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They are available on Amazon Now let's head to the woods where I'm trying to track down a coyote that has just fled the scene at my chicken coop Pretty sure we just popped a coyote by the chicken coop. I Came outside. I heard a ton of ruckus and I see a coyote doing circles around the chicken chicken coop trying to get in He's jumping up. He's he's snapping at him so I grabbed the pellet gun came out here was on the top deck and he stood right here I got a shot off and then he yelped and ran this way. That's a fake coyote. Don't worry. That's my one of my targets Chickens are okay Chickens are good But then I saw him kind of run this way So I know I hit him pretty decently because he was yelping really hard But I don't see him down anywhere. So This is definitely where he's scuffled. You see the leaves all he's like doing circles right here. Oh And there's blood A little freaked out because I literally just this guy like I don't know 10 minutes ago I'm up and Tack me or something. Mmm. It's great. Let's do it big time Big time blood. I don't know where I hit him Goes this way Pretty sure I hit him in the dome That's just weird for him to bleed This much. There's a dead rat that I shot or a possum. I always get one on this trail There's a little game trail right here got away This much blood is a ton of blood This is also Like such a big Very big. I've killed deer with this one. This is like Like a broad shot. Okay, then it goes this way Definitely on this trail. It's like some leaves turned up right here Like it was scooting Sure did it went this way through the woods right here. All right, it's probably gonna connect I think this thing either hit the main trail And booked it and it's probably a mile deep in the deep woods Or It's probably dead like right around here somewhere This little thicket don't see blood on the main main trail least resistance. That's what I would expect wounded animal to take but This would be my first coyote so Really not sure They're a different animal All right, I'm gonna backtrack to where I saw last blood kind of get Get a direction on it. All right, there's some right here More right here still got it still got it, but This thing is definitely on the run. All right, it's cutting through here. So got good blood at this point will probably 50 yards away from Drop so here we go. There's a little path Right through that little shoot. There's the bath right there. So we stopped here for just a second looked around Tracking coyote blood at 7 30 in the morning after I just got home from a big hunt trip up at flair's farm This is the last thing I was expecting Okay, cross the creek right here Didn't even get to fully enjoy my cup of coffee. Yep, there's blood Spattering this way looking up a little bit So we got a situation where animal can go downhill or can go uphill Usually if they're wounded good They go downhill He would do not seem any trace. He's going downhill. All right last blood Last blood's right here a little something here. Yeah, definitely It's on the stem and now I see on the rocks Starting to eat a tiny drop of blood right there on this way Actually, I've seen those spots where he like stops and just bleeds. He's just on a steady truck. There's blood right here I can't really see but I can see the ants I can see the ants already going to it. Do you see that right here? The only reason I'm picking it up is because the ants see where the leaves The leaves have ruffled up Where this animal still struggling. It's just not bleeding It's just those ants those ants that are making it obvious Here's a little red little sign of life there. I just walked up a little bit found some more random drops Got all the ants on that stuff right there. This is like So suspenseful Usually how it goes when you get hit an animal good is you can Basically predict where they're going to go You see the little pathways little game trails The path of least resistance This one just keeps going against that. I can see the little Paul just kind of trotting through here Rain over here in front of me The woods are dark deep and we got no chance from here. We're at over 150 yards An animal's going over 150 yards Oh guys, we went deep. I mean over 150 yards zigzag them back in the woods, but Hole plugged up it happens that was super well not random because I've had a coyote come to the chicken coop before but Like I said, I just got home I heard the chickens going nuts And I came out and the coyote was just doing turtles trying to figure out how to get in and I also heard From one of my neighbors that the coyote was like out during the middle of the day I'm trying to get our chickens while I was calling So definitely don't like that with him me playing out here at midday Just wanted to Make sure that coyote is not going to come back. So I feel like my shot Probably I mean I was going right for the center of the dome that the coyote was like looking up at me On the third store as I was looking down as soon as I came outside as a boop had like a few seconds Take a shot squeezed off And Right off into the woods And I had my my air force I'm sitting there like ready to go from rat hunting but sometimes when it sits for like weeks like I'd been sitting for two weeks With a with a pellet in there It like the pressure just comes off that a little bit. So I felt like it still had good pop And the coyote probably felt like it still had good pop but I don't know. It's kind of a mystery. I was This close to hitting record on the scope cam And then I was like I just needed to shoot this thing because I literally have a second and then it's going to take off It sees me if it would have been a bobcat or fox. I wouldn't even care. I would just let it Do its thing because I want those rats to be attacked. I want them to feel the pressure but a coyote is a little different Especially a big one The watch continues at the wrackley roost here at the tree house Okay, so I've got a confession to make We're going to be working on a bow here are the rest of this video I just got back from From hunting. I was I was hunting with some of the googling guys was actually up the flares ranch And I oh my gosh I was I was shocked that on his ranch basically every other tree was an osage tree And you guys know that I've by number one goal this year for my outdoorsman goal Is to get a deer with a bow that I've made myself So I thought I said I was done for the year. I'm done making bows And then I got up there. I started doing a little archery hunting Um with my compounds, but then I saw all those sagewood and I was like, oh my gosh I want to make another bow and that is what I'm doing y'all So archery season is about to open here in Texas actually by the time you're watching this video. It probably is open and I am still working on a bow because I'm I had the bow that I Man, it looks awesome. It you know, it shoots good this osage bow I had this two-year-old dried stave shout out to awesome that he gave me some some staves. He's a local boy but It's loud It's just loud man. I've shot it so many times practicing with it and I cannot figure out how to get it quieter If there's somebody out there that's watching this, let me know in the comments down below What you think I've already changed the brace height. I've taken it up to eight inches It's just loud and that bugs me so bad It takes away from the beauty of hunting with a primitive bow or a traditional bow And these are all the bows that I've worked on this year trying to get that one that Is just special that feels awesome that I'm going to take in the woods. Anyway, this is a mulberry stave Got this from uh, from the same guy that gave me the uh, the osage and I tillered it down threw a string on it and I was like, I just want to see how this compares to to osage and it is happy And it is so light. It feels great and it's just a very simple Flat bow and you know what that's what I'm going to take to the woods because I've shot enough of these things to know Like what feels real good in the hand snappy quiet and that one just feels like It's a deer slayer. So to finish off this video, we're going to finish off this bow I just need to sand it down get that handle comfortable put some leather on it And I'm just gonna I'm just gonna raw dog this one y'all I'm gonna go with the woods like this I'm not gonna put a finish on it. I might put a little bit of uh Wax and fat on the belly But I think I'm actually gonna back it with sinew after I get done hunting hunting with it this season All right, plug it in the cheat code with your little sander Don't judge me. We don't have a lot of time That's my little buddy right here Little ben coming to check out the bow work Yeah Got the little curls back there just like your dad already into power tools love to see it All right guys, I think our handle is where we want it So I'm gonna wrap that up put a string on it. We should be able to shoot it Okay, we're gonna put a little suede handle on here beautiful little buckskin color All right, we got a fresh string We got some arrows and of course we have our bow With our new handle on it. It looks really good. I don't like the super light color It's being inside of a dark blind But that'll darken up the time Don't think we have to worry about old coyote coming in the yard anytime soon String it up. Oh man. That looks nice. It's about six inches brace height Oh string silencers Sounded pretty good y'all Serving looks good fits the arrow nice Twist this string up just a hair more 18 yards. I will take that all day. This is the one we're taking. It just feels right. It's so simple Look at this bow Just a flat bow The big test though is with that flat bow You know that recurve That kind of shortens up the space a little bit you start curving those tips over Makes a little easier again inside the blind that flat bow. We got a full that's I think 61 and a half inches tip to tip So that's pretty long when you're talking about getting inside the blind It's creeping up trying to get a shot. So I've got a brand new blind. I haven't set it up yet I'm gonna break it out and we're gonna set it up right here and then For shooting good inside of there no issues We're gonna take that blind to the deer lease and hopefully repeat this process on a real animal gotta get them close though That's gonna be the big challenge Okay, first of all, you guys gotta see this First time getting in a blind like this. Look at this Oh, yeah 360 baby Look at that. So the back wall Is black. So that's backdrop what we want I want that to be very dark And I've got a spot from last year. I think this will work in that's I could back it up in some cedars And we'll literally be able to see All the way around us. So film-wise this is amazing It's gonna enable me to get away with a lot I've got a nice little doe sitting out there. She's got her visor on 10 yards This is it. This is the scenario I'm gonna have to can't the bow More than I usually do Because of that top it's I can already see it's hitting the top And I can't get too low We're gonna have a close shot. So I kind of need to be on top of it Pull forward the way that I aim is I like I basically point the arrow right at the animal first And then I'll draw back and try to stay still keep that back tension. So Let's see here. Usually if I'm squatting down I shoot a little high God, it sounded loud inside of this blind Shot it right in the neck. That was a heart shot I just have to I have to adjust my aim. I need to practice this religiously That's one of the big mistakes that I make I think an archery is I shoot my bow standing up a lot, but I don't shoot it like How I'm gonna be hunting in a weird position. You're usually like you got a lean or something weird There's always something like that something we should all practice All right guys, we had a decent grouping decent grouping right in the right in the hole where rat chewed But we got a high shot You know, we got to account for a little ducking as well So we got two lungs and one that might have touched along if the deer didn't move but I doubt it. So Really want to aim like right there And count for a little squatting us. I need to do better Let's not get ourselves need to do better need to practice that. All right y'all. I'm gonna leave it there Coyote tracking and bow making The ways of the outdoors I guess there's always something going on here. It's crazy Hope you guys subscribe to the channel And follow my journey to to do this to get the to get this deer. I mean I'm this is something that's been on my mind Since I started making a bow About a year ago the first one And it's it's I mean now it's it's on my mind every hour. 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