 Good early morning everybody. Welcome back to the channel. This is a little foggy and we got a little white beer. I am still waking up. I sound like a frog. A, because I didn't sleep well at all last night, because last night was the best hunt of my life. Hopefully you guys watched the video. It turned into a nightmare of me shotting, me not finding the deer. I need this juice, this coffee juice in my veins so I can wake up. I was moving around a bunch. They didn't see me. I set up a new blind in a place that, anyway, tragedy struck where I haven't been able to find the deer. We're gonna attempt to do that today. I ended up pulling out of that area last night and not looking because it's on a it's on a fence line area. Border in the neighbors and I did not want to jump that deer up if it was bedded down and push it over the fence. But I think that most likely it just went through the back strap and the deer is fine. Just the arrow was so clean. That's a long backstory leading into today's video, but we are gonna do some duck hunting. Never duck hunted on this lease. I love, I love this place. It's so awesome. There's ponds out here that are spring-fed. So we got bass and bluegill and stuff like that in there. They're pretty low right now, but last year we just saw just tons and tons of ducks. Somebody didn't know, I didn't even know the species. They're just really cool myritoric ducks. So we're gonna get down there this morning and try to pond hop some of these ducks. We don't have decoys. We're just going out there in our rain boots and we're gonna sit on the edge and see if we can hop up some ducks and take some out. And then hopefully make a little duck stew. I got, I brought some onions and some potatoes, some other ingredients to make a little stew. I'll be honest with you guys, duck hunting is not really my thing. I get way more charged up to do other types of hunting. I'm supposed to get up so early. And then, you know, having to get wet in the water and I've probably never had proper waders in my life. But anyway, it is pretty cool when you get a few down. They're beautiful birds and they taste all right, you know, they taste okay. So I like to put them in stews and soups and things like that where, you know, you really can't screw it up. We're gonna grab a couple other guys and attack these, these two ponds that are out here. Yeah. What'd you put in there? Like another probably got 20 shells, maybe 15. We're just gonna just flank them or just all go in on a frontal attack. You guys, you have a, we got a long, we got a sniper basically. Yeah. So you got the, and you got a short range. Very short. All right. Why don't we just all attack and see what happens? We'll just all go. Yeah. Got a duck down. Yep. I think so. I know. That was actually a pretty good little plan and just, I know. Oh no. There's four. Okay. Ducks, ducks, he says. See, I got, I got boots. I can probably get out there if I don't sink too much. Oh, it's a big boy there. Yeah. Have you ever seen such a thing? That's pretty cool. Three dudes, about nine birds. We got one duck. Not bad. Not bad. That's pretty much right on track with my record usually. So we're going to head to another pond, see if we can get a couple more. A nice little stew though. On number two, I always see him on this far end. I already know something's up. That sounds like there's 30 of them. We do it just like last time. Space out about 20 yards. Just walk up there. Do you want to go down a little farther? All right. Me and you, I'll stay right here. That was like a ton of birds. Oh my God. I didn't know. Did you get one Gabe? I just, I tried to shoot one through the trees. I don't think I got anything. This is a good spot to sit because I can't see you until I fly into this little bottleneck here. This is the spot. That's a good drop off right there. That's a good little contour for the fish. That was, that was turkey chokers only right there. There you go. All right, bird located. Oh yeah, she drops off. This is pretty much the dam. All right, I got an idea. Hand me that little saw up there. Most important tool you can buy as a hunter. I could fall. Hang on. We got it. Somebody go over there. Somebody go in that hole. Somebody go in that hole. Got him. Good shooting. Oh yeah, this is going to be a fun retrieval here. Little greenling. Little teal buddy. That's like a big quail. That's pretty man. Nice shooting. All right, this stew is looking very meaty. Yeah. All right, y'all. We just came up to the house and we got four birds right now. We got two little greenlings. I believe there's our gadwalls right here. Got a male and a female. We're going to put them in a little stew, man. But before we do that, I need to go do a final search for this buck. Haven't been down there since to look for this buck. There's a slight chance that I got top of the lung and I didn't want to bump the deer last night. So hopefully he bedded down and he's gone. In all likelihood, I just backstrapped him and he's fine. That's the most likely thing, just looking at the arrow. And I'll show you guys this morning since we got good daylight. Last night, obviously, it was really dark. So this is the arrow right here. I haven't touched it. See a little bit of blood right there, but shaft is clean. Broadheads pretty daggone clean. It's just a little bit of fur not looking good. Obviously, the brighter side of that is when you're hitting that no man's land area, you know, the deer survive and go on, especially a, you know, big mature deer. That at least helped me sleep a little, but still didn't sleep very good. But anyway, we're gonna go do a search, then we're gonna get a stew going. Kind of spread out and look, go to the scene of the crime first, get a gander on it. That was a deer standing there. It's a bush. When you got to somewhere around here, this is where I saw blood. There's blood right here. And then there's some on the other side. He like ran into this. You can see his fur right here jumped over. There's some blood right there. I went over here and I looked, but he saw. So after that, he ran back behind me this way. And I was trying to see him. He was somewhere like maybe along the road. And then that way. And that's where I haven't big circle around me. So Oh yeah, that's definitely blood. But that's kind of like a weird, maybe he cut maybe he cut. I mean, there's some unless that's the this leaf. No, that's blood, dude. I never saw that last night. Well, he went that way. And I think this blood is him cutting back. So I don't know. There's blood there. That's blood. I mean, it's a decent little drip. Got some blood here. Way far away from where I shot him. It looks like he went over. Looks like he went to the neighbors. There's more blood right there. And that's like dripping down his side that's on the exit one side. Got a little bit more. God, it's a slow leak. Well, we did a search for about, I'm going to say 400 yards, basically on the neighbors right now. And I don't want to go any further. So we're going to go back. He went so, so far that he might have just made it. It sucks, guys. It sucks. Quite a transition of scenes. But this is Mr. Gabe Brace right here. The man in the overalls deep resting the ducks right now. We're going to get this stew going. We're going to have a powwow about the deer situation. Here's what we got going. Simple pot of water. Got a little potato, little onion, some bouillon cubes. It's going to have that flavor in there. We'll get them taters and onions soft. We'll do a little sear on the duck. Throw it in there. Have ducks do. These ducks are still flying, y'all. Looks like they're going to go to that big pond. And that's like 15, 16. Look at that. Look at their cupping in. Get to work on these taters. Camp style. You just do it right on the table next to the deer antlers and all that. No one's too picky around here. You a fan of duck? I like duck when it's in stuff, but I'm not a big fan of like the restaurant right now. Duck. Yeah, I'd much rather have some sort of red meat, but all these recipes you see of them, it's always like wrap them in bacon and albinos and cream cheese and everything to try to mask it. Mask it. There's just a little teal. They're pretty tasty though. I like a duck. It's just, yeah, it's a lot of work too for not much meat when you suck at shooting. Yeah. All right, add the onions in. Dallas. Dropping the cube. Let's go two cubes. Oh yeah. Little duck studio, boy. Skills get a little sizzly, so we're going to throw some breasts in. And it's actually starting to get colder, I think. There's a cold front north of us, and it's like pushing ducks down. We normally don't see them flying or in the middle of the day, and it's just overcast. Cold front's coming in a great headed duck hunt. Let's get a little sear on these babies. Yeah, we're ready. May just try one like straight up, straight up breast and see how it feels. That's looking pretty tasty right there. Getting a little bleed out. We got butter. We got some Cosmo SPG. I'm just thinking maybe, maybe I need to like pour some of this. We're full here on the stew. I'm thinking I might need to pour some of the juice out there and just do a pan saute with potatoes and onions. Keep it in that butter. I'm not sure. We're going to try a taste of this just by itself. See how it is. Go from there. Let our taste buds lead the way. Heels always taste better when you're in the great outdoors too. Wild game meals. Can't be to y'all. Get like some sort of little burner. You can keep in your truck. This right here is a dual burner. I've had this thing for years. They're basically bulletproof. And then that way, you know, a little catch and cook for fish or hey, you just just got a deer and maybe you just want to try like maybe the tenderloins or something like that right there at camp and you don't have a kitchen or anything is it? Carry your outdoor kitchen with you. Doesn't take much. A taste of the wildlife of the sky. We got some of our first pieces. I think, I think this is a little teal inner breast right here. Give this, give this baby a shot. It's a little new getting right here. First time, first time for some teal. Chewy or what's the deal? No, it's not. I mean, I think I didn't get all the silver skin off, but I mean, it like rips apart. It's good. Tender. Yeah, that's tender man. All right, so that's the little teal. That's freaking awesome. Nugs are juicy and delish. These are awesome. I'm very pleased with that. Let's see what these uh, god balls taste like. Stewing. Yeah, it looks delicious. These potatoes are getting soft down there. So I, so I butter seared here. I put a little bit of water back in the skillet, kind of get some of those butter and juices and extra spices, poured it back in here. And honestly, the duck was really good by itself, but in the stew with a little extras, cold fronts coming in. So having a hot stew, the cold front. Thank you. Raid outdoors. Love you. Little taste of the sky. A little pour into my cup. It's hot. Onion. This honestly looks like chicken noodle soup. So they can see that, that butter and oil in there. Those taters at top. Man, on a good cold day, get your little hobo spoon, go to town. It tastes like chicken noodle soup. To be honest with you, let's get a chunk, a chunk and a tater. Oh man, this puts the Campbell's to shame. There is a, a tad bit of gaminess in the, the gadwall, but it makes for the other flavors. It's really nice. These potatoes are nice and soft. Onions are cooked just right. I sometimes carry just onions and potatoes with me to deer camp just in case I get, you know, something I want to do a stew with, like a squirrel or rabbit or do a deer. In this case, duck and it just worked out perfect. I'm going to enjoy this hearty stew, guys. I'm going to give it one more shot, trying to look for my buck. It's not promising. It's probably just way, way, way, way far away into another property I, you know, can't really get into. So, but we'll give it one more shot. We'll keep you guys updated and cheers to a great day of duck hunting. Really, one of my best weekends I've had in the outdoors ever. Greatest set. Fantastic duck hunting. Could probably do this all day. Ducks are still flying around. Great tips. It's just a good time to be in the great outdoors, that there's great time to be in the great outdoors. So thank you guys as always for falling along. Make sure to get out there in the great outdoors. It's just good for the soul. So God bless you. Godspeed. See you guys on the next one. Get me a little duck sip here. Just wrapped up my third attempt. I'm trying to look for that deer and I got a couple hundred yards and then the neighbors, you know, the blood, it opens up into a field. It's hard to tell which direction he was going but I just kind of worked the path of least resistance and blood just kind of dried up and then I ran into a box blind with an open window. I don't want to be hunted myself so I shut it down. The official name of that stand is now going to be Heartbreak.