at one of these spots and I've identified for four potential spots that have close enough tree cover to these feeders that I think I can get suck the deer away from I can have a chance of getting these deer in if they come to the corn which they usually do but right now we have tons of acorns that are starting to drop the deer this morning didn't even go into the feeder pin which was kind of concerning I guess there was just a lot to feed on I think this is going to be challenging to get the deer to come in the corn as weird as that sounds but if we play our win right and you know we get lucky I think we're gonna have a shot I did have time last night to go set up one camera and I have some photos on it I just grabbed it so we're gonna see what's on that and go from there all right guys we're gonna look at this SD card have a little granola crunch first freeze-dried meal of the season a lot of cinnamon in there see what we got first picture is my face okay we got a dough but it is at night zero daytime photos that is disappointing that's the one that's one we want right there and that's her that's Sally just need her in the daytime that's my face nice juicy one reason that I'm wanting a dough is because I'm gonna be less nervous on a dough is unless it's just like a scrubby scrub buck last year I injured a buck and it just it really hurt my feelings for a while I'm still reeling from that it's weird to say but I would feel less bad if I wounded shot a dough just because there's you know there's a lot of them but it's still it's still terrible guys that's my biggest fear and it's I'm upping the odds so much with this self-bowl I would say my general ten yard group is less than a pie plate but definitely not the size of softball I mean we're in between that somewhere and there's always those outlier shots that just scare me ten yards is really where I need to be seven would be beautiful I really think I can get it done with seven seven yards you feel like you can just reach out and touch them it's so close I like this spot where I had the camera because there's a ton of brush around that's close it wouldn't be that weird to set up a blind there it wouldn't be that outstanding the deer I don't think would notice it but there's there's nothing there so I got it I only have two cameras with me so I got to make a decision if I want to move this camera somewhere else where I think there's higher activity or stick with it and just see what happens I saw so much corn on the ground this morning it was it was turning so I think I'm gonna actually move this there there's that you know about a softball man if I can just deliver that accuracy on the real thing will be in good shape hey bells don't count you know one of the things that I've learned if I can turn to where my back is in line I just have more actually it's like everything's lining up with my shoulders I get that full draw just turn my hips saw sounds great in theory but it's just it's just talking Cameron this morning I was thinking maybe it didn't didn't update you know it's got I got one of the cell cams but all the corn I threw out are still here and the feeder corner still here so I put a pile right there nothing has come to it this would be a great spot though sorry cameras a little hot because my extremely white skin this would be a great spot though to put a blind I mean to back it up in one of these dark cedar you know hangovers would be tremendous like this right here in the cedar right there it's like seven yards and I can play multiple wins there's another great spot right here for the east wind tuck in there I think I'm gonna leave that camera there for now I'm curious to see what comes comes around in the evening we'll go to another spot spot that I've always wanted to get one with the bow I just haven't yet I think I'm gonna set up one pop I pop up there and then I'm gonna do a little more recon decide where I want to put my other pop up so I got one pop up up that we can't go scout out in tonight because the winds not gonna be good the winds gonna be blown right into the deer but tomorrow morning I think it will shift and then we'll be able to go in there and I think tonight what I'm gonna do is sit the pond the infamous pond it is very hot now middle of the day but I got me a nice oak tree I got me some deer meat some bucky snacks in that cooler so I think I'm gonna hang out here maybe chill in the hammock where I slept last night slept pretty good actually in the old hammock tied her up to the truck and we've got all about five hours until we need to go out again so I'm just gonna chill here until it's go time we'll do some more scouting we're getting ready to go out this evening I took me a little hot afternoon nap kind of sweats and sweat sweat and sending the hammock but I've been keeping my clothes the reason I'm talking about sweat and being honest I'm keeping my clothes separate from like when I'm working during the day you know filling feeders or prepping the blinds I'm sweating I'm keeping those separate I'm hanging them up and I'm also I've been spraying them down this should get the comments going right here do you guys think this stuff works I'm not just talking about this brand I'm talking about you know all the different brands of this stuff the idea is it's like a I think it's a carbon spray and it traps your scent but deers nose is so good my experience just tell me go with whatever the wind is you know there's gonna gonna be those situations where the wind is you know it's gonna be calm you're gonna have swirling wind and that's where I think something like this could aid aid you but if you're not playing the wind right you're gonna get busted there's just no doubt I've seen it so many times a whitetail deers nose is incredible when I'm trying to get 10 yards 12 yards I got to be scent-free or dang near close to it it's it's pretty hard being in this hot sweaty condition so we got some interesting weather with the wind this app is not a sponsor and I think I've mentioned this this app before but this app's called hunt stand and I mean anybody that's on a deer lease or has a property that you like to go to or even public land hunting you can do some of the things like like onyx it's with the properties and everything you know onyx is a little better at all that stuff but this shows you the wind directions which is huge for whitetail hunters I can look at all my stands places I've got and I can just click the wind and I can look at future forecasting and really look at that like next 48 hours and see like okay I won't be able to adhere this stand looks better and kind of position some things to where I'll give myself more opportunities that's what I'm trying to do is just capitalize on opening day with the deer being fresh and this colder weather coming in but there's really nothing that is set up for a bow blind for an eastern wind so I'm literally having to just do this on the fly here alright I've been jabbering on because it's still hot and I want to go sit in a hot box blind but it's 5 30 now I think our feeders are either gonna go off at 6 or 6 30 I can't remember but I'm already sweating in this thing I'm actually gonna take this off and go with a t-shirt I don't want to sweat this thing up even though I've got two of them I don't want to run it with my sweat hot as hell there's no wind turns out a feeder was going off at like 4 30 I went and checked it so past one of my favorite blinds I had a doe there but she had a fallen so don't really want to mess with her so I'm gonna grab the bind those do a little stalking and see if I can just kind of peer around where that feeder is and see if anything's moving in the evening all right y'all end of day one scouting we don't have much to go on right now but there is a doe that I have seen twice at the same spot I'm gonna tell you guys right now if I get a doe with my my bow my self bow I'll be screaming like I just shot the biggest buck of my life I'd love to get a doe just to you know break the ice with it but if a big old bucky comes out we're gonna fling an arrow too so day two scouting we're gonna cook up some backstraps here tonight at camp fuel up get under a little sack sleep get up we'll see what we see in the morning I also saw a pig at one feeder tonight you guys couldn't see it it was really far away but we could run into some pigs tomorrow so I'm gonna I'm gonna take the bow just in case we got windy last night I was swinging in that hammock so hopefully that's gonna give us a little bit of noise covered this morning went still a tad bit out of the south hopefully it doesn't screw this up we're gonna jump the ATV head to our blind put a little bit of this scent attractant out and hopefully we see some deer close all right guys fun sit this morning really fun I mean get into watch that buck that I had seen last year and surprisingly close last year too he walked right by my blind and I think I saw him again when I was with my dad and I was hoping he would show up so my dad could get to to take him out but I've seen him there before and I've seen him at another blind that's close by that I really like so I feel like he's a resident he's had another year to grow his antlers and another year of no brow tines so it is it's a great deer to be able to get a shot at and we definitely would have had an opportunity this morning he hung around right at that 20-yard mark which I'm not comfortable at he was right in the corn I was crazy he walked right by all the attractant and the corn that I put out and he went straight there so that's kind of telling me he's routine which is awesome we're just gonna need to make some adjustments the other thing is the blind I mean that is a huge deal I'm so glad that I just shrug up my bow real quick it was kind of when that that buck was just sitting there forever there was some brush blocking and I could kind of mess around and I started you know just putting the bow up and I was like okay is this gonna work and then if I assume immediately it was like all right this thing is poking here all right can I move back can I get an angle here no I'd have to camp the bow almost had a 45 it's just bad so I'm so glad that I tested that it's just unfortunate that we're gonna have to switch out that blind but I may actually move it at a ridiculous I don't know we're gonna do some thinking I also got some updates from my camera I'm sure if you guys can see that but there's three does there 45 minutes of these does there and that was just sitting right in front of the camera it's just that many does staring at you is a problem you guys saw the difference between the dough and the buck like the buck he didn't care he looked up a couple times he was probably looking at that dough that wanted to come in she finally came in but then she started selling me and that's that's when she got real jumpy she actually came back in a couple times after she left initially but she was just way too jumpy let's see oh there he is man I mean he's a pretty decent little buck for the Hill country he's just no browse no browse whatsoever something spooked him right there could have been the feeder going off and he's there for an hour guys he's there for a freaking hour he takes off pigs come in pigs have a night party but I don't know they're still here one dough there super early oh wow she's a really early that's probably the same day okay and then here he is this morning so this is same buck see him this morning I mean he's just there he's chowing down again almost an hour I'm going to make a cup of coffee and ponder on this decision I'm gonna leave you guys right here the next video hopefully we have a deer down but maybe not this may this may be a long process but it's raw man it's raw but we got to get close so it's part of the fun thank you guys for tuning in don't forget to check out bucks hunting check out all the gear link down below and get strapped up for the season I'll see you guys on the next