 Great outdoors, y'all. Just fired up the ATV. Haven't seen the old meat wagon in a while. You know, had a few attempts on the Puppa Clan. I've done some close to home hog archery attempts. I do. And as usual, I'm going to try with the bow. I'm gonna go sit it. Old trusty, the only tree stand out here. And there's usually something there. I'm about to make a run, switch some cameras around, put a camera out. We've got about an hour. And then I'm going to climb up into the tree. All the trying to get something unique, interesting, looking for that one special bug. That's over. It's going to be fun a couple of days out here, right up for Christmas. And we actually have a cold Christmas in Texas coming. Y'all know what it's all about. I got the adventure wagon parked under the shed over here. We're going to be cooking up right there. Got a nice little cozy home set up at deer camp. Now it's time to get to work. So let's get some cameras out. Let's make sure everything is going to be right for this evening. Glad I made this stop. This is where I was going to hunt. Battery was dead in the feeder. Probably been dead for a while. Anything's going to be coming here. Unfortunately, that's my only tree done in right now. This is the closest feeder to the one I was just at. And there's nothing on the ground. I'm thinking that some of the deer that usually go to the one I was just at, where the battery's dead, are probably going to be here. All right guys, everything is all set. Do we have the bow check? We have a release in our bag. I like what we got right here. I'm optimistic. Don't really have a huge reason to be optimistic, but I am. Guys, it's nice and dark in here. Just how I want it. So I actually want to show you my set up here before, before we get going. I just set up the tripod. I took some string out of my pack to the front of the blind to open flap. Because I've always had a problem with leaving that open. It just feels kind of exposed. And I've got a string tied to it where I can raise it up. You guys are going to see the light come in as I raise it. It's just a simple little string I've tied up here, but it's going to allow me to stay shaded and just have a little crack to shoot. And then I can raise it up because this blind has not been here all season. You know, I literally just popped it up here is to basically let the deer come in, get settled and not see, you know, my bright white face sitting back here. See right there are so thirsty for blood. Pointless. That sucks. I'm just going to go back to the house and see if there's anything out in the fields. In control. How come? Yeah, very nippy. This has not been my hunting season, to say the least. Sort of a misty evening. And it's going to turn very cold tomorrow. I feel at peace in the outdoors when I have a fire. When it's cold, even when it's not cold, it's just something about it. There's something very primal, but when I'm in a pinch like this, I need to get a fire going quick. It's dark. I use cotton balls and Vaseline. And we're taking the easy route with a lighter. A little lighter from Bucky's. Get set up. We get a fire going. This is going to be a game changer. Otherwise, we're going to be pretty cold and miserable out here. Oh, nice. I got a deer kernel, corn kernel stuck in my lighter. It's probably not going to light. Cotton ball is dry. That is going to stay lit with Vaseline. Probably, I don't know, a minute or so. Maybe give us enough time. Leeway, oh my gosh. It's already going out. That's not a good sign. I need you to catch. Daddy needs a fire. Pretty dang on bad. Okay. All the dry grass is caught, surprisingly. Going to burn out pretty quick. Oh, and I need this wood to catch. Stuff is so wet. Pretty much used all my Vaseline. So this is not going to be good if this doesn't light. Inside of this little cedar branch is semi-dry. Breaking it apart. I don't know, baby. This is the moment of truth. I think we got it going. That right there, y'all, is just an instant feeling of everything is going to be okay. It's Christmas time. It's time for faith, love, hope. And I'm not going to let this evening of not seeing Jack Squat get me down. Part of the reason I love it out here is this is a big place. You know, it's a lot to manage. And there is plenty of instances where we don't have corn in all the feeders because there's not many of us out here. It's a huge place. It's like 2,500 acres. And there's always a mystery to it. You get deer that you've never seen before. You can pattern deer. It's big enough. It's like fishing a big lake. Try to figure out the fish. And that's part of the reason I really like it. It's low fence. There's not giant deer out here, but there's always a surprise. There's always a mystery to it. Try to figure things out. So there's no exception for today. I went ahead and I took that pop-up down. And we're just going to have to move it somewhere else. And I'm going to go check cameras here in a little bit. I'm going to drive around. One's a cell cam. One's non. We're going to pull the card and see what's coming in. Feels good to have a fire go, guys. We're going to be all right. We're going to leave pig tracks. Place the knife, but I could just stick it. That pig was there right before I showed up. I basically scared that pig off. All right, what do we get here? We got a buck, a little six-pointing, it looks like, and a doe. One doe, little buck, but not promising for the deer. Where are the big bucks? Where are they? Where are they? I don't know. I'm going to have to wait for a camera update because we are in the middle of nowhere. Service is not great. It's probably going to take it a few more hours than usual. So you'll probably check it in the wee hours of the night. But I'm going to crawl into the adventure wagon. I've got the zero-degree bag laying out on the canvas cutter with a fleece blanket, makes it nice. Just finished warming up by the fire. Got the toesies and the hands all nice and warm. So we're feeling good. But as of right now, I don't know what I'm going to do in the morning. It's going to depend on the trail camp picks that I get in the wee hours. So I will see you guys in the early light. It's almost 6 o'clock. We have the camera update. Unfortunately, there's nothing juicy. There's nothing juicy. I actually didn't even get a picture in daylight, which is insane. I came out here because all the bucks I was seeing on public land were at night. And I see one buck at night, 7 p.m. And he's not even semi-mature. He's probably not even 3 and 1 half. I don't know where to go now. Please be a random deer that just hears the corn this morning, frolics into the forest. Hail Mary right here with the bow, trying to get it done. If not, in the first 45 minutes, I'll probably start itching, get down, and we'll think about something else. But for right now, we're trying to get an arrow bloody. All hope is lost. I was changing my lenses out. And like 100 yards away, there was a deer. It just blowed. I guess it saw me 100 yards away. And then this heavy fog has rolled in. We've had this foggy mist come in here. I actually was pretty optimistic when I first got in there. I heard this behind me. It's a little lighter than that. But that usually means a deer is walking on some broken up rock. So I knew something was coming in. And then I heard, whee! We all know the sound. I didn't even get to look at the deer. Smell me right away. And it was sort of a softer whee! It was like a warm-up. And just continued on 200 or 300 yards down the way. I saw two other whitetails get scared by her across the way. So now a new game plan needs to be formed to try to get a deer. I don't know. A big buck's just not going to happen for me this year. Just not. Temperatures are going to dip down in the teens. Things are going to get a little crazy in the next 24 hours. And that's about all I got before I got to go home. We're going to spend some time with the family for the holidays. That's it for today's video. Thank you guys for being here in the frosty, great outdoors. And hopefully, in the next 24 hours, we're going to get that harvest buck to take home to the fam. So stay tuned for it. I hope you're having better luck than I am in the great outdoors. Stay bundled up. Stay safe. And I'll see you on the next one. Put some mosquito here. Get this party started. Toasty makes preparations out of the field.