That was funny. Is that what they call a cluster f***? That was freaking hilarious. Oh my god. I'm not sure, but that just might beat my best. Too funny, good stuff. Glad you shared.😊
Absolutely 100% correct real hunters have a bond, and it doesn't mater if is squirrel, ducks or deer. Real hunters will get away from the road and chase the deer on there turf, not on convenience and ease of recovery. The rest hunt deer but there not die hard hunters, its just a pastime for them not a way of life. I'm 55 now and I still trudge the mountain for elk, bear, and deer and I just love hunting camp every year. Loved your video of one day of tough marsh hunting !!!
I'm 73 years old and thought I had seen it all. From goat ropings to mule jumping contests but I have never seen a deer hunter get naked to retrieve a deer. Hilarious. BUT, my utmost respect to you and your buddies for the recovery effort. True sportsmen. Your summation of the state of deer hunting in these days was spot on. Folks don't want to hunt, they want the success.
You guys really busted your butts in retrieving and recovering all the deer. It's refreshing to see everyone pulling together to accomplish a common goal. Hunters and Fishermen have a special bond that connects one to another. Well done and glad everyone came out safely. Enjoy your well earned Venison!!
Cool video sucks for the guy you gave the opportunity to tag along and run with y’all that hated it. I was boot high just last week and that looks like a blast, your right about navigating though the trails by stepping on the plants to gain ground quickly and efficiently
Awesome video 👍 ! I have been on both sides decoys and the stand ! Great to see guys helping ! The selflessness of Austin and the 🦆 guys ! I think it might also have had something to do with the pumpkin shirt 😂! Who could say no!🤣🤣✌️! Thanks Dan !
It’s all about the environment of a good group of hunters. We’ve had many come in and many go. Some have gotten too old and some have passed away. That week we used to have in Ohio for gun week was something very special. Not enough guys interested anymore and the land has been chewed up into parcels that cannot be hunted any longer. This was a great video and took me back to a simpler times. Thank you Dan. Happy Thanksgiving.
We need more public land up here in the NE part. If you dont have access to private you seriously have to work your ass off super hard for a deer. Let alone a nice buck. My local area isnt divided much. Its good for driving. But alot of people want to do it come gun season. Which leads to issues.
Been there, done that, can't no more at 70years of age. My mind says yes, you still can but the body will not let me do it. Awesome job, guys! Good luck!
Nothing but respect for you all! We hunt very similarly here in Mass during gun season. We have our fair share of swamps but we run mostly into briar patches. But the nasty stuff is where the deer are!!! Anybody who says driving deer is "cheating" has never been part of a true deer drive. Its a lot of work but we love it and keep doing it year after year. Keep the videos coming we love watching!!
Thank you Dan for another video. When I saw the folding ladder it brought me back to my early bow hunting days in the deep Everglades swamps of South Florida. Find the palmetto heads with high ground. Hike in through knee and waste deep water then set up my ladder. Killed a lot of "swamp dogs" that way. The deer in the Everglades are not much bigger than a German Sheppard these days. But they eat good.
Dan you're the coolest Yankee I've ever encountered... Seriously though brother I have hunted my whole life and have learned so much from you this past year. Thanks from Tennessee.
Ross Heatherly Do you guys still call us Yankees? I was stationed in Biloxi in 74, but that was only 110 years after the War. But, we are ALL In this together now, brother.
@@nataliedeyton6829 Yeah well I thought Wisconsinites were Yankees too until I moved here. Naaa. Not so much. They actually don't like true Yankees just like us Southern Boys. Just happen to be the side they were on in the war. Honestly, Wisconsin is just fine by our Damn self. Keep it Wisconsin is a real motto here. We even have a beer that is only allowed to be sold in Wisconsin and is one of the best Brews you will ever drink.
@KRAKEN KRAKEN. You could not be more wrong. I am a Black Man speaking these words. I have just been fighting my whole life to not be seen as a Black person...but just a person. And when I moved here in WI, I have never felt more Equal as a person in my whole life. And that what Wisconsin is at the core... Don't care one way or another, just want to mingle with Civilized people.
Dan I moved onto a small farm in West Kentucky when I was 46. I had very little interest in deer hunting. Until the second year here. First deer I killed was a decent buck. Since then I have kept the freezer full enough to make deer jerky. Love it. Last year I killed a 144” buck. Your perspective and guidance has impacted me in ways you’ll never know. I’m 52 now. An I’m still in education mode. An your a great teacher keep it up.
Never stop challenging yourself to a success that’s harder to attain. 50 years old over here and have always felt that the struggle is the spice of the sport.
Dan, Can't say enough about how impressed I am and the other beasts from Wisconsin. I discovered you just this year by happenstance. I pass it off at first; being from Arkansas, I didn't figure I could learn much from you. Boy was I wrong! You "Yankee" boys have my utmost respect. I have since ordered a few of your DVDs and have gained a lot of knowledge. Never hunted cattails, but am using the information relative to the hardwood bottoms and hills I hunt. Those drives look like work, but also like a ton of fun. Thank you! Thank you! For sharing all of your knowledge! Happy Thanksgiving and good luck!
@@gheft762 I have a place around Mntn Hm...actually closer to Three Brothers. I live in NC most of the time though. Where abouts are you in No. Cent. Ark?
Just finished a 16 day northern Mn hunt. Beaver dams and aider swamps. Every day in the woods first light till dark. Don't have a deer shack to go to. Would not trade it for the world. My two hunting partners have a deal, if one of us dies out here the other two have permission to gut gut the dead man before we drag his sorry ass back to his wife. We are all 64 to 69 years old! We have hunted together for a little over 40 some years. You should have tee shirts that say I am BEASTY not feel beasty!! Good to see you boy's had a good time.
Dan, you have to admit, you're like half animal. I've watched so many shows were there snow on the ground, and you're sitting out there in a t-shirt, drinking a cold cup of coffee. That's not freaking normal dude! Seriously! You are definitely cold-blooded. Me myself, I'm a bit of a candy ass, I use foot warmers. My feet get cold, it's over. I've been known to build a fire when I have gotten so cold. Crazy thing, I've had deer come up to check the fire out. Straight up, positive fact. But you handle cold much better than most anybody I know.
When we were young (25-30 yrs ago)we were a good crew of hunters/construction workers. We would push the crap no one else would, cattails, swamps, briar patches steep hills and ravines. We had great success and had people want to join in that success just to quit. Were used to do 16-20 hunts a year, then 10-15, 5-8, now once or twice a year. This year, age 51, I quit framing houses and quit pushing swamps. Just can't do it any more. God bless you for keeping at it. Been neck deep more than once and afraid for my life a couple times stuck in muck (fell through a beaver dam once). You say old school, but even back then people didn't hunt like this. My grandfather, father and uncles did though. Miss hunting with them terribly. No next generation coming up behind because like you said, it just isn't as productive as it used to be. Too much work v reward. Deer are all pushed up to private sanctuarys. Glad you are still doing it, representing old, old school. God bless you brother...I feel your pain.
People just dont care anymore , they dont want to put the time in,small food plots, clearing roads.They dont care about the quality of deer there shooting ,tiny spikes, does even 1st year fawns i seen hanging buy his neck from the deer post.They shoot everything ,you have 10 guys all have doe permits, in a club you pay 800 bucks a year to hunt theres no deer left.I am 51 also, i guess your a tree stand hunter now.lol
@@littlesilver2205 Na bro. We still push em around. Just a lot more stand hunts now. I think we are going through the cattails on Sat for a big one we saw. Probably going to lay around all Sunday and hope for a Bills win v Ravens while my knees and back recover.LOL
my family has 160 acres of marsh land and we love it. it is hard to put stands up/ work in the summer but when deer season comes around it is all frozen over and easy to walk around.
Dan, love what you're doing. I have access to some good private land in farm country right here at the house in Indiana, but I LOVE hunting the big hills and deep woods of public land in southern Indiana. There's just something about it that I can't explain but you know where I'm coming from. It's much harder at 51 than it was at 31 but I'm still gettin it done. I'm just slower now and its more painful back at work on Monday each year that passes. Keep it up brother and I'll do the same 🇺🇸
Great video as usual Dan. I’ve got hundreds and hundreds of acres of cattails surrounding our land that none of my buddies are brave enough to drive. There’s loads of deer in them but everyone’s afraid of water apparently. If anyone’s ever in the Madison area let me know if you want to swim in the cats for deer 😂
I was hunting the edge of the cat tails today. Was six deer in there spread out before daylight and they were still there at noon when I went home to eat. They weren't far away but I couldn't lay eyes on them. Every thirty minutes or so one would take a step or two and could hear them breaking through the ice. They didn't budge when I left. So close but yet so far away. I'm not equipped to get in the water in this cold.
Great video Dan. My first five years or so was sitting in a tree stand until about noon and deer drives would finish out the day opening weekend. I will admit, we didn’t get our feet wet going through cattails. Our goal was to shoot em before they got that far and it didn’t always work. Great message about the brotherhood of outdoors men and women who work together for a common reason. Good luck to all!
Awesome video on your hunt and tips about hunting marshes and public swamps because I also hunt stuff like those marshes and public swamps like you do and it's hard but like you do you have to go that extra mile if you want those big buck's awesome video 👍Thumbs up 👍
Thats some real hard deer driven Dan but it looks like it produces meat for the tables. Always get excited watching your videos. Those drives through the cattails are not for the faint of heart...lol.
Only dan would be deer fishing…hahaha I couldn’t get away from duck hunting for so many years that I have just fairly recently gotten pretty serious about deer again. But I like what you say about doing the hard stuff just because…when duck hunting we always said "embrace the suck”…the rainier or snowier, or colder and nastier with ice cycles in your beard, the better. And if your not workin your tail off your not hunting. At least till i got a go devil boat and motor, now its not as hard, but hey I’m gettin older like everyone else! Lol. good huntin to ya Dan…thanks for all you do and Mario too. BTW…I finally scored those sticks I was tryin for, and I’m loving em! You guys were great…there was a little mix up and i was scared I wasn’t gonna get my sticks but I talked to Mario and he rush shipped me five more out asap! and they are awesome…much lighter and easier to carry…I put some versa straps on em and they are so fast to set up and quiet as well. Thanks for a great product, that will last the rest of my life.
Great video man..Really caught the feel of the hunt..I,m old school , and old.. I have hunted by myself in much the same manner.. I have even had a huge buck swim the lake to get away.(i didnt know they did that) till then... You have lit a spark in me to get back out there ... I killed my first Handgun Deer this year (Doe).. Thank's
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your crew and all beast far and wide. Dan, you may want to start bringing flotation devices along.🤣😂🤣. I love the inner drive that keeps you going. Not many guy's have that nowadays.
@@thehuntingbeast I made this comment half way through the video, lol. I now see you could have used a couple. I edited at the end. Thanks for letting us tag along. It sucks getting old but some of us refuse to let it stop us.
I've hunted this way for YEARS jumping ducks... worst it ever got i found myself in the middle of a pine thicket that also had a massive cane break in it before dark... closest in 34 years I've come to staying all night!
I love bow hunting. I don’t hunt firearms any more. I do love these videos. The beast style is not 100 percent for me but I do follow it kind of loosely. Luckily there are not any swamps in my neck of the woods. Truth be told if you told me I would 100 percent harvest a 200 inch buck I would not fight through those swamps. That’s just me but respect to the guys that do.
I really enjoy your videos. I think of your statement of being a buck serial killer. I can resonate with that. It takes a certain mind set of being calm and letting go of all the resistance. Letting go of the fear what if he smells me? What if he catchs me? I let all that go. There is no I. A deer hunter is going to be caught at times. After hunting for many years one comes to recognize this happens to one who spends much of their life chasing deer. If the deer appears and a shot is ethical take. Do not let the fear of what if. If the opportunity happens rise to the occasion. It's so strange how eastern philosophy ties into well everything. It is like the Ying yang energy. It's totally Ying soft gentle quite flexible soft eyes. I managed one of the biggest bucks at 15 yards I have ever tricked 15 yards away while sitting on a small chair. It was a old buck 200 lb nine point and a doe at eight feet , both with the bow. After years of hunting like you have learned it's all about ones ability to stay focused. Hunting those cattails is well um you know. The intense ability to let everthing go. If is tuff staying tuned in after so many hours on stand. There is not many who posses that ability. Unfortunately I am disabled with a bad case of PTSD" not military connected but my father had the PTSD from Korea. The system has totally f me in a bad way. If I could afford new equipment I surely would up grade. But I have what I need to hunt deer a old heavy Fred bear bow and a 870 with a scope. I dig the open minded guys you hunt with like the guy who claims he had too many mushrooms from lunch. It takes a open empty open mind. Bruce Lee would say not thinking but not dreaming. 👍
One of my biggest I meant 20" spread. My PTSD is connected to a non military event I went through. I wanted to make that clear. I think what you are trying to say we are all brothers in the world of hunting. If it were not for each and every one of us the anti crowd would shut us down totally. So recognize that we are a dying breed. I try to inspire my nephew but after a bad shot on a big buck two years ago another hunter dropped and tagged he lost total intrest. Good luck my brothers be safe. Live to hunt. Hunt to live.
Make no mistake it's all about the vibrations. Stay in a natural state of mind. Mirror his actions. I do what he does. Or doesn't. It's like a play I set the screen as the hunter he sets the screen as the buck. I stay quiet and focused. That's my part as the hunter. He as a old elusive buck does the same.
We’re about the same age, but I think you’re twice the man I was when I was 25! Are you somehow impervious to hypothermia??? You’re the man. thanks for sharing
It’s like lotto. Gotta get in it to win it. You guys need to strap a just in case boat on the truck for recovery. I’d use it for access to those escape points too
I know how you feel. My crew here in Minnesota fell apart. They started getting lazy on drives and bypassing the tough stuff. They didn’t want to work hard anymore and then wondered why we weren’t getting as many deer and nice bucks as we used to.. I’m also 53 and haven’t met anyone who can keep up with me in the cattails.
A J Wood must be the year, most of my hunting partners can't keep up. I understand the older ones, but too many of the young guys just don't have the grit. Maybe it was all the hay racks I loaded before I got a job at 16. Working in that furniture factory was sure a nice break from real work.
I perfected my swamp walking technique hunting ducks and pheasants in the cattail sloughs around my grandpa’s dairy farm. For last three years I’ve been deer hunting with my 13yr old son and 14 yr old daughter. I m having a ball watching them shoot deer. My daughter is tougher then my son. She will fallow me anywhere and stay out in any kind of weather to get her deer
I don't mind taking a good hike for a deer, but walking through those cattails...that's tough! I hunt a spot just like that in Southern Wisconsin but I stay on the high ground!
Dan you are THE HUNTING BEAST no questions asked. We have had that happen to us here in MI luckily we were on private and had a boat. You men earn every steak on that one 👍👍
Dan for situations like this take a treble hook put a small piece of pipe over it fill it with lead you can throw the hook over him and drag him to the bank. Works well for getting critters out of the water.
Hey Dan, you mentioned in an earlier video that you have some breathing problems. I would like to recommend a book on specific breathing techniques, that have drastically improved my VO2 max. The book is “The Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McKeown. Hope it helps improve your breathing. Hard to imagine what a Beast you were before damaging your lungs!! Thanks for the all wisdom!! Stay Beasty!!!
How about the Spirit that buck had Guys!!! That was a Warrior. Would have got away to live another day if it wasn't for the ice on shore. A lot of lead pumped at that guy. Even as a hunter I was rootin for the buck on that one. He struggled a long time in the water trying to get out. I'm sure it took you guys a long time to get to the other side of the lake and he was still moving when you got there. My hats off to that animal.
Been there , done that. Love every bit about it. We drove a swamp in Michigan years ago and had six shooters who complained because the two drivers shot the dear that year. Something that I thought was funny. Five years in a row we drove the deer out to standers everything was great until we shot the deer before they came out. Somehow we ended up being the bad guys.
My friends have always said that I wouldn't shoot a deer or elk in there for anything but I always say I'll take a good shot anywhere and worry about getting it out afterwards ! I've never left one in the woods yet ! And always help a friend get their animal .
I look forward to these videos every year Dan and this video says it all. You hit it on the head when you said the original crew is aging and the younger buck's as I call them aren't as gritty as the elders are and were. The showing of respect from Austin I believe his name was, drug another man's deer out for him and the duck hunters giving the time to basically life flite your deer back to the parking lot was bare none the most respect iv seen from fellow hunters and humans iv seen in quite some time, hats off to all of those folks and to the beasty crew. Happy holidays to all of you.
I hunt that same public land holy shit small world!!!!!!! I thought that looked familiar lol I too have gotten many a deer out of those cat tails, but what a bummer that the dnr logged all those trees out of there. Anyways great video!
That was funny. Is that what they call a cluster f***? That was freaking hilarious. Oh my god. I'm not sure, but that just might beat my best. Too funny, good stuff. Glad you shared.😊
I f’n love this show.
Awesome video. What a great guy to have stopped with the boat to help.
Absolutely 100% correct real hunters have a bond, and it doesn't mater if is squirrel, ducks or deer.
Real hunters will get away from the road and chase the deer on there turf, not on convenience and ease of recovery. The rest hunt deer but there not die hard hunters, its just a pastime for them not a way of life. I'm 55 now and I still trudge the mountain for elk, bear, and deer and I just love hunting camp every year.
Loved your video of one day of tough marsh hunting !!!
Dan: sorry Mario I shoulda warned ya......🤣 BTW great message at the end Dan! we are ALL IN THIS TOGETHER 👊 & great job by Austin & the duck hunters!
“What are y’all gonna need all that rope for...?!“ ~ boondocks saints
You are absolutely a Frickin Beast kudos to you and all your gang with the Upmost Respect Thanks for Sharing
Utter lunacy. Love it!!!!
Now thats team work! What a bunch of good guys in the boat!
I'm 73 years old and thought I had seen it all. From goat ropings to mule jumping contests but I have never seen a deer hunter get naked to retrieve a deer. Hilarious. BUT, my utmost respect to you and your buddies for the recovery effort. True sportsmen. Your summation of the state of deer hunting in these days was spot on. Folks don't want to hunt, they want the success.
Dan has lost his mind lol you’re a nut dude 😂😂😂
You guys really busted your butts in retrieving and recovering all the deer. It's refreshing to see everyone pulling together to accomplish a common goal. Hunters and Fishermen have a special bond that connects one to another. Well done and glad everyone came out safely.
Enjoy your well earned Venison!!
Cool video sucks for the guy you gave the opportunity to tag along and run with y’all that hated it. I was boot high just last week and that looks like a blast, your right about navigating though the trails by stepping on the plants to gain ground quickly and efficiently
Awesome video 👍 ! I have been on both sides decoys and the stand ! Great to see guys helping ! The selflessness of Austin and the 🦆 guys ! I think it might also have had something to do with the pumpkin shirt 😂! Who could say no!🤣🤣✌️! Thanks Dan !
It’s all about the environment of a good group of hunters. We’ve had many come in and many go. Some have gotten too old and some have passed away. That week we used to have in Ohio for gun week was something very special. Not enough guys interested anymore and the land has been chewed up into parcels that cannot be hunted any longer. This was a great video and took me back to a simpler times. Thank you Dan. Happy Thanksgiving.
We need more public land up here in the NE part. If you dont have access to private you seriously have to work your ass off super hard for a deer. Let alone a nice buck. My local area isnt divided much. Its good for driving. But alot of people want to do it come gun season. Which leads to issues.
Been there, done that, can't no more at 70years of age. My mind says yes, you still can but the body will not let me do it. Awesome job, guys! Good luck!
Nothing but respect for you all! We hunt very similarly here in Mass during gun season. We have our fair share of swamps but we run mostly into briar patches. But the nasty stuff is where the deer are!!! Anybody who says driving deer is "cheating" has never been part of a true deer drive. Its a lot of work but we love it and keep doing it year after year. Keep the videos coming we love watching!!
Thanks for taking me along for this ride. I enjoyed watching you guys. I felt like I was there helping in the recovery.
Thank you Dan for another video. When I saw the folding ladder it brought me back to my early bow hunting days in the deep Everglades swamps of South Florida. Find the palmetto heads with high ground. Hike in through knee and waste deep water then set up my ladder. Killed a lot of "swamp dogs" that way. The deer in the Everglades are not much bigger than a German Sheppard these days. But they eat good.
Dan you're the coolest Yankee I've ever encountered...
Seriously though brother I have hunted my whole life and have learned so much from you this past year. Thanks from Tennessee.
Ross Heatherly Do you guys still call us Yankees? I was stationed in Biloxi in 74, but that was only 110 years after the War. But, we are ALL In this together now, brother.
😂😂😂😂😂 I’m my head I was sayin the same exact this is that’s one crazy’s ass yankee
Yeah we call y’all Yankees
@@nataliedeyton6829 Yeah well I thought Wisconsinites were Yankees too until I moved here. Naaa. Not so much. They actually don't like true Yankees just like us Southern Boys. Just happen to be the side they were on in the war. Honestly, Wisconsin is just fine by our Damn self. Keep it Wisconsin is a real motto here. We even have a beer that is only allowed to be sold in Wisconsin and is one of the best Brews you will ever drink.
@@turtleman5111 Amen there
@KRAKEN KRAKEN. You could not be more wrong. I am a Black Man speaking these words. I have just been fighting my whole life to not be seen as a Black person...but just a person. And when I moved here in WI, I have never felt more Equal as a person in my whole life. And that what Wisconsin is at the core... Don't care one way or another, just want to mingle with Civilized people.
Dan I moved onto a small farm in West Kentucky when I was 46. I had very little interest in deer hunting. Until the second year here. First deer I killed was a decent buck. Since then I have kept the freezer full enough to make deer jerky. Love it. Last year I killed a 144” buck. Your perspective and guidance has impacted me in ways you’ll never know. I’m 52 now. An I’m still in education mode. An your a great teacher keep it up.
Never stop challenging yourself to a success that’s harder to attain. 50 years old over here and have always felt that the struggle is the spice of the sport.
Dan the man!!! You are deff a hunting beast!!!! The name is perfect.
Dan,
Can't say enough about how impressed I am and the other beasts from Wisconsin. I discovered you just this year by happenstance. I pass it off at first; being from Arkansas, I didn't figure I could learn much from you. Boy was I wrong! You "Yankee" boys have my utmost respect. I have since ordered a few of your DVDs and have gained a lot of knowledge. Never hunted cattails, but am using the information relative to the hardwood bottoms and hills I hunt. Those drives look like work, but also like a ton of fun. Thank you! Thank you! For sharing all of your knowledge! Happy Thanksgiving and good luck!
What part of Arkansas? I'm from the north central part of the state
@@gheft762 I have a place around Mntn Hm...actually closer to Three Brothers. I live in NC most of the time though. Where abouts are you in No. Cent. Ark?
@@Tbowie13 30 minutes SE of Harrison
@@Tbowie13 wow I live in Flippin. Small world lol.
Just finished a 16 day northern Mn hunt. Beaver dams and aider swamps. Every day in the woods first light till dark. Don't have a deer shack to go to. Would not trade it for the world. My two hunting partners have a deal, if one of us dies out here the other two have permission to gut gut the dead man before we drag his sorry ass back to his wife. We are all 64 to 69 years old! We have hunted together for a little over 40 some years. You should have tee shirts that say I am BEASTY not feel beasty!! Good to see you boy's had a good time.
16 days eh? Man... one week kicks my butt here, and I get to sleep in my bed at home and come home to a meal. Thats hardcore. I love it.
Watching your channel never gets old! Authentic
Dan, you have to admit, you're like half animal. I've watched so many shows were there snow on the ground, and you're sitting out there in a t-shirt, drinking a cold cup of coffee. That's not freaking normal dude! Seriously! You are definitely cold-blooded. Me myself, I'm a bit of a candy ass, I use foot warmers. My feet get cold, it's over. I've been known to build a fire when I have gotten so cold. Crazy thing, I've had deer come up to check the fire out. Straight up, positive fact. But you handle cold much better than most anybody I know.
Dan I do have to say you are hard core hunter. I have learned lots from you. I still have lots to learn
Awesome job, this is better than any reality tv show
Looks like a bunch of fun!
When we were young (25-30 yrs ago)we were a good crew of hunters/construction workers. We would push the crap no one else would, cattails, swamps, briar patches steep hills and ravines. We had great success and had people want to join in that success just to quit. Were used to do 16-20 hunts a year, then 10-15, 5-8, now once or twice a year. This year, age 51, I quit framing houses and quit pushing swamps. Just can't do it any more. God bless you for keeping at it. Been neck deep more than once and afraid for my life a couple times stuck in muck (fell through a beaver dam once). You say old school, but even back then people didn't hunt like this. My grandfather, father and uncles did though. Miss hunting with them terribly. No next generation coming up behind because like you said, it just isn't as productive as it used to be. Too much work v reward. Deer are all pushed up to private sanctuarys. Glad you are still doing it, representing old, old school. God bless you brother...I feel your pain.
People just dont care anymore , they dont want to put the time in,small food plots, clearing roads.They dont care about the quality of deer there shooting ,tiny spikes, does even 1st year fawns i seen hanging buy his neck from the deer post.They shoot everything ,you have 10 guys all have doe permits, in a club you pay 800 bucks a year to hunt theres no deer left.I am 51 also, i guess your a tree stand hunter now.lol
@@littlesilver2205 Na bro. We still push em around. Just a lot more stand hunts now. I think we are going through the cattails on Sat for a big one we saw. Probably going to lay around all Sunday and hope for a Bills win v Ravens while my knees and back recover.LOL
Old school cool 👍👍love seeing the old timers still at it.
YOU GUYS ARE NUTS ,I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS .
my family has 160 acres of marsh land and we love it. it is hard to put stands up/ work in the summer but when deer season comes around it is all frozen over and easy to walk around.
The last 5 min of this video is pure truth !!! Thanks for keeping it real Dan .
"Record number of deer in Wisconsin this year." I haven't seen that yet, personally. Cool drive. Good to see people helping each other out.
No deer in my area, the Timberwolves have killed them all. We used to see 15-30 day each day. I saw 11 total this year, and hunted everyday.
Thanks for being such an amazing Hunter😎
Excellent example of hard work and dedication, and the help of the other hunters.
Do onto others as you would have others do onto you.
Dan, love what you're doing. I have access to some good private land in farm country right here at the house in Indiana, but I LOVE hunting the big hills and deep woods of public land in southern Indiana. There's just something about it that I can't explain but you know where I'm coming from. It's much harder at 51 than it was at 31 but I'm still gettin it done. I'm just slower now and its more painful back at work on Monday each year that passes. Keep it up brother and I'll do the same 🇺🇸
Happy Thanksgiving! Best part is you setting up Mario. "Ohhhh shiit!", "Oops sorry shoulda warn you." Lol good times.
Hunts like that is why you are still in good shape Dan ! Yes hunters usually look out for each other.
Great video as usual Dan. I’ve got hundreds and hundreds of acres of cattails surrounding our land that none of my buddies are brave enough to drive. There’s loads of deer in them but everyone’s afraid of water apparently. If anyone’s ever in the Madison area let me know if you want to swim in the cats for deer 😂
My favorite guys to watch bar none!
Looked fun...love the good old fashion deer drive vids every year.
I was hunting the edge of the cat tails today. Was six deer in there spread out before daylight and they were still there at noon when I went home to eat. They weren't far away but I couldn't lay eyes on them. Every thirty minutes or so one would take a step or two and could hear them breaking through the ice.
They didn't budge when I left.
So close but yet so far away.
I'm not equipped to get in the water in this cold.
Great video Dan. My first five years or so was sitting in a tree stand until about noon and deer drives would finish out the day opening weekend. I will admit, we didn’t get our feet wet going through cattails. Our goal was to shoot em before they got that far and it didn’t always work. Great message about the brotherhood of outdoors men and women who work together for a common reason. Good luck to all!
I’m man enough to come along! Ive always been in the swamp and this right here seems like something I would be hooked on!
This is awesome. My hats of to you guys.
Hey Dan, just a young man from Wisconsin here. I would love to try and tag along on drives like these, it seems like an amazing old school experience!
Dan the man, thanks for the video!!
Great video gonna push all day Saturday last day of gun season in sw Michigan. Good luck
I cant wait to test myself. Hope to get a chance with another group like your or even possibly with your group some day. Great video Dan!
Awesome video on your hunt and tips about hunting marshes and public swamps because I also hunt stuff like those marshes and public swamps like you do and it's hard but like you do you have to go that extra mile if you want those big buck's awesome video
👍Thumbs up 👍
People are going to wonder why I start carrying a grapple hook with me.
Thanks Dan!! That was awesome.
Dan you really are a beast! Great show and recovery!If you ever get up to the Keweenaw peninsula in the U.P. and need a dragger I'm there for ya eh!
Just ordered a new pair of Tidewe boots; your discount took off $20.00; thank you Dan
Well that buck was well marinated. 😜
First thing I thought of when you said it died in the lake I thought hope a duck hunter comes on by.
We hunt the same way you guys do but we use the canoe as much as possible for retrieveal. Great video
Top notch Dan, my buddies will be cracking up when they watch this. Congrats on the kill . Great video!
I’m from Mississippi and I is very impressed y’all some badass men
Thats some real hard deer driven Dan but it looks like it produces meat for the tables. Always get excited watching your videos. Those drives through the cattails are not for the faint of heart...lol.
Awesome footage...
I hunt public land in Texas in some swamp areas... I’ve learned allot from y’all’s videos.. keep it up..
Only dan would be deer fishing…hahaha
I couldn’t get away from duck hunting for so many years that I have just fairly recently gotten pretty serious about deer again. But I like what you say about doing the hard stuff just because…when duck hunting we always said "embrace the suck”…the rainier or snowier, or colder and nastier with ice cycles in your beard, the better. And if your not workin your tail off your not hunting. At least till i got a go devil boat and motor, now its not as hard, but hey I’m gettin older like everyone else! Lol. good huntin to ya Dan…thanks for all you do and Mario too. BTW…I finally scored those sticks I was tryin for, and I’m loving em! You guys were great…there was a little mix up and i was scared I wasn’t gonna get my sticks but I talked to Mario and he rush shipped me five more out asap! and they are awesome…much lighter and easier to carry…I put some versa straps on em and they are so fast to set up and quiet as well. Thanks for a great product, that will last the rest of my life.
Great video and an even better message. Keep grinding!!
Great Vid! Happy Thanksgiving. Hahaha I worked for Legendary Whitetails for 2 years. Have that same vest. Nice. And Hi Mitch.
Got my shirt....Thank you, looks great
Great video man..Really caught the feel of the hunt..I,m old school , and old.. I have hunted by myself in much the same manner.. I have even had a huge buck swim the lake to get away.(i didnt know they did that) till then... You have lit a spark in me to get back out there ... I killed my first Handgun Deer this year (Doe).. Thank's
Happy Thanksgiving to you, your crew and all beast far and wide. Dan, you may want to start bringing flotation devices along.🤣😂🤣. I love the inner drive that keeps you going. Not many guy's have that nowadays.
Once or twice...
@@thehuntingbeast I made this comment half way through the video, lol. I now see you could have used a couple. I edited at the end. Thanks for letting us tag along. It sucks getting old but some of us refuse to let it stop us.
So cool,what a challenge,good job
I've hunted this way for YEARS jumping ducks... worst it ever got i found myself in the middle of a pine thicket that also had a massive cane break in it before dark... closest in 34 years I've come to staying all night!
You’ve got men and then you have BEASTS. Gotta be one to kill one!
Was there Tuesday. Think I seen your truck there. Found some telephone sized rubs. Let's go get them with the bow after season
I love bow hunting. I don’t hunt firearms any more. I do love these videos. The beast style is not 100 percent for me but I do follow it kind of loosely. Luckily there are not any swamps in my neck of the woods. Truth be told if you told me I would 100 percent harvest a 200 inch buck I would not fight through those swamps. That’s just me but respect to the guys that do.
I really enjoy your videos. I think of your statement of being a buck serial killer. I can resonate with that. It takes a certain mind set of being calm and letting go of all the resistance. Letting go of the fear what if he smells me? What if he catchs me? I let all that go. There is no I. A deer hunter is going to be caught at times. After hunting for many years one comes to recognize this happens to one who spends much of their life chasing deer. If the deer appears and a shot is ethical take. Do not let the fear of what if. If the opportunity happens rise to the occasion. It's so strange how eastern philosophy ties into well everything. It is like the Ying yang energy. It's totally Ying soft gentle quite flexible soft eyes. I managed one of the biggest bucks at 15 yards I have ever tricked 15 yards away while sitting on a small chair. It was a old buck 200 lb nine point and a doe at eight feet , both with the bow. After years of hunting like you have learned it's all about ones ability to stay focused. Hunting those cattails is well um you know. The intense ability to let everthing go. If is tuff staying tuned in after so many hours on stand. There is not many who posses that ability. Unfortunately I am disabled with a bad case of PTSD" not military connected but my father had the PTSD from Korea. The system has totally f me in a bad way. If I could afford new equipment I surely would up grade. But I have what I need to hunt deer a old heavy Fred bear bow and a 870 with a scope. I dig the open minded guys you hunt with like the guy who claims he had too many mushrooms from lunch. It takes a open empty open mind. Bruce Lee would say not thinking but not dreaming. 👍
One of my biggest I meant 20" spread. My PTSD is connected to a non military event I went through. I wanted to make that clear. I think what you are trying to say we are all brothers in the world of hunting. If it were not for each and every one of us the anti crowd would shut us down totally. So recognize that we are a dying breed. I try to inspire my nephew but after a bad shot on a big buck two years ago another hunter dropped and tagged he lost total intrest. Good luck my brothers be safe. Live to hunt. Hunt to live.
Make no mistake it's all about the vibrations. Stay in a natural state of mind. Mirror his actions. I do what he does. Or doesn't. It's like a play I set the screen as the hunter he sets the screen as the buck. I stay quiet and focused. That's my part as the hunter. He as a old elusive buck does the same.
Had to go in the water a few times myself and always seems to be the coldest day. I build a fire before I get in.
Ur awesome bro... Stay safe and I hope that you and your family are doing well man..
Looks like a ‘Conga Line’ of pumpkins. 😜
We’re about the same age, but I think you’re twice the man I was when I was 25! Are you somehow impervious to hypothermia??? You’re the man. thanks for sharing
True that, I have tracked for people I never knew before, and had the same happen to me.
It’s like lotto. Gotta get in it to win it.
You guys need to strap a just in case boat on the truck for recovery. I’d use it for access to those escape points too
I know how you feel. My crew here in Minnesota fell apart. They started getting lazy on drives and bypassing the tough stuff. They didn’t want to work hard anymore and then wondered why we weren’t getting as many deer and nice bucks as we used to.. I’m also 53 and haven’t met anyone who can keep up with me in the cattails.
A J Wood must be the year, most of my hunting partners can't keep up. I understand the older ones, but too many of the young guys just don't have the grit. Maybe it was all the hay racks I loaded before I got a job at 16. Working in that furniture factory was sure a nice break from real work.
I perfected my swamp walking technique hunting ducks and pheasants in the cattail sloughs around my grandpa’s dairy farm. For last three years I’ve been deer hunting with my 13yr old son and 14 yr old daughter. I m having a ball watching them shoot deer. My daughter is tougher then my son. She will fallow me anywhere and stay out in any kind of weather to get her deer
I don't mind taking a good hike for a deer, but walking through those cattails...that's tough! I hunt a spot just like that in Southern Wisconsin but I stay on the high ground!
That was a good video!
Im in the same shit,I love every step.Down on the flats, 18in of water around the oak knobs🌑Them shwamps are made for bucks,ducks maybe a rat.Well
Dan you are THE HUNTING BEAST no questions asked. We have had that happen to us here in MI luckily we were on private and had a boat. You men earn every steak on that one 👍👍
Dan for situations like this take a treble hook put a small piece of pipe over it fill it with lead you can throw the hook over him and drag him to the bank. Works well for getting critters out of the water.
Hey Dan, you mentioned in an earlier video that you have some breathing problems. I would like to recommend a book on specific breathing techniques, that have drastically improved my VO2 max. The book is “The Oxygen Advantage” by Patrick McKeown. Hope it helps improve your breathing. Hard to imagine what a Beast you were before damaging your lungs!! Thanks for the all wisdom!! Stay Beasty!!!
How about the Spirit that buck had Guys!!! That was a Warrior. Would have got away to live another day if it wasn't for the ice on shore. A lot of lead pumped at that guy. Even as a hunter I was rootin for the buck on that one. He struggled a long time in the water trying to get out. I'm sure it took you guys a long time to get to the other side of the lake and he was still moving when you got there. My hats off to that animal.
That looks like fun
Anytime you need a young guy to work, I'm there!
My bucket list is coming to Wisconsin from Michigan to hunt and would love to hit the cat tails
Construction is the same way. They all want a desk job. I've busted my ass since I was 17 hanging iron carpentry and hunting when I can.
Now we know why Mario isn't on the videos too often!😅
Right on Man
Been there , done that. Love every bit about it. We drove a swamp in Michigan years ago and had six shooters who complained because the two drivers shot the dear that year. Something that I thought was funny. Five years in a row we drove the deer out to standers everything was great until we shot the deer before they came out. Somehow we ended up being the bad guys.
My friends have always said that I wouldn't shoot a deer or elk in there for anything but I always say I'll take a good shot anywhere and worry about getting it out afterwards ! I've never left one in the woods yet ! And always help a friend get their animal .
I look forward to these videos every year Dan and this video says it all. You hit it on the head when you said the original crew is aging and the younger buck's as I call them aren't as gritty as the elders are and were. The showing of respect from Austin I believe his name was, drug another man's deer out for him and the duck hunters giving the time to basically life flite your deer back to the parking lot was bare none the most respect iv seen from fellow hunters and humans iv seen in quite some time, hats off to all of those folks and to the beasty crew. Happy holidays to all of you.
I hunt that same public land holy shit small world!!!!!!! I thought that looked familiar lol I too have gotten many a deer out of those cat tails, but what a bummer that the dnr logged all those trees out of there. Anyways great video!
You're a soldier!