 Yes sir! That would have been right in the bread basket. Welcome back to the channel y'all. Another outdoor adventure today. We're actually not going deer hunting. That's not our true season for deer so we can't. But I am so jacked for fall hunting right now. We've had a slight cold front and when I mean slight, it's 95 instead of 105. But when you wake up in the morning and it's like 72 instead of 85, you walk out, you've got your coffee and you can see the steam coming off your coffee a little bit and you just feel the little Christmas in the air coming out of the north. I got to shoot my bow. I got to do something involved with hunting and that's that's where I'm at right now. There's something I've been wanting to accomplish for four years and it is get a public land pig with my bow. And every year I apply for this permit that's close to my house. I can live it's literally walking distance. And I have tried and tried. You guys have probably seen some of the videos. I have not been able to get it done because when the water is at normal pool they're just all up in the brush and the trees and when you're kind of stalking and you're crunching on leaves and stuff you'll scare them or they'll smell you before you can get close enough. But we have a special situation going on right now and yes this is a two-fletch for you guys are wondering what's wrong with this. That's a two-fletch flies just fine. The lakes are just so low right now that in the area I'm wanting to hunt it's a beach and I literally go down here and I fish sometimes I've got catfish in these areas it's a it's a sandy beach right now. And the woods are extremely dry and the ground is very hard so for pigs and deer as well other animals like got to go down to that beach right now because that's where the vegetation is that's where things are actually growing. There's moisture in the ground so it's sort of a rare opportunity that I haven't seen since I've lived here and tried to hunt that I could literally go down there and get a pig on the beach and that's exactly what we are gonna try to do ladies and gentlemen. So we have three or four days of good cool weather and I'm thinking that in the in the mornings especially we'll probably have some opportunities at a pig and we'll probably see some whitetail all down on this beach area. So what we're gonna do now is we're gonna get up early in the morning we're gonna go just scout and we're gonna set up camera and see if we can get any confirmed sightings of pigs on the beach and then get a game plan from there. It's a good sow 80 yards away I can't even believe she's standing still out there this low right on the beach. More pigs on the beach 150 yards ahead of me. You guys probably can't see this but I'm gonna try to show you. Scouting report was good. We got visual confirmation. There's pigs down there. I didn't even get down there to the lake that early and I was walking around and I got a visual and we were able to uh to set up that camera. Now we'll know if pigs are gonna come in this evening. We're getting geared up for tomorrow morning to go hunt. So this is what I'm gonna be taking. You guys have seen this bow before but I built this for low light hunting. This is my Botech CP28. It's a compact bow. It's got a really extreme let-off. It's uh it's super easy to hold back but the way I set this up was for hunting in like ground blinds when it's dark hunting pigs at night on the lease. You know I've got a light on here. The other things that make it good for low light is it has a light on the sight itself. If you guys can see that lighting up that's lit up right now. So if you're in the dark or you're in that you know just after sunset or right before sunrise you've got that and there's there's no peep on it. I shoot both eyes open so I can just see. I can I want to be able to see the best of that can. And that's why I shoot most of my bows now. It's just both eyes open single pin. So less clutter. It's it's wide open as possible. Arrows we're shooting the top-notch arrow guys. We got a Victory Vat TKO. This is the Expert Series. It's supposedly tuned for the spine and for fleshings we got feathers. We got three little three inch turkey feathers on there and the arrows I'm going to be hunting with have a lighted knock. So we'll be able to see what our arrow is flying. Might as well mention the broad head since we're talking about the bows and arrows and everything else. So I'm just switching everything to these this year. That's the Iron Wheels. They're just good. They're just super high quality. You know the big debate on mechanicals versus fix. It's whatever. Shoot whatever you like. But what I like I like really high quality steel knives. That's what these guys use. And I like to resharpen my stuff anyway. I'm pretty pretty decent at that because I sharpen all my own knives and cutting tools. So I can just shoot those into rocks. It's great quality steel. I could resharpen it. And you know I can have broad heads for a couple years. Just get the ones that I like. Have them for a couple years. So 125s with the bleeders on them. Standard cut. That's what I'm using on my tips. That's a good workout. Unsuccessful but a good workout. I shouldn't say unsuccessful actually. We found some hogs and we chased them. It was a pursuit. But chasing anything down with a bow usually doesn't work out successfully. I did have one micro opportunity 40 yards. It was a hog that I hadn't had eyes on. I was chasing the other ones and another one kind of just popped out and it was about 40 yards but it didn't give me enough time to draw back. But they bedded down in the nastiest thick stuff I'm assuming. I tried to walk up to it to see if I could even see in there and it was complete veg out like a wall. I would be on top of hogs in there. I don't feel comfortable being that much cover. Sparse cover? Sure. Kind of thick. All right we'll get up in there and mix them up. But that really thick stuff. It's so difficult. No bait. No nothing. You're just going out there trying to either catch them in a good spot where they're sitting still. They're feeding on something or you're stalking them. Which right now everything is so crunchy. It's dang near impossible. I think I have a pretty rare window right now to get this done. So let's look at this from a strategic standpoint. So we have our lake right here. Got a little cove and then we have a bank that goes down this little creek. It's where I'm coming in at. Now when I first scouted the pigs I saw them right here. They're right here on this point. They're feeding on some little grasses and everything. But when I stalked in this morning I waited here. There was no pig showing up here. So when I walked out here and I glanced I saw them all the way down here and then I chased them. Now our wind today that's actually coming out of the north. So northeast on this map would be this direction. Instead of coming in and setting up right here I come down here and I just sit. I pop a squat right here and I'll be able to see pigs coming around from this bend if they're coming out. If they come out right here I might be able to sneak around and get a shot just depending. There's some cover in between here. There's also a lot of cover right here on the shoreline. So all these pigs are on the beach essentially but there's tons of brush. The nice thing about sitting up here is I can scan down and if I see pigs all the way down while in the lake I could make a big run kind of get around on them and set up in that brush with the wind right and then get a get a shot. That's that's my master plan right now. Basically the next time we get some decent rain all these pigs are just going to disperse into the woods. And so this little pattern that has been going on is it will no longer be. I may end up just going into the brush and getting into the danger zone with them but I really don't want to. I want to get one on the beach. I think that is so cool to be able to say I got a public land hog on the beach. All right game plan for tonight. I think we may ditch the full pack. I may take it down there because it's got supplies in it you know for getting a pig out. I'm going to take my athletic hiking shoes and they're basically like trail running shoes and get ready to go. I don't even think I'm going to carry my big camera. Sorry. I'm just trying to get her done and that means cutting weight and being super mobile. I think my chances are getting lower every time I go out. Number one the weather is just getting hotter. The best cold front was the coolest morning was the scouting day and also they're starting to get educated. You got to keep that in the back of the mind but it's not going to stop us. Someone's out here looking for a seesaw. I see some more I can see right now than weight you know so if they start working this way down there that I'm going to sit in and get in some brush like this I'm just going to sit there and wait for him to run into me basically. I finally made it back to my pack guys. 500 yards. I sprinted to go get the pig when I shot and I didn't have a headlamp. I couldn't see blood. I don't feel great about the shot but I haven't had a chance to really look at the blood yet so I'm going to take the arrow off. I really examined the blood. That's a white feather and it's got blood on it but it's not like that's kind of blown out. Just not in love with the blood. We're gonna have to go back and look for blood on the ground heading into the woods and if we don't see anything I'm gonna go back in the daylight and look and maybe hunt some more because that pig was sitting there like squealing for 15 minutes after I shot it was just sitting in there so there's a chance it could go down but if it's squealing those lungs they're not full of blood. So I've never shaken so much like bow hunting? Bow hunting. I could be bow hunting for a squirrel and I don't know it's just a different level of adrenaline guys different level of adrenaline so I love it. It's ups and downs. Hopefully we find this pig but if not this was a huge huge... I've been waiting to get a shot at a pig for years out here on public land so... All right boys so I have uh rethink this whole let's go search for the pigs that are wounded in the heavy brush at night situation. As I was starting to go I was like you know what I'm just gonna let that pig hopefully sleep on it and literally go to sleep. I don't think it's worth me going in there and bumping the pig. There's a fear factor. I'm not I'm not gonna sit here and say that I'm not scared because I was scared. I literally had to dodge a pig already at my feet. Let's talk about the shot because I'm sure the footage was super grainy. There was a little grass patch that was about 40 yards that I was hoping they would go to and the little piglets kept staying in the water and they were like 45. I knew that was going to be a harder shot smaller target so I waited for the bigger ones to come a little closer and they were sitting there wallowing and a second for a second at 55 yards I was like maybe I'll just take a shot with it in the wallow but then I started thinking well the vitals might get kind of weird it's it's a smaller target laying on its side so I was like I'll wait for it to stand back up and I waited they stood back up they started walking towards me and once one hit 40 yards I was like okay this is it. I don't know if they're going to come any closer if the piglets get too far around me they might get me they might see me because I had a perfect little brush situation you know I settled into position good sat down my anchor on my nose and honestly the sharp shot broke great I still have my pen set for 40 yards or 39 I set it for 39 because I said I don't want to don't want to shoot high and I think I just I don't know what do you got on this do you think this is a good hit on the arrow it's obviously hard to see because it's black arrow but this is why I went with white feathers so you would be able to see blood it looks like dark stuff on the shaft of the arrow in the front of the arrow dove into the sand so there's there's absolutely no there's no blood on the broadhead itself I'm sure it all got dusted off as soon as it hit the sand it went into the sand probably this far yeah that's where the blood starts oh my god all right I'm what I'm watching this back for the first time I can't even get an arrow on that's how much look at this I'm shaking my adrenaline is going so hard I'm trying I was about to shoot this pig right here and then this one comes I wasn't even fully drawn I just like literally shot from like my chest I missed a pig at one yard I don't think it matters how many hunts I go on I am shaking when I am bow hunting that like the adrenaline the adrenaline is so high there's nothing there's no other outdoor activity that compares I will I will do this to the to I can't do it anymore in my life the shot watching it back was not as bad as I thought as far as height wise we will go back to the same spot in the morning look for blood and there might be another group of pigs there I don't know so we'll definitely take the bow and see if we can find any blood or find another pig to take a stab at good morning y'all hell of a way to start off the day with a little pig stalking I got even closer this morning I got 35 yards away but I had a tree in front of me I needed to stand up to shoot and I knew it was probably gonna see me if I stood up so I waited for it to come out but it just kind of meandered back into the brush it might have smelled me but I don't know I think I'm definitely gonna be back to try to get that pig it's it's one that I saw that I already filmed in this video okay over there is my tree my little bush and I shot from there's hog tracks and turds all over this beach I laid a little stick out over here where my shot was just look at the ground guys it's just tracks okay so here's where the arrow landed I see blood right here I do see blood I've walked it and walked it and walked it that's definitely not good blood I mean it's on a beach for good and sakes so it should be easy to see right here it's kind of dark there's still moisture on the sand God just looked at the sun and it messed up my eye looks like I'm looking at blood everywhere right now all right we're gonna take in a morning sunrise breathe in some fresh air get to you guys see that it ain't much I see heavy tracks right here this is from the other pig that was standing behind this one and you can see it's it's spun around and then darted it darted off kind of did a circle and then it stood in front of me at like 25 yards which that's by the way a big lesson I I guess I don't practice it it's just a thing that I'm trying to take mental note of but when you take a shot knock another arrow just go ahead practicing knocking another arrow immediately because it's happening to me on a big elk hunt it's happening to me on deer hunts where if you miss or you you hit the animal and it's not great you might get a second opportunity or like last night the pigs kind of just running around in circles not knowing what's going on I had another opportunity I was shaking so bad I could even knock an arrow but you know don't just think it's over as soon as you fire that first arrow there's sometimes a lot more action that happens after that first one okay I just picked it up right here on the tracks so I found the second set of tracks that are running and then there's the there's a little trickle it ain't much let's see if we can follow these heavy tracks and then maybe get on some smeared blood on branches or something like that so there we go there is some leakage there's a little micro drop on that leaf all right let me walk you through the tracking process so far so I've taken about 10 minutes let me be larger than that 20 minutes and I've literally traced the blood back to the shot basically I'm just taking some sticks and I'm making a visual path so my eyes will sort of recognize the next most likely move that the animal is going to make and I'm trying to get a trail into the woods that's where I marked last night with the stick with the arrow impact and then we have we have the blood coming out both sides which can be tricky and I've started marking the stick with sticks just the blood that I found in the sand keep going spurt now there's a hog turd probably came out of that guy and then we can see some of the heavy tracks heavy tracks starting to turn right there see digging in turning falling the sticks good blood on the sand right here falling the sticks this is where I got turned around because I found blood on a little vegetation over here a little bit right here uh so I started putting little sticks on everywhere I've seen blood and it gave me a little pathway that I realized okay yeah it's going out both sides and then I looked up and this is what I was hoping to see is uh hoping to see some blood on some some trees and some vegetation leading into the brush so that's where we're at and we're going in now now we got a lot of vegetation we can look at and see usually the blood on the shoulders will kind of smear off on the sides yeah there's some right here now where I thought I heard the pig was run this way thought I heard it squealing but I mean there's tons of little tunnels in here so we're gonna try to find the tunnel this pig chose and just follow it I don't even have my bow right now I've got a machete to cut through this stuff and I got I got a knife give me a sign give me a sign there's blood on the leaf right there that's actually pretty high that's above my kneecap there's really good blood right there that's good dark red stuff remind a nick something guys remind a nick something here's more bugs looks like this thing is maybe diving into this brush all right there it's good blood might have chance here I've got to really stop and think for a second for how to stir up all this there's some right here blood all over these leaves good blood here here it is right here oh my god it's already been disemboweled by coyotes it was a shot was a little high but we still we still got her done well guys I went ahead and finished up the the job of the the coyotes forgot to do that actually some of the organs and some of the loins down here and left the rest one of the shoulders may still be okay you know I'll look at it at the temperatures last night for we're in the heat of summer so it's it's not great we'll drag it out and get a photo maybe take a look at that shoulder see if there's anything left on it that we can take off all right guys I had to bring the pig out to the beach now it was probably 50 yards or so in there oh man I'm getting sand all over my bow here but you know unfortunately the coyotes had got to the pig before I did I still think it was probably smart for me not to go in there last night just given how thick it was how nasty it was and if the pig was wounded that would have been dumb of me being out here by myself with potentially getting wounded and having a long hike home oh man I'm just I'm so excited I'm so excited this is a trophy for me 100 percent to get my first public land this is my first public land animal the amazing thing about this hunt guys is I kind of thought it was over hunting is a roller coaster and I thought this hunt was over this morning when I came in here and I saw the thin blood and I was thinking man it doesn't look like a true double loan shot or a hard shot the blood's kind of thin but when I got into that vegetation then I could really see good dark blood and that gave me hope and then it wasn't much farther you know 25 yards from there that I found the pig and that is going to wrap up this video guys thank you for tuning in you know hunting season is is coming right around the corner pigs like this obviously you can hunt them year round they're invasive but this is a good way to just kind of get primed for deer archery season and get a little confidence going into it so thank y'all for being here on this crazy hunt with me and stay tuned for more this fall and I'll catch you on the next adventure able to salvage one of the quarters the other one was really swollen all right we're gonna make sure we cook that one really good stay tuned for that