 doing this. Some help opening your milk. It's holding baby Ben about to make some chili and cornbread. First time making child number one, some dinner. Yep. This is interesting to say the least. You know, last time I was out here at deer camp, it was all about getting everything ready, trying to get everything ready for the gals and baby Ben to come out here all together. And really for OSG to get in a blind, get some experience looking at deer and hopefully take her first deer ever. You know, I've been watching the cameras like crazy. Found this buck. I saw that he was a cornhog. You guys saw that tonight. I think he'll stick around with all the noise if the wind stays like it is. I just mean like miles per hour wise. It's actually gonna come out in the north tomorrow. It's gonna get much colder. So our wind direction is gonna be great, but also just the noise, moving the trees around, it really helped when we were making a ton of noise in the blind. So there's absolutely no way we could be in a bow blind all together. I mean, you just can't do it. I'm sorry, I love you. You did really good. Yeah. And I liked the way you were using your hunting voice, your quiet voice, and you did it pretty much the whole time. We only had to get on to you like twice. But when we're in that little box, we just gotta use our... I feel like we did the right move tonight. We may be regretting this tomorrow. We may be saying, dang, we should have, we should have just pulled the trigger. But I wanted to make 100% sure that she was confident. I was confident that we... I think all of it. Good job, baby. Good job, I'm proud of you. I wanted to be 100% confident that when she's on the trigger, everything is perfect and all the nerves are gone and everything, there's confidence. We're gonna cook up some chili, some cone bread, have a little Shiner buck, and tomorrow's another day. We're gonna head to the range, get her confident, and then get in the blind eventually again, and hopefully, whole big, big G2 eight point comes out again. All right, so we're here at the range. It is moment. She is on the first one. Rifle that we are using is my Bracebuilt Sleeper in 308. This is a really good long range rifle. It's built for shooting groups under a quarter MOA. The reason I chose it for hunting with Stephanie is because a 308 and like a six, five creed more, especially if you put a can on them, they're really nice on the shoulder. It's not a big impact. It's not like shooting a 30 out six or seven millimeter or one of those bigger calibers. So it's really nice. I want her to have a good experience with it, and it's got just an amazing trigger built in it, which I think is also good for beginning rifle hunters just to have, almost have that gun surprise you a little bit, and so you're not flinching. So let's send a few down range to see if she can cling some steel. She's gonna have you get on the gun. Okay. Get lined up. Squeeze this pad to make it go up and down to get your elevation right. Lean into the rifle with your shoulder. I don't see the target at all. Do you know how to aim? That's key, right? You look good now. Go ahead and squeeze. I did not. I wanted to see if you'd flinch. This is gonna be about a two hour process just to get her on the gun and take a few shots to get comfortable. With a sighted in gun, just because we got Emmy running around and we're trying to let her know like how serious this is being around these firearms. She's yet to hear her first shot yet. And then we got Ben. He's just had to be nursed, just had to be changed. And now he's taking a nap in the meat wagon. Now we're gonna get our first shot. So you're good to go. So you gotta chamber that around. When you chamber it, put it on safety. Push it forward. Push it down. There you go. You're chambered. You just gotta take your safety off. Nice gentle squeeze. Okay, fire away. You hit steel. Woo! Good job, baby. Now you see the little metal target next to it to the right? That's what we're gonna go after next. So take that round out, just unload the bolt. Here we go. Chambered. Yes! Woo! Now that will kill the deer, baby. You just had a pie-sized plate at 100 yards. Woo, I'm shaking. But I'm like, I have to calm myself down. Yes. That was perfect. That's all you gotta do right there. Got your heart rate up a little bit. To the left of that, there is a high-viz target. It's got rings on it. Just try to aim for that bullseye. Amazing. Did I get it? I can see it. You can see it? Woo-hoo! You hit the bullseye. You just touched the bullseye. Woo! That's all you gotta do right there. All right. Now this is a very stable platform, obviously. You've got two supports front and back. In the deer blind, we're only gonna have one support. So we need to practice that shot. We'll do the same thing. We'll shoot for the steal and then we'll shoot one at the high-viz and then we'll be good to go. Real-life scenario, you're in a blind. You're in a really crappy blind right now, okay? It's leaning. It's not the best. But you've got my little cushion pad. We're gonna set the rifle on this little rest and you're gonna have to balance your back end. You're not gonna have both supports and I want you to hit the small gong, the little circular one on the right. Okay. So hit that one and then we'll get a shot on the high-viz. This is all part of it right here. Remember, you don't wanna be leaning back. You wanna be leaning forward. Okay. Actually it feels pretty good. Yeah. All right, we're gonna let you give it a shot. All right, Emmy, stand back. Just load your round. You nailed it. Good job, baby. Good job. Man. All right, we got one more test and that's hitting that high-viz. What do you think, Emmy? Your mom's doing pretty good. She can't even hear me. Remember to push into that piece of wood. I heard it. Where did we hit? It's time to go check. It's still in the bullseye. Really? Yeah. All right, baby, good job. I would like to keep that. Okay. Well, you did great. Go ahead and un-chamber that round. Set the rifle to the side and you did great. You did fantastic. Emmy, give me a hand. Good job, mom. All right, show us your target. Oh, I'll show them, because I'm pretty proud of this. It should be. And that's the only practice we're going to be doing today, right? That's it. I think we end on confidence, don't you? I really like the scenario we did there. It's pretty realistic of what's going down. Look how precise I was. I mean, you are straight up and down bullseye, edge of the bullseye, both shots. It doesn't get much better than that, honey. That's really good. And even on this target right here, so I can see your fresh shot right there in the middle and then these two. Right in the middle. Right in the middle. So you did really good. You absolutely nailed it. You were ready to go sit in the deer line now. I'm a little shaky. Now he's gotta come out. I know, I'm a little shaky. And last night, did you tell him we were practicing on our where to shoot? Yes. Just trust me where I tell you to place the bullet. Shooter is on. Baby Ben, how did you do? You're good. You're just sleeping. You're just sleeping, little bud. Yeah, just slept through the whole thing. Oh, wow. I cannot believe how great you've been doing. He's fantastic. Well, he's had several blowouts, but if that's the only thing, I'll take it. And Amy, you did good too at shooting range. You did great. Yep. You can take your headphones off now if you want. Do you want to take your headphones off? I think she likes them. She says she's ready to go home, which is where the camper is. All right, let's head to the camper, get some lunch and talk strategy for this evening. OSG, you ready to do this? I'm ready for shooting a deer, like my outfit. I have a camo jacket. Okay, you got any face paint? I don't. Don't worry, I got some. Can I like, can I go like this? Not really. Because it's too white. That's like a pink, white paisley. Well, maybe they like it. Maybe they do like it. Stoutful. Stoutful. Amy's playing with rocks. So no big deal. We just got to get baby bin. It's pretty much go time, 4.30. This is when we said we were going to head out. So let's head out, let's go do it. Let's go get him, thankfully. He hasn't nursed in a while. So maybe once we get in the deer blind, I can nurse him and kind of calm him down, get him back to sleep. I'll get you in the deer blind buddy. That'll calm me down. We may see him a little sooner, but we're going after this eight point block. He's a great call block. He's got really long G2s, and he's very distinct. Steph's feeling confident on the rifle, and the kids are playing games right now, so everything's good. So I'm bleeding. Are you sure? I'm sure I'm bleeding. I'm so bleeding, thank God. So he's pressing it. It's okay. He went perfect broadside. Oh, I had a good shot. I saw him bleeding out really good as I was running. So I'm just leaving in there as well. We just got a phenomenal eight, there goes the deer right now. Phenomenal eight point block. You are a super mom. My gosh, babe, I am shaking. Good job. I was nerve wracking. You did great though. You waited. Did you feel good with the shoulder pad under there? Yeah. Everything solid? Yeah. I felt really solid. I didn't feel shaky. Okay, great. I was just, he was awesome constantly. Yeah. It's right behind the crease. Easy squeeze. All right, the shot. I heard the shot hit. Did you? And I wasn't, I didn't see where it impacted but I saw him bleeding really good as he ran away. I'm just gonna sit here. I'm gonna watch back at the shot on the camera and we're gonna see how he did, Amy. Did you even know what happened? Did you know? Did you know what happened? Did you know there was a deer out there? It almost didn't happen because the does ran off. They smelled something, heard something, could have been the hogs coming. But he came back. He was an absolute corn hog and I set a bunch of corn out in front of the fence and he just came right back to it. Gave Stephanie enough time to settle in but he was spooky. He's really spooky. He did a good job. Cause I was trying to tell you like, okay, wait. Yes, yes. Oh, stop. It was a miracle. We got 30 minutes in here. So I'm so proud of her. She makes such a good shot to see her reaction. Have you ever tracked before? Yeah. What did they track down? You tracked down deer before? Yeah. We're about to go try to track one down, okay? Ready, mom? Yeah, why don't I just go ahead and wear him? Okay. Now that my shooting duties are over. We're shooting duties are over. You can wear him now. All right, babe. So you felt good about the shot? I do. I felt really good about the shot. Okay. Well, the video, you know, it looked kind of high. It did. It doesn't look good. But look right here. So we got, we got a good bright red color. That's what we want. We got some more right here. And I watched back the video and I saw he ran down this road a little bit. But, give me, you want to come too? Yes, I do. Okay. I don't want to leave corn right there. Okay, so, there you go. Good job. Good eye. So I've got my gun and then the backpack at the last blood. And that's where we got to go from there. So he ran through here. Look at this cactus right here. Follow me. Don't touch these. These are very bad. And this is kind of where we're at. So, just kind of follow, just need to follow like wherever you see blood. Put you down. Get me out. Okay. Put me down. I'll put you down. Here you go. I see blood right there. You see blood? I saw you! Okay. Hang on. Are you still saying it? You see it right there? That's good. Yeah, I think I saw him head this way on video. But it kind of thins out, you know? Yeah. Kind of stops. I think it's a leaf. It can kind of be tricky. It could be tricky sometimes. Oh my God! Oh my God! You got seven cactus. You did it, babe. Oh my gosh. That's not... That's like a hundred yards from the... It's less than that. It's not even 70 yards. Oh my God. What a buck. And guess what? Perfect shot. Perfect shot on it, dear. Oh my God, I'm sweating. I'm sweating. Good job. Look at your buck. My gosh. With my two kids. Emi, what do you think? What do you think, Emi? This is mommy's buck. Oh my God, that's a perfect shot. You did great. That's actually... That's a textbook, right there. That's a textbook. So you did phenomenal. For some reason it looked... It looked so hot. It looked higher on the video. It is. It made me get... Yeah, I'm starting to get really sad. What a beautiful eight point buck. You know, I thought this deer was really cool. I liked his G2s right here. He's dark horned. And, you know, he's just a mature buck. And I thought he'd be a great one for you to take. This is so much bigger than my first buck I ever shot. Like, you don't understand. He's beautiful. He's gorgeous. Good job, Emi. What do you think about those antlers? Is that cool? And he's a really healthy buck, too. He's gonna be good to eat. So you knew he was that. I already found him. But I wanted you to find him. So... I like how you did that. Thank you. Oh my gosh. What a champion, mom. What a champion, mom. Can you believe it, y'all? If you were not smashing the like button right now, something is wrong with you. What do you think? Well, I've never been up close to them, first of all, because I don't even think I've been on like a hunt with you and seen this up close. So it's kind of unreal. It's surreal, actually. It's an awesome feeling, right? It is. You see how people can get addicted to it? It's an awesome feeling knowing that I didn't hurt him. You know, he was only in pain for five seconds. He went down as soon as he basically left, exited the frame on video. I think that's what we're most proud of. Well, you made a fantastic shot. We're gonna make that deer sausage like you wanted. And we'll probably do a little Euro skull on that guy because he's got some really cool antlers, a fantastic call buck to take out here. And then we can't forget about little baby Ben, who's done so good. We should give assist points, Amy, high five to you and your brother, Ben. They were quiet like long enough. Well, first of all, the deer came in really early, which was fantastic, but anyways, it just all came together. It was a good thing. Good job. Are we gonna celebrate? Yeah. I think we did fantastic work, you especially. And what an awesome first deer. Can you go over here, kids? And I'm proud of you, babe. I'm proud of you. The whole entire internet world right now, watching this is proud of you as well. So, all right, let's get them loaded up. Let's head back to camp. You got your camera too? Like dad? Well, how do you feel this morning? Feel pretty good. I feel like a champion. You should. You're a motherly champion. Look at our cute little daughter. She looks like a little deer, a little woods girl. Love to see it. Is this my outfitting of the children? It's pretty on point, I would say. Where do you want to take it? Oh, you want to stand up on it? Like a lock? Okay. I just want it to stand up like this. Okay. You want it to stand up like that? I want it to stand up like this. She goes, I want it to stand up like this. Not like that. Want me to hold you? Mm-hmm. Okay. We did what seemed like it was going to be impossible. Calm down. For probably two years, you've been telling me I want to get a deer. Timing never lined up, right? Never lined up. We've been having kiddos. And finally, I just said like, all right, if we're gonna do it, we better do it because kids are always gonna meet kids. They're always gonna be running around and everything. Poddlers in the blind, y'all, I will say is tough. What tips would you give someone that's going to take their family hunting for the first time? I will see. Take them in. Something to distract them. We use the iPad and we turn the volume all the way down. So silence that iPad. I also let her choose out some snacks before we left so that she, like those special snacks that she knew that she was gonna get in the blind. And then we also got, I've ordered the kids some ear protection before I left. So she had some little ear pink, pink earrings. And she did like wearing them. She did, she loved wearing them. You wanted to get it just to practice it in the blind. We ended up seeing the deer that I've seen on camera. I put a lot of homework in just to make sure that this would line up, we'd have a good chance. But the deer actually did come and he was just a dominant deer for that area. And he kind of pushed everything else out once he would get in there. So I got all the meat cleaned up last night and we're gonna take it to the processor tomorrow. We've got it all in a cooler. Everything looks good, quartered, neck meat, everything, we're gonna make breakfast sauces is what you said you wanted. That was my request. Always good to have a full cooler, full of delectable outdoor treats. But this was a huge challenge, huge accomplishment. The family photo will be happily placed on our mantel somewhere. Stories to come. Stories to come, but man, just a big memory. A shout out to explore the outdoors. Oh, we have two books. We have two book plugs right now. Explore the outdoors. Explore the outdoors books. They write kids books for fishing, hunting, just general stuff. I think they're from Texas. They had a book about going to deer camp and we read that at home before we came here and honestly it lined up just so perfectly. It explains. She explains, she understood everything. It's like a game to be quiet with the deer and everything and it was really educational. Number two, you should. You should get our cookies out. I went ahead and made some of the cookies from our cookbook for the camping trip. These cookies are called the woodsman cookies. This is my favorite. She made these for this trip. They're so good. What is in here? Tell them. Okay, so these, the base is ground pecans and there's got anise in there. There's got cinnamon. There's rum. Oh, Amy. Oh. Come back over here. You're okay. Put on a little cookie. You want a cookie? Oh, that makes everything better. There's anise. There's rum extract. There's vanilla extract. So basically this cookie was owed to the woodsman. Everything in the outdoors. Tastes very earthy. Earthy, it goes great with a little bit of whiskey. So go grab your copy of my cookbook. When you put the link. Yeah, it's linked down below. It's linked down below. Thank you guys for tuning in to this episode and more family outdoor adventures to come. We are going to do some more camping with the Opus coming up here soon. But yeah, comment down below, make sure to smash it and we'll see you guys in the great outdoors later. God bless you.