Failure Is 100% Guaranteed In Bowhunting! your Perspective Is More Of An Issue

All right. Hey guys, welcome back to the channel today. What we're going to be talking about, we're going to be talking about failure is really the only option. If you're going to be a bow hunter, especially a traditional bow hunter, we're going to talk about all the places that you're going to fail and where you're going to feel like a failure, but you're really not a failure and you have to look at it from a different perspective. I don't know what it is, but you guys definitely seem to enjoy these kinds of videos here where I just stop and talk about something. The view numbers are really good. The comments are good. So I keep making them because you guys seem to really enjoy them. And when it comes to the failure aspect of this, especially with a traditional bow, you're going to, it's going to, it's failure from the beginning, all the way from the start, all the way through. So for example, when you go to pick your spots where you're going to set up at, you're going to find yourself constantly where you're going to see deer that are going to be 25 yards away. 25 yards away is too far to shoot with a traditional bow. I don't care who you are. I don't care how good you think you are. I don't care what you do out West. I don't care. I don't care. Nothing 25 yards on a white tail deer. And you know, in most places in a, you know, in a traditional world is too far to shoot. Maybe it's 30 yards for you, whatever the case is, but you're going to see too many deer that are going to be too far away. You failed. You failed to pick the tree that is closest to where those deer are going to pass by at, to give you a reasonable shot. What in my opinion is a reasonable shot I'm looking for. Sorry, I'm checking things out here, but I'm looking for that. Um, me personally, I'm looking for something in that range of like, you know, 8 to 12 yards. Okay. If I'm outside of there, I failed. If it's inside of 20 and I can take the shot. Great. But I still failed. I'm looking to set up 8 to 12 yards for a shot. If they walk directly under me, I failed because that's too close. I, I, you know, you're going to run into this kind of thing. So you're going to fail to pick the spots. You're also going to fail a lot of times to pick a spot, even even where there's even deer are going to be at. You'll think there is an assign is good and you're all excited and you're going to not see anything happens quite often too. You're going to, um, so that's just one aspect of it is even finding the places where the deer are. You're going to make mistakes at that. This is not rifle hunting where all you have to do is pick a drainage where you can see 200 yards down there and then wait for them somewhere to cross down through that drainage. We are working on a micro level. We are working on such a, you know, rifle world, crossbow world, compound world, traditional bow hunting world. Okay. It's much smaller in size. And for us to narrow it down to that kind of stuff is much harder to do than people understand. So we spent a lot of time watching deer that are just out of range. Is it still fun to see them? Yeah. Did we still learn stuff? Yeah. But we failed to get to that point of being able to actually get a chance to shoot at one. Many compound crossbow and rifle guys, they got a deer in a bag before we even take the bow off the hook. It's still hanging right here in the tree next to us at 20 yards or 25 yards. That bow is still hanging there. I'm not even touching it yet. I need to get them in when they start getting closer. And I think they're going to break that 20 yard mark. That's when I reach over and I grabbed my bow and I get ready. Okay. It's a, so like I said, there's a lot of failure that's going to happen there. The other thing is going to be the failure that is going to hit you when it comes time to shoot. We do not have the safety check systems that modern weapons do. Rifles use a scope today. Most of the guys that are rifle hunting or a big majority of them use tripods with gun clamps and all this stuff that stabilizes everything for them and bipods and shooting rails under tree stands and all these things to make sure that they make an accurate shot compound or crossbows scopes on them. Same thing, rails, cross bar holders, all the gizmos and gadgets that they got to, to again, make them a great shot. Compound guys, you got these hard walls. Now, you know, these bows are built so good and they're made so well designed to be able to be accurate. You got your release to get rid of any release issues. You have sight pins, peep sights, kisser buttons. You got all this stuff. You got these drop away rests. You got stabilizers. You got all these gizmos and gadgets that make it where you can shoot that bow accurately, where you only focus with any of those modern weapons. You focus on the dynamics of the system. Okay. That means come in and draw. Click comes in, line up and get your cheekbone just right with your release. Have your release ready. Look through the peep sight, line the peep sight up, get it set. Sight pins on. You already arranged it ahead of time. Now, you know, peek, touch the trigger, let it go. It's all this stuff that you focus on. With a traditional bow we have none of that. It's all 100% right here. And in muscle memory, that's where it is. And we have so many things that can go wrong. Not to mention the fact that we can't hold a bow at full draw like you can with a compound or a crossbow. We don't get that luxury or sit still like you can with a rifle. We have to draw these big bows. We have to draw them with the animal inside of range. We can't wait until they pass by a tree at 30 yards and poop and sit here and wait for him to go. Come on, come on, come on. All right, here he comes here. Oh, he stopped again. All right, come on. Come where you're holding eight pounds of bow weight. Come on, come on. Here he comes. There it is. Oh, he stopped again. Come on, come on. Oh, come on. You care. Almost broadside. There it is. Clunk. We don't get that luxury. We can't do that. We have to wait till he's right here and then it's okay. Don't see me. Don't see me. Boom and shoot him. And getting away with that is much harder than you think it is, especially on the ground and especially in a lot of situations. You will fail. You will fail. Yours will look like this. Oh, he busted me. That's what a lot of times will happen. Okay. You will learn to not draw when you can see their eyes. You will learn to wait and hope and pray that something grabs their attention over there and they look away when they're coming through and they're literally right here and they're walking straight by and they're right here. He's standing here broadside, but you're like, I can't move. I can't move. And you're praying is something in that deer is going to go, what's over there and look that way. And then you can go and shoot him. You're praying for these things to happen. You will fail at this. There is no denying the fact that you are going to fail at getting that shot to even happen. It just the way it is. Matter of fact, I was out here yesterday. We've been in hogs twice today already. It's already 1045. It's getting pretty hot. We're about pretty much getting ready to wrap it up. It's going to be over a hundred degrees today, but we have been into hogs two times today. Not once did I was I able to close the distance on him, even though I could see them and hear them and could see the brush moving. I just couldn't get in on them. Things happen. Yesterday I had five hogs. If you're my Patreon, you see this. I had five hogs inside of 12 yards for on a clock on my camera, 14 minutes. They were inside of 12 yards. I could never get a shot. Couldn't get a shot. Never happened. And then finally I did get busted. Okay. This stuff is the reality. Failure is going to happen. You cannot get away from it. And then even when a shot does, when you can get the shot to go off, you are going to miss. There are times that you are going to miss. I don't care how good you are. The only people that never miss are the people that don't shoot many animals. No other way to put it. There's no other way to put that. If somebody is bragging, well, I've never missed a deer. Then you don't kill many deer because that's the truth to it. Because everybody I know that puts a whole bunch of animals on the ground, you're going to miss. And I don't care what weapon it's with. You're going to miss some animals. And again, somebody's, you know, well, the last 10 deer I killed, I didn't miss any of them. Great. You know, maybe you got a lucky streak on there, you know, but for real, you're going to miss some animals. There's all sorts of variables that come into play with a traditional bow, especially. Now I may miss more animals than many people do, but I also harvest way more animals than many people do. It's just the nature of the beast. And it comes in the forms of target panic. It comes in the forms of buck fever, which I suffer from tremendously. It comes in the form of just freeze up. It comes in the form of limbs in a way. It comes in the form of misjudging yardage. It comes in the form of practicing from the ground only, and then getting in a tree stand and everything looking different. We do not have the safety nets and mechanical devices of a compound or crossbow. We do not have that wall, the sight, the rain finder, the pin, this peep sight. We don't have any of that. We look at a spot we want to shoot and then we come in and we shoot it. And there's a lot that can go wrong in that process. It is the way it is. So finally you get to a point where you found the right trees close enough to where the deer are. Win. Okay. You finally got them where you can get it. And he actually got to full draw without getting busted. Win. Now you finally took a shot. You shanked it. So what? You failed. It's all right. It's part of it. But look at the wins, wins and wins that have been stacking up for you. This is a reality of reality of it. You will fail. And then even when you shoot one animals are never standing still. Again, the Patreon, I have well over a hundred animals that I have shot just in the last three years of me doing these Patriots, Patreon video thing. I have well over a hundred over the shoulder or actually right on my head, right over, right over the bow film from right here. As I shoot these animals, um, over a hundred of them on there where you can see the reality of this. Here is what it breaks down to. And I, anybody that tells you different, they don't know what they're talking about. I'm sorry. It's right here. It's proven animals are always moving. Okay. They're always moving. Deer hogs are always moving. And even if they're standing still, when you shoot at them, they're probably going to be moving before the arrow hits, whether it is a flinch from the noise, it is ducking a string, or it is a natural step or it is a twitch or it is whatever it is. They are usually moving. These animals are, are, are, is very rare that they're not. You have to take that into consideration. So you shoot and you, you hit one. Let's say that you hit one way too high. And you're like, Oh my God, I hit him high. You probably didn't hit him high. They're moving faster than your eyes can see. And I prove that on camera too. I'm sitting there going, Oh, how did I shank that? What did I do? And you can, again, in my patron, you can look at it and you can see and go, I did everything right. He moved. Okay. These things happen constantly. So whatever the reason is, just because you were able to release the arrow doesn't mean you're actually going to hit this thing in the right place and kill it with any weapon today. That's the reality of it. There's so many variables. And then even if you do hit that animal, right, or even hit it mediocre where it's dead and you're going to try and find it. There's all these variables of tracking and where you're going to be able to find him and where he's going to take you. And is he going to get you there? Is he going to get off the property that you're on? Are you going to be able to find him? Are you going to be able to find him before this heat destroys that meat? And I can't eat it anymore. Are you going to, are this, is that how, see what I'm getting at? What is bowhunting? Bowhunting is based on failure. Failure. Every single minute of the game is pure failure. Use it because I promise you this, nothing makes you a better hunter than all the failure we experienced in bowhunting experience. Okay. Experience, expert, uh, professional. Okay. All these things have simple terms, a master, 1,000 hours or so and so what? 10,000. There's stupid phrases made up by stupid human beings. They come up with stupid rules to try to make some stupid sense of something. It's irrelevant. Here's the truth to it. What it breaks down to is that experience is a series of adventure or a series of situations and events that you survive from and learned from when you were going through them. That's what experiences is. A series of situations and events that you survive and learn from. What better experience and situation is there to learn from than failure? You learn way more from that than you do anything else. That is a reason that we become such good hunters is because we are surrounded by living, thriving and understand failure and how to use it to our advantage. Sooner you realize that the sooner you're going to become a much better hunter, the sooner you'll be able to shake off the, um, the bad things, the misses, the, uh, you know, something went wrong here. Uh, I didn't get the right spot. Oh, he went by me at 30 yards. You'll be able to shake that stuff off because you realize that you learn from it quickly. Okay. That it's quickly one of those kinds of things that you're just going to learn from. Some people can't take it. They can't, you know, you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen. And some people can't, they can't tolerate the fact that, uh, they're not able to put as many animals on the ground with a traditional bull as they can a compound. So they bail. They walk away from the traditional bull because they're like, no, I need to put more, I need to put animals on the ground. I need to be somebody nothing wrong with that. More power to you. Do whatever works best for you. Then on the same note, you can learn from things, you know, two days or three days, three days ago, I missed the same hog two times behind a log. It's again, it's in my Patreon. I snuck in on this group of hogs and there was a big blow down pine tree and I could see him. And that pine tree came almost up to, uh, you know, it was just short of halfway up that body. So I had his head hidden behind that log and I was right there. And all I had though was that log. And then there was one blow down there that had a stick that was just there right up at the top of his vital side. It perfectly framed between his little, little twig, you know, not even pinky size twig that came across there at the top of the vitals in that big top of that big log between there. It was like perfectly framed. I'm like, Oh, just sink it right in there. 17 yards, sink it right in there. And all of a sudden that arrow just goes drops down. I'm like, Oh, I hit that pinky size limb. Drop that arrow straight down right there. That hog, he lift his head up, look the heck. And you know, he's here. And that, you know, that's that arrow stopped five yards short of them. It's stuck in the ground. Like what's going on? Huh? He starts eating again. I grab another arrow, put another arrow on. I'm like, okay, don't hit that little stick. Don't hit that little stick. Hug that tree. Don't hit that little stick. Boom, pink. And it shoots up in the air over his back. I hit that little stick. I hit that stick two times the size of my pinky top of the vitals above that log. I hit that stick two times. That time that hog was like, okay, I'm out of here. And he took off running. And when he did, the other ones he blew and the other ones went with him. And it, my whole thing was over two opportunities at a perfect hog, broadside, not knowing I'm there in my range, everything perfect. I shanked it two times. What did I do when it happened? I laughed. Well, you know what? No harm, no foul hogs, not injured. I got to shoot two times. I got to get that, you know, again, I suffer from buck fever tremendously. So anytime I get to shoot it, a live animal is, is confidence building. Even after all these hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of times doing it, you can't really get enough of it. So it's all very important for me to do that. I got to do that. I didn't have to pack anything out. I didn't have to track in his feet. It was a win-win all the way around. And you know, it's, it's the way it goes. When you start looking at all this stuff as the lessons you learn, the things that you gain and knowledge, it is rather than that horns you put on a wall. I promise you you're going to be a lot better off and you're going to enjoy this out here. We are way past the days and that state of life where we need to hunt for food. Okay. Those days, nobody here has to hunt for food. You can afford food. I don't care if you say you can't, if you can't afford your food, sell your fricking iPhone. Okay. That you're paying hundreds of dollars a month for, and you buy a new one every two years, sell that and put food on your table. Okay. I don't want to hear any excuses about how you can't afford to go buy food. So we don't need to be out here to feed our family. We don't need to be out here putting trophies on a wall because nobody really cares. Even though you think they do. Okay. When you die, you think that your family wants to take your, your 30 or 40 deer heads and that they're going to do something with it. You think they're going to build a trophy room in her house to highlight your trophies. No, they're going in a garage sale. They're getting auctioned off or they're giving away to a restaurant somewhere where those things are going to wear a Santa hat and sunglasses with a cigarette stuck in his mouth for the rest of its life. Nobody cares what you shoot. Nobody, not one person, not even your friends. God, that's the best book I ever seen. He doesn't care. The only thing that matters is you're out here having fun and you're learning and you're enjoying it. That's what it's all about. So except the failures, except the fact that it is failure, use those failures to get better. Watch how that carries over in your everyday life and how much better you become in life because of the skillset you developed to thrive and survive and learn from failure. Questions, comments, put them below. Thanks for watching.