 Oh, we're loaded. Welcome back to the channel, everybody. And to today's vlog, westbounded down, we're loaded up and trucking to business. Took a break from the lease for a week. Went down to one of my old vacation spots with the fam down in Florida. Did a little chilling, relaxing with the family. The fishing sucked down there. I was gonna film some fishing videos and quickly realized they were letting out a lot of fresh water into the air we were at and it just made it tough. I did some chilling out with the fam. It was good. Nice little reset, but I come back and it's in the 30s, y'all. And it just got my hunt bug. Just tickling, gyrating. And it is time to get back on the hogs again. So that's what we're gonna be doing today. I've got some upgraded stuff I'm gonna show you guys. And it's gonna be a big week. I'm really hoping to get my dad LFD on a deer as well. So it's gonna be an exciting couple of videos coming up. Sorry it's wet out here, girls. Getting a little soggy. I put a little cover over that side so they can always have somewhere dry to go to, but they've been just scratching around. Looks like a hog pen in here. Let's get you some bell peppers and some leftover Amy sandwiches and some other stuff that's good for your immune system. So your girls aren't getting sick. It's cold and flu season. How about that? Yeah, just eat up. Check on the egg production today. There is a chicken in there. It looks like we got a brown egg. Sorry, Martha. I'm gonna let you do your thing. Martha, ladies and gentlemen, has been laying some decent eggs. She had a problem with her gland, I guess. It was something was pressing on her egg glands. It was an issue. Her eggs are still oblong. They're not like your typical oval eggs. She has like a dent in them, but it's no longer soft right there. It's hard. So that's good news. So Martha is not gonna be on the dinner table. She's just a healthy producing chicken in the Rackley Roost. This is what I'm carrying to the ranch this week. So we can have some eggs and we're gonna, you know, we got a dozen eggs right there. So very nice, fresh, go to deer camp. Gonna have some scrambies, maybe some deer sausages and all those delicious things. We're here after the travel. Bullet man here to join me. We got a little work to do first. Last time I was here, I got a deer. I got a nice call buck. Sort of took the ATV through the cactus areas and that's what we got right there. That's what happens. It is probably 35 degrees legitimately. That is flat. Yeah, I know. Super flat, I gotta slime it. I haven't even showed y'all really the total digs inside, but we might stay inside. If it gets really cold, I usually sleep outside here. This is old school, y'all. Talking about old cabin. Literally, look, somebody put some coals in here, like some briquettes to heat the furnace. We can find some logs, put this thing in here. I'm assuming that there's like some sort of shaft in here that we need to do. There's, what's been dripping down here? I don't know, but I went and got some wood from outside to try to drive it out. There is a ringtail cat living in this house as well. Is there really? This cat, yes. There's ringtail cats out? There's a ringtail cat living in this house somewhere. See it? Everyone has seen it here. I haven't seen it yet, but yeah, he's in here. One day, we will show you guys the ringtail cat. I'm sure he'll show up. Maybe he will tonight if it's cold. Last time, I got a really nice coal buck here. I gave it to Mollup Man, because he does, he does bleaching of skulls. You've been doing a lot of that here lately, but that's a big help. I mean, you're taking down the big gangs. And I'm anxious to see, you said you already got it done. So I'm anxious to see that. Do you see this dead head over here, by the way? Yeah, is that the one out of the pond? No, I don't think so, dude. The one out of the pond was a 10 point. That is a 10. Is it a 10 point? Yeah, that's a 10 point. Oh, okay, yeah, it is. It's gotta be. I thought it had more mass. I don't remember that broken time. Is that one true with no, it's got pedicures, but that's kind of cool. A Euro mount with no. No, no, petty. It's got a petty, a pedicure. Pedicure. It's got pedicured. All right, let's look at a real Euro mount. So normally I'll boil it, pressure wash it, then I'll boil it again in the peroxide. And this time I'll try the cream. The cream. Like the hair cream? Like what you normally use. Peroxide cream. Dye hair. Oh, dude, that does look pretty nice. We gotta touch up some spots, but that's easy. Yeah, it's not too bad, really. Did a real nice job on the nose. Yeah. Got all that stuff clean, man. You gotta get all that nastiness out. Dude, that's a pretty nice cobalt, don't you think? Yeah, it'll look good on the wall. You won't even be able to tell the, tell the little yellow spots, you know? That was a really nice deer. The fattiest deer I've ever shot in Texas. And so I have something else I need to admit to everybody. Some of you watching the videos may have picked up on this. I have picked up on a few things now, editing these hunting videos. So it's after the fact, and I can't obviously include it while that video's going on, because I'm realizing it after the fact. But that eight point that you and I were sitting in the box line and I let go, I was like, ah, dude, that's that eight point from the other night. I don't know, because it was far, it was much farther away. And I just assumed like, yeah, that's the same eight point. Oh, it was a different eight point. I went back and I watched the video and I was like, oh, that's the same eight point that I saw at Gordo the other night when I was hog hunting. I kind of like peeked over and I was like, ooh, there's a new big buck. There's a new big eight at the feeder. That's that same guy. And he's been traveling a few hundred yards between, between areas. He's another very similar buck to this one. I thought we'd get him down tonight. So yeah, so you're gonna go hunt that stand tonight. So dude, if you can get that buck, this guy was the dominant buck over there, because I saw him push out that 11 and that other eight. Now that eight that you may be hunting tonight is the dominant one and he's pushing all the other bucks out. So two dominant eight point bucks with, no, I don't feel bad saying poor genetics, but it's just like, you know, we're trying to manage the place. I mean, it's South Central, Texas. You can't expect. I got a picture to show you though, off camera. Oh yeah. Some hondos. Awesome job on that, dude. Appreciate it. I'll have to, I'll have to build a little wooden mount to put that on. Beautiful buck. Tire's fixed, I think. We'll see how that slime stuff holds up, but next thing we got to do is side in a new scope. Look at this thing. We're getting serious on these hogs out here y'all. This looks way more expensive than it actually is. I picked up this scope because it records video. This is made by ATN. It's got a rangefinder on the front as well for all those that are curious. This is the 5x20. It's the XSITE 4K. So this takes 4K video, which is really cool here on this channel. I've used a couple of thermal scopes before. I think they were made by Pulsar, that recorded video. And it was really neat. I put it on my channel and I thought, oh, that's so awesome. And I found the scope on Amazon that was 700 bucks, which is like, you know, half the cost or a third of the cost, and a lot of really nice optics out there. It's a really funny thing about glass. With cameras too, you know, like the lens I'm using on my camera right now, usually the glass is just as much, if not more, than the actual camera or gun itself, which is, it's kind of a bummer, you know, when you get a really nice camera, you get a really nice rifle and you're like, really excited and like, hey, then you go look at optics and you're like, oh my goodness. So expensive. Anyway, this was a pretty good deal, I thought, especially because it records video. We're gonna see how it performs though. It does do some night vision, needs an assisted infrared light that also mounts on here. So that's another thing you gotta add on. This is going on my 6.8 SPC, which is my hog rifle. I got a few years back and basically for hogs and predators, this is what I'm gonna be using out here. So we're gonna slap this thing on here. Supposedly, this is easy to operate. We'll see, with a dumb, dumb like myself, how easy it is. And I'm hoping to site this thing in within a few shots. The weather out here, y'all. Oh my gosh, man, it's freezing right now. It's freezing. But that is actually a good thing because the hog should be moving throughout the day this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow. We're probably gonna see a lot more action than just the typical right in the morning or right at dark and then at night. I'm an old man, I don't wanna stay out all night. Hunt hogs, I wanna get them during the day, you know? Sleep night. Sometimes that's just how you have to do it. But let's put this on and let's see if it actually works. Phew, y'all. It is colder than a witch's nip, he's out here. I've definitely taken a few practice shots, more than a few. Taken 10, it's not as easy as it looks. Kind of found the sighting in part a little more difficult. Oh, all right, cool for recording. So what we're gonna do now is take a couple of gong shots and just see how the scope is at 100. I've sited in at 50, tried 100 at first. Didn't really work out too good. All right, where you going? Left, gong. All left on? Yep. Ready to see this action? Yep. I'm gonna shoot this can to the left. Yeah. Just high and left. Oh boy. I think you were just over it. So I need to shoot the gong again? Yeah, shoot the right one. The right one, okay. And that one was dead, that's dead center. It felt like I smoked that one, yeah. Yeah, I marked where the holes were. Yeah, I feel like it's on, I just probably barely missed the can. Yeah. All right. That's a dead pig for sure. Yeah. You need to get out there. Ready? Is that what you're wearing? I'm sitting in a box. Oh, I know. I'll leave it there for a month. Here we go, fire it up, baby. Be good. So back from the sit. Mike, you did not see. Cows. You just saw cows. Very surprised, dude. You're mixing up some heart right now. This is elk heart. Fresh elk heart. I would tell you guys, probably don't eat raw liver. I did do it in Africa, I escaped. I think without worms, but that's where a lot of bad things that go through the body are processed, like your adult beverages and other things like that. I thought I had worms for a while. I don't think, but just turns out I had some bad chicken wings from a place up in Buffalo, New York. I'm gonna show you guys these photos off this card, and hopefully we got something tasty on there. Big group of does. Look at that old doe right there. She's got a little saggy brisket, a little uniboobe. So we got a buck, some sort of buck. I wonder if this is one of those that we saw tonight. This might be one of those eight points. Yeah, this is him. This is definitely the guy that was kind of dominating. He's a short stacker. Four-year-old probably. Starting to get a big neck, chest, shoulders. Speaking of big neck and shoulders. Your first taste of heart. You did a little bit of flour. Use one of our eggs from the tree house. Got this thing from a week ago. No, like four days ago. Four days ago. Did you look that hard rest a little bit? All nice, baby. Nice, okay, cool. Mike had a really great trip with his dad and his brother-in-law. They all got elk, so you guys should go check out those videos up close and personal. Elk hunting. And it's so good. I might have to go there next year, buddy. That was tender. I think it's similar to liver, quite honestly, but this is, this texture's better. It's like a, it has a. It's not like a nasty texture. It's like tender, tender one. Squish. Yeah, but like a spongy. Spongy. That's where I'm looking for. Spongy, but really, really good, guys. Never tried the heart. Thank you, Mike. That was pretty cool. Here's Mr. Crab. Funky one, brown, crabby McGee. Yeah. He's an interesting one. He's kind of wild. Piggies. Man, the piggies were here hard and heavy this morning. Looks like a short stack there. Definitely don't want to shoot him. Don't want to shoot him. He might be a tasty one. I haven't got one more yet. Yeah. Would you say dinner, y'all? And we got out there, Mike put some corn out earlier and turns out there's a couple of pigs right there. So we're going to take the old unit. Fog's really bad. We're not going to be able to see very far, but we'll give it a whirl. I can't see him at this point. It's, he's behind the tree. Mike can see him with the thermals. Piggies having a bad night right now. You got him. You got him. Piggie has been hit. The audio is pretty good on here too. Okay, well, I'm going to sign off here today. I verdict on the scope is pretty cool, man. I'm looking at the whitetail. It looked really crisp during the day and then the nighttime mode looked really good. I'm still the verdicts out on like the performance of everything. I think I don't have this dial. I don't have the yardage dial. I'm honestly not even sure. The scope does something where it calculates, recalculates your shot according to the ballistics calculation. So if it thinks it's 160 yards, it might adjust things, you know, and that pay was 30 yards. So I got to work with that. I got to practice that verdict still out, but I'm going to give it, give a little more testing. Definitely wouldn't feel confident taking a nice whitetail with it right now, but just doing some pig on and playing around. Pretty good stuff. In my humble opinion, I would say it was worth the money just to be able to have another camera on board on the rifles and get these types of shots at night at distance. We'll have to push it out a little bit farther and see what it does at 100 yards, 200 yards at night. And one of our plans out here at the lease, we have a feeder about 250 yards behind us. And we want to stick a hog light on there and be able to check that while we're here, you know, go into bed in early morning and see if we can get some hogs. They're everywhere out here, they've been a problem. And then they're well populated. Thank y'all for tuning in today. We're still going to try to get LFD on a deer over the next couple of days and it's cold. It's cold, y'all. So animals are going to be moving. So stay tuned. We'll see y'all on the next one.