 Welcome back to the channel y'all. We are here in the heart of South Texas. We got something different for you today. I've never hunted this part of Texas for white-tailed deer, my gosh. You talk about terrain, we are not that far from Mexico, and we are in that nostalgic part of Texas where you've got these large, chocolatey, horn, good size bucks, the opportunity at the biggest white-tail of my life happening in this series. So subscribe right now. This series is going to be brought to you by BucksHunting.com. BucksHunting.com, link down below. Go check it out. New thermal hoodie drops, new gear, final harnesses, all sorts of hunting tools, and you can use my promo code LFG and save at checkout. Now this week's gonna be pretty awesome because I'm hunting with my dad. I don't get to do that that often, and we are both gonna get the opportunity at a deer. And not just any deer, this could be both of our biggest white-tails of our life happening out here. So this opportunity is just something that happened. We're hunting with a friend of my dad's art, and it just so happens that he knew a guy that had this amazing ranch as a 5,000 acre ranch. I'm not gonna lie to you guys, this is a high fence, but hunting in 5,000 acres, even though it's high fence, it's gonna be like hunting low-fence white-tails. I'm gonna be a little itchy on the trigger. I'm gonna try to get one with my bow. We're gonna go see if we can get that opportunity, but if not we brought the 308 as well. First thing we're gonna do, we're gonna ride around, do a little scouting, check out the facilities, and get amongst the cactus, the rattlesnakes, the jackrabbits, and the big white-tail down here. So let's get in the ATV and let's go check it out. Exploring the ranch with art, it is immediately clear that this place is gigantic. We actually got to learn a lot about the ranch too, and what's interesting is this ranch has been in the family since the 1800s, when they originally traveled over from Italy, and it's eventually been parceled up between the family members, and originally it started out at over 200,000 acres. That's hard to even imagine. And you wouldn't think in this low-growing vegetation that there would be very many hiding spots or much to eat for these deer, but it's full of mesquite trees that have mesquite beans, a lot of protein. You can look at the cactus and see where they've been nibbling on that to get moisture. It's crazy how these deer have adapted, and I quickly learned that these white-tail are much bigger than the normal central Texas deer that I'm used to hunting. And in addition to that, they've managed this place really well, and I'm told that there's some very old deer out here, 10 plus years old. They've also added protein feeders to increase antler growth, as well as cotton seed, which I had never even heard of, never seen cotton seed fed to deer, but apparently they love it, and it's good for their antler growth. Another cool story about this ranch is they give back to the young hunters, and they set up a youth hunt every year where these young hunters can come out and experience looking at some bigger deer than they probably would anywhere else, and really get to learn about deer habitat and hunting in South Texas. Alright, doing a little scouting. This spot is called the Junkyard, because there's literally a junkyard back behind me. There's a fenced-in protein feeder over here, and we've already been to one spot that it was just straight cactus. It was gnarly, and I was trying to figure out where I could put a pop-up. Out here it is more open. There's more opportunities for a pop-up, and it's not the most visually appealing, but there's a lot of sign. I'm seeing rubs. There's a ton of tracks. There's big game trail. Heavy, heavy game trail coming into here. My gosh. It's great right here. There's some more rubs. Some more rubs over here. I've been chewing on my cactus. I think I want to set up in here. There's a feeder down there, but there's just boat traffic everywhere. Alright, we're gonna go ahead and set up. This spot is littered with scrapes, rubs, traffic, the whole nine. Got a few cactus in the leg, but we're brushed in. Looking pretty good with a 25-yard shot. My blind is a little broken, but I think it'll work. Thing is sticky out here. What's to get you? Well guys, we just met the owner, Hector, and we are going to just go ahead and head out and hunt. He said this this spot that we set up the blind is a good spot, and we also talked to the ranch manager down here. He said that's a good spot, and he showed us a picture of two deer that we could possibly encounter. One being just a giant like 170-inch 11-point, and then a really nice 8-point that they're calling a call, but it's gonna be hard not to pull back if I see that deer. Good vibes down here in South Texas. I just have some of the best tamales I've ever had in my life. Shout out to Delias. Amazing tamales. We'll see how that works out in the blind, but me and my dad are gonna sit together. We're gonna be hunting together for most of the strip, I think, and it's just gonna be fun, except with my dad. So, top in the ATV, let's head out there. The size of the rattlesnakes. Wrapping up first night in South Texas, what have we learned so far? My goodness. Well, we saw two deer. We had two deer encounters. We had a doe come in at about five yards early. She spotted us right away in that ground blind, and she took off, and then there was a buck right at the end of the hunt that he stomped. He was probably 10 yards away. I couldn't even see him. It was so thick, and he didn't blow or anything. I heard him run off. That's how I know it was a buck. Didn't blow like a doe would. We got back to deer camp, had some amazing stakes. Just talking to the other guys out here in the ranch owner. He's out, and he said, deer, we're moving around. Rudd activity, hi, and there's some incredible deer moving around right now. So, I'm not gonna lie, it was tough, tough hunting on the ground. What's hard to really show on camera is that there is no trees. Like, it's not like I can pop up in a post oak or a live oak out here and hunt from that. There are none. There are none. It's just mesquites. It's cactus. It's nasty, nasty terrain. So, I think the best opportunity that we're gonna have is to jump up into a box vine and get that rifle out, especially with a rut going on. Deer, deer, moving a lot. Either that or possibly doing spot and stock. But we're being told by the ranch owner, hey, you guys need, you guys need to shoot deer. This is a rut. It's going down. I'm gonna keep my bow hopes still in the realm, but rifle hunting, I think, is gonna be our best chance to see. You can see out, you know, long ways on these cenderos, two, three hundred yards, and and get those blocks that are encountering those does right now. So, I think that's that's the plan for tomorrow and hopefully we see a big end. So, it's gonna be morning before you know it. Stay tuned. Good morning. It is go time with the rifle. I'm making a quick little pit stop right now and we are putting a corn spreader on a on a brand-new Ford Raptor. That's how we're gonna roll. Maybe for the afternoon and possibly this morning. We're gonna go sit in a box, but there's so many bucks moving around chasing does that this is the way they do it down here. They they spray in some of the open areas and when the rut's happening they're chasing the does gives you just a way bigger field of view to see you know just a lot more opportunities to see bucks. So pretty neat little device goes on the tailgate just come and get it. It's a really nice eight point. Just heading out to the wild yonder. It did not happen this morning, but I am pumped from what I saw. Had the opportunity at 150 yards. I'm uncomfortable. If you weren't yeah if you're not comfortable don't take the shot. Don't take the shot just be prepared when you get back to camp to hear a little. I know. You're gonna hear something. Actually one of our buddies he said he shot a trophy buck so I'm really excited to see and he's a he haunts a lot. So if he says it's a good one it's gonna be a dandy. If that big buck that dad ended up passing on would have stood out here to my left for like 10 more minutes in the morning probably would have had enough light to take a shot but he went off into the brush and I ended up coming back later but that was like 60 yards and that's even within bow range. Right now we're gonna go take a look at what a trophy buck out here looks like and get regrouped for midday and then afternoon hunts. What's happening here dad? Oh my goodness. Look oh my gosh look at this giant noise. These are huge. They're exactly the same but this one's bigger. That is a giant art. My gosh man. Congratulations. Oh baby. What do you think right now? Well I'm a little disappointed in myself. I've got a motivational speech from you about being prepared to kill. You know I should have been comfortable but I just wasn't so I didn't take the shot but looking at these two massive deer behind us. Wow. Motivation. Yeah I'm motivated. We're gonna get one before the trip's over. It's gonna happen. We got to get it done dad. We got to get two deer. We're not leaving here until we get two deer. My goodness that's probably over 200 pounds. We're gonna unload the box right here but on the way back in we spotted a bunch of does out there. There's just there's this little area where it's wide open and we just saw bodies. Massive bodies. By the way this this buck right here. Nine years old they're estimating and over 200 pounds probably like 220. So I'm gonna go with Hector here. We're gonna do a little spot in stock. I'm gonna take the big rifle and we're gonna try to find a giant down here that might be mulling around. So taking the GoPro in. You guys stay tuned. There's a buck right here. Next to that guy. I think he'll say hello. End of this video. End of basically a full 24 hours of hunting. The caliber of bucks you guys have seen. I mean we just saw art art got a absolute job. One of the biggest eight points I've ever seen actually ended up weighing 220 pounds. It's gonna be some incredible meat. So you know it's not all about antlers and everything like that but you don't get these opportunities every day. So we at least want to get some meat and we at least want to do the landowner justice and and get the deer that he's wanting to to get out of here. I'll gladly raise my hand and take that job on and so my dad. So I think the next the next book that comes out dad 150 yards that's a pretty juicy one. Just just gonna go ahead and do it. Just gonna go ahead and do it. But guys don't ever don't ever pull the trigger if you're not comfortable you know. Me and my dad he got it literally his first deer with us together a few years ago. I'll actually link that video because it's so awesome using his dad's old rifle. It's just a really cool story. Two stories of the trip. It's not it's all about antlers and and don't take a shot unless you're comfortable. But so excited for the next phase of this hunt. It's it seems to be evolving because we've been in the ground blind. We got in the box blind. We've done spot and stock. We rattled very at the very end of our little spot stock rattling. Saw a giant. Saw a giant. He was like 600 yards away though and once we got around the corner he was gone. So we're in that big kind of lull for the day but we're gonna get back after it soon guys. So I don't know I might get back in the box blind with a bow and carry the rifle. The rifle is not leaving my side but I want to keep the bow with me. I'm rambling because I'm excited but make sure to stay tuned for the next part of this video down here in south Texas. The south Texas giant chocolate horn bucks. Giant bodies too. These are way bigger than I was expecting from driving through central Texas and hunting there quite a bit. So you guys stay tuned. Subscribe to the channel. Smash that like button. I'll see you on the next adventure.