 Welcome back to the channel everybody here again in South Africa. I hope you're loving this series It is extremely windy today And we're getting ready to move camps and head to another region of South Africa That's gonna have a much different terrain than this I wanted to share another story with you guys before we head out and a learning lesson for me that I wasn't even gonna post but I feel like I need to because it's a good learning Lesson for any bow hunters out there on the very first day we hunted here Rob was filming me and We went out on so many different stocks and we were just learning how these animals were behaving and Really trying to dial in what we needed to do to get an animal with the bow and by the last stock I was just a little edgy. I was like man. This is gonna be extremely hard. Even though it's the first day is just Getting turned down by all these animals and figuring out it's gonna be very tough with this wind Swirling and able to shoot with the wind But one of the guides told us that there was a read book that had been hanging in this particular Valley was a small valley and it had these these shrubs in it and he had been there Somewhere around that area the whole time That they had been there just roaming around so it was almost a for-sure thing that he was gonna be in that area So we went ahead and went over to that spot It was late in the afternoon and that stock ended up going on farther than what I thought it would we kept creeping and creeping around these bushes and finally One of the read buck does came out Soon as she came out. I thought to myself that is a Texas white tail dough and then the buck followed He ended up running out to 61 yards and I had to dial out on my bow And as soon as I drew out to that 61 yards something I've practiced a lot. He runs off Right there. I probably should have put my bow down because the 61 yard shot would have been great That's well within my you know my comfort zone Even though it was uphill and it was a little windy. I feel like I could make that shot What he ran out to it was 80 something yards. I think it was 83 yards Then I said I Don't know. I think I just want to take this shot because I'm set the end of the day I've been stalking all day. I haven't got anything. I don't know how many opportunities Tuned ease I'm gonna have I want to take this shot and I don't have an 80 pin and I ended up guessing and that was another mistake right there as I guessed on that shot and I completely missed the animal my third mistake was I did not test my broad heads when I got here. I've shot rage trypans Everywhere I go, you know, there hasn't been anything I've encountered that won't handle a rage trypan White tails and hogs and I've never hunted big African game Not but these aren't big But everyone says use fixed broad heads use fixed broad heads So I did not practice with those fixed broad heads and I did not know where that arrow was going to travel completely then my fourth mistake y'all The reed buck ran out to a hundred and three yards And our guide Patrick gave me the range on the binos and I said I'm gonna just bracket it And kiss again and fling an arrow and when I did it actually hit the reed buck and it hit him in the back leg That was a terrible mistake on my part. I should have never taken that shot y'all I should have paused at the 83 yard shot and let off and just let him go. It's on the first day You know, we got more time left to hunt if any of y'all have ever wounded an animal. It feels Terrible as I thought well that animals gone. I wounded it. It's probably gonna get eaten by jackals or something but then luckily we came across that reed buck again and The guys were able to get it with a rifle and get it down at least and that made me feel So much better. It was just a it was a huge learning lesson for me and I will never I will never draw back like that Unless I am a hundred and ten percent confident and really check Check my entire scenario that's going on all the little factors and after that y'all I was questioning my existence as a bow hunter entirely just after that day I was like, man, you know, what am I doing? I'm thinking I can take shots like that You know getting cocky like that and you know, I practiced and practice me around practice a lot obviously practice throughout the year, but That was just out of my league. So going out bow hunting again. I did not have confidence, but Luckily, y'all I was just able to get a great opportunity and get a 30-yard shot I didn't think we were gonna be able to get a 30-yard shot He had to play everything right conditions had to be perfect for the wind in the right direction and Just the noise level these Nihilas and these water bucks through their ears the way they can hear It's just incredible all these animals incredible eyesight. So It's really more about the stock if you can get your stock perfect Then you're gonna get yourself an opportunity at a 50-yard shot or less But there's many many factors that are gonna bust you on these bow hunts out here Now I got my confidence back again man good double-one shot on that niola and we're heading to that other ranch And I'm glad I just have some confidence, but learning lesson We're about to go ahead to this other ranch and go see the taxidermists Go check out some other animal species that they have here to see the mounts and everything like that. So Don't stop at the South African buckies otherwise known as the Nananga I decided to branch out and get lamb and mint this time Nanaka Nanaka Sorry Patrick's not gonna let me mess that up. You have to learn three different languages here in South Africa when you grow up in these parts Lamb and mint my looks like yours So mine's lamb the lamb here totally different than it is y'all It is I don't know what the the lambs eat, but it doesn't have that like gaming goatee flavor It's more like steak. It's delicious Lemon mint was excellent. I will have one another one of those before we go for sure So it's getting a lot more arid now. Yeah, it's dry It's a bit nippy out here and into the desert Big okay, you can tear your face off Probably not what you thought right The area we're heading to now is like what you would think of more as Africa, but still to me this looks like South Texas Painted rocks. Yeah, they even got the painted rocks. I mean, it's beautiful But it's gonna be very difficult to try to Get something with the bow may have to switch it up end up using a rifle So we are here at another town about halfway to our next destination, but we're stopping at the taxidermist first I do have that read buck. I'm gonna do a euro amount on that on that read buck mainly because I don't want to look at that thing and Just have the memory of the bad miss that I had but I did shoot a very very nice Nala and that was with my bow. So big trophy for myself and We might have a few more before we leave but Ryan who's with us. He has racked them up and Rob's Rob's already got a Nala and he has a Sable which is one of the most sought after like true trophies Of Africa, so let's go see what else they got in here. This is all salt in here This is all hides Possum All these are animal skins Wow Yeah, so Feel how hard that is What oh my goodness Yeah, check the pool Oh, that's a whoop That's gonna be crazy like four or five months from now when we get these things back We're gonna totally forget about it. Then we're gonna show up and it's gonna be like Christmas So so here's my two animals right here got my reed buck which you guys From Texas and pretty much looks like a white tail with with horns and Then the absolutely beautiful and Yala skin OSG is gonna be Surprised by that one Oh Smell in here it smells like your taxidermy place like for fish very pungent Just look at all these amazing animals y'all So these are some that are being done this right here is actually a gem spot on the next place that we're going to they have a lot of these So this might be the next thing It was like it was like nail polish times like 45. Yeah These are I think dick-dicks David or these dick-dicks or these dikers a cliff-springer, right? That's a cliff-springer Tiny little deer look at that little guy So you guys the whole paper that they're talking like ears broken both spitting Cudu are massive There's your Nile crocodile That's creepy see a lot of examples in There had that had pedestal bounce in regular shoulder mounts. They had full-body mounts crazy stuff like crocodiles lions baboons all sorts of tiny deer species that I don't even know the names of them. I just had a What would be the equivalent of a whopper here in South Africa? What is that place called? Hold on. Let's get this on. We got sound like a steak. It was a chain Steak stickers Patrick. What was that burger place? Steers Steers and beers I love this truck here by the way It's land cruiser truck. I would love to have one of those Ladies and gentlemen, look at these Huge trees and a giant basket seat thing. Look at this. Look at this. It's like a big old Birds nest over here. It literally looks like South Texas Heavy heavy cover brush rubs not not much trees. There's some trees right here at the lodge That's about it the rest of this area. It's about 10,000 acres that we're in we drove through like these different preserves that had all sorts of animals so everybody that doesn't know pretty much Africa split up in a bunch of High-fence ranches like it's not the kind of high-fence ranches you think of like in Texas and Other parts of the states. These are so big that it oftentimes you don't even see a fence and this number one to keep those animals in of course and you know the running Business of hunting out here and people coming out to hunt these exotic animals But it also prevents any disease That the animals could get from crossing over into other ranches and things like that. It's also huge for The preservation of different species For example like the the sable that was almost hunt hunted into extinct Extinction and because people are interested in the hunting sables now all that money that has been brought in from hunters And the preservation because it's now important to preserve that for a financial Incentive it helps grow that population back up and they've come up significantly and that's been that way with a lot of other species so It's a it's kind of a weird circle like if there wasn't hunting here The economy would be a lot lower and the species there would be a lot more poaching and things like that So there's a more of incentive to protect them and it's just like in the States too, you know, we want to Practice good conservation preservation of our species and that's what's going on here and because of that we are seeing just Literally hundreds of animals a day at least on this other place. We were out here It's gonna be a lot harder to see them from what I've seen so far, but it's a lot more planes game in this area So we can run into Kim's buck springs buck spring buck all sorts of antelope species and just really see some cool stuff I just don't know if we're gonna be able to get it done with the bow But hey, it's all about the experience bow hunting was the jam on the last spot And if it's for rifle hunting on this one, I'm not gonna be disappointed. These rooms are super nice I was not expecting this at all. I thought the last place we were out was really nice and now like me Rob Ryan we all have our own Little lodge rooms and then there's also a main Big cabin as well. That's out here and it's got a bunch of really Really neat mounts and it's just just amazing y'all We actually have a little bit of time left in the day a couple hours So I think we are going to kind of mount up and go see the terrain And maybe even pick up a rifle and go hunting. So There is a gums buck out here, which kind of looks like an oryx, which we have back in Texas You see all a lot of exotic ranches. They have really long spiky horns Really the animal I had on the top of my list when I came here was a water buck Just because they look like it's just a majestic mule deer white tail elk species And they're very hard to kill and I was unable to get a proper stock on one at the last place Just just got busted really hard to kill with a bow They have something here that is called a lesh way. It's a red lesh way and it looks similar to a water buck Again, very lucive all these animals out here are gonna be very elusive. They have extremely good eyesight So say to because we're about to get a whole new experience in a different part of South Africa Oh, it doesn't hurt nearly as bad like I like beforehand. I couldn't close it like that You want to like scream I was almost going home. It was it was almost like you were going home Not for sure. So I would let you know This one in the back is a nice