 We are embarking on another hunting mission. Welcome on back guys. I've got another video, possible video series going down here. Most likely going to be a few videos because I don't anticipate I'm going to get this one done on the first try. I have had a surprisingly hard time this season finding a larger buck to cooperate with the bow or even just a doe to get with my compound bow. You know, I kind of dilly-dallyed early season and will probably never do that again. I'm going to take my opportunities as they come from here on, learning lessons. Now that we're in rut and maybe even post-rut, things are getting a little slim, you know? There's been a lot more deer taking, a lot more pressure in the woods. So hey, we're going to give public land a try. I've done public land hunting for elk out west and I've done public land hunting with birds here in Texas, but never for a white-tailed deer. Artie did a little scouting yesterday and I've already got some trail cam pics back. I've only put up one camera and put it on a scrape, had a little button buck come through it and then I had a six-point that's probably not even legal and then one doe and they seem to be moving at night, so not very promising there. But I found a couple of other spots that I've got some hickory trees with some oaks that I think would be some good feeding areas, you know, morning and evening. So that's what we're going to do tonight. We're going to go sit in an oak tree that's got a few hickories around it. I saw enough activity around their tracks and stuff. I think at some point today, it might be tonight, there will be some deer come through there. That's really my main concern is all the hunting pressure is going to push these deer to move at night, but we'll see. We're going to be hunting out of our tree harness or their platform, so I'm going light. I'm just going to take a GoPro and we're going to put the old rock climbing harness on, climb up in a tree, grab the old bow here and see if we can fling one at a legal deer. Now a buck has to be at least 13 inches inside spread to be legal here in Texas or have at least one unbranched antler. So you can do a spike or you can do a one spiker three pointer, you know, or but you can't can't do one of these. You can't do the old number four unless he is, you know, 13 inches inside spread. So that or a doe, we are going to be going after. So let's grab our deer, grab some heirs, let's head to the woods. Oh, and by the way, I don't have my truck. So we're going to be hunting out of a Chevy Malibu. Oh man, this is a doozy, this is a doozy right here. I guess we'll, if we get this deer, we'll strap it to the hood with some paracord. What do you think? It really sucks when I have my truck. That's a, it's really a story for another day. If you guys know the problems I've had with my little dirty max, we're on we're on saga number two, truck number two right now with that. We're going to see anything. Don't ride it dark or do this is probably the highest. I've set up my my saddle so far until I can shoot 360 because I can stand straight up. I'm not even using my tether right now grass, still some acorns on the ground. The woods settle down. Hopefully we'll see some deer. I've seen mosquitoes so far. It's about 65 degrees. So does not help. Malibu got us back where we need to be. I think there's a cold front coming in tonight. So I might just jump back into that tree really early. It took me a while. I actually readjust readjusted my stand a couple of times to kind of position myself where I can shoot multiple lanes and I actually moved it up higher. So I feel pretty good about it. You know, saddle hunting to me, it's not first nature. It's not even second nature. I'm still learning and getting comfortable with it. So, you know, it takes me a while. I can't just like shoot up there, but trying to be safe, trying not to fall flat on my back in the woods or on my head or something. You know, it's it's sketchy. But I'm sure when I get a deer, finally, it's going to feel really good. But no deer tonight. I actually got I got no notifications either on my other camera. So I'm guessing these fish are going to be fish. Getting about that time. A few more deer. It's going to be time for early pre-small bass and down south. This cold front comes in. I think they'll get they'll get moving in the morning. So I may just hop back in there and see. But first attempt on public land. Goose egg, not surprised. What is last night? We got that north wind I was looking for. I heard some leaves crunching about 10 minutes ago, but I couldn't see, see that far. There's a bunch of oak leaves over by the creek and I heard, you know, but I just couldn't see what it was. Don't know if it was deer. I love this spot because it's just so open. But I think that's part of the problem. I think with as much pressure that is out here, they're going to look to be more like on the edges. They're probably getting pushed out on the edges a little bit up day. However, on my trail cam, that's in another spot. Got a couple of shooter bucks seem to be nocturnal right now. I haven't got a updated upload this morning to see if anything's come by there. But last night, there were basically three shooter bucks that came by. I was pretty wild. They were all using that scrape. Doesn't do me any good. Then it's at night. But at least I know that there are some decent bucks out here. It's hoping that we're going to be feeding in this field. But they're not. Beautiful morning. Didn't have to chase away any cows. It is now time for me to film myself getting out of this tree. That's it's going to be interesting, especially with all the gear right now. I have decided to go with a rope climbing method instead of the ladders. And boy, boy, it just makes for interesting descents. But you never know when it's going to be your last time getting down out of a tree. So I'll film it. All right, first thing I got to do. We're going to take the platform down and everything ankle, ankle throws up and limber up, limber up. I'm going to need all my joints here. So right now I am in my tether. This is the tether right here hooked up. First thing we're going to do is lower the bow on this paracord. And then we're going to hook in to our climbing rope. We're going to take this off. Then we're going to lower down. We're going to take the platform off. All right, here we go. Wish me luck. Take this off of here. So I'm actually going to lower my bow on this side. I'm going to climb down. Here's the interesting part is we're going to take this carabiner to stick it on the carabiner of our climbing rope. Right there and take our sender off right there. And my gree-gree is going to go right here. So I'm not on my tether right now. So a little bit of a danger factor. Take this out, put this in my little pouch. Take our tether off, toss that down. Don't want to start maneuvering down this tree. That's where it's a little sketchy. Get some tension on our gree-gree. We'll be OK. So we're actually going to pull this rope off when we're all done. This right here, I'm going to lower myself a little bit. The gree-gree using that lever. I'm going to get the platform about chest level. Now we're just hanging. We're hanging by the gree-gree. It's very important. I don't take tension off that, though. This platform comes off pretty easily. We'll attach that to our harness. I believe it's getting cold down the tree. Just take it easy. Successfully made it down. Pop out of our gree-gree. Grab our bow and it's going to bring my rope down, hopefully, should in theory. There we go. And that is the rope climbing method that I'm using. So there's no ladder, no, not that. I'm going to load that in my backpack. And next time we come out here, we're going to climb up in a different tree. So chilled off. Actually, actually, I'm going to go check this scrape. See if it was used last night. I'm towing this place out, too. Used last night. And it's a pretty fresh print right here. If you were to leave, it's falling in them. We packed it out of the woods, y'all. And then we headed to Florida to go bass fishing after my first public land hunt for whitetail deer. And of course, the whole time I'm on the phone. I'm looking for trail camp picks. When are they coming out during the day? But it was mostly warm. It was a whole week of just warm weather. And of course, all the picks of deer got plenty of picks, but they're all at night. And we're talking some good bucks, mature bucks. They've been fighting a lot. They're all scarred up. They're awesome late season deer, but nothing during the day. So I got another trail cam. I'm going to put out more of a feeding area. The one I had, I was kind of just on a scrape in the pass by area. So we'll see if we get any more picks. But in the meantime, we're going to head down to the deer lease where we've been getting plenty of trail cam activity. I'm going to take the bow. Also going to take the rifle just to make sure we get some deer down. I need two more deer to finish off the season and make sure we have the freezer full to continue feeding me and the fam for the rest of next year. And that's it. So drop me a comment down below. What is your favorite rifle caliber? Are you a 308 old school guy? Are you are you new school? Are you on the 65 program? Maybe you're a 300 windmill. I don't know, 270 classic, 243. I don't know. Maybe you're straight arrows, much respect to that too. But let me know in the comments down below and thank you guys for being with me in the great outdoors. And I'll see you back in it.