 Welcome back y'all. Oh We're camping. We're camping in the woods got to love it baby. It's hunting season now archery season I've got an itch. I gotta scratch it so bad and I got a big a big ambition, you know This is like a long-term goal Not necessarily saying it's gonna happen this year You know last year I really wanted to get a An animal with a bow that I made myself. I was able to get that done. I'm still all about that But also I want to try to get an animal on public land And I was able to do that this year with my bow on a pig, but now I'm trying to go after a deer So we got some public land and we're gonna try to hunt it. This is something that I'm a green horn at I'm a self-admitted, you know longtime Texas Hunt over a corn pile guy and I'm not ashamed of that. Don't think there's anything wrong with that I'm just trying to do Something a little different a little bit of a challenge. I feel like if you can get anything on public land It's a big accomplishment Pretty quick set up today guys. I already had a lot of the things ready to go. I've got food and everything for a couple days Might end up doing a little bit of fishing as well But for right now, I'm just gonna grab a snack get the pack and head to the woods I really have no idea what to expect guys, but I don't have high expectations Just starting out here on my hike though See a bunch of hunters and trees yet So that's that's a good sign There's our first track the first white tail track right there. Let's celebrate first sign I felt good about the sign guys, you know, who knows if they're moving during during the day daylight hours But I for sure spooked a doe she blew and that was probably 70 80 yards from where I was seeing a lot of that sign and that scrape so right now We're just gonna recharge the batteries get a bite to eat start getting the saddle hunting gear all together now This would be a first if I get an animal out of a saddle been wanting to do that for a couple years, too So a lot of bigs feel good about today though feel good about today At the very least good scouting day can't fire tonight Hoping it's going to be a late night deal Me with a deer on my back Stock fully yellow bellies good there We have some catfish I think these are catfish bellies right here blue catfish bellies We got some summer sausage Let that thaw out From previous deer. I've got other previous deer burger in there other previous deer breakfast sausage We do all right. I mean this is this is what I eat at deer camp right here meat and Wheat meat and wheat pregame prep I'm gonna take you guys through My gear what I'm gonna be using how I'm gonna be using it and all that so this is my little saddle hunting box that I made and I've got I keep my Saddle and all that stuff in here. I've got it out right now. I've got extra broad heads We need to go that far into that iron wills 125s Got some game bags from the born and raised guys made for elk Should be plenty big for a deer if I get one especially the size deer that I might be looking at by the way anything that comes out that has over three inches of Little horns basically if it's not a button buck I'm shooting it unless it's like a little dough that's got some big brown sparkly eyes Might convince me, but anything else it's going down. So I've got saddle hunting gear. I keep extra Carabiners I have my single rope system in here For climbing, you know, some trees are better for single rope some that I've just played around with in the woods They're so big. I can't even get my saddle Straps around them not my saddle straps my stick straps around them. So it's better for single rope There's just different kinds of trees, you know, there's pole timber sometimes There's oaks, which we have a lot of here a lot of scrub oaks. They get kind of gnarly so Sticks don't always work the best, but we got extra one extra stick. This is what I'm carrying. These are the tethered Skeletors carrying three of those Those are a little heavy, but they're very sturdy. I like them. So getting up there I'll obviously have my saddle on I've got extra gear on that show you that here in a second But this will be my pack. I'll hang it up like this on a rope and I also got one of these These special little clips. This is made by this is the hero clip Hero clip and I just put that around there. The tension is held by the pack This ain't going anywhere and then that is holding my bow Got it sitting on the cam Maybe that's not the best. Maybe we Yeah, maybe we do it right there on the limb This is my saddle So tethered Phantom saddle I've got a couple little pouches on the sides. I Got this one cheap off Amazon this one. I got from tethered it honestly wasn't that expensive either we're going with our linemen rope today, and I'm carrying the tether in here carabiner on that with a Rope men one I've got two rope men ones one for my tether one for the linemen belt and I've got a just a saw if I need to cut a little shooting lane or something and I'm carrying paracord in here paracord with a clip so that way I can Start my climb with that bring up my bow afterwards All right, y'all we are laced up Ready to rock a giant 150 inch buck Or Bambi, you know whatever presents itself. I'm ready either way. I'm scratching the itch even if I don't see anything I'm scratching the itch Just been feeding just sitting in a tree Get in a saddle and just wait. So this is the full program full load out Got the sticks on the pack with the platform on the back. I really like this pack. There's a lot of rhymes Really like this pack Cuy doesn't make it anymore, but it is it's not what it was designed for but it works pretty good for that stick setup so Got the saddle on Ready rock. Let's go get the woods guys Get down. I've got 15 minutes left of legal light Just give myself some extra time to get this gear trying to get situated Set it up before it gets really dark at this other tree that I liked campfire poppin Port Garnitas from Kroger About to go in the iron skillet And we'll find something to put in there. I don't know put with it Got some bread and we did find some animals today, and I was actually pretty shocked That I almost had a shot opportunity Walking in to my stand. So about 40 yards probably There was I don't I don't know if it was a legal deer or not Could have been a little button buck could have been a doe. I'm not sure I'm gonna join my Port Garnitas in a cold adult beverage. I'll see you guys Bright and early in the morning. Hopefully we get something to walk under our tree. Good morning And it is our first morning To go to go hunting out here. So It's about 6 30 Sunrises in an hour. I'm gonna go ahead and start heading that way and Get up in the tree. I set up things last night as far as sticks go my tether and all that Platform But I need to set up my bow hanger a couple other things, you know, just get comfy before I start seeing some light Excited. There's not much wind this morning. So I'm glad we are going up in a tree But we'll make a game plan on what we see in the first hour or so We got a full day to hunt. So let's get after it. I just spoke to deer Coming back to my camper. They're close Four mile away. I literally just knocked an arrow like 35 yards Look like a little dough little tiny dough, but I'll take it Guys, I think this is the move. I just I need to probably drop some gear Go a little lighter And just just sneak through this stuff. This is crazy. Oh, I've I've seen more deer on the ground than I have up in the tree I've had two really close opportunities like crowd. I crouch down I was I knocked an arrow and it's like as I was not even coming up like just knocking the arrows both times the deer Take off, but that's still a 10 15 second window it can be done Can be done and they're all just a little deer a little tiny deer, which is fine. I'm just trying to go after something I Think I have a better chance at that Then I do Sitting in a tree all day Three hours about max for me the back the knees the feet They all start screaming three skillet eggs with some deer sausage a Little bit of SPG on there with some chalula and then in here. I've got my mushroom tea Little mushroom chai tea with some mesquite honey in there. Mmm. That'll wake you up. That's gonna get the system moving Once the system moves, I'm gonna be moving out into the woods All right, we're in the woods now It seems like there's some storms coming in. I don't know the winch is really blowing starting to clear off Something this is a good time to get into the thicker woods where there's a lot of shade And I'm in a spot where I spotted that deer earlier So I've got the wind coming into my face right now. I'm just gonna walk this way Into the wind so they can smell what's coming So I'm gonna do the same thing they're doing Try to catch them either napping or just feeding Or they don't notice me The wind is not necessarily a bad thing the high winds because They can't hear me coming if all the leaves and branches are moving around. So this is a good opportunity to stalk Never so often. I may end up just sitting. Yeah, I just wanted to come in here because it looked fairly open. This is These aren't like the ones I haven't have post-oaks. I Have some red oaks. That's why that's really good. I'm just I don't know. I'm honestly thinking about setting up in here Tons of baby oaks growing. My feet have never been so happy To see a little stool in a chair Went ham this morning guys. I mean, it's not even morning anymore. It's past one o'clock Set the boots in the sun Think we get some chili started Take a look cold shower get a quick recovery for a couple hours and then I'm gonna go Get back in that tree not the same tree. I'm gonna go a different tree. This is a lot of movement I mean ideally I would like to set my my sticks on a tree and go up that same thing every time but Since I'm literally like scouting and hunting I'm just trying to move as much as possible to see as much as possible and I've seen a lot today The trip is is a success. I had a deer 38 yards. I could have shot Wasn't quite legal. It was a couple inches away from being legal We got ourselves some deer meat and beans with some seasoning some might call it chili some French bread and And a cheese stick that I took out of my kids snack drawer at home Let's give this a whirl, huh? That's gonna be interesting going up into a tree with that from the other trees that I filmed in but this one has got more open space I can see out to 70 80 yards pretty much all around me and I'm in a proper big tree. I'm in the Big tree right in this little gut right here this little draw And it's a big oak tree giant leaves lots of nuts falling I already have seen deer around here and I want to see if they're utilizing this little draw I also set up a trail cam So we'll have that for the future But I love this spot. I mean I can shoot that long ways all around me see him coming And we're pretty good ways up here. Everything looks good. Got the bow home and oak tree See if anything comes out the final day. I've decided I'm not gonna go back in my tree By the way, I was so tired last night. I fell asleep at the fire in my chair Just dog tired scouting In a in a good way good tired God these coyotes are just Try and talk here. Anyway I'm going to uh Go to a couple of field areas by my tree stand um One's a little food plot and others just kind of a road and then there's a huge field And I want to see if anything's moving in there. That's different than A lot of the other things I've hunted. So that's kind of like the final piece um Put together all this information A couple cams out and be able to come back Got our hike of boots on Let's head to the woods. This morning is to see like what is coming across in these fields What's feeding in these fields? Is that a is that a big player's out here this morning? Mainly hunting the fields So maybe that's where all the deer are taking down all the gear Oh, this would be the time a big buck would walk by. I don't have my bow Just giving him every opportunity This tree scares me this one. It's like slightly leaning back And the whole way up. It's like I'm trying to bear hug the tree With the lineman rope to get it up, but it's so big. I could barely reach around That's a scary tree And I think we are Are done boys This is the real tricky part right here. Don't like Oh It's getting from this platform Down to the next Get this baby off I got a bungee For this strap and it makes storing it so much easier Forget who makes these. I got them off amazon Extremes But these things are pretty cool Just for a lot of different Storage stuff. It's chilly. This morning my fingers are cold. Get that little bungee around there. Oh, we didn't die We're having catfish bellies for breakfast God bless america That's a breakfast Alrighty finishing move Rice little butter Mix that on in here with our catfish bellies Skeet jalapeno honey Cholula skillet breakfast Built for a fish and freak Little campfire set the mood All right, and that my friends is the great outdoors Well friends we have camped we've scouted we've hunted Spent a heck of a time Did not get a deer but coming into it my expectations were Not really to do that. It was to to learn this place study it and study it. I did now I'm emotionally invested in it got some cameras out Uh spend some time here. So I will definitely be back to try to get the deed done I might wait Three or four weeks, uh just depending on I'll kind of compare it around my house, you know, the acorns are falling I I get to watch deer around my house a lot, which is nice to kind of see what they're doing And I'll compare notes and come out here when uh when I think it's it's go time I don't have to harvest anything to have a great time in the woods I just love putting on a pack going out there just being by myself and the woods man. It's just Time of solace and peace Hopefully you guys feel the same way and Good luck. Good luck on your next adventures. Whether you're flinging arrows or flinging crankbaits or or top waters Hopefully right now. That's that's about to get very nice. So I will see you guys on another great Outdoor adventure right here on the channel. Stay tuned