 It's a good morning. Get me a white-tailed deer. It's a good morning. Get out in a tree. Frosty. Hey guys, welcome back. Man, if you missed last video, Crazy Hunt, one of my top three archery hunts of my life. Just awesome. Got two deer harvested, used the compound, had deer walking all under me. So great. So if you missed that video, make sure to go and watch that one. Today, we're going out again. Me and Petey, who you guys saw in the last video, we're both hunting today. So he's going to a spot. I'm going to a spot. I'm taking the traditional bow. I've yet to get one with this recurve right here, this bear recurve. Got some new arrows set up. I've been practicing, but man, it is so hard to get it to get a deer with a trad bow. So I'm actually going to be hunting a food plot today. A different place than I hunted with the compound. It's got a deer feeder out there. Should see some pretty good activity. It's just getting one that's close enough and having the eyeballs on us where we can draw back and get a successful release without spooking the deer. So that's the really tough part. I'm kind of a snap shooter, so I'll draw back and pretty much when I get it to my face, just let it go. But it's dark right now. We're going to head out. It's in the 30s. Really cold. Deer should be moving today, guys. So let's get out of the woods, see some deer. So it says it's 30 right now. We'll get down here and bow. 28. Definitely the coldest morning that I've had. Grabbing the bow. 7.30 a.m. Frosty. Literally I've frost on the ground. Nothing is moving yet. Got the recurve just right out in front of me and I'm sitting above this food plot. There's a feeder out here about 25 yards, but it's not working right now. So I just took a couple of pocketfuls of corn and just threw it out there about 10 or 12 yards. Hopefully we're going to get something to come to that. But this is a really big food plot. This was the first spot that we were scouting yesterday. There's literally a scrape right below the stand and there's plenty of tracks in here. So I think the deer just start a little slow. I can see him out about 78 yards with the sun. I'm going to chase these toes off. I may do a seed at this time. I stood up. I gave myself even a steeper. A couple more shots and I just completely solved my issue. Went to three fingers under. Changed. I made it exactly where I need to hit. So I was aiming for this leaf right here. And then I was aiming for this leaf right here. So they're kind of shiny up there and I'm within a few inches. That's what I, that third time that I shot I said I should shoot three fingers under and I didn't do it. I didn't do it because I always shoot split. Right now I'm a little down, but I've been here before and I've had a come back. So let's head back to, head back to base and then we'll get regrouped and probably honestly come back here in like three hours or so. Back at home base. We're getting regrouped right now. Just when I picked up some gear from last night's hunt. You know, got all, got all our stuff put away. Cutting out the the tendies and our dose from last night and just getting packed. We're gonna, we're gonna leave after tonight's hunt. Hopefully we're gonna be delayed because we're gonna be in the cleaning shed for a little while, but I'd really like to get one more doe and I don't think I'm gonna get that many opportunities with the Treadbow that are this good or that have this amount of low pressure. I had just an amazing opportunity this morning. I blubbed it. I blubbed it guys. Any time I hit an animal like that it just, it hurts my soul, especially because I practice it all the time, but the thing that I didn't practice is really that steep angle. You know, about 20 feet up and then shooting down only at like 10 yards. Normally when I get up high I'll shoot out to like 20 yards or so and just that, you know, almost 45. It just changed everything. So I went ahead and I practiced right then and there with the broad heads. Who cares? I can resharpen them. I just wanted to make sure and shooting that three fingers under completely changed the way my eye sets up and it's on from there. So I know that deer's gonna live. It's gonna be fine. I didn't even see any blood at all. Through the back strap that's not the worst thing in the world, but I should have been able to hit that deer and I should have practiced that shot. But anyways, I'm not gonna apologize. This is part of archery and I know if you stay in it for long enough you will experience it. So I am going to clean up my broad heads a little bit and just gear up for the next round. So tons of action today guys. The rut is on like any minute in the stand. Something crazy could happen. It's just an awesome set and I don't want to leave. So quick little lunch break. We'll get back out there and look at some more deer. This is where we shot through that little V right there. Not seeing good initial blood, which is concerning, but we just have that one side. So it's kind of plugged up. I'm just gonna go to where this is where she's laid down. Maybe gotta have blood where she laid down. I looked at what I was hoping. I'm gonna see bright red blood on the brush. I hit her good. Never want to get too excited with a bow and arrow, especially a stick. My recurve is 55 pounds and that's 150 grain broad head, so it should have got a little more than that. I don't get it. So I watch back the video. It's a nice thing about filming my hunts. I can watch it back. I looked at the shot placement. It's a little high, but it should be high long, like high one long. And this is right. She came across the field right here and laid down. She laid down right here and then got up and ran. And I don't see any blood where she laid down. Like none. I just, I don't think I got good enough penetration. There was a lot of arrow watching back the freeze frame sticking out. You can see it in the video just flopping around with a big arrow. And then she runs somewhere in here and starts jumping through this tall grass and I can't find a speck. It's a little dear. Probably soft with bows. I'm starting to question using the recurve. I like to shoot it over the bow and then recover it. Rat bow is, that's just, it's a different level of difficulty. I'm just looking for anything, any kind of sign, guys. I'm going to watch the video back one more time. Then I'm just going to go walking through here, but it ain't looking good. The highs and lows of bow hunting. Oh my gosh, gosh. She's right here. She's right here. She's right here. I can't believe it. I can't believe it. What just happened? Thank God for video, guys. I watched it back like four or five times. I saw these dead boat arch right here. These dead boat arcs. I already came past this trail 10 yards to the other way and I couldn't see. It's so thick in here. I thought she went, I thought she went way back in here. She literally, she laid down once, zero blood, jumped over this log and fell right here. Made a perfectly fine shot, angling down right into the lungs. Thank you, Lord. Said a little prayer up there. I was seriously questioning my, my traditional recurve, primitive bow hunting. I was like, I don't know. I don't know if I'm, if I'm, if this is me because I'm having some problems, but this right here just restores my confidence, man. Yes. Yes. Yes. Let's get her out of here. I was literally about to go back. I was literally about to go back. I actually lost, I lost my broad head in there, guys. My insert fell out. We're gonna have to be very careful when we're cleaning this deer. My insert just came out. What an absolute rodeo. Crazy day of, of bow hunting. And there goes the coyotes. That would have been dinner for those coyotes. This deer, if I had not recovered it, that is a strange instance for me where I've never shot a deer with a bow like that and not had any blood. You know, just that's, that single, single lung, most likely didn't penetrate very far, but it was enough. It was enough. And it just goes to show you when you're bow hunting anything can happen. Don't give up. Don't give up the search just because you don't find blood and the opposite can happen as well. You get lots of blood and don't end up finding the animal, but every animal deserves a good search to try to recover. This is gonna be amazing meat. I ended up getting a three deer that I'm actually gonna be hanging. We're gonna be aging. We'll come back. We'll do another video on, on the breakdown, the aging process. And it's pretty, pretty particular. I'm really interested to try this, this method. Skin on and skin off. So guys, thank you. Thank you for being here through thick and thin. Yeah, the emotional roller coaster of bow hunting. If you've never done it, it is, it is just awesome. Even just getting up in a tree and looking at deer is amazing. And I just had an awesome experience here at Battlesprings Ranch. I've fished this place a lot, but I've only hunted it a few times and wow. I've seen a ton of deer out here. So we did our job taking some does out of the herd, thin them up. I think they, they wanted like 20 something more, but this is gonna be plenty for me and my family. Thank you guys for tuning in. I hope your arrows are flying straight and everything is right in the great outdoors because tonight it is for me. I will see you guys back in the great outdoors on the next one. Oh yeah, girl. Thank you girl. Thanks for not going too far.