 There she goes. There she goes. Midday moving. Welcome back to the great outdoors, y'all. We are here to do some whitetail hunting. My goodness. An itch. I've been waiting to scratch all season. It's November. It's November. We're starting to see a little bit of rut activity. Without a doubt, this is the best place that I've hunted so far this season. What we're gonna see tonight, most likely. Best activity. I've done a little bit of public land. I've been trying to hog hunt. This is it. I spent last week setting up the new bow. We got the brand new bow tech, CoreSS right here. This is what I'm gonna be hunting with. And we're going after some does. This is a Battlesprings Ranch. I've fished out here many times. I've taken one deer off of this place. A manpedee here. He's helping manage this place. He's gonna take us around and show us some spots that some deer are showing up. So they got a lot of does. A lot of does. They need to take out some does. I said, I'd be happy to raise my hand. I said, I would love to. I'm wanting some meat. It's all about the harvest. For me guys, I absolutely love that. And Petey's a big archery hunter. So he knows what's up. It's midday right now. We're gonna ride out and do a little bit of scouting. But we've got the saddle gear. So we can just kind of hop up in any tree that looks good. Tons of acorns falling right now. There's some feeders out here as well. So if things get pretty gnarly, we can always get around one of the feeders and end up get some does. But I thought it would be pretty cool to try to find some oaks and just try to get one up in a saddle that way. So let's grab the gear. Let's get in the ATV and let's start scouting, man. I'm pumped. Let's do it. There's just deer running off. Thank you. Now, these properties tonight you see there's a deer right here. There's a bug. There's a bug right there. 100 yards. 100 yards from the shed. Deer, deer running around. There's some oaks that are just flinging acorns right now. We had a big storm come in the last four or five days. So there's a lot of things falling out of the trees. There's doves. Doves just walking around midday right now. Why do you want to get rid of doze? It's a big question in the outdoor world. Well, I'm kind of different between your main biologists that want to shoot a whole lot of doze and get your ratio closer to two to one. I look at it kind of like the bar scene. If you're a male going to a bar and there's a bunch of dudes and just a few girls, it's not the place you want to be. So I still like to have a three to one somewhere in there, that kind of ratio. But if you get overran with doze, they're carrying capacity. Your food, your feed's gonna get ate up too quick. Your fawn mortality is gonna be a little worse. So you gotta keep your population in check for the amount of land you have and the amount of food and cover. And if you have an influx of doze, sometimes it'll affect how they come into estrus as well. And then you're right, according to that, how your bucks are gonna react. So once you get that population and check to the right amount of doze to bucks, then things start leveling off better. You'll have a more even kill rut. It's land management. It's keeping enough groceries for the amount of deer you have. You don't want to have malnutrition deer. You don't want to have fawns being born and dying of mortality because their moms are sick because they didn't have enough feed coming in to the spring. Okay, it's kind of like taking a little bass out of a pond. Yes, for sure. Stunted bass out of a pond. I think like I said, there's a lot of factors that go into it. But for me as a land manager for this ranch, my bigger deal is my health and my herd. So I want to take out some doze so that we don't have an overpopulated piece of property. And how many doze you're looking to take out? This year, on this 2000 acres, we are looking to probably take anywhere from 30 to 40. Hopefully I'm going to help in that process. I'm hoping you are as well. Boad arc, we could. Just scattered off some doze. This is literally where we cut down the boad arc. I remember that. Yeah, it's a bunch of them. This is from Boad arc trees, guys. Oh yeah, God, they're so nasty. It's already growing a little. Runners, that's it right there. That's the stump. That's the stump that I made a bow from and killed a buck. Yeah, this place is full of them. Let's tromp around here and see if these oaks are dropping. If they're dropping, there might be a spot you want to do it. Fresh tracks under here, guys. He's on her. Literally just saw a doe getting chased in this new spot. And there is a ton of foot traffic. There's a food plot, tons of oaks right over here. There's a feeder as well. So this is the spot that I want to hunt. So I'm going to climb up into this tree and just go ahead and get the platform, get everything set up, ready to go. I might even just start hunting right now. I mean, deer, they're going to be in here. So I'm going to put the saddle on, climb up there, just kind of look at some lanes and see how it looks. Go time. We're going to go ahead and hunt, guys. Just going to go ahead and hunt. We got our saddle set up with our sticks. Bo was already hanging in the tree. Look at this. It's up there. Looking good. I'm going to throw this camera in the back. We're going to climb up. And we'll have about a three hour sit. So meh, meh. Absolutely insane hunt. Very juicy, but there is blood. Lovely blood. Jeez, buried that iron will. Juicy blood. Look at this blood. That's got to be a wall. We might have two does down, guys. She just stood there like nothing happened. Oh my gosh, blood, blood. This is where that buck met up with her right here. Just got one wall. I think that's probably what happened. Insane hunt. We might have two deer down. All right, I'm going to leave an arrow right here so I know the PD is on his way. I'm going to leave an arrow right here so we've got a little tracking spot. I'm out of arrows, by the way. I shot two. So the craziest hunt of my life. OK, so you see one arrow right there. The first doe, she came in like right here. I shot her right there at that tree. And she ran off like nothing was wrong. And then a buck met up with her. I was like, I think I hit her a little low, but I know I smacked her good. It was like 12 yards. But she was just standing there like nothing's fine. Then she just walked off with a buck. So I was like, I don't know. Maybe I just clipped her low. So then another one comes in and then stands right there. But I can't get a clear shot through the brush. So thought I had a clear shot. The arrow hit a branch and completely hit the branch up there, just flew off. She comes right back. So knocked up again. And I still hit another branch, but it was good enough to smack her. Yeah, she didn't go far at all. So yeah, so I stuck it in a tree. There's a good blood trail. So I think she's dead back here somewhere. Dude, two bucks stood right under the tree. Get her? Yeah. Oh yeah, one was like kind of bladed. He was a big seven point. Beautiful. And then he bedded down over there for a while. So I got to watch him. Then he came back and stood right under the tree. And I was like, oh my gosh. Coolest hunt ever. The blood's right here. And there's a bunch right here. Yeah, so I think she takes a right. Goes in that way. There's blood here. X here. X here. Got some here. She opened Mark lost blood and let her have it over and on. Yeah, in fact, on X mark. There she is. Damn, dude. What a bore. Holy cow. What was that? Like 300 yards? Let's go. I told you she was going to hop that fence. She almost did. Or did she? I can't. My eyes can barely see. Oh my gosh. Pete, that was far, bro. Hey, man, good shot. Good tracking. I doubled down. Dude, you smacked her, man. What you did was you hit, was that the side you shot her? That entrance? Yeah. You might have hit the front lung and maybe top of heart. Or you might have hit top of heart. To me, that's a perfect shot, but from as high as you were. Like, if you're being picky, there would have probably been better. But I think it's just a touch forward and a touch low for how high you were. I told you. I'm shooting right, and she was facing that way. Dude, but I would never be mad at that shot. And the thing is, is we never lost blood, so. Yeah. I mean, good job, man. Two does with the compound. That's my first deer out of the saddle. Pretty pumped. Hey, over here. Do you see this? This is a road, brother. This is a road, yes, sir. Oh, man. Dude, I am so pumped. I have a little treat for you in the side of the side. I hope it's a cold pop. Yes, y'all. Oh my gosh, what a hunt. That was crazy. I only had one arrow left in my quiver, and it was a small game point. Three arrows deployed, two whitetail down. I mean, PD just tracked this deer. I'm going to guess at least 200 yards. The other deer went like 15 yards. So it just shows you a shot placement, and then the deer, the deer itself. We're going to go pick them both up, guys. Got meat for the freezer, and we're actually going to be hanging these deer here. I'm going to come back. We're going to do some aging. PD does a lot of his own meat processing, aging himself. He knows some tricks I want to show you guys for getting the best tasting meat possible out of your harvest. And that's the whole goal, so. Okay, we got two bow kills tonight. That's awesome, and we got trad bow. We got trad bow coming. 12 yards, those are that first shot. I could have easily taken it with the trad bow. Top three hunts of my life. Awesome, first saddle deer too. So here is our second arrow right here, guys, and this is the one that deflected off the tree up. Third, deflected off a branch, and I completely missed the deer. I'm going to have some cleaning to do on the iron wheels. And then this one, that's our third shot, and that one was a absolute devastator. And that deer went maybe 15 yards. Second one, about the same spot, guys. That's two good does. That one, a little fall, I was standing there for so long, and I was like, eh! Actually just got one deer cleat actually hanging up in here. We're going to let this deer age skin on for about a week and a half. And this is a deer that has been hanging for about that same time period. And you can see the crusting of the meat. You can see a little bit right there starting to turn brown. So we got one more deer to clean up. This is the one we had to track in a good way. We're going to make back straps. Aged how long? This deer camp experience is just getting better and better. Alrighty guys, we are going to sign it off for today's video, an absolutely amazing hunt. I got to break in the core SS. Got two harvests, one of my favorite sits I've ever had. Got to film some crazy bucks right under the stand. Had a doe at 12 yards, another doe at 20 yards that we made, we made, well, better shots than I thought obviously. I had to track one a long ways. The other one went about 15 yards. Just so memorable. And tomorrow we're actually going out to a new spot and we're taking the traditional. We're taking the recurve. If I can get a deer that comes in at 12 yards like this one did, it's going to be amazing. So I'm sure we're going to see a lot of deer on the next video. So stay tuned for more and smash that like button for a good, awesome harvest tonight. And thank you guys for tuning in. We'll see you back in the outdoors on the next one.