WILDEST HUNT I'VE EVER BEEN ON (Mexican Jungle Turkeys)

Jungle things, we got monkeys, we had another Guam that flew up, we got toucans, literally everything. Welcome to Mexico everyone. We flew in last night, we stayed overnight here in beautiful Capiche, Mexico. Never thought I'd ever be doing this in my entire life, but we are down here heading to the Yucatan to chase after one of those crazy looking chicken turkeys. We're just getting started into our long, long journey. We got like shuttle ride to then a jeep into the jungle to where we're going to stay for the next, I think, five days. We're going to be in extreme heat chasing after these crazy looking birds. So yeah, we're right here on the ocean. It's been awesome. We just got done with breakfast and stuff, but we're going to start the journey right now. Next leg, the vehicles get small and then big and now they're back to small and no more AC. You should get up there and test your stick driving skills. It's been a long bumpy ride. The trees keep getting taller and it keeps getting shadier, which is nice, but still about 110 degrees it feels like. Solid ground. We finally made it into camp and the style of hunting these turkeys is very different than normal turkey hunting. There's a bunch of guides, there's a bunch of people out helping trying to find these birds. So right now, you know, obviously we got in, we didn't have time to go out there with them, but all the guides are out listening and looking for turkeys and literally they'll roost them the same way of, you know, on the lower 48 that we roost them, but then they'll mark them. In the morning what we're going to do is hopefully they, my guide or, you know, one of the guides has one marked and we're literally going to sneak up in the dark and sit underneath it until it gets light enough to shoot. Very different than hunting down in the lower 48, but down here it's very, very common and very likely that we might shoot one off of the roost because once they hit the floor they're completely quiet. They sing, they don't gobble and they only do it up in the trees. I don't know if it's because of pressure, because of predators or what, but it's very, very tough. There is a chance that maybe we'll call one in, but especially every day out the gate we're just going to try to get one right off the roost. I am trying to use my bow, which is very, very difficult. As you can see, you could imagine one just being roosted up in this junk. I mean, it's going to be a very technical, very difficult shot, or if we get one called, you know, in the ground it's so thick. So, we'll see. We're definitely going to try with the bow. If we get closer to the end of the hunt, we might break out the shotty. Yeah, Caitlin's also hunting. She's going to be going off by herself in the morning. This is the jungle, man. I mean, this is like, we're really close to Guatemala, Belize, the Yucatan. It's way down here. So, it's hot. It's like cooling down now, but you're still sweating. You never stop sweating, but the vibe of camp is awesome. We all have our, like, own little huts here and we're about to have dinner and then we take off early in the morning with my bow in hand. Scary. Can we do it? Hopefully, big cat doesn't get eaten by a jaguar. I can take cats. You can take cats. He is a big cat. Target is egg cartons. Chances are, these birds are going to be pretty close. Bullseye is the little egg part where the egg sits in. Good enough. 20 yards. Hopefully, call them in on the ground. That's the hope. We will see you guys in the morning. It's awesome to see. We spotted a guam, which is exotic. I hear it just going off in the tree over here. There's my limb legs and my quiver. It was throwing me off. All right. A guam. I don't even know what a guam is. 35 yards too. It's a little bit of a poke. Unreal. A guam in the middle of the jungle in the Yucatan. Shot him out of a tree. This is some total archery challenge style stuff if I've ever seen it. Shooting up through the jungle up in the trees and stuff. Just unbelievable. What's that? I'm a guam specialist. I know everything. Oh my goodness. That's awesome. Just pulled up to the same spot we were this morning for the afternoon. Afternoon hunt slash roost birds. We're kind of going to walk around this in. Afternoons are definitely slower from what I've heard, but they can also be productive. We also are going to bring the boomstick back up. Because we are running well on arrows. If you're ever coming out here, minimal. Dozen arrows, dozen broadheads. If you want to have a fun time, two dozen arrows, two dozen broadheads. I brought about nine arrows. It's a problem. You have to try that. That's really good. It's like cinnamon. There's eggs everywhere. Birds everywhere. Good ways. We haven't heard anything. We're just kind of walking, listening. Very similar to normal turkey hunting. Our biggest thing, we're just trying to find something to roost it tonight. We made our way back somewhere where we were this morning. We got like a big ridge right here, a big ridge right here. It's just textbook turkey hunt, really. Like they're going to roost on the ridges. So I'm guessing this will last 40 minutes of light or so. We're just going to sit and we're going to listen just to see where they all get roosted. They'll sing right when they get in their wrists, just like normal turkeys. So it'll be pretty cool if we can hear some and come up with a better game plan for the morning. It's still hot, really hot outside if anyone's wondering. Like you sweat in places you don't think is sweatable. Like your earlobe. Holler monkeys. We heard that this morning in the dark for the first time. It scared us so bad. That's awesome. You found my arrow from earlier. That's cool. What? Laughter This is funny. Good morning. More tired this morning. Way more tired. We can see it up in the tree. It's sleeping. It's like way too big. Thank you sir. It's pitch black out. Oh man. That's what we were shooting through. Show that if you can. And he was well beyond that. So we brought the got. Just in case we got in that situation. Bueno? Bueno. Yeah. Well we had to wait a second for it to get light. Like I said from the very beginning this is a completely different type of turkey hunting. I mean we're shooting them off the roost the majority of the time because it is so tough to find them. When they land on the jungle floor it just becomes almost impossible. So we got in this morning. I knew it was going to be a 50-50 shot if we would have enough opening for me to shoot my bow or not and it was just physically impossible. Especially where he was he was right in all that nastiness right above us. All those little tiny sticks and branches. So we got the got. Ow. But absolutely beautiful. By far the prettiest birds. It's always about the adventure. Midday we are back in the carousel blind. We're still trying to shoot one of these carousels. And it's the last bird that we're really trying to shoot. And again it's so similarly close to a turkey. But it's technically in the pheasant family. We got the gun with us and the bow. It's so thick in here. I'm pretty sure I'm just going to pick up the gun unless it's literally right here in front of me. But we'll see. At least we get to watch the monkeys who climb over us. I don't like it being uh-uh. It's so cool. Look at them hanging on each other. That's so cool. Do you see it? If I go left or right can I see it? Do you see it? I just saw it's little head go doop. And I was like gone. That's the jungle slam right there. Carousel. In the pheasant family. Grand slam of the jungle. Complete. Almost looks like a turkey vulture. It's like a turkey vulture. Pheasant has a bunch of white around it. Weird critter. Still got some nerves. Quick! Que bueno! Welcome back. You thought we were done. You were wrong. We went back. Spent a good amount of time just hanging out at camp during the midday sun because it gets so so hot during the day. But it's about 5 p.m. now and we're going to go back after an oscillated turkey. But we're only bringing the bow this time. I mean I do want to shoot one with my bow. So we're going to try this afternoon and tomorrow morning for an oscillated turkey with the bow. So we might do some calling tonight. Probably try to roost some birds. New spot. Completely new spot. Fresh birds. Fresh attitude. Same weather though. Nothing fresh about the weather. Bugs and stuff. So we're going to set up and do some calling. Seacoins I'm guessing. Tiny little things for the noise they make. Dog barking. Hello maybe. Our time in the jungle has come to an end. We got after one this morning. It's just almost impossible to shoot one of these bad boys with a bow. Quite the adventure out here in the Yucatan jungle. I got I guess considered the Yucatan Grand Slam. All three of them. A Guam Corso and a turkey. And Caitlin did the same. She shot a female Corso so it's a little bit different. But target rich down here. The only thing is it's so hot. Honestly if the temperature was just 10 degrees lower I'd probably try to shoot one with the bow until I did. But a lot of fun and definitely a bucket list checked off. Thank you all for watching. We will catch you guys in the next one.