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Big Buck Breakdown! (feat. Lucas "Psycho" Cayko on his TWO Giant North Dakota Whitetails, Bowhunting Woes, and An Epic Tease!)
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There is news from "The Land of Oz" that certain events have transpired involving an ancient prairie beast....but that will have to wait a few days ;)
Right before an evening hunt in late November we took the time to give our bro Lucas Cayko a call regarding all of the giant bucks he has seen hit the ground this season. Ends up not one, but two gnarly old deer met their match to "Psycho." The mad man of the North does it in a way that only he can!
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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Tyler Jones and you're listening to another big Bug breakdown from the Element podcast. What's happening on my woods people? I'm chilling in the truck again, but I am by myself this time around. But I have a good friend on the phone and you all know him well, Casey, what's happening, dude. I am chilling in the truck as well, dude, but I am down here where it is much warmer and where you are, well, it has. It has warmed up extremely since this morning. Actually thirty degrees a lot. Yeah, so it was eighteen this morning. It's forty seven right now. Um, I'm up in the land of Kansas, and um, anyway, I got some good news. We've been talking about it a little bit. Oh yeah, yeah, it's it's it's Uh. You just have to listen to the story. I guess Thursday or Friday whenever our podcast comes out later this week. So I won't give any more details right now. But I went on a solo flying trip up here and uh and got here yesterday, and um, it was a good hunting day. I would say, it's good. That's good. Well, yeah, I'll reveal one more thing that good news is deer related. It's not some type of tease. Yeah, exactly. So yeah, yeah, if you've been following the Instagram story, you probably have a little bit better idea what I'm talking about. Um and if you are checking in on this too late, it's gonna be gone so sorry you'll have to listen. But uh, we have a got on the phone today that has had some success again another big bug breakdown. And he's a friend of ours, been on the podcast a couple of times, and um, is this his second big buck breakdown? Uh? Well, technically second and third, I suppose, right, So second and third at the same time. You're gonna be hearing from Lucas Psycho the man. He's a public hunting fool man. Uh, he laid down some some good bucks this year and he's gonna tell us a story about both of them. Um man, it's he's just he's addicting to listen to on the story, you know what I mean? Yeah, for sure, dude, He's a he's a real character, you know. He we talked about some guys on the show. We are kind of formal, but they are really good at conveying points and stuff and not that Lucas isn't good at conveying his point, but that dude is as raw as it gets. Yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure. Man. I enjoyed the story. Um, but we got to hear we actually uh interviewed him the last time we were in Kansas, so it was really Yeah, we've we've had this, uh this interview you know, recorded for a while, but we're just now getting around to it. And we've had so many of our friends shoot big Bucks this year. Yeah. So anyway, UM, if you are kind of like yearning for some content at this point in the late season, there is a couple of p lcs we've been posting from Texas lately. Um, you had a pretty good encounter, and we've talked about it a few times. Uh, there's been some kind of up and down we found teenager if you listen to the podcast. Um, but I've I'll put out the p LC from the day that that happened. Uh, there's a couple of things like that going on. And once I blast through these last couple of p lc s and our encounters that have been having in Texas were straight into Kansas, uh, from our late November trip on the YouTube channel and I mean it's it was crazy then too, is it just like it was in the early ruts. So make sure you guys are subscribing on YouTube and you can uh see everything that we're releasing in at that point you can kind of just sort three what you would rather see and what you wouldn't. So yeah, anyway, um, what's new with you man? You you uh yearning for deer hunting yet? Uh? Yeah, And um, I guess nobody really knows this, but I had my vehicle laid down on me completely, uh this past week, which is a big part of the reason why I'm not with Tyler right now. Down Yeah, it bedded down and I couldn't find it so well, no, but it broke down and I had had it all off. It's a big fix, like a really big fix, and it's going to jeopardize the rest of my hunting season. Um, I'm saying I'm done hunting, but in all my hunting might be really local, which is really really stinky having a Kansas tag in my pocket saying that. But I've got my eyes set on some dates later in the month and I'm gonna try to make it happen. If if the Lord willing and the creek don't rise. There are a couple of rivers between here and there too, So uh, we're gonna gonna make dear best make it happen, man. And uh, I've decided I think maybe a Friday night Friday night lives. There ain't no curses, is what Bob Thornton says. Uh, that's the way to do. It's just there's a set of events that happened to you. There's no such thing as bad luck or good luck or whatever. It's just events that you are given and you have to determine whether you're going to learn from them or suffer from them. And I'm going to learn from it, yeah, for sure, man. And uh, you know, speaking of the Good Lord, he didn't promise that there's not any suffering. So that's right. You're supposed to take actually, you're supposed to take joy in your suffering. It's right. That's right, man. So Paul, that's right, that's good man. And you're a joyful guy. You're a great example of that. Man. I'll say that. Well, think you're the eternal optimists that we talked about a few weeks ago. Yeah. Yeah, So anyway, Um, I gotta go in here and cancel my hotel room for the night. So uh so I think it's a good point to get Lucas back on the own and uh, let you guys hear this interview. We think so all right, so now on the phone, we have our public Land brother, Lucas Psycho. What's happening, dude, Oh, just processing some dear meat. You know, it's a happy day, right right, got got the old numb hands golden, you know, and you can't feel your fingers and cutting up all that cold meat. But it's one of those things that's it's all part of the process. I enjoy it too, sure. Yeah, dude, my my hands were cold and had no feeling in them this morning because I took my set down about eight thirty and moved it. Uh it took me like forty five minutes to move like twenty yards. So it was mainly out of anger because I think I got winded this morning. So yeah, I was not feeling it this morning. But uh anyway, you dude, Uh, there are two bucks that apparently didn't wind you, and you have a couple of cool stories too to tell. Both of these are public Land bucks, and both of them are just like heavy toads. Man. What's the story. Yeah, So it's been uh, I don't know, somewhere around seven or eight years now since I actually drew a rifle tag in North Dakota. This this unit is a pretty tough one to draw, even for a resident. Um, it's pretty heavily sought out tags. So finally drew on and miraculously my dad drew in the same year. And all the last time we had tags, we both had tags the same year, so it was kind of weird. It just happened to both get lucky at the same same year. So so we had a we had a couple of really big bucks we've been after this year, and I hunted the majority of the first week or so really hard for the for the one that I was actually trying to kill my bowl for all through September, October and then into November there and I uh, I just couldn't seem to catch up with his beer. Just we didn't, you know, I'm hunting a heavily pub public public, public hunted area and there's just a pile of guys. I don't know if I've ever hunted one spot with with more people actually diving in and at the same time it's been quite the learning curve, like just as in well, I've I've hunted a lot of heavily public you know, heavily hunted areas, but as far as just sticking to that one area because I had I had this one deer on my mind for the whole season, and I pretty much set out to kill that deer with my boat, with my boat, and just having a hell a hell of a tough time trying to kill him. And there's a whole lot of guys hunting with the wrong winds, and you know, I'm fighting every every aspect of of the whole the whole thing, with all the public land, with people walking in here, walking out there, using wrong winds, you know, doing all that stuff. And and then he's already an old deer and half nocturnal pretty much for the most part, especially just looking at all my cameras and pictures I was getting on them. So I wasn't even too sure I was even killed this deer with a rifle going into it, which is pretty nuts. But so I gave her hell for a week. I couldn't couldn't get on him, and uh, I got up one morning. It was on November eleventh, is when I killed my rifle deer. So November eleventh rolls around and in the back of my mind, I keep thinking of this deer. I uh, I took my buddy. It was a day before or or two before a rifle season started. My buddy came up from Minnesota and he comes up every year to bow hunt. And I ran with him out to a piece where we killed his deer last year, with with him on the ground with the bow. And we went out there and, uh, we're sneaking around. We're just on the ground. We're not We're not going to tree stands or anything. I'm just pretty much running and gunning on the ground, trying to sneak up on something and catch something moving. And that time of the year and where we barely get to where we want to set up, and we see some deer moving, and so we figured we got his kind of set up short, we're not gonna make it to a we really want to go. So we set up really quick and just hanging out on the ground and basically like perched up in the crotch of a tree, just you know, a couple of feet off the ground, so I could see a little further than him, and uh, this buck comes running by and it's just kind of like a blurred I was filming some dos and he just blurred through my screen and my camera, and I'm like, what the hell's that going on? That? Look up and here's here's a big eight running by, and I'm like, where's he going right now? Like he looks like he had he was on a mission to go somewhere, or he was running from something. And I look at them does and then they turned their heads and they look back back to our west, and I'm like, what's going on here? And let's chasing this dear. And then here's the buck that I shot with my right. He comes running runs right by us, and my buddy couldn't get shot at him. He circles us. Um he hit about fifteen scrapes and about ten minute period and he was just going all over you know, he just ran that buck off. So now he's posturing around. He's trying to let everybody know this is my area, let's stay the hell out of here. And he just wanted to cool times we've ever been on and and so he starts angling kind of down to our southeast and the winds coming out of the northwest, and I told my buddy, I'm like, dude, we gotta move. He's he's eighty eighty five yards out and he's kind of angling to the southeast and if he keeps going, he's gonna get our wind. And I said, and then our heart's over. So I said, we gotta move, we gotta move, We gotta stay with him. We got a parallel him, so our winds stayed ahead of his nose. And he's like, what the hell. You know, he's never done stuff like this before, so he's just he's just you don't question me anymore. He just goes there that you know it. He kind of gives you that look like are we really moving right now? There? Like yeah, let's go. So we move and we get to the edge of the timber line and that's where he stopped. Because when we walked in, I walked past, we walked past these scrapes and I'm like, there's so there's a big deer running around and here hitting all these because there's a big track and um, I mean there's big rubs all around in the area. And I was like, there's a big deer in here. You know, we're gonna get on someone. And so in the back of my mind, I remember those scrapes and he was angling that way. I'm like, he's gonna go hit those scrapes and he's gonna work his way back towards these does. That was my game plan, right, And so we get ahead of him, and our winds now blowing out across the open grass outside of his timber. So if he stops in that timber, our wind is gonna be good. And sure enough, you know, if he was gonna walk out of the timber, he should have walked out. We got to the edge of that timber and we're only about eight yards from him. It was it was thick enough, and it was kind of damp ground from from some snow just recently fell, so it was quiet. So we got snucked out out there and he he never popped out the timber. So we're waiting about ten fifteen minutes. Here he comes right straight to right to us, and he kind of comes in at an angle and I'm telling that buddy, like you're getting a shot at this deer, and he's you know, that giant eight want to shout in that rifle. So I mean he's getting a little nervous obviously, and I'm always I'm always my breath and i don't care if I'm filming or watching it, what doesn't matter. I get. I get just as jacks and I'm not even shooting one. And so I'm getting worked up and I'm like he's coming, he's coming in, like he's like he's like, I don't know where I'm gonna get my shot, and I'm like, just all you get, just make sure you draw, because when you're on the ground, drawing is everything. You're timing, everything is. It's like the hardest thing you can do, you know, when you're hunting on the ground with no bline or anything, it's all about timing with getting that draw, you know. And that's a lot of people screw up. And I pretty much kind of help everybody if I'm with them they haven't done it like that. I'll kind of just like draw, draw, draw, you know, like I know where the moment is. And so he's coming in. They tell him draw, draws. Their deer turns. He's about twenty eight yards thirty thirty yards. We mack at him. He shoots his arrow, deflects off of a branch about five ft before the deer here goes running off, and we see the arrow break like it just you can see a break, and it fell the ground there and it never hit him. And if we go up, we can't find the broad hit or anything. And we're looking around, can't find where the other half of the other like four inches of the arrow. So we're like, well, there's no blood in the tracks or nothing, you know, it didn't hit him or nothing. And we get back to the house and fund you know, there's a little side and I'm telling this because there's a side story too. It's kind of weird how it all add But so he runs off. My buddy is all sick, and I'm I'm just pumped because I'm just just had that guy right there, you know, on the public down and so he's all bummed out. He's still got about four or five days, so I let him just go after that buck. You know, I'm like, I won't go out there rightful season opens, as like, as bad as I just want to go kill that deer, I'm not gonna I'll let you. I'll let you go after him. You got four or five days left to hang out here. You go after him with your bow. I'll keep I'll keep at at this deer I've been after all year in another area. So it comes time. He doesn't kill that deer. He doesn't even see him again out there, and I'm having a rough go over in this other area, chasing the big one I've been after. I get up one morning and I'm heading actually after the deer have been after all year, and I get to a you know, it's basically like a y in the road. Either I can go where my buddy missed this giant, or I can go after the one I've been after all year. And I got kind of to the y in that road, and I didn't even it. Just I just turned. Just something just said, I just turned. Man. So he turned, and I go and make a mile and a half walk out to that stuff, and and uh climbed up in a tree stand. I gave my buddy, Uh the day after he missed. I gave him a tree stand some sticks because He's like, I just feel like I should get up in the air. And I'm like, well, there you go to go after him. You know, I was like, I told him where he should hang it just based off of where I would want it if I do go out there the rifle, and and it's going to be in a great spot for bow too. So he's like, yeah, that's kind of where I want to be anyways. And I'm like, all right, well, hanging right there. And so he had already had it pre hung and I get out there and uh, first light that big eight that he ran off a week ago right past us. He's he's chasing those all over hell, and I let him go and it's getting i don't know, prize thirty five forty minutes after good shooting, and now I just got this one of those really good snowfalls where it's just everything's peaceful and quiet and it's just the lightest snowfalling is like one of those best settings you could be out there in the woods. And I'm just sitting there thinking to myself and like, you know what, like just had one of those moments where's like dang, and I'm lucky, like just to be able to be out here doing this right now, you know, and on public ground, and I'm chasing this giant buck that you know, we just had an encounter with. I'm just having one of those moments, you know, And pretty quick I look over to my left and I see this. I see this big deer just around the corner about two yards out, and I'm like, oh god, I think that's him, and I look up there he is. He's right there. So he comes around and I'm scrambling get out my camera equipment going and everything lined up and trying to get get a good rest on the tree. Is I don't know what's filming is you guys know what it's like. It's it's like you get such a panic sometimes, especially when you know, like if he keeps going, you know, I'm not gonna have a shot. So I tried to stay as column as possible, but you know, you can only do so much. So but the cool thing is to have the go pro going on the on the back side of of of me, so you get to see all that I'm doing and moving around and trying to like find the area to get a rest on this tree and get a good shot, you know, because he's about two hundred yards out, and I'm like, all right, I don't want to have any sketchy you know, rushed the shot and just shoot at him. And so I'm on the back side and tree and around the front side of the tree, and uh, finally I'm like, oh, here we go, here we go. I saw my spot, got my hand on a branch and kind of got arrested across my film the gun and got a good solid rest and I let one fly and he drops in his tracks and the whole deal. And and for a while there, I was thinking he ran off because I didn't see the dough that was actually out in front of him. She was she was in some taller grass and some and I just in the tail freaking going, you know, so I'm going, oh God, I think I don't know, I think you dropped. But then what is that, dear? I looked up and she actually went around some brush and I couldn't see her, and then she got out way further and then she kind of came back in the frame and I was able to see it. It It was her, And so I'm in. I'm in, just like, you know, the whole celebratory just kind of like, holy smokes, I can't believe that happened. And and uh just kind of sitting there figuring out like, you know, where I where I hit him, if he's down, if he's if I should get out there and go try to put another bullet in him, or or what. You know, it's all those things rushing through your head. And I look up and I'm like, oh, there's another buck out there now, and I'm like their bucket had come gore my deer here, and I it's like, my buyos up and it's him. Dude, he took a shot like I am center mass on a deer with rifle, just because then like right in the shoulder, based in the neck like center massuse you're slightly cordered to me, I'm like, I just want to knock this deer down. You know, it's as fast as possible. I've had some bad luck with people shooting a deer with rifle and behind the shoulder, and yeah, that's one of the better spots to not lose any meat. I get that point. But man, I've I've seen some people lose some deer because there's just a little tiny bullet holes. You know, Usually they take off running. The blood trails are you know, can be kind of sketchy, and so I just put center masks. Well, I I hit just to the right of where I was aiming basically right up, just right up in the base of the neck. I don't know how the hell he was even up up and moving because I hit him with the two seventy and you know that that's a hell of a good deer deer gun to knock these things down and the end of story, you know. And so he's up and I thought it was a deer just kind of feeding around, and when I noticed it was him, I didn't really see any blood at the really, you know, in the moment, and so I'm like, what did I do? Shoot his? All er? What the hell happened if you knocked him out? Because it almost looked like he was just up feeding around again. Yeah, so I'm kind of in a panic, like what the hell did I just do? You know? And so that whole thing, watching that unfold is quite comical, this because for myself, because I'm like, jeezs, look what a wreck I am. And so I put another bullet and he goes down. You know, I sent one right through right through the goods there, the lungs and everything on that one and knocked him down. And so that was it. And I can actually see him laying there and he's done, you know, and my buddy, my buddy and my dad came out and we got him drug out of there and uh hitting him skin so back to where my buddy missed him with their arrow. So I'm skinning that deer out and I got about, I don't know, down about right behind the shoulder, about fourth rib down and I hit something metal. It was my knife, Like, I'm like, what the hell is that? And it's my brother, it's my buddy's arrow actually broke off the branch and that piece kept going and it slipped into his rib cage just on the outside of his outside of his ribs, in between his skin and his ribs, like a sliver. Yeah, it was like three inches of it, just like it hit and kind of like probably ricocheted a little bit, and then it went in like a sliver, like because as if you have a slipper or your finger. It was. It was. It was wild my my buddy, because I had actually joked about it to my buddy. I'm like, man, what if you hit him? What if that thing? What if that piece of your arrows somehow made it in and it killed him and he's dead out there. He's like, dude, you know, he's like freaking me out, freaking me out now, and I'm like, it could be, it could be. Man. I was like, I know there wasn't any blood when we were out there, but you know, I can't think thinking that maybe it's in him or something. And sure enough, the damn thing just slipped right underneath his underneath his hide. And it was as crazy as hell. And I called my buddy right when I did it, and I'm like, you won't even believe it, man, And I told him and he was just that's crazy, man, that's crazy. Yeah, they're freaking nuts. Were about the other one. So the other one um was on the seventeenth, so six days later, and uh, I've been saving one little pocket for just the perfect situation. It's I've basically kind of been putting pressure all around in different areas and kind of almost setting this hunt up. The one I actually killed, killed this deer on and it wasn't the one I was after. I'm not, I'm gonna tell you right now. It wasn't. Oddly enough, right, That's that's quite the consolation prize. Just too many big deer run around there. Yeah, yeah, yeah, pretty pretty damn lucky. I mean, but um, so I've been just playing this setting it up, so I'm gonna hunt this spot. And I figured with all the pressure from all these other people and then I kind of just systematically put pressure in these other areas and trying to get away from the people. And I just knew that if I was kind of pressuring everything into this one spot, I was like, I'm gonna have one killer hunt if I just wait for the perfect time and the perfect morning rows snuck out there. Well now it was the afternoon. The afternoon, I snuck out there, and I got out there about one o'clock by to to thirty, and I'm just sitting on the ground and uh by two to thirty, first buck comes by, and for the next two and a half hours or so, there was four four more three and a half and four and a half year old bucks came by. I mean, they were just crazy. Thing was was none of them even appeared to be doing any rudding whatsoever. And I didn't see it. I didn't see any any other you know, no dough was running through and they were trailing them. I didn't, you know, it was nothing. It was just like it seemed odd to me and it's still right now. Kind of weird me all, and like, what were all these bucks doing, you know, in in this one travel corridor, and they were heading completely they were heading away from the egg fields in the timber. It was. It was a weird situation. And and so those four bucks come by, and then pretty quick I'm I look up and it's the deer I've been looking for and trying to kill all freaking season. It was just one of those things I've just been like, give me one shot, give me one shot. I've been just asking the universe, you know it, give me one shot. Because then and at the end of October, I had him at twenty yards, fifteen yards and twenty yards at the end of October, I think it was like early in the morning. I looked at my phone when I heard him coming, and I was just checking the time, and I'm like, gosh, it's still ten minutes before shooting light, and you know, a legal shooting light. And while he kind of comes in and it takes his time, and when I realized it was him, he was making a scrape and he makes a scrape and then he comes around and I'm looking I looked at my phone more time. I was like four minutes ago, and I'm like, you know, when we're filming, you you can't screw around. You know, everybody's gonna be looking at it, and you can't really do anything, even if it's you know, it's a little bit sketchy, you know, let alone, because this is a big deer. It was after He's gonna go one seventy one eight eat and I was like, this is gonna be a big deal, and I just it didn't feel right. He comes around and I show people the footage, and I mean almost everybody are like, you are a moron. Dude shot that thing in a heartbeat. And I'm like, yeah, on camera and everything. And they're like, I don't know, probably like you had to been right there, they're telling me. I'm like, yeah, but you gotta you gotta think about it. I'm I'm up in the tree, I got my bow, I'm looking at my pin and and I know I could have killed the deer. I've known no problem. I could see enough. But at the same time, I'm thinking there was four minutes and I'm kind of trying to time it in my head a little bit, but just in the time of just hesitating and not knowing and just wanted to make sure that everything was good and legit. He kind of turns in and walks away. And that was about heartbreak over. I can't even tell you how sick I wasn't it. But oh yeah, So now all that comes and you know, and so after all that chasing them all the year, I mean, I put some time into man. I don't know if I've hunted that hard for one deer ever, and uh so all that kind of you know, culminates, you know. I look up and here's that deer and I'm just like, oh my god, streaking it is perfect light. He's coming right through as like just how you could have pictured it right, just how you wanted it. Yards. He's gonna come through them, gonna stick them. He comes through drawback, comes across and goes right out the end of this tree that was I was sitting next to a fallen tree, comes around the end of it yards and I mean, kill mode. I'm like, this near's toast, like this is his money. I shoot arrow, goes right over his back and I'm like, no way, did I just do that? I Mean, there was some cursed words going full emotions at that point, you know. And little did I know at that time, you know, when when I shot at him, I didn't, I didn't know. I deflected off of a limb. You can see it. You can see it clear as day in the in the footage. You can see it. It's it's sailing home. Man, It's gonna crush him. And then it just hits this limb and rises up about six and a half seven inches, just angles upwards right over his back and he and he kind of dropped three inches before my arrow hit two. So with all that can bind just I mean, I was like, I don't know, a quarter with you know, a quarter width above him, you know, and so he runs off. I'm pretty much thinking about Quentin Harting and all that. I'm just like, wow, wow, you know, I just so mad at myself. Man. I was like, you wanted that one shot, dude, one shot, and you screwed it up. Just felt sick, I felt dumb, just you know, pretty much pouting. You know, I'm not just pouting there, feeling sorry for myself and mad. And uh, I hear about fifteen twenty minutes later, I here, here's something moving coming from where he ran off and I'm like, hells, that's a deer. It's definitely a deer walking. And uh so I get my ball right and everything, and and I look up and I'm thinking this is not him because he went running off snorton and all that. And I'm just like, there's no way it's him, but you know, in the back of mind, you're thinking maybe it is. And I look up and I just see big buck, like that's another big deer. And I'm thinking, you know, I just got my one shot at the deer. I've been one, you know, and hunting. I'm running out of time to hunt anyways the rest of this year. And I'm like, all right, meant to be, you know, made his mind of like men. And this is before I've seen all the junk on him. You know, I've just seen a great angle shot. You know. He's looking towards me, and he puts his head down and turns and comes towards me, and and uh he actually gets to the point of that tree where where they come around it that I was sitting up sitting by, and damn saying stops and he starts peering in towards me like he's seen something. And I'm like, I didn't move. I didn't move, dude, you didn't see anything. And he's looking around and then he turns his head and I see that flyer off his G two and like, oh, I know this deer. Well, I like definitely shooting this thing. This is the old buck, this is this thing's going down. He steps out and I shoot him. He runs off, and it was one of those things where you know, you shoot a deer and you're like, oh, I smoked him, and then you're like, did I smoke him? I don't know, but I ended up I ended up hitting about I don't know, probably the fifth ribs, sixth rib back, Yeah, it was. It was back, but it was quarterings, so I mean the other side when he turned and ran off, and I got one good look at him as he disappeared through the thick stuff there was I shot a rage hypodermic. And you know, one thing about shooting those one positive deal is you're gonna get them big holes, right, and and that's just what flies good out of my bowl. I get that question all the time, too, is what do you why do you shoot those this and that? Just because they fly freaking awesome, And you know, if you hit something a little bit back, you know that that them holes are just gonna help you, you know that's what. Yeah. Yeah, So anyways he runs off and I went out there to look for blood and my all my my arrows, it's got some blood on it, like it smell gut and I you know, So then I'm just like at that point, I just missed the buckets, been after probably the biggest buck I was ever gonna kill in North Dakota. And now I now I maybe didn't even put a great shot on this deer. So I'm really just bummed out, you know. And uh, the next morning because I backed out and like, I'm not gonna chase this deer all over hell, you know, I just don't feel good about it. So back out. Um, I'm looking at the footage from for missing from missing that first deer before I go track this deer the next morning. I wanted to until about nine ten o'clock in the morning, just so I didn't go running in there and screw up a bunch of guys bow hunting and all that stuff, right running. So I wait for later in the morning to go in and I'm looking at that stuff, and I finally see that my arrow deflects off off of the limb. Now, I still missed the deer, but that that made me feel a little bit better about myself. I was like, Okay, I did I didn't realize. Okay, still I should have seen that limb and not hit the limb. But just one of those things that happened. And that's the way it goes in bowl hunting, right. But yeah, So we go out and then we tracked that deer but beds. It was crazy how many beds he he he didn't you know, and got lucky the coyotes never found him and recovered him and cutting him up. Today, Man, it's awesome that It's awesome, man, congrats on that. Yeah, thanks man. Thanks. So it was one of those things. How do you how do you become the friend that psycho shoot before he does? I don't know. He's been coming up pattle fishing and stuff for a lot of years now, and and uh, you know, just he he doesn't have a whole lot of good hunting opportunity in Minnesota right where he lives, and uh, he just he's been coming up paddle fishing and in one year he's just like, man, maybe I should come up and do some deer hunting up here or something. And I'm like, dude, you should like get on it. I come up here and hunting. He's come up for three years, and he would have shot an absolute giant man. I told him, I said, I said, I said, uh, when when I found that arrow that brought it? And then I said, well, hey, man, you know you kind of got an assist on that one. I just I just finished it for you. She's like, yeah, but that wasn't fatal. I was like, hey, you might have died from infection exactly. So that's cool, man, That's that's awesome story. A couple of stories. And and uh, you know, I might have to come up and do some paddle fishing with you sometimes soon because I actually like, no, no deer involved at all. I would love to catch a big old paddlefish. Man. Yeah, you guys, Yeah, you guys. It's the first week of May. If you ever want to come up now, it's wild, that's wild. That would be awesome, dude, for sure. Well, congrats on those two, dear man, and I'm sure we'll be keeping in touch throughout the rest of the season. Man. Yeah, yeah, And you know, I had to cut out a lot of stuff in the stories, you know, but um, you said, I'm gonna be sharing a lot of this stuff online. So yeah, dude, see all the all the INDs analysts of everything. So sounds good. Well we'll be talking me soon, dude, all right, appreciate you guys. Ye. Man, it's like he's a good storyteller, you know what I mean. Like, I just feel like that that story could have gone on a lot longer if we'd had more time and we didn't have to go uh hunt deer, you know what I mean. That's that's the nature of the beast this time of year, dude, we're all flying around trying to get it done. And uh, Lucas definitely understands that he's that kind of guy. Team anyways, Um, so here's a little detail for you, fellas, and for you filetts or how whatever the girl version of that sling. I like that filets. I like that a lot filette. So that's our new word. It's like a filet He's kind of right, that's how at least. Uh Yeah. But anyways, so if you are interested in figuring out how to find all these cool places that we go on not our exact places but any means, but just places that are public land or even private land. Ways. To get land on her names, you need an on X membership, and we just so happened to have given away for of those this past week on the podcast, But you have to go tune in to this previous week's podcast, I think is episode nineties six. Is that right, Tyler seven? It's called a perfect tree. Perfect tree. That's right, a perfect tree. Go listen no perfect tree, and here's some takes on our ideas for hanging hunts or permanent sand locations and trees and how to pick those trees. And then also listen for your name, because get this, we gave away on X memberships to four random folks from our Instagram following, So if you're not falling on those instag on Instagram, you need to be because we're gonna get away stuff like that from time to time, just random fans because we appreciate all of you. So go listen to see if one of your names was one of the names we called. We've already had some claims, but there's still some claims out there to be had, so go listen in. That's right, that's right. Uh man, We've got to figure out how to get our crossover from our podcast to our Instagram to be a little more accurate. You know what I mean, I know it, dude. Yeah. So anyway, um, until later this week. You guys are being super teased right now, and you don't get to hear the story here yet. But it was I don't need to get to hear the story yet. I've only heard parts of it. That's right. That's right, you've only heard a couple of parts. I try to keep you out of the loop and except for the like parts that I need some expertise or some help. And you know, so anyway, that's a good joke. I thought, from the Eternal Optimist Hunt, that's right, that's right. Yeah, at least you can learn to be optimistic from from Casey. Well, that's a good place to wrap it up, I think. Um, guys, I hope you're getting out and still enjoying the outdoors. Man. It's a beautiful day. It was very cold this morning, but we've had some great days lately when it's not raining, and uh man, I'm just thankful to be alive. Man. I thought that this morning when I got up and and you know, I was decently arrested, and and uh we was seeing the sunrise, super clear, bluebird day. It's just beautiful time to be out there and remember this is your element living in don't know,
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