00:00:00 Speaker 1: I'm Casey and you're listening to the Element Podcast. All right, welcome to the Element Podcast. It's just me today, your host Tyler Jones missing the energetic, wild, long haired hippie, actually very conservative person, probably case Smith. And we have a live Q and A today. I enjoy these a lot. I like answering questions that are challenging to answer. I like thinking, I like problem solving, and those are things that I think a lot of us like. So not to distract you with all this stuff on the TV, but I've got the TV on so that I can do some map stuff with a live YouTube audience right here. So I'm gonna be talking to YouTube audience and also talking to the podcast. Try to cut out anything boring in an audio version, just to help you out. But I'm sorry if there are some of that. Is some of that. But I've got a list of questions here. I'm just gonna go after it and we'll see how long this goes. If you're watching on YouTube, feel free to ask questions and those will be addressed, as you know, to as much as possible is with the time that we have here. So let's get too. I'm gonna give shout outs here to people who on Instagram, except for one, the first one. Actually, I'm gonna give a shout out, but I'm not gonna say what his question is. I'm just gonna answer it. Jake. Actually, why don't you just why don't you, Jake Hofer, why don't you just call me or text me sometime and I can help you with your with your question here, I think it'd be more appropriate than answering in the public sphere. But I appreciate the question. So we'll go on to Danny dot J forty five, who says quartering a deer versus a cart? Why do y'all use a cart? And so I'll say this, I'm going to answer these questions with speed as much as possible, but there should be there probably will be some dead space here and there, and if that's the case, then I'm sorry. But I just have to think a little bit sometimes, and I don't have kc here to answer first sometimes, so I got to go with that thought process. That may be some dead space. So I'm just giving some disclaimers here, But quartering versus a deer cart, I would say that there's a couple of things that determine whether we use a deer cart or we quarter a deer up. Distance can oftentimes be a big deal. So if it's you know, more than like I don't know, probably more than like three quarters of a mile, a lot of times that is a pack job or even a half mile, depending on what terrain it is and all this and that. If it's rough terrain like lots of rocks or lots of deadfall, obviously deer cart not gonna work too great. Even sometimes in really heavy grass. I've had issues like really big switch grass in lowland, stuff that grows in big clumps. Man, it makes the deer cart hard. But if you have like you know, small grass, short grass, or just like say you're in an oak tree forest and there's not a bunch of undergrowth underneath, I mean, the deer cart's handy because you just put that thing. You don't have to worry about quarter out. You put it on the cart, get out of there, and throw it in the back of the truck and get what you want to get done with it from there. So basically, if there's things that you have to go over, if there's a lot of brush, if the distance is far, then those are the reasons that we wouldn't use Dear cart Shackleford on YouTube says, are y'all l hunting this year? I don't know. It doesn't seem like it. By the way. I've got this here salt gun and I'm seeing some flies around, so I will be occasionally popping that safety off. So yeah, I don't know if we're el hunting. There's still a chance that we get to go, but we have not drawn any tags yet. Our friend Brian, who I think is the guy that might have commented first here, has drawn a really good olk tag and so he's probably gonna actually have an elk hunt on the Element channel because we're probably gonna send a camera guy with him because Brian's super helpful, very good friend, and he's going to be hunting some big o'ilk. Okay. Drake's Creek Collective said, Oh, he sent a picture and had like this big kind of story with it. Well on the story, our story, our Instagram story, you can't see what he's saying in that picture, Like it's a small and I can't get it in large. So Drake, if you want to, or Drake's Creek Collective if you want to send that in a DM I should be able to look at it better and answer your question. Mike Alvarez here on YouTube says ground blind or tree stand on a known acid travel area, axis any type of call for access question mark okay, cool axis man. I like being in tree stands as much as possible, But I hunted them off the ground that We've got a video coming out here in the next couple of weeks on the media channel. We hunted with Yanni and we had a great place with lots of axis, and I hunted on the ground and in trees and spot and stock all three us in on the ground as in on in a groundbline. So you know, there's definitely like a lot of different ways to hunt them. I think it's just really about what you can get away with and what keeps you from getting caught drawing as much as anything. Especially so there is some calls for access I have never really heard work. We use the phelps easy sucker, I think. And there's a way that you can make it sound like those axes do when they're like the dose are calmly calling to each other, just kind of like real nice and relaxed, and it will stop a deer. If you want to shoot at a deer, at a relax deer, it'll stop a deer and it'll off. Oftentimes it will calm them down when they get spooked. But the guys that we hunted with never have seen it actually like call them in. So there's that for you. Let's go back to Instagram messages here Caleb Allen tips on picking a property to hunt and a big unit e scouting what to look for. And I'm going to try to stay away from area or states as much as possible here, but give some thoughts about what I know the state potentially looks like, or the habitat or whatever, and here and there I may still say something, but just gonna kind of go for this. So the question is picking the property a big unit, man, you really just have to And this is how I kind of scout. But I look at a big you know, a big area or whatever. Here. Let's just go. Let's just go to the life or to the maps here. And for those listening, you know on the podcast, I'm sorry you won't quite get to see this. I hope this is viewable for y'all. Let's just go to Indianapolis here or Indianapolis, Indiana. So like if I'm looking at, like, say, man, the whole southern Indiana. That's that's how I look at a state. Sometimes when I go is, I just do it like this right, and there's any Anapolis in the middle. If you can't see my cursor, my crossair is on this dark stuff here. I don't know what that dark stuff is. If I'm inquisitive, I might just go look at it real quick and it's possibly. You know, for me, when I'm looking at that first thing, I think it's pines, but then when I zoom in, it looks like just oaks, and it looks like what it is is a bunch of draws. So it's just really ravenous I guess, or not ravenous ravine type country, and so it doesn't get planted very much. But you look over here, this is ag. Like you see these light spots right, there's definitely a lot of ag in there, So I guess that's It depends on how you want to hunt. Do you want to hunt a If you hunt a deer in here, like you're you have a decent chance that this stuff is remote enough that you and maybe even small enough property or big enough properties that like you can find a big deer. There just may not be a big density of deer or high density of deer, but there may be big deer that are old in that stuff. You might have a lot more people that hunt this stuff because like per acre of cover, right, so there's less there's a lot more deer per acre of cover, but not as much cover. So when you get in the cover, you might have a great hunt and see a bunch of deer. They've got a lot of food there, so that you almost don't have enough cover down here to even fit all the deer that could potentially be fed in this country. So some things to think about that I always think about when I'm looking at maps is that also, like you know, the creek systems and stuff are good to look at some big secondary creeks like this, you know, you know, looking at where crossing might be on this stuff. I don't know, you know, you're not gonna be in that type of country probably, but like just go to like let's just do like a plane state or something. There's Colorado a bunch of public So like if I'm looking at this stuff right in here, and I'm looking at the public just around I find a piece of public, I zoom in and the first I mean, and I guess to find in a big unit, you would be like, okay, well, where are some public places that I can either get away from people or find something that's you know, overlooked, right, Like something like this could be overlooked. It's small, right, there's two draws. I mean typically see this is parking right here, so it's not as remote as you want, because there's another that may be parking too there. You just got to figure that out. Actually, it might not be because that might be a homestead, so may I'll be able to park there. Oh yeah, there's parking right there where my cursor is. So you've got a pretty good distance here to that's seven tenths of a mile, so you can get away from people. Right. There's also some ag here that these things might be potentially coming to, so you know, trying to find how de youer traveling through here might be something you know that could be a little bit overlooked because it's maybe a smaller piece of public or something like this same thing, you know, smaller piece of public, lots of cover. There may be deer hanging out you know, right here, crossing this little shallow spot right here, they might be hanging in this all this thick stuff around this river or something like that, going to this cornfield right here. So that's how you find like overlook stuff. If you want to find, you know, deer that are going to have a little more guarantee of being there, you find something big that you can get walking a mile or more probably on but overall, just looking at these units and just saying like this, I would say, oh, there's a bunch of public up here right there's a reindeer out there, and then there's some smaller stuff down here. And just I go through and I start marking stuff. And so immediately I marked stuff and I put a note at the least of what I was thinking when I marked that spot, Why do I like that spot? Well, there's a looks like a trail crosses a fence right there and goes to that ag could hunt on X wind right, do that? And then I actually blue mark as in like blue ribbon my very like spots that I'm like, oh that is where a deer is for sure. That's that's the stuff that I blue ribbon mark. Everything else is white unless I've seen it in with my eyes, and I usually use red. That's kind of my color system there. So good question, and I think you know, big pieces of public are going to attract people, so just keep that in mind. There's gonna be people attracted to those. It doesn't mean that you can't kill a deer there though, that's for sure. Let's go ahead and tune this down. We don't need to see what's his name, Ryan Gosling. That was Caleb Allen Hunter, Kelly Hunter Underscore, Kelly Underscore FP. I'm hunting public in Florida for the first time. Beginner tips for scouting, so a lot of the things I just said would apply right also in Florida, you know, or anywhere I go. I'm always like understanding a couple of basic things. One, the deer is going to eat several times a day, So where is it going to eat? What is it going to eat? What's the most preferential thing? And a lot of times anagg field is a preferential thing because not necessarily because it's the most tasty, but because there's a ton of food there and the deer doesn't have to go far and just can gorge. Right, So a lot of times they're going to end up in a destination, you know, field at night. That's a big egg field. So something to think about if you're not near ag which a lot of Florida isn't. I don't know what I mean. Florida's a big state. You know, you got to kind of try to understand what the food source is that's native or wild that they like. And I don't know what that is in Florida. But if you know kind of time of year and what's going to be preferential in whether it's acrens or whatever, then know what an oak tree looks like on the map, go out out and you know, see it in person, look at it on the map, and go, that's what oak trees look like. That's an oak tree. Mot I'm gonna go hunt these live oaks, you know. So that's what I'm looking for first, is like what are they gonna eat? Because it gives you a good like sense of where they're going. But if you're gonna be hunting the rut, and that doesn't matter quite as much. I still base a lot of my stuff in the rut around that, but I don't feel bad about going into the deep woods and sitting in a place where, uh, there's two big sections of timber and they kind of have like a little funnel right here, and sitting right there in the middle, no matter what's around me, even if it's just cattle pastures on both sides and there's no food source. So uh, stuff like that. You know, anything like creek systems or river systems, you're gonna move up and down those in the rut or you know, all times a year, but especially during the rut. So that's kind of some starting points for you. I hope that helps. Let's go back to YouTube real quick. There's some questions here Ellie seven on seven Rains eighth grade team running back. What's up, dude? Riley Shiner says, for a nine day out of state rut hunt in Ohio, how many days would you spend boots on the ground scouting and what would you be looking for in terms of sign and terrain features? So similar thing with Ohio that we just looked like because we looked at Indiana, right, Indiana is very similar and very close to Ohio in a lot of ways. And the two things that we just looked at are very similar as well. Where Ohio. I think a lot of the southern portion of Ohio, which I've never I've been to Ohio, but I've never been there. I've only been there in a deer hunting context one time, and I wasn't hunting, I was scouting. It was off season. The southern portion I think is pretty wild country, big big woods, and then a lot of that stuff in like the central portion of state becomes more ag type stuff. So I guess it depends on where you're going exactly. If you're doing this all nine days, you're not going up there to pre scout anything. I don't spend a lot of time boots on the ground anymore. I spend more time with my truck trying to figure out where's some hundred pressure where are the deer? Can I find out where deer crossing and going to ag on a road right, because then forty five minutes before that you might be able to kill them in that property somewhere. That kind of thing is what I'm more thinking about. So I'm driving a lot trying to see properties. Also, you can see which property you can't see into versus which properties you thought were secluded, but you actually can see all the way down to the bottom of that ravine from this part of the road, So do you're not really gonna do anything before dark in that property. So that's usually what I do more of. And I would, I would. I mean to me, like, I have my spots on my maps picked out well ahead of time, and I don't hardly ever have excuse me, I don't ever hardly go to a place where I don't have enough spots picked in on the map that well, not very often do I have to go pick more spots on the map before. Like, once I go, I have enough spots that one of them is gonna work out, probably, And sometimes that's me having to walk a mile right or whatever to hunt, and that's a long waist. But I, you know, if I can kill them closer than that, then I'm probably checking those places out first. And then if I don't think they're gonna work out, then I'll start going deeper and I'll I'll just go in there, you know, and scout my way in down this creek system or down this straw or across you know. Oh, there's two saddles up there. Let me check the first one. If I don't like the sign in it then I'll go check the next one. Maybe there's a big, massive, you know, signposts rub at the top of that saddle that lets me know that they're cruising up and down through that saddle. So I would say, really, it's just a matter of like once you find once you find a place that you feel confident in from your map stuff, and then you go in there with boots on the ground and you find out that there's good sign in there, and then you have a hunt in there. I mean, I would hunt pretty immediately if it looks good fresh sign, and then if you have a good hunting there, just stay there, stay at it until you need to go find something else, you know, or you don't like it, or the wind causes you don't need to find something else. It's a good question. I hope that answers it. If it doesn't, or if you need more clarification, just comment again there. On YouTube, let's go to Jake Peters from Instagram when setting up trail cameras on public, we're legal. By the way, I think it's kind of a clown show that trail cameras aren't legal on public. That's a bold statement. But I'm just gonna say you know, guys are coming and spending their their time, their money from out of state sometimes oftentimes to hunt you know, public land, spending that money. It would be nice if we could, you know, feel confident about the spot we go in on, so that we don't spend our five day you know, five days off just spending our wheels and have to come back tell our wives why we didn't see any deer and why we need to go do that again next year or next month or whatever. You know. So he said, should I be setting up on scigns such as scrapes or on travel corridors and game trails? What's setting up trail cameras? That is, man, I don't know. I would I would say, depends on what you see when you go in there. But I love a scrape camera. I think it's very uh, it's a fun thing to see and watch. I've killed a deer on the first sit in Illinois off of escape a scrape camera, and that scrape camera gave me the confidence to go all the way up there and hunt. It wasn't a sell camera either, had a friend that checked it for me, and it gave me confidence to go up there on the right conditions and hunt that location and that night a shot what could be the biggest state point in my life, like a legit one fifties class A point. So scrapes are awesome, but we have we have a lot of cameras on game trails. I'd say we're in travel corridors, but I mean never just in the travel corridor. It's it's usually well maybe every once in a while on a travel corridor. We have these things we called DMAs deer movement areas that are like you can tell deer moved through this area, but maybe one hundred yards wide, and that that rarely happens except for like on Texas Queer, it's just terrible in the deer lightweight and they don't put a lot of sign down but usually almost always trying to put it on a trail. And if you put it on a trail, don't set it up at a ninety. Set it up shooting down the trail at like a forty five ish. That way, the deer is not looking into it too much and it's catching them, you know, moving before it actually frames ump takes a picture. Whereas like especially in the rut, if you have it at a ninety, you're gonna have some false triggers. What seems like false triggers at least. Let's see another question from YouTube. My ten wanted to introduce my ten year old son in the bow hunting. Is there a bow you'd recommend? I know there are kids bows, but do I invest in something you'll grow into? I'd say no. I wouldn't give him a big bow. I'd give him something he can pull back, because I know I was thirteen could barely pull back forty five pounds, you know. So, I mean, unless your son's really big and strong, I would get him a kid's bow, and there they got them that'll shoot, you know, fifty sixty pounds or whatever all the way down to like thirty I think so like or less. I mean, so maybe you guys probably can answer this better than me and the chat. Let's go back over here to Instagram. Oh zach zach uh beisto zach Zach underscore Bestow says tips for big guys using saddles. I'm six six three oh seven, Okay. First thing I would say is you have to lose eight pounds because it's a three hundred pound max on a lot of the tree stand equipment in saddle equipment. Now, granted, I've had people in that industry tell me that it's three hundred pounds rated, but it's like legit, like thousands of pounds can be on those things and not. And I mean like they don't even break. They have to they have to like break them at a certain point. And whatever the lowest point they break it at, they have to like divide it by five or something, you know, to get to their max weight that can be on it. So but I would, I would just for liability purposes, maybe lose a little bit of weight if you can. But when you're six six men know, three or seven don't look like big, you know what I mean? You probably look like just a corn fed, just deer hunter, you know what I mean. But anyway, yeah, I would, I would try to get that down just a little bit, and then I would use Cruiser is who we've used for a while now. It's it is the most comfortable satele I've ever put on. I've probably put on four or five different brands, not that the other ones wouldn't work, and had and I mean in twenty twenty, I use it tethered. It was great, killed a bunch of tear out of it. Casey didn't like it quite as much as I did. But that cruiser has like three different sizes and they can really get you dialed on that, like which as you need, which would probably be I can't remember if it's three is the biggest or one is the biggest, but they'll let you know. And then it's really comfortable. It's pleated, and so it can it can really like go up your back and down towards Jenese too. It's not like real thin so across your butt, but anyway, and he also says Zach says The Element is one of the best shows on TV and one of the best podcasts right along with the Meat Eater podcast and the Bear Grease podcasts. Well, Klay nukelem, y'all rock, keep it up. Thanks man, that's a very encouraging I really appreciate that. Man. It means a lot. Let's go back over here. I probably should have pulled that map out on some stuff already again, but let's see back over here to YouTube. Michael mooneyham, what's your layering system to stay warm and bitter cold? I get cold here in Texas and have a hunt coming up in Illinois. I don't want to get puffy and ruin a shot with a bow. I would say that apparel, I would buy the best stuff I can afford because it's gonna keep you the warmest with the least amount of airing. I almost always. I don't know. He may not be hunting on public land or whatever in Illinois, but for the sake of I think the weight to warmth ratio on a puffy jacket is about as good as it gets. And so First Light has a couple of different options there. One is called the brooks Down and it's it would be something I would probably wear under because it's got that puffy outer thing that's a little bit loud, louder than typical white tailwear. But essentially the Source. And I don't know if this stuff is released shitter, Yeah, it's I guess it has released. I don't know for sure. Maybe not some of the stuff that I have that's like the it's like the Source, but more warm from First Light. Those things are coming out and maybe have come out. I can't I'm sorry, I don't know for sure, but I would say that which by the way, this podcast is brought to you by first light anyway. That stuff is really nice and it's supposed to be just like the same as a puffy. It's got the interior of a puffy, but it's way quieter on the outside and durable, a little more durable, I think. So that's good stuff. The source jacket great mid layer for sure, and I use it all the time, but it doesn't quite feel like it squishes down quite the same as like an actual puffy, And I think it's because of that tougher outer layer, but it will squish down. And I would use like I love puffies for warmth to wait taking stuff in. Also any of the stuff that you buy that's high end that is built for like the bitter cold like they're cold cold stuff. Man, that's the stuff to get into. Man, that stuff is it's gonna work for it. But I also use a lot of small layers in Marino. I'll wear several Marinos. I mean I'll literally have five like light to midweight Marino type layers on before a jacket. Sometimes like essentially I've got like a heavy weight Marino I guess, or whatever they want to call it, as like my last of those five sometimes and then I'll have, like, you know, a sweatshirt and then a big jacket or a medium jacket and then a big jacket, and sometimes you just get puffy. Man, That's just the way it is. She's got to try to keep that left arm from being too puffy. So vests are good or definitely looking to source vest for layering and keep that left arm as a bow hunter from getting too puffy. Also, I'm not a big bibs guy, but that's what First Light carries. I like coveralls a lot, actually, but I just don't. I don't use them anymore. But I think a big coverall is kind of a cool thing to have to put on over the top of everything and just keep all the warmth end and nothing leaks out the mid section or nothing, you know, will underscore. Harrison tip on hunting North Texas black or South Oklahoma black jack country in Postoke region. So I don't love black jacks. Actually, I don't know how preferential those acrons are, and I know that the trees are almost impossible to hunt out of. I'm more of a Postoke guy. I would say, Man, I hope I don't have to pee here in a second. I'm sorry'all if I do. But I would say, and then that stuff tips on hunting me that stuff I would say, post oaks are your friend if you can get into river or creek bottoms that have you know, like young ash trees that to me, those are like dear love to browse ash trees. That's something that a lot of that country has in it, you know, depending on what. North Texas is a big region, right so, but it's post oak country, but still still lots of different things going on there. But you might see a lot of hackberry trees, a lot of elm trees. You're gonna see mostly cattle pastures, no no egg food sources, So acorns are kind of key. If you can find schu mart oaks, those are a great early early season food source. Sometimes look them up and check those out. What else I would say, I mean, there's a bunch of tips that I could throw out there. There are general whitetail hunting tips, but sometimes you can have it find it hard to find edge that's not on the map. But if you can find edge that's done not showing on the map, super easy, that's where you're gonna see guys like you won't see stands. You'll if you see an edge or a funnel or a pinch point on a map, there's a high chance to just stand there. Who knows if it's been hunted or if it's being hunted this year or whatever, but there's a high chance in that country that there's a stand there. I mean, there's just too many hunters in Texas, and so I would say, like anything you can find that's really subtle on the map, or even that you can run into while you're out there, paying attention to where you're going in and out, you know, pay attention to what you're seeing. Case is really good at that. That'll help you a lot. Sorry, if you have a little more detail on what you're kind of looking for, I can try to help you too. And then shoot low because those deer are pressured in small and move fast. Okay, Yeah, I say a one hundred thousand times. So you're welcome because you're gonna now notice that for the rest of the podcast. Let's see back on YouTube here, Brian McDowell says, when using water access, how far are you willing to roam from the boat? Long ways buck truck. We hunted with Clay Nucklem in Arkansas and from the creek that I drugged my deer out to which I shot a dough So it wasn't crazy or nothing one super hard, but it was like six hundred yards, which isn't isn't terribly far, But I mean I would go a lot farther than that. I think that if you want to make hunting easier for yourself, then you use a boat and don't go very far, because the boat is the thing that gets you far in right, you make you make it good by doing that. And I have my friend Scott. He hunts like right next to the creeks in the river sometimes when he's using boats, or right on the lake shore. He does that a lot, and I think it's good. I think it's fine. But if I feel like I need to boat into a place to get to this spot that's a mile in, I mean I'll go do it. In fact, one of the days on that buck truck episode, Clay and Casey and I all ended up together. I walked like a couple of miles that day, probably, but probably walked three quarters of a mile in farthest. Okay, back on Instagram here Charlie Vanderbiek had several questions, but one of them was where should I focus my time and energy betting areas food? Where are the deer going early? And I'm thinking early means early in the season, not early in the day, but I would focus your areas on betting areas and food, or your energy on betting areas and food. I would spend time in between those two things more often than not, and maybe closer to the betting areas than the food oftentimes. But it just depends a lot on whether you're hunting private, whether you're hunting public, how pressured the public is, how pressured the private is. Early, those deer will be closer to the food source in daylight probably than they will later. But once the rut hits, you can also hunt real close to the food a lot of times, especially if dose are around that food, because that's where you want to be as near the dos. So yeah, I would focus my energy on finding the betting areas, finding the food, figuring out how they're getting there, and you know, hunting them in a spot where you can shoot them in daylight. But those are definitely, I mean, that's the that's the key man, especially early where the deer going early, deer going to green food sources really early. They're spending time in corn and corn country a lot of times early. So corn actually makes things really difficult early a lot of things A lot of times in my experience, where deer will be in the corn. The water in the corn because it's on a pivot, and it creates pools and stuff down in there that you know, puddles and whatever, So they don't ever need to leave for water. They got food there, and they got cover, and so they just there's no there's no methodology to their movements, and it's it's very tough to predict what they're gonna do. But hunt on the edge of corn, you know, if the corn is still in they got cover. They go up and down the edge of that stuff sometimes because that's the kind of the only place that they can walk really unimpeded. So if they are going somewhere down the edge of that corn is a pretty good place. Be ready for a five yard shot straight down and make sure and bend at the waist. Back over here to YouTube for questions. Vinnie says that that bow bear legit is a good option. He says, I guess for the bow. Bobby says, suck everybody, let's see. We're gonna go ahead and maybe this guy there's somebody being inappropriate. We've got you have one broadhead for deer, Vinnie Collins for the rest of your life. What is it, man, I'm just gonna say, it's the one I've been shooting in the last few years. So if you've watched any of our YouTube stuff, it's just a big three blade front deploy, pretty well made, decent, you know components, broadhead, front deploy, mechanical two and a half inch cut, I think is what it is, and I'd probably just keep shooting it forever because I killed. If you're on YouTube, you can see this. But that Neil guy right there killed it with that broadhead, a huge mechanical brought head and stuck so hard in the spine from a frontal shot that I couldn't get it out. I had to unscrew the arrow. Okay, next question on Instagram Charlie again, I hunt a chunk of private It's gonna be beans this year. Should I focus early on the field, Yeah, I would. And if you're not seeing dear in daylight, then back off. Get closer to public or get closer to betting. But I'd hunt that field if I could for sure. And I mean, who knows how early you're talking about, but September. I think late September. If the beans start getting kind of yellow or whatever, I think they still will eat them, but they might move to different food sources. So one more on Instagram right now before we go back over to YouTube. Hunter Kelly says, what saddle for my first saddle? I'd go back to what I told Zach earlier, but that that cruiser saddle, it's just hard to be It's very comfortable, and so I mean, if you want to for sure be comfortable. I'm not saying that the other ones won't fit your your body type or whatever well or even better. Maybe. I just know that a lot of people have discussed online and as well as in my camp how comfortable those cruisers are. Back over here to YouTube, are they any Alaskan trips in the work for the element? No, we can barely afford to go, dear hunting man. Unfortunately, if any wants to know what my biggest bass is, I shot a shot a I caught a ten and a quarter on a spinder bite in Lake fork a long time ago, probably fifteen years ago, but I've caught several that were pretty close, and I caught a couple that were pretty close. I caught a twenty five bench fish and he didn't look skinny, but he was kind of just spawned out May thirtieth, I think, one year out deep on a Carolina rig. And I mean it was it was like it was thin if you looked at it from the top, but not thin if you looked at it from the side. So but it was it didn't go ten. It wouldn't go ten. So can't call it a ten back over here Instagram, What info, says Charlie, can I get from cell cams that is overlooked? I think that a lot of people, and I'm probably guilty of it sometimes not necessarily in my own truck cams, but people will show me trail cammer pictures sometimes and I'll be like, Oh, you ain't killing that deer? Why is that y'all? If you're on YouTube, give you about five seconds to answer that. But that's my thought is immediately like, Okay, that deer. It's just fun to look at. But the reason is because you the pictures are at night and they're all at night, so you've got the rut window theoretically to help you out give you a chance there, that's your best chance. But a lot of times the overlooked info in this on these trail cameras is there's a window right after dark where like even in the last moments of shooting light, the picture looks like it's at night, but it's not. It's still shooting light right. Well, you give it another forty five minutes or hour from that moment, and those deer are actually not far from where that trail camera is on their feet, like in the daylight probably, So I guess just to think about this, like if you're getting deer. This is how I found a buck called Teenager in twenty seventeen that I really was after for three years and never saw him, but I had tons of truck carunt pictures of him. But I ended up, long story short, had a very good shot at him one day, and I had an acoustic gig that I played because I was broke and I needed the money. It was in November. I got the exact wind I needed for the location that I was hunting. A map which was a northeast which is kind of odd, and he showed up at three thirty PM on the day I was out in Dallas playing a gig, and I would have no doubt been there if I hadn't had that gig, and I probably would have shot that deer at you know, kind of early afternoon, three point thirty, right in front of my camera, right in front of where I was hanging that stand. But originally, when I found that buck the year before or the January before that, he was really close to a food source at dark, but he was daylight and back in that area not only in that next year, but also I moved my camera in January when I picked that one up and moved it further back into the cover where I assumed he was coming from, and found him right off the bat in daylight. So that's something to think about. It is like this deer was not killable at all whatsoever, you know, four hundred yards away, but he was like very much daylight and four hundred yards away from that original camera placement. So just something to think about is like just because you look at a picture and you're like, oh, it's dark, I may not ever have a shot at that buck, doesn't mean you can't go find him elsewhere as long as you have permission to get further back in from that food source or whatever, you know, whatever you've got going on, but just understanding which way he's coming from and then moving the camera to another plausible spot, and if it doesn't work out for you in a week, you don't see him again in a week or two, then change it to a different spot, same distance, you know, one hundred and fifty two hundred yards, and just try to backtrack him all the way back to where you can find him in daylight. But that's a good question, you guys. Ever done attack event I'm hoping to draw a corrao do tag and can't decide if it be worth making the trip for tac this summer deep dive and dock is who that is? We did tack in San Antonio is fun, but I wouldn't say it like helps you shoot better. If that's what you're asking, I would just shoot a bunch as much as possible, stretch it out as much as possible, shoot long shots if you don't have If you have to shoot in the backyard and can't shoot long shots, you got twenty yards, then draw a tiny dot you know, on that target and try to hit that dot at twenty. Don't don't just take a big four inch circle and think, oh, I'm hitting that good at twenty, you know, but really focus. Focus. That's what you have to do on a sixty yard shot, is really focused and really dial it. So kind of do that and try to hit that small, small, little pencil pencil, you know, tiny dot. Let's go back over here to the Instagram questions. Okay, we've got Bob Nolan ninety four. How much sign do you actually want before setting up there? I don't have game cameras, man sign is just not a huge indicator for me most of the time. I've said this a couple of times recently, so sorry if it's redundant, But really I think map scouting and e scouting, whatever you want to call it, is pretty underrated. In all honesty. I think that you can't just here. And here's the thing that maybe I haven't been clear on E scouting or map scouting is it can't be done alone. You have to have the map out while you're walking property of all kinds, and then you understand better what all this looks like on the map. You can visualize it in your head when you're looking at on the map, and then you get better at that and you can go new places where you haven't seen it, but have a decent idea what this is going to look like on the map before you get there. Still there's always surprises, right, But I would say that probably the number one thing is to find spots you have confidence on the map, and then if they're signed there, then you can be really confident. And it doesn't have to be a lot depending on what you're looking for. If you're looking for a place that a buck is, sometimes it's not where three family groups of dose are, like early in the season or whatever, So there might not be much signed there and there's not gonna be rubs. There might be old rubs from last year. But you know, if there's a decent faint trail and it leads to a betting area that's half mile from a food source, then you know and you've got it, Like you feel like that's the spot for a but betted buck to come through on his way to that food source, and you've picked that from the map, then go with it and feel good about it. You know, and if you don't see a deer, and I, yeah, it's tough because I know I have an idea of some of the stuff that you hunt Bobby. Because of Bobby came out to one of our live events several years ago. We got to meet him and he was you know, we were local, like in the North Texas area, and so I feel like I know at least what the country he hunts is like. As far as like that, there's not a whole lot of bucks. So you can go several days without seeing a deer and not really have great confidence that you're in a bad spot even but you might be in a good spot and you just haven't seen deer because that's a good spot on Texas Public sometimes, you know. So anyway, I would say, like again, going back to this is practice some of your scouting with the map in hand and understanding what everything looks like that you've scouted, and then you get a better chance of you know, understanding that that not only what everything looks like, but then okay, here's a good attribute whatever that is. Let's say it's a it's a you know what a persimmon looks like. A persimon, you know, grove or whatever they call them on the map because you just went to some persimmons this summer and looked at them on the map. That's what they look like on the map. Well, now you can go to any any persimon, you know, thicket or grove and understand that on the map that that's probably a persimons. It looks a lot like this other personmon Thicket. Okay, cool. So now you've got a good idea that early season there might be you know, or mid season even there might be deer eating those percimons. Okay, so we're good there. That's one thing, though you need multiple things. Okay, why else would deer be there? Well, there's a you know, there's a wheat field or whatever that's a half mile from there. And then on the other side of those persimons from that wheat field, there's some really thick stuff right next to a creek. Okay, Well, we've got some pieces of puzzle that might be put together. We've got there's kind of hypothetical, but we've got this this thick stuff over here at this persimon thicket and this wheat field on the other side of it. He's potentially going to hit that personmon Thicket on the way to the wheat field, and it gives you an idea that like, you can sit close to those per simons and get a shot at the deer as a bow hunter, you know if he comes into that. It gives you a place to sit in between that wheat field a half a mile away in the in the thicket that has a good chance of that deer coming. So you get there, you see that some persimmons have fallen, there's some deer droppings, there's lots of tracks, or even a few tracks. It's a good sign. What would be a good release for a boat? Okay, Josh Cochran, I've used Cobra for most of my life, but I mean my dad gave me a Cobra and I used it for fifteen years, and then Jake at Cobra sent us some Cobras a few years back and I've been using it ever since. But I had two that were the same. I think it's called the Wilderness or something from Cobra. Had two that were same, and I lost one. I know where it's at, but it's like way into some public land that I took a jacket off and took the release off and then left the release whenever I took off out of there, and I didn't want to go back and get it, so I lost one of these two releases. So I'm thinking about potentially trying a new release. I've heard good things about true Ball. But again, anybody who wants to comment in the comment section on YouTube can do that. Give that guy some ideas if they have good release or bad release. Don't trash anybody, but just say I wouldn't recommend this or whatever. Okay, back over here to Instagram. We got a few more here. Bobby also wants to know how do I determine my primary shooting lanes when I'm picking a tree. This is a great question, and I like this. I spend a lot of time at the tree before I set up in it. Every every new camera guy that I hunt with over the years, every time it's like the first time that I hang with the camera guy, I say, hey, like, once we get to the tree, I start looking up and I go, all right, this is going to almost be like a little bit comical, but this might take a second, so just let me think. And don't you know, don't think that I'm weird or that I'm an idiot or whatever. I just want to think through everything before I actually commit to getting up into a tree. And I'm not saying I nail it every time, but there's a couple of things that you can rely on is and one I think is knowing that as a right hander or a left hander, this is your strong side, so this is where your platform is going to go. And then you know, trying your best to visualize where your shooting lanes will be without having to go out to where the deer would be when you shoot it. Now, I, oftentimes, if not madure like, almost all the time, I have an idea of which trail I actually expect this deer to come down, and so that gives me a really good idea of where my shooting lanes are going to be or need to be, right, so it helps me to pick which tree I'm going to be in. I like to have less cover than more cover if I have to choose to get, like, if I have to choose to give up stuff I like to sit. I would sit lower if I could sit kind of in between the crotch of a tree that didn't have leaves on it. Then if I was to go up the tree another six foot, if I go up the tree another ten foot, it might be a different deal, you know what I mean. But like just I would sit six foot lower to be in the crotch, as long as it wasn't like six ft off the ground probably, you know. So just you know, you make your own decisions. But I like, I like to be able to be fairly hidden, and I like cover a lot. But on public I would rather have shooting lanes over on a place I'm unfamiliar with than a place than have a place that or a tree that cuts off most of my shooting lanes. And sometimes that's the way it is. But one of my best tips is I carry a big, long bunch of pair cord so that if I need to kind of last so a limb and tie it back a little bit to give me a little better shooting lane or a shooting lane period, then I do that from time time. And I've actually called in a buck, a big buck in Iowa one year twenty nineteen doing that, and he caught us in our last few last minute of setup. I'd put my jacket on and Casey looked over and said, don't move in. As soon as he said that took off, big buck, so you know, you kind of run that risk, but at least you set up and got some lanes if that's the case. So it looks like it's about the tornado out there. So anyway, that's that's kind of some thoughts there, And I think that you just have to understand that, like you don't have to get as high as you can. And if you can say that spot in that tree up there is for sure I can get to it with my sticks, then that that'll help you out a lot. If you're like, I don't know if I can get to that spot with my sticks. It's pretty high. If you get up there and you can't get to it and you got to sit up lower, and well now you don't know where your shooting lanes are as much, you know what I mean. But I would say I don't like ground scent. But if you can walk five or ten yards out from the tree and not quite get to that trail that you're thinking the deer coming down and see and get a pretty even better perspective on where those lanes are, that's probably a pretty helpful thing. Let's go back over here to YouTube real quick. What camera would you suggest for a beginner self filming hunter Mike's the whole deal. I would man, I might need to get my dog inside unfortunately, but I'm gonna try to get through this. I would say, you know, an iPhone's a pretty good deal, but go pro if you really want, you know, good stuff. You can get cameras at Walmart and you can probably buy like little what they call dead cat or you know, wind screens that are like fuzzy. You can buy those and they'll like tape onto your camera mic so that you don't get too much wind noise and stuff. And you can just get like a two hundred and fifty dollars Panasonic or JVC or something at Walmart. It'll do pretty good. Or you can get like, if you really want to spend two thousand bucks, you can get a decent lens that'll go on a Sony a series, like a sixty seven hundred or something like that, and that that'll do awesome. I mean, we'll probably end up using one of those for like our fifth camera this year or something like that. So back over to Instagram, how do you? And that was a good question, Bobby. I liked that question a lot, and I hope I hope I answered it okay. If I didn't, just ask me again, I'll try to answer it better. Hunter Kelly Hunter Kelly says, how do you make a small Florida buck look like a big Midwest buck? Well, I don't know. I don't think that it really works that way, but you can definitely long arm him and people will either call you out or just be happy that you tried to make the deer look big, to give it as much respect and make it as much focus as possible. So who knows. Man, You know, I like to shoot deer for because they're fun to shoot, not necessarily to you know, make my buddies understand what I went through or how big the deer is. I mean, a big deer is awesome, and I do show it off to my buddies, you know, but like they're only going to everybody's going to see your deer different than you do. Pretty much, nobody's gonna see it nearly as special as you do, even if it's a monster. Heart of Texas bow Hunter say's best way to get success picks at night with no long exposure. There's a light that company called Kneeer makes. It's n E E W e R and they mount on top of a camera. I would say, get a couple of those. They're cheap, and get two of them. Put one, you know, tape one or rubber wire one to a tree, and use the other one on top of the camera. Gets as much light as possible. That's the way we take night pictures is just as many lights as we can carry in. Sometimes it's one, sometimes it's four or five. Over here a YouTube Again, what are your thoughts in the three fifty for those straight wall states looking at picking up one for any and a hunting I've heard good things, but I'm not. I'm not a gun nut by any stretch of the imagination. In case, you would probably have a better answer for this, But I mean, I think that it's gonna kill dear if you can get them in with you within your range and shoot them. They're in the right spot pretty much, you know. So whatever is your range for a good accurate shot. When and where's your next live event? That's a good question, because we've been talking about it lately, and I'm thinking that we may do a couple this summer. Later this summer, potentially get together do some Q and A type stuff like this, look at some maps potentially even you know, get do some giveaway stuff for product or gear or whatever, you know, and have a dinner and just hang out and chat, maybe watch a video that hasn't been released, which we've got several of those right now that are already some of them even edited. So yeah, I would say like probably late July or mid August or something like that, be looking for something at least, and that probably would be in Texas. I'd like to go all over and do them, but I don't know for sure where, Like a lot of people think we're cool or we want to do you know, want to hang out with us or listen to us or whatever. But I know in the DFW we've done them before and it's done pretty well. Maybe Austin something like that would be cool too. If you have some ideas, let me know back over here. Last Instagram question that I have or that I wrote down, is it possible to hunt water when there's a creek running through the property that's old Charlie Vanderbiek, Yeah, it is, it is for sure. In fact, I don't think running water is a very preferential drinking source for most deer. I think they like stuff that's very stagnant. Still, they'd rather drink out of an algae pond probably than a running creek. I think, so, yeah, it's definitely a possibility. Would I would monitor it with a trail camera if you can, and see if they're drinking out of it, and if they're doing it in daylight, and try to make a thing happen. We almost kill one on Texas Public on Water and opening weekend. But I say almost. We had them very patterned throughout September and then opening about about like literally a week or less before opening day. I don't know if everybody just started going out there and hanging their stand and looking around snooping and stuff. But they were knocked off their pattern and like the last week of September. Otherwise we would have been dialed and killed a deer on on Water. It would have been really cool. Back over here to the YouTube crowd, what would you consider a shooter buck for East Texas Private? Thirteen inches thirteen inches wide? That's the rule, right, in all honesty, you know, I'm probably looking at something that's like in that pop and young range. You know, maybe doesn't score net poping young, but you know, one hundred and twenty plus. Maybe just depends on the property and what you got around And for me, like I don't get to hunt here all that much in East Texas, and because we were just moving around so much, so I may shoot something a little bit smaller than somebody else might. Or because I've already shot a bunch of deer, I might not shoot something that's one hundred and twenty. I might want to shoot something that's one hundred and thirty five or something. You know. So, but I like stuff it's heavy. I think, I think I talked about this morning. I think of three attributes when I think of a deer that I like one. If they have these three attributes, it doesn't really matter much what they look like. They're going to look good to me. Mass, decent G twos, decent beams, because decent G twos and beams look if you're on YouTube, kind of look like this, right. It's the frame, the G two's and the beams of the frame. If he's got good G twos, but he's got tiny G three's, he's still his frame looks good like he looks like a respectable buck, you know what I mean. And then when he turns sideways. Mass, you know, especially is something you see, especially if it carries much at all. And his two still have that frame. Look right, he goes up high. So mass, beams and twos and everything else is just bonus for me. Let's see Josh Cochrane taking a few first time bow hunting any tips. Hunt a feeder and tell them they got to be really still whenever deer come in. But they're gonna see a lot of deer and they're going to have a fun time. That's what I would do. If you can't hunt a feeder, man, I'll just try to be in a spot where there's a lot of deer around, whatever that is, whether it's a field or whatever. If it's a field, you know, then not corn, but beams are something that you can see the deer even if they're one hundred and fifty yards away, and just give them a lot to look at. I think that's a good, good thought. So yeah, and then tell them just try to talk them through everything. You know, go ahead and draw, you know, go ahead and draw, go ahead and do this, you know, get your bow ready, clip on, just give them a little whisper hints. Excuse me as you go and try to kind of, you know, put them in a good position to actually get a good shot off without a deer being just keyed up, right, Drew, I don't know how to say your name, your last name, Bud Jumpa. I don't even know if that's a real name or not. It might just be like a made up name that you put on here, but it's cool if it is. I feel like I've missed a bunch of your twenty twenty three and twenty four content. Is most of it still being held back? Yes, most of it? So at some point we can only edit so much when we're going in so many different places and hunting and everybody's involved just filming, right, So it's hard to get stuff out in the season, especially once we get to November. So it's not like intentionally held at that point a lot of times. But some of the meat eater stuff is you know, they hold it intentionally. But some of the you know, element stuff, it just gets it gets held back because we can't get to it to edit it until after the season, and then nobody cares about deer hunting until from after the season until you know, August or September, So it's like, you know, we just hold it to put it out as hype for the next season because everybody wants to see deer hunting videos in August in September, and if we don't have anything new, then hate disappointing people, you know, So that's that's kind of why. But yes, there's a bunch of a bunch of stuff still, like anything we've shot in twenty four has pretty much has not come out yet. I'm almost anything except for on the Element, like the Meet Eater, the lead on Meat Eater stuff it comes out is going to be a lot longer than Element stuff in a lot of cases, not always, but most cases, just because it's a lot of people putting stuff on there. You know, there's Calahan, there's Ranella, Clay Nukem, you know, Mark Kenyon, Tony, a bunch of these people are are you know, so fitting in that calendar on their channel is difficult and there's a there's a delay there. So if you want to watch stuff that is more timely, sometimes the Element is the place to do. But we still have like a lot of twenty four stuff that's there, twenty three stuff that from Deer season that will come out and there's some cool stuff we've been looking at. We've been really working on the deer hunting stuff the last week or so and it is awesome. I can't wait

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