 Yeah, okay, I'm gonna squeeze There's two more bulls over there All right guys, I just got set up in my cave. I got my sleeping pad down I got my my quilt out got my pillow blown up Sitting here having some some dinner right now, but I just got the most awesome text Tar down, baby Lake four guy got it done. I'm so pumped that Justin was able to get him a tar. I had a great evening here I had a bull at 130 yards, you know if I was rifle hunting I would have got it done tonight But I'm sticking it out with my bow this base and I'm in we've had animals in every morning every evening I'm really lacking my chances if I just stick it out here if you look over there. That's the wet part of the cave It's a little soggy, but I got my sleeping pad My quilt I got my puffy pants on to keep me warm Got my bow here I think we're good to go. I think we're good for the night. It should be a good night sleep Good morning from the tent everybody it was About freezing temperatures last night, I think the end reach said it was 33 degrees And we've had some moisture move in it's dewy and Tent's just covered in water right now And I had to break out my puffy pants and jacket Just be able to sleep. It was really cold I was just sleeping fully clothed and then my feet my feet kept getting cold down there at the end Not on flat ground by any means so there was kind of a post-repeated situation big hump in the middle But the exciting thing is Yeah, you know we got a tar down that was part of the reason I couldn't sleep the other part was a cold but Now it's time to eat a little breakfast. I barely have any water left The plan is to to glass around here this morning We're gonna see if we can see any more tar or chamois and see if we can get Todd on camera getting one and then If we don't see anything around here We're gonna go track the tar that I shot yesterday. Don't really know how big it is Just know it's a mature animal. So it's gonna be pretty exciting. Hopefully we won't get rain on too much today And everybody else is gonna have an opportunity To get an animal. I've still got my buddy JT. He slept in a cave last night Trying to figure out what to do You know weather has killed us this trip we've gotten to hunt two days two days out of coming over here for 11 So I just got the text from Wendy from the ranger there at the At the hut that is supposed to be heavy rain all day today I'm gonna pack my stuff up and just slowly work my way down the mountain get back to the little to the hut This basically puts an end to my tar and chamois hunt. It's disappointing, but I'll tell you what I Got to see some amazing animals I got to see some amazing country and it's some of the steepest most nastiest mountains I've ever climbed and you know, plus I got to spin the hut in this cool cave It's snowing it's amazing how the conditions out here just change within hours so Lucky enough to get a shot off last night. It was absolutely beautiful. It was gorgeous sunset. I've ever seen Now we're gonna have more work our tar It's way up there And there's even more around us right now, so See what the weather brings Let's see what New Zealand gives us here on the southern island doing it the kiwi way Tramping through the bush that is snow Definitely snow Welcome to New Zealand This is snowing now. Oh, we're gonna go ahead and try to recover This original tar that I shot last evening These are big big chunks Being from Texas. I've never seen this. Oh Yeah, oh my gosh at this point. We're basically just walking through trees Like rest a little bear tar down Maybe yet to see one below us By the time I saw it he was already getting the rifle out. Oh He's moving a little bit see some blood So we might have two tar up there in the same area. We're about to find out But we've probably gone another 800 feet above our tent already the snow is getting heavy There he is Coming up on the one that was just shot a little tar so we're not sure if This is the same one or not since in the same area might have gotten up During the night whistling at us Bull tar He was facing this way so if I hit him where I thought He should have a Shoulder wound That's where I shot him. I shot him right there and he because it was like courting Yeah, but it should have went into some long from there, huh the exit wound should be like back there towards your right hand Well, I guess we double-tapped him Looking up at us and we can only see his head. So maybe he was just bedded where he was maybe not standing What a place to take a photo yeah between yesterday and now This is it. This is my bull tar for the trip right here So special the the work that it took to get up here not helicopter hunting Doing it the Kiwi way right Todd you betcha I can all the way up here this this makes this My biggest trophy animal ever an actual trophy plus It's just a personal trophy for me personally getting to hunt up here with one of my best friends JT and Todd and just getting to hang out with those guys and experiencing New Zealand Up here in the mountains and being able to take a nice Bull tar It's just amazing. It's absolutely amazing. So so blessed to to get this animal I made a good shot on it shot it in the shoulder while it was quartering but It survived the night rolled down the hill and it bedded up right here So we thought it was a different tar But it was just bedded up and it wasn't going anywhere Todd was saying it was just standing there for a long time. It wasn't acting right So he thought it might be the same one turns out it is we found the hole right there above the shoulder So tough tough animal so much respect for this this animal and we're gonna cap it We're gonna take some some meat off this guy and pack it back down the mountain a long long way, so Truly blessed Todd give me one last fist bump man So awesome now we got to get to work to work on this guy But just truly a trophy y'all truly a trophy. Y'all these conditions are absolutely terrible and snowing our hands are freezing Our tents are way the hell down there probably got 80 pounds So our plan to stay up here and hunt Has been thwarted the rain is just it's getting bad The thing we got to worry about is going back down those creeks getting so high that we can't crossing them We're really stuck up here. So Just communicated with JT. I think he's gonna do the same thing I'm not sure if he's got anything or not But just coming down that last part of the mountain with the goat Head and skin and the meat in my backpack. I don't know how much it weighs But it is it's the hardest thing I've ever done just going from that distance So We're talking about Probably six hour hike or so trying to get down there before dark It's probably 10 or 11 right now. I know this thing is foggy, but it's raining. It's it's not gonna get any better Y'all it's just this is the hardest thing I've ever done. The conditions are harsh The physical toughness is so harsh like nothing I've ever done could compare and prepare me for this So it's gonna be a long hike down the mountain. Wish me luck. I've already said a few prayers Just to get down. It's that bad. So We'll get down then we'll share some stories This is freakin hard We've made it down from 4,500 feet. We went through the jungle My legs are about to give out The river's rising The rain is just pouring in now. We gotta get moving. I've never been this tired in my life One step after the other I'm also out of water Trying to drink water. This water's like green now on the home stretch Yep those coals burning Okay, I'll let you leave see something good Toddy that still continues That was the hardest thing I've ever done physically and mentally When we first came down that mountain and I had the skull and the cape the meat and my pack was 85 pounds plus And we went down took us two hours just to get back to our campsite It was only 500 feet down or 500 yards down. I Realized this was going to be a grueling grueling day. The conditions were so bad I could barely break out my camera I was just I just had my GoPro on the batteries kept dying. It was so cold Nearly freezing temperatures Yet I was sweating steam was coming off being taught the forest that we had to go through on the way up It was it was tough to begin with literally climbing up roots So going back down and having to just turn around and literally slide and crawl and just be in the mud just getting poured on sideways rain lightning and Going down with that much weight and that slippery conditions were every step You could twist an ankle you could fall and in fact we did fall many many times and thankfully did not break anything It took us about four hours to make it down To the main waterfall where we had tracked that path up And when we got there my my legs were done I I could not I had no physical Balance all I could do was just put one foot in front of the other and I was not able to You know position my feet around the rocks that I needed to to push off good And I fell I fell into the river and all my stuff ended up getting soaked And that's why I'm filming this right now is because all of my camera gear. I thought it was dead I just rode it off. I said it's it's done. It was just in my pack I looked up and Todd just gave me the thumbs up like come on man. Come on We got to do it and I got up and we kept going down this river and I don't know how I Prayed so many times. I I bet you I prayed a dozen times like please Lord give me through this Please Lord give me through this little spot. Please don't give me through this spot and then just literally watching Todd The toughest guy I've ever met no question. He is a true Kiwi Southern Island tougher than anybody I've ever been around just watching him Trek through and he was carrying my sleeping bag and my tent on his back as well pacing through there Just watching Todd Get up after falling and crawling through stuff and keep going It brought out that like competitive, you know team side of me where I'm like, all right, you know, he's doing it I can do it too. I'm gonna keep going. I'm gonna keep going the craziest story that isn't on camera After it got dark, you know after six seven hours of hiking down this mountain We had already crossed a couple rivers. We're soaked. We're wet You know our feet our boots are filled with water and we're thinking we can get back to the main cabin We're gonna have a coal fire. We can get warm and then we hit this creek that is Impassable the water is raging down it Todd walks out to his knees nearly gets swept away and then turns around and It was it was so disappointing like physically I was done mentally. I Was not done yet, but I was thinking we're on the home stretch. It's like one more mile We can do this we could do this We're gonna get wet but we can just keep trudging and at that point if you've ever ran like a long distance It's literally just like Just keep moving keep moving keep moving your mentally just in a zone Then I had to break out my puffy jacket my other clothes and just walk around and try to stay warm After 30 minutes me and Todd were talking We were probably gonna have to sleep there that night so we were about to break out the tents and really put on the heavy gear and It was just it was rough because we knew we were only like a mile away and we were stuck there But each time we walked back and forth and tried to get our you know our limber up Just keep moving stay warm Todd was checking the river with my trekking pole checking it checking it And it was going down an inch every ten minutes or so We waited until that spot dropped about eight inches and it still was really sketchy But the rain started picking up again And we knew it was gonna rise and Todd just got out there and he found a hole That was high that we could jump into and literally he jumped. I'm watching this guy in the dark with my headlamp He jumped into a raging River And he landed on the other side grabbed a tree and he just said come on mate Give me your hand jump as hard as you can And y'all it was a leap of faith. I jumped I grabbed Todd's hand He pulled me in and at that point. I knew we were going to make it back It was the closest I've ever come to like actually being in a life-or-death situation I had no battery. I had no cameras to film all of it, but I'm just telling you the story now And I was that didn't even matter to me at the moment. Anyways, I was just thankful to be back here Know that I was back with friends. We were gonna get warm and we were gonna survive tonight just Dude I'm alive. That's the top. Did you survive? Oh my god, dude. Yeah Everything's wet dude cameras away. I'm just glad y'all got back in I should have died Bro, Todd got me through. Yeah, dude, Todd's a tough son of a gun I told you that before we came Actually, we were about to camp out there by the river and he just he waited 30 minutes and he checked it with my pole He said let's do it. I really had to jump across and grab him. He pulled me. I Bet you that packs are close to 90. Yeah, it's heavy for sure Hey, you're back. Let's let's get dry Buddy we got two fires going to dry your stuff out. I'm just glad to see you. It's about to see everybody be alive Yeah, I had some questionable moments No doubt that's a questionable moment. I carried a bull trophy tar Down the treacherous terrain I could ever imagine from 4,500 feet Down to 1600 at base camp With the skull the meat the cape and now we just have to do a little bit more caping on the face And carry it back down seven miles Back down to the car. I'll have about the same weight with all the rest of my gear in there And it's gonna be grueling as well. My boots are sopping wet My gear is not fully dried out, but the hard part is over now guys that the rain the rain has just been terrible It's picking up again, and if we don't head out now We're gonna be stuck in here for days and we won't make our flights back I had a slim opportunity at that tar. He came through at the right time even with that good shot If he didn't die luckily he laid in the same spot all night, and we finished him off But this is the craziest most grueling thing I've ever done. I have to thank Todd For just giving me the encouragement to get through last night and get here a true tough Kiwi This has been a growing experience sheep hunting mountain goat hunting is incredibly tough Mad respect to anybody that does it And I hope you guys have enjoyed this series of getting up here The hunting aspect the recovery and coming back down the mountain Please hit that like button Share it if you think it's shareable, and I'll see you on the next episode where we're gonna Do a little cooking some more caping and getting back down the mountain. I love you guys I'm glad to be back here safe and sound