00:00:00 Speaker 1: You're listening to another big bug breakdown from the Element podcasts. What's happening on my woods people? It is getting to be the best time of year, and the weather feels like it, and the deer seemed like it. And I think my neck is starting to swell a little bit. Casey, I believe it. Your nick is kind of big, So thanks, Yeah, you're welcome. I used to my high school coach used to make fun of pencil necks all the time, so we did a lot of neck machine. Well, you know, it's a good way to get concussed is to have a pencil neck, because the more your head whips around, the more concussions you can have. Broken. It is like there's some fault colors popping around out here. Like right now we're sitting on tailgate, and there are red leaves on the best fresh trees. Uh. If you get out there in the in the tree, in the in the old grown field out there, like all the blue stem is starting to like bloom and it's not really blooming, but it's like the the filaments of the seeds are are really showing. It's really cool, and it's probably starting to brown up a little bit. Huh. Yeah, and then the elm trees are turning yellow. Everything's just starting to get colored, man, which is I'm sure we're talking to people right now that are literally like where are the leaves? You know, I know you guys in Minnesota probably don't have many leaves right now. So um, there's that. Um. But we're sitting out here on your property right now doing this podcast, which it is a it is like does it get better as far as weather goes? This is this is a this is the best day. He just feels so good. It's like sixty five and sunny with a slot breeze on the south, which is surprising. Yeah, and you hunted this morning. I did, and I saw a bunch of deer activity. Yeah. I hunted Like I was setting up my stand and there was a dough like thirty yards away. I could see your barely and she didn't care that I was there at all, which is really cool. Um. Plus of hunting around houses and stuff, that's right, man, I got here to touch late. But oh well, um, I h if you know me, you know that's probably just the way it goes. Um. But um, I saw do the whole time. I mean there was like a five or ten minute break where there wasn't deer in the field, which is crazy. And this, uh my property is a old grown up watermelon patch. Um, it's about uh seven or eight acres of what you would call CRP, but it's not actually in the program, like just growing up nasty different, like a lot of variants and types of vegetation too. So like you've got these big bushy spots and you've got some lower grass and like the deer just all up in it. Dude. It was awesome. And yeah, you and I are riding the over here like buddies, um the other day and a gray fox jumped like ten yards in front of us and just ran down the little trail. That's cool, Yeah it was. That's not a critter. We see a lot here. You go further to the southwest of us in like the Hell Country, there's a bunch of them. But I kind of like him. Man, I'm definitely uh he is on the save list whenever people come over and do stuff like don't shoot the fox. Yeah. Well we um had a start contrast to the hunt this morning a couple of days ago where we hunted uh down in the woods and we were hunting over a little bit corn, and um, we didn't see anything. Well, okay, technically we saw some you saw something, Uh the deer it winded us or something had a weird thermal happening down there, and we never actually I never saw the deer. So in other words, they didn't come in very close. And uh, that was it. That was all the action we had was a brief second and um, and so anyway, we moved, Uh, we moved kind of the stand location a little bit, and you moved the you moved your camera and everything. I came back the next morning and hunted, and I saw a deer a doe up by the field edge. When I was walking out, I was like, Okay, if there's spending time up on the field in the morning, I'm not gonna keep pushing in back here to the back because that's kind of a late I mean, I'm sorry, an early season kind of tactic, like before they kind of start thinking it's fall, you know, pushing into the timber because that's whe they're gonna stay all day. Well, they're not doing that now. So I moved the the corn pile that I'm I'm setting my camera over up to the front of the property, and uh came here with my wife to do all that. Um and uh, well, I'll move the camera with you. Came with her with the corn to put the SD card in the camera because I forgot that originally. Fun times, um and uh. I went to putting out the corn, and I head it's the Exodus left too, And it's got a really good at l C D screen on it to where like you can see yourself as you're putting out this corn, and you can tell exactly when you are and are in the frame. So it's really great for getting dear survey pictures, you know. So you're able to not put corn outside the frame. That's right, if you didn't want to do that, I can do that either way. But it's way easier within screen. You know. It's just you look up there and you know, you just pouring it out, you know, and a lot of times you're like moving the camera or whatever kind of But the good thing is you have like a you have like a perpendicular plane that you can see that you won't get outside. In other words, like for instance, you may have a dough family group or two like come in at the same time and that's that can create some social stress. So you want to spread the corner as much as possible, right, But if you get too wide on it, then you're gonna be You're gonna have deer that might be outside the frame, and then next thing you know, you've got a buck that comes in and knows the dough around he never even makes it onto the camera, or a deer who's too close to the camera and then you can't see their heads when they're down eating. I've done that more than once. Put the corn too close to the camera and then like you see shoulders, you're like, oh, that looks like a bug, but you never get to see his head and he just moves out of frame and he's gone, you know, so uh, you know, it's it's pretty pretty nice for that. But one thing you have to remember is to switch the camera from set up to on, which I did not do. Luckily. This is on my property where I'm going and checking them now. I check it every three or four days. Because these deer used to me being around and stuff people. The other used to people. But I'm public, that wouldn't have been But that's why I mean, we hang a lot of cameras on public together. So we kind of go through our checklist together. We're pretty we we forget things, don't. Don't get me wrong at all. But a lot of times when we jump out of the car, we're like, okay, cards, camera, batteries, camera battery, microphone, whatever we're taking like, we're like, we like, list all these things off, make sure one of us has something of all of those things. So, and you weren't there to help me do that, And my wife was wh she it's cool that she wanted to ride around do that with me. It's a non it's not a thing, you know. She she enjoys it. I enjoy it, um, but uh, all the while we're discussing the merits of why I'm peeing in front of the camera, she doesn't understand it. So I'm explaining all this, like what a scrape is and what's going on here and why we're doing that and and and all that. I completely lapsed on the whole turning the camera on. So it's down there soaking now with a freshest decorn and batteries. It's good. Well we didn't we You probably didn't miss a whole lot. I bet you had a couple of buck pictures maybe probably, but it's not like, um, it's it's not like I forgot to turn it on on November four and we were going for two weeks. That would be way we were, no doubt so, and we're gonna head pretty soon to Iowa, which is exciting. Um. So you know, I've got a lot to do today. I'm I'm heading actually up to grocery shop and so I'll stopped by to hit this podcast real quick. But uh, I guess for sake of me getting groceries done and everything else, let's get our guests for today on the phone. That's Jake Major from Cobra Archery and he has shot a deer, which I thought it was super rare. He kind of acts like it's no big deal. But maybe it's just him, you know, but I think he's he always just shoots whatever, so like he's like, yeah, whatever, you know, It's just that kind of guy. Man. He's just probably one of the cooler dudes that we've met in the past years. He's a fan favorite. We had so many people after his first podcast on the archery series uh that we did with him, Um, that were like, man, that dude was cool, you know. So I got a sneaky feeling that, uh, he might make another big buck breakdown appearance this year, just just a feeling. But this one's really cool because it's really unique. That's right. Well, let's get him on the phone. Al right, guys on the phone right now, we have got Jake Major with Cobra archery. Jake, you have done the unthinkable, sir, You have killed a big buck in the state of Pennsylvania. Yes, yes, I uh, you know, you get lucky once in a while, you get something. Some guys get lucky all time. Yeah, it worked out pretty good. Yeah, but you know, oddly enough up to this point. We went out the first day, me and the boys and Melissa went out first day, jumped in the bunker. We saw sixteen go and two buck and one buck was a good one. And I said, you know, it's fair amount of deer for an hour and twenty minutes of sitting in the bunker, you know. And they were they were, you know, rolling in and uh, but it didn't go so well because we're gonna trying to shoot a dough but uh, you know, Carmel popcorn and and you know, lucky charms. They can spell them pretty goods. Busy digging out all the marshalls out of giving me the rest. So you know, what are you gonna do? Yeah, all right, exactly. But we saw some good ones at night, and then we had you know good in the next you know, the next time out. But when out the following evening, crickets. I went out by myself the following even the even after that in another stock spot, crickets. The next evening was crickets with the boys. I went out the next morning and it was crickets before fort since in a row. Didn't see a deer. Yeah, it's kind of like what is going on here? And I thought i'd see some decent deer because we had just got all the beans and all the corn out of fields. Deer get pushed into the hullah. I thought for sure i'd see a parade at the one spot where we've just been seeing a tremendous amount of year. But nothing, so I thought, you know what I'm getting. You know, I'm just gonna go out for the last hour Friday evening. It was last Friday evening, the eleventh, so I, well, I'm gonna jump out there and I got up in the stand. I was walking to the food plot and I saw the food pot a week before and looked great. Got to it and it was nothing but a dirt patch on it. Should not even hunt this thing because the deer just come in and just smoked it. Man, just just destroyed it. I'm like, uh, the only thing it was basically standing was the radishes and the terms. We've planned just as cover. So you know what, they've been here a week, pounded it. Maybe we'll get some to come in and finish it off, you know. So I got up in this quarter six basically had an hour and fifteen minutes to hunt. I was there five minutes and I spotted some dead coming out of the field. Took uh. I took her and her young uns to come over. Took him a good thirty five minutes to get over to the food plot. I got a circled and encased in standing corn. So when they get in it they feel nice and secure. So there's not an ear on any one of the stalks, but because they just strip them clean. But it makes them feel secure when they're in the food plot, so they'll get in there early and staying stay there all day. Or do whatever, so that helps the uh stay there. And in the food plot runs east to west in a rectangular shape, so and I'm on the south side of it, and they're in the food plot. And then I saw him looking to my southeast, looking and looking like, you know, they're not running, so there's no coyotes there. Go back to eating that Weatherston's deer coming. Look down a little dankler standing in the edge of the field, in the in the corn and the stalks there, and uh. And then I saw mother that she come out the while they're off limits. I didn't want to shoot a mama with babies. I just I just didn't want to. So I wasn't into it, you know, I'm just knowinger, I guess you know, back when I was a punk kid, Yeah, probably shot feel clean. God, you're empty up that, you know. So. But anyway, and just when I saw those two, I saw a moving I saw as man. He's a good one, so I pivoted his way. He was to my east and he come out. He didn't come out into the standing corn yet that would then go into the food plot. There's a drive lane right underneath my tree stand. Because I'm right at the edge of the woods, and he turned and there's a blow down, and I left lay there from may just they don't walk underneath my stand because I got in a in a bad spot a couple of times because they were directly under and then it comming you, now I go, as you committed a certain way to directly underneath, you don't get a shot at him. So I left that blow down there and he's facing directly west, directly torn towards me. I think, a man. I hope he doesn't smell. Mean, he was directly down wind of me. You know what he did. He hunched up and he just went his torsta glands. He stood there and feet down his torso glands, like what the eleventh of oct What are you doing? Dude? You were way early, You were way early. So he did that. So I at that time, I grabbed my bow and I kind of thought, you know from experience, he was gonna if he committed to going into the food plot, he would do it in one fell swoop. He'd go through the through the standard corn and trickle into the field. Because the doll were already in the field and they kind of did the safety check already, so he didn't have to come to the gagena. Sometimes they'll come to the agent, stand there for a little bit and kind of surveying and then and then walk out. I figured he would just trickle out because there was already done in the field and nothing was spooked to run it off. And as he went to commit to the corn, I drew and UM come down and I was at full anchor until he hit the other side of the corn, and he trickled out like two or three yards, just like I thought in my mind he would do as it never works that way, but it did this time. You now it goes. He stopped and put his head down and start up beating, and I I drew on him. I was already full draw, and I raised my pins up and I'm like, no, take your time, raising higher, a little higher, you know how that is you We just want to get it on him and blast them, you know. So I got there and I hesitated just for a little bit, so I settled and then let the air fly and I popped him. It was only twenty two yards perfect. Yeah, so you know, just you know, you know, nice and clothes. But I one thing I did do, and I didn't like um. I pulled the trigger quickly. I didn't punch it and I didn't slap that. I just pulled it quicker than normal. Know my ease into it, one continuous motion with my when I hit the trigger, just one continuous motion. But this time I just come it went fast to the trigger. Didn't care for that. But I hdn't good and solid. It didn't good and clean. I was a touch back, maybe like two inches off where I wanted to be, and maybe like three inches high. I still double lunged him. And because you know, when you shoot him, I don't want to just hit him and kill him. I want to I want to pound him, you know what I mean? I want you know, you want that ar goes in him and you're like, oh yeah, you're I just murdered you, you got, you know. And I saw the are hitting and he took like a man he did. He hunched up and and blasted out through the field and down around the corner. And his tail wasn't up. He didn't have any extended strides, you know me, And he kind of was like a really fast shuffle, you know what what I mean. And then I knew it him solid just by the by uh. I saw the arrow go in him, and I saw the exit wound as he was running home, and I saw my ar laying down there in the dirt, and I waited for a couple of minutes and then don't get down. But then all the doors standing around acted like they want to come back in the field, back in the food club, Like wait a minute here. I never did a double stack, so you know what I mean. So I'm like, oh, I would knock another air and see what happened. So um, I knocked an air and I stood there for about fifteen or twenty minutes, and they wanted to come in, but they were just kind of a little bit uneasy. I thought, you know, what if I should, you're gonna be at ten yards anyway, so you know, I'm not gonna do it. I'm not gonna ruin with but having a bad experience with the dough when I shouldn't have done it. So I just I put everything away and got down, and then they left the field. And whenever I found my art was covered in blood. And then I knew the entrance when it wasn't going to be a lot of blood because it wasn't a low exit, you know, it was like mid body exit. And so I just walked to the corner of the field where I saw him gep in. I found blood there, and I just, uh, I knew where it was at. You know, it's our property, so I know where it was at. So I just walked back to the house, got Melissa, got the boys, and we loaded up the the mule of Kalisaki mule and drove out there and and uh got the flashlights down, went after him. He went about another so he hit the corner of the field was probably hundred d ten and he went in the woods a little bit and then back up over the ridge where I was at almost and about another hundred ten so he went. He went to tow and a quarter with a double arm. Yeah, he went pretty far. And it was funny because we were we were, uh, the boys are like little lasers. They got eyes like later they can see the spot of blood and a mile away like bloodhounds, you know, and we're going through it until exciting and we got and they went into he went in an early thick patch we had we had timbered and then the standing pines with a big windstorm last winter and blew a tremendous amount of pine trees down, so it's just a twisted wreckage of briars he went into and I couldn't see all that well. And I'm moving along, moving along, boys with me. I'm like, oh, he's close, guys. I can smell him. I can smell him. I can smell him. I can smell him. So I got him out another ten yards and like where the blood stuff? Like here my ankles. He was to my left. I couldn't saw thick. It was like, dude, you're pretty good one. So I knew he was decent, but I didn't know he was that good. So he was a good nineportant the boys of Alpy. I was happy. We're jumping up down and and then the boy said, you know that this this isn't a small one like you normally shoot. I know. Now it's pretty good for a Pennsylvania there, so pretty with him. So well, we got him back, hung him up, and skin him out. But it was it was a good uh, and it was good experience. I was really happy. It was a nice uh, nice tune up buck for for out West. You know, the big football team is always like to beat up on someone before they go out to play a serious player. So I was got a nice tun ut buck for Pennsylvania. It was good, Yeah, it was. That's awesome, dude, that really is cool. And and uh, something that's interesting is like you didn't talk at all about trail cameras or anything, and it sounds like you just kind of go out there in fun hunting shoot whatever makes you happy. You did you know anything I do. I I may have him on camera way down the hollow, but there's food plow here. I don't even I ran one camera all year that was in its all I put out. And you know, I've been hunting the property my entire life, right, so you know where to be, when to be, you know, and when the food plot and the damage they were doing to the food plot, someone's gonna show up. I didn't know it was gonna be a nice buck like that. He was three and a half and I'm like, wow, man, dude, I was expecting to shoot little thinkler year and a half old, busted up five point you know what I mean. So but you know, um, in the certain spots, there is a spot up on top of our mountain, just be there, you know, from from the first to the tenth of November. You're gonna price to three buck at day, you know, just just you're not. It goes, So how rare is this dear in Pennsylvania? Like I mean kind of explaining that I could have I could be honest with they're really killing some serious white they really are they They the the total uh you know, Hunters and Pa has has decreased. And then you have a three points on one side, and then areas around Pittsburgh, the counties around Pittsburgh are form one side. And um, I mean they're killing some some serious well I mean we I have one on camera that's probably you, and you know they disappear on you. You know how that goes. So you you wait for him for for rutting Hill show back up when he's stupid, but for now he's locking down. His hor moods are changing and he's he's changing his ways a little bit. Yeah, yeah, that's so yeah. So it was good and I and one more thing I've note, I got to shoot him with a new model are one of our new ones coming out with our Maverick got to shoot him with That's so fancy. The first animal under the belt for the Maverick things, shooting lights out. So I'm really happy with it. Oh, it does work. That's good. We were worried. Usually does work. Guess that's good. So I was practicing in the yard the last the last six shots I made with it ten rings and like, you know what I'm done. You know, I was just just tune up shots in the yard once day, every other day or something like that. So I'm really just absolutely hammering. When you're good. You're good, man. It's just how it is. Well, that's how that's not good that far whatever. You're heading to the stand, you know, when you're visualizing that you one of those big football teams that's about to you know, beat up on somebody. Are you Are you a Nitney Lion or yeah, I'm in the heart of Penn State territory. I mean the college is I can be at the College Stadium in like an hour, Okay, so it's it's right up right at the road. Um, yeah, i'd have to say, Nitney lyon, I'm gonna go beat up the little sisters of the poor. That's awesome, brother. Well, you know you talked about going out west. What's what's your next big hunt? You're going on. Well, um, we're leaving on the first November. Uh, hanging tree stands all day on the second, and gonna be starting our hunt on the third northeast Missouri. We've got some some really good white tattle hunt this year, so the timing should be good. I'm really cooking forward to it, and it's gonna be and the three other gent's gonna go out there and see what we can put some in the dirt. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah. That's awesome, brother, will great luck with that and great buck there in Pennsylvania, man, I like, yeah, I hoped that you would send me a picture of a deer, but I did not imagine it would be a good Pennsylvania buck like that. Man. So congrats on that, brother, and uh, good luck the rest of the season, dude. Yeah. Thanks guys, and Sam, you keep me posted. Let's see how you're doing. We will, dude, see you. Yeah, good luck tonight. So right now, I'm not really sure where we are at in our timeline from real life and podcasting life. It's like two different lives. Uh. One of the stories I told in the beginning about us hunting and not seeing hardly anything at all. Um, we were actually heading out when we talked to Jake to go have that hunt. So this is kind of like you were saying, like an inception thing. This is a bit weird. Yeah, it's a little bit weird. But Jake wasn't good luck. Although it's not over for him to be good luck, I feel like it can be inter So we're headed Iowa in the next couple of days and that's where that that looks gonna really play itself out, you know so. But either way, there's nothing like the hot fist of Jake Major to like get you ready to go hunting. Like that dude is a bottle rocket waiting to go off. And he is man, he's on a different level for sure. Um. And speaking of Iowa, Man, we're gonna be doing some story stuff on the Instagram story that's weird, Like our just kind of uh, day to day life is gonna happen probably, um, you know, anything we come across kind of almost like a live hunt. Um for all you FOURARM guys out there, and um, we're you know, we'll post some stuff here and there on social but a lot of it will just be through the story for the for the next couple of weeks or whatever, six several weeks, I bet yeh, because we're pretty much as soon as we go to Iowa, it's um hardly any days off from hunting, which is an exciting things, exciting thing. Definitely blessed to be able to say that, that, to make that statement, because I know there's a lot of guys out there that the fishing trip in there in amongst all those hunting trips. While so it's funny how you've renamed that trip, that's what you called Tyler first. Yeah, I'm good with it. Man, if if it actually happens, I'll believe it's gonna happen. I have a license already, do you, Yeah, because that bought a hunting license. Yeah, that was a given though. Yeah, that doesn't mean you're gonna get away from the family. Oh well, I think I've got a wife and a brother in law that likes to do that kind of stuff. So as long as it's decent weather, when it's like twenty degrees out, because it's just me, there's a good chance that could happen. So there's a black panther right there, that is that is, and he is, he's hung. He is dude, he's hunting. Man, I've got a bunch of feral cats that roam my property that the help of the locals might Yeah, that that situation might be addressed one day, but I don't know how to do it for sure. I think, uh, it'd be fun to just start trying to find ways to scare them real bad, like we did your pope belly. We need to post that again. Yeah. Um. Anyway, Uh, you know, que into our social just to see what's going on. If you want to see the hype of what's happening. Maybe get a you know, you can get your thumb on what the rut is, what the ruts doing, you know at the time that we're up there, and hey, right now the rut around here is not happening, but it's close. Um, these little BUCkies that I saw, I saw four little BUCkies this morning on this hunt here, and they all were bumping the doughs and chasing the doughs. So things are doing it. Yeah, the young guns are doing it. And that that's always like the kickoff, you know. And I think that, uh, I think that that now this isn't scientific, but I think that that activity kind of pushes the dose into that mindset. Okay, you know, I don't think biologically it does much, but like it just kind of changes the way people act or not people dear dear, if they were people, you know, human people dear. Um. So anyway, that's kind of what we got going on, and um, we I guess anything else as far as uh, I mean, we've got one more probably release of Texas Public Land hunt that we did, um, which is um, you know, it was a good hunt man for us. So uh, some pretty cool stuff happened as far as just seeing dear, and we had some dose within range that Casey should have ripped. But man, it's okay, I understand why we talked about it before that we ever had that chance, so you know, we knew what was happening. And one like you, you surprised me with that decision. Decision to or to not shoot dose is like a that's that's a podcast in itself because there's there's like a big strategy on when and how and what to do in that situation. So I'll not talk about that sometimes. Yeah, it's a good idea, man. Well, in the meantime, we'd like to thank Exodus for helping us bring these podcasts to you with the Big Buck breakdowns this year, and guys, remember this is your element, living it. It's all right.