 Well, come on back to the channel everybody the program. Can I call it a program? I kind of like that word That's kind of old school the program Thank you for tuning in. It's gonna be a hunting program on this one y'all and we are doing bow Hunting for whitetail deer back here in Texas opening day of archery season just looking for some meat just came off of a Really hardcore elk hunt backpacking in the Colorado Rockies I didn't show the entire length that it went on and on and on searching but we tracked that elk for about a thousand yards and It never bedded down once So I think that it lived and a big learning lesson that I got from that after watching the footage and talking to the guys You know I shot that that deer I've been whitetail mode now. I think I shot that elk in the shoulder Really far forward on honestly about a foot off my mark and I got back home and I'm shooting my bow And I was like trying to mess up and I couldn't even miss that far off at that distance. It's about 35 40 yards However, what I was doing I was leading That elk and I never really settled into my shot For a couple seconds like I should have a cow called meh meh And then you know kind of just took it right there and when I was still on a little bit of a lead and just my muscle Still going that way just trying to track the elk. So a huge learning lesson always settle into your shot Didn't help the elk also turned into the shot probably added an extra four inches into that the arrow trajectory, but I Do think that the elk is still alive out there and probably making some babies back here in Texas whitetail Country in the hill country. This is the first lease that I've ever gotten on and yes, we are on corn feeders out here and and honestly this place is really set up for rifle so we're kind of Doing our little bow thing out here right now and setting up bow blinds Tree stands and things like that and getting set up for this month of doing some some bow hunting I'm excited because there's not just whitetail out here. There's also pigs There's some other critters running around out here. I think we're gonna have some fun There's even some ponds out here or saw some bass so I'm gonna take a few practice shots make sure we're on Eat a good dinner and we're gonna get up early in the morning and you know opening day Excitement level is high Hey guys, what's going on we're gonna shoot deer in the morning We're looking through the spot in scope and that is a doe. She just walked out of frame I was literally about to shoot my 308 Sitting right there and Mike goes. Don't you don't you don't you and These doves just start walking out and we are literally hours from opening day. They're bow hunting anyway Yeah, well not to mention this place is MLD So you are legally allowed to shoot a rifle if it was even if it was tomorrow if it was Legalite in the yeah, but that's a good sign seeing deer already I've never hunted this place. So We don't know what we're gonna see tomorrow. So this is pretty cool. Y'all we are actually sitting Well, we're above the ridge that sits over one of the rivers that I fished in Texas quite a bit and Excited to maybe bring the kayaks down here in the spring do a little bit of that Opening day tomorrow. I think I think we're gonna do a little look in first I don't think if we're gonna shoot the first thing that walks out. Although I am eager I mean, I just came off a hunt where I went seven days without seeing anything and it was like just There he is. It's nice to just watch animals. You get to learn a lot when you're You know just watching them and taking notes watching their behavior. See how they behave with other animals See how they behave with wind and Temperatures and conditions we got a full moon right now. Look at this man. Just being out here It's pretty nice Cowboy stove rolling in here, and I think old eat good over here. It's probably got something for us to eat good All dad burgers dear so dude all dad burgers all dad. I heard are the most disgusting animal We're gonna find out whenever you taste it all that burgers dear sausage Portable mushrooms olive oil with a little Moteman critter glitter dude never have to worry about eating bad when you're with mr. Eat good over here Just enjoy the sunset God bless Texas man. Whoo. Nothing worse than a burnt all dad man. Where what is Where is the game? I used to have to Discard the the all dad Remnants at a ranch I worked at and nothing would even eat an all dad's guts. Nothing would eat the carcass Yeah, pull some calls back Stop talking crap. Dude. I gotta be the worst eating animal ever We'll get your opinion whenever you take it if you put enough critter glitter on it sure hey bud That's just a plug for you. Don't get mad Let's settle this once and for all before we get up and go this This dear blind in the morning Critter glitter cheese I Just want to get a straight-up piece of it with no cheese See what we're dealing with here. No bun. No cover-ups You gonna go to your all dad now I'm sure they didn't talk there a little bit over cow, but super edible and tasty Okay, take back what I said That's awesome. Okay, we're gonna fill our bellies and we're gonna get ready for the morning I'll we'll see when it's dark. We got headlamps on and we're getting into the bow line itself Hopefully get some action, but it's looking promising so far Never good sign when a dope truck Comes in front of your stand never under this place. So I guess there's a rock moving rocks On opening day Saturday. It's consistent now the full moon, you know, they're moving really early So I'm gonna sit for another 30 minutes. Oh, no, man's gonna come pick me up. Hopefully he's got something down Just doing a little mid-morning plink in here With the 308 brace belt. What's interesting about this place and many of you That are from Texas know about managed land tags, but basically This place is a managed land place and what that means is the biologist comes out here They evaluate the deer the population and then they will give you Tag so you're giving your place up for study essentially But they will help you manage the place And so there's a certain amount of buck tags that you get a certain amount of dough tags that you get and those Don't go towards your standard, Texas Hunting license for this place. There's a lot of tags There's a lot of dough tags and we just haven't seen that many doughs, you know, I saw that one this morning things got a little squirrely We had that seven point That if that thing comes in again, it's getting popped I think everybody decided but we just just getting here not looking at all the the camera pictures And not really knowing, you know, I didn't want to just pull the trigger early and take something that I wasn't Totally a hundred percent confident and happy with it. You just don't want to do that You're not gonna feel great about it now knowing that there's some other deer out here There's a good population and that one is missing. It's not it's not missing a brow time. It's I think it's missing. It's G3 it's kind of a weird gap on the deer, but still a mature deer I want to make sure you're taking a mature animal What's also interesting about the MLD situation is you can use a rifle right now During archery season on a managed land tag So if worse comes to worst, I want to make sure we get the 308 Good to go. I don't I doubt we're gonna be shooting this far, but just kind of blinking around I haven't shot it past a hundred yards So getting the opportunity here to do that almost happened this morning It happens so fast everything was so fast and then we just had a few things It didn't go our way with the wind and the pigs and all that but plan is right now I'm gonna sit that same spot this afternoon and hopefully that seven comes back if not, I may even sit there again in the morning and You know first basically if that seven or any doe walks out That's what we'll do if the wind stays good first evening hunt of opening day weekend I think what we need to do a little some different this time We need it face paint up going back to the same blind same situation Go and skill green for fun. We think let's go frog Ladies and gentlemen We have deer meat that we're gonna be devouring tonight some tasty tendies Harvested by Mullet man himself. He got into a wad of does which is awesome There's one of the things we wanted to see coming in here. It's what we expected to see And I've been seeing nothing but bucks. It's been really crazy, but we finally got some meat We've actually ran out of dinner type stuff. We had some burgers and stuff for the night But we've already planned on getting something by now. So we're hunting a little later what I have decided now I've been very patient, you know, it's opening weekend And there's been a couple of deer that I could have shot the one that came in tonight that had a more reddish color It was an eight point. It was probably three maybe four years old. He was just sitting there 15 yards I could have shot about a hundred times and I was waiting for that seven point to come in He finally came in right there at the end of the day. It was gonna be perfect and then He kind of circled the pin where I couldn't get a shot and as soon as he started coming back around I was gonna draw back and the wind shifted for just a second and Caught wind and popped out of there. What was interesting to watch is he pushed the other deer out like you saw the other two deer Run away and it showed that he was more dominant Buck and I saw him this morning. He was sitting there forever. I could have shot him a hundred times but I was just kind of evaluating the deer and The last thing I want to do is shoot a deer that I'm not comfortable with and First time being on the sleigh. So I didn't want to shoot anything, you know that I wasn't comfortable with And everybody else wasn't comfortable with I think what I'm gonna have to do I didn't want to do this, but because of this wind shift. It just started this evening I might have to get into a rifle blind on that same stand. It's hot. It's a hot area I'm gonna show you all for an example. This is an app I have and it allows you to look at the wind This is hunt stand if anyone's curious about it. I'll just back up here You see that change right there Kind of good and then it gets bad about right there about 9 a.m. And Then we're just gonna be blowing out everything. I think we're gonna have to get the rifle out y'all I didn't want to do it. I didn't want to do it, but tomorrow's my last morning to hunt I've got a head out. You got to catch flight to Florida and do some more fishing Know everything I know now Dear city there 50 yards and I probably would have shot it had That 7.0 push the other ones away just because it was bugging me so much. It was one of those borderline, but anyway That's how it went tonight. Thank you guys for tuning in go ahead and smash it for some opening day action This is probably more whitetail Dear action that I've had then I've had on camera The then like any of my videos was awesome. I've had two fantastic sits Cannot complain at all. So I'm not in a bad mood at all. There's really just two fantastic sets, but Me it's what's for dinner and it's what I need to get on the ground tomorrow. So see you guys