 Welcome back to the great and wonderful outdoors everybody. I'm here solo trip on My way to visit some family for Christmas. I'm stopping off at deer camp trying to harvest one get one for the fam If you watched the last video You already know bad luck has been upon us. I just talked to the landowner this is a big update and He said that basically the whole entire county is been saying what I'm saying like Where are the big bucks? There are more does the season that I've ever seen that that is different. So Love to pop one of those little Sneezers out there now I just went and I checked the camera card out of the camera that we set up yesterday evening There was a few does on it Last night, of course the pigs came in But this morning there were three bucks two of them were Just good young bucks not bucks that I would want to shoot little eight points One's gonna be a really really nice deer But there is one that he's missing his brow tines He's a he's a little five pointer basically young guy probably two and a half years old But he's just growing no brow tines. He'd be a coal buck to take and then dose So five deer at a spot that has to my knowledge not been hunted the thicker part of the woods is in front of me Got a north wind and they wouldn't have to come pass me into my wind like this morning I like it for that, but I just know how skittish these deer are right now And if they see a blind that's never been there before They're probably gonna be sketched out. I don't know what to do I really would like to get a deer with a bow, but I know how difficult it is going to be for me You know, I try anything I get with a bow is is a trophy. It just feels amazing You know shooting a little call buck with the rifle. It's great. Got meat for the freezer, but It just you know, it's not as big of a accomplishment that I'm gonna feel good about going into the holidays, so Let me know what you would do in the comments and this is the quandary of deer hunting Swear it's like bass and crappie. I go and see oh my gosh crappier here. Oh bass are here, too What do I do? Well, what do you do? What's what's more fun at the moment now? I'm still leaning towards going with a bow and setting up a pop-up where I saw the bucks on the camera and also setting up One of these green lights to get some hogs after dark. I'm having trouble Finding a spot to put the blind. There's not a good spot I'm thinking about just going right on the edge of this tree. I still have back cover And hopefully they won't see the depth of it It's either that where I come all the way out here to 40 yards And set up in this cedar right here Shot that's a far bow shot It is three ten it's about time to head out y'all I'm going To the bow blind the blind that I just set up. I mean, how could I not I spent all that time? working on the hog light and the blind and So I feel like we'll at least get a chance at a hog And I hope that light has gotten enough Solar energy to turn on that'd be another thing that just wouldn't work, but stay positive And we got the opportunity on a doe or hopefully this cul-butt comes in hopefully the giant of Central Texas comes in but you know, we're keeping expectations pretty real I did manage to find a shed when I was looking for brush to cover up the blind and I did a pretty good job covering it in it's just gonna be something new something new They haven't seen before they're gonna feel a little off. I just I just know it. Oh Good Lord May there be deer movement tonight Please give us an acceptable deer to walk 20 yards to my little corn pile If not, we will accept the bacon just as well. Hey, then Let's get done 6 20 have not heard a snort So I don't next to impossible to get a deer was where I saw something tonight that I've never seen before That little spike he kept wanting to come in and he'd get a little sketched out and he'd go away and right there Right before dark. I saw a bigger buck back there like you're gonna be the The fall guy. It was so strange But I swear there was a bigger buck that was like pushing him to go back out there Even though he didn't want to he like held his head and I was like, okay Freezing cold tonight. I'm just gonna grab my rifle and I'm gonna go sit somewhere such as the hunt Such as the quest To get the animal with the bow. I'm gonna sign off for tonight And I'll see you and it's just now starting to get out this cold front is coming in I don't know if you guys can see this difference in clouds out here Crisp air. I've gone back to the same spot I was last night, but I'm sitting in the box Sitting right here. So I think this is gonna be one of those days to sit all day And my friends is the ball game. I wish I had a Hot thermos with coffee in it and a flask of bourbon a Sandwich or two and All day to hunt today because the conditions are just crazy these two are gonna be there on the feet for a long time I Can't believe that we didn't see the call buck that I wanted to see the point. I had no brow time It's a little five point, you know the peach around last night. We got to see him But he just never would come in. I thought he would come in with the other bucks and he didn't Of course, we had that eight point but From long-term management standpoint right now as I've seen The season unfold. There's not a whole lot of just, you know, average decent eight points like that like three and a half four and a half years old and A couple years ago Out here. I would have said just that's a call like shoot that one. That's a call And now it's like I'm looking for any straggler that I can and I want to let those Bucks that are gonna be good eight-point bucks when they're fully mature just let them let them go and let them grow Do you guys let me know in the comments how you feel about hunting does late season like Some of them have definitely been bred, but you don't know which ones And you don't know which does are dropping big bucks or what you have no idea to tell So what is your opinion? What is your stance on taking does late season? Signing off from the field. I am like four guy. Thank you for being with me on this tumultuous Bad luck journey of deer hunting, which I'm sure a lot of you can actually relate to I say it's really bad luck But it's just it's just hunting in general, and I love being out here doing it guys. So Go enjoy your time in the great outdoors Happy holidays. Merry Christmas. May God bless you and your families. I'll see you guys