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- [Announcer] Yamaha presents the Whitetail Diaries,
chronicling hunting adventures of the most plentiful
and intelligent big game animal in North America,
join top whitetail hunters nationwide embark
on the amazing adventure that is hunting the whitetail deer.
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- You know, this is our traditional,
I call it our Cabela's week in deer camp,
where we had different members
of the Cabela's team come down, and we're,
we've done everything from talk
about future product development,
in the past we've talked about market strategy,
we look at, you know, trends and what's coming up,
but we get to go deer huntin', that's my favorite part
of that whole week is we're going deer hunting.
- We come down here, we have fellowship,
and we talk business, and we just get out there
and enjoy the outdoors, and share in the lifestyle
that built Cabela's.
- [Wade] The conditions are phenomenal right now,
the deer are on their feet, they're chasing does,
they're rutting, you can rattle,
you can see 'em chasing, so this is just a great time
to be here, and one of the people we were able
to invite this week is Lucas Hoge.
- I'm so proud and honored to be a partner
with Cabela's, I'm one of their brand ambassadors,
along with Luke, Brian, and Justin Juarez,
their music ambassadors, and I always wanted
to be some way affiliated with Cabela's,
'cause I was a Cabela's fan, I mean,
growing up in the Midwest, it's a Nebraska based company,
I mean, that was our mecca, that was our Disneyland,
you know, and we finally got to go
to a great store like that, and being able
to go right before a hunt or right after a hunting season,
or something like that, with Dad and my brother,
it was just a family treat for us.
Finally being able to come full circle
and be an ambassador for a brand like Cabela's,
it just makes my heart sing, it really does.
- [Announcer] Well, on deck first is Jeremy Wonch.
With the present weather conditions,
Wade and Jeremy head out to the whitetail ridge,
in hopes that the deer will favor the rocky terrain
during the wet weather.
- For me, when I start thinking
about where I'm gonna go hunt, or what we're gonna do,
I base a lot of things on, obviously, the conditions,
the wind, what stages the deer tend to be in,
where I'm seeing 'em, what I'm seeing
on the scouting cameras, you know,
you take all that information,
as well as your history and your past experiences,
and you compile it together to pick hunting spots.
And we've had a tremendous amount of rain,
probably as much as seven inches in the last 36 to 48 hours,
and I know that our deer like to be in rockier ridges
and up on the hills, and, you know,
where it's rocky, that time of the year
when you have those conditions,
so when Jeremy and I had the chance
to get out and go hunting, I knew right away a couple places
that I thought would produce,
that the deer would be comfortable in,
based on what was going on.
- It was a cool place, and we're set up on the side
of a hill, pushed back into some brush,
and we instantly saw some action.
We saw a little spike buck come in, saw a doe come in,
and then we had a whole herd of sheep come in.
- I normally just kind of am impatient,
and just let whatever happens gonna happen,
let the livestock kind of do their thing,
whether it's a cow or, you know,
a goat or a sheep or whatever might show up,
but in this case, they were going to sleep,
they were chilling out, they were resting down there,
and I'm thinking, man, I've gotta do something.
It's about four o'clock, we've got about an hour
and a half of time left, I need these sheep gone,
so I literally (laugh) go down there,
and my whole mind, while I'm doing this,
is, well, this is probably live on Facebook somewhere,
Jeremy's streaming it and telling all
of his buddies back in Sydney what's going on,
and I'm walking around, you know,
waving my arms like a bird, like,
I mean, I'm out there flying around,
and the sheep are looking at me,
but, you know, hey, it worked.
I mean, maybe I have a future to be a sheep herder,
but I got them out of there,
climbed back up on the ridge and we laughed,
and I thought, you know, let's just ride this out
and see what happens, I mean, we've got a great vista,
we can see a long ways, and, you know,
when a deer is gonna do what he's gonna do,
he's gonna come in where he's gonna come in,
and this just, gonna happened to be one of those cases.
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And I mean, it was instantaneous,
I knew we had a shooter buck,
and what the funny part is, is that's right
where I'm walking around, you know,
not an hour before working these sheep, you know,
playing sheep herder, and here,
here this buck comes down the drain and down the draw,
and I just said, "Hey, you got a shooter, Jeremy,
"if you like him, it's all up to you now."
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(gun fires)
He (mumbles) bad, he's going down, he's done,
he's done.
He's gonna go down right there.
Good shot.
Good shot.
You crushed it.
(group laughs)
Dude, what a cool deer, you see the tines on that thing?
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- [Jeremy] It was just so cool to see it all come together,
and really, when you look at the end result,
everything worked perfectly.
Oh, there he is.
Oh, buddy.
- [Wade] Look at the tines on that--
- [Jeremy] Oh, man.
Look at him.
- [Wade] I love those high time racks,
all those tine lengths there,
I guarantee, that's gonna be about a,
I bet that's gonna be close to 10, 11 there.
- [Jeremy] Oh, my gosh.
- [Wade] That's an old timer right there, too.
- [Jeremy] Look at that deer.
What a draw, man, I can't even tell you how happy I am,
thank you so much.
- [Wade] That was too cool.
- [Jeremy] That was a fun day.
What a fun hunt.
What a good deer.
- It's so fun to get out and go hunt with your friends
and people that you work with,
and that you strategize, you know,
on projects all the time, so to be there
and to watch him make a perfect shot,
and to see that green, and see the excitement,
and, you know, watching him texting his wife
and tell her how happy, you know, excited he was,
and she was happy, that's what it's all about for me.
- I can't tell you how excited I am,
this has been just an awesome day,
and everything that went on today,
we had sheep coming through, we had sun, we had rain,
it was, it was perfect, and I had a blast,
this was, this is fantastic, great deer.
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Welcome back to the Yamaha Whitetail Diaries,
with Wade Middleton.
We've got a special group of guys in camp this week
from Cabela's, and one of them just happens
to be country artist and Cabela's ambassador, Lucas Hoge.
- You know, and I got to meet Lucas a few years ago
on some of our fishing trips, and then I've become a fan
of his music ever since then.
The plan with Lucas is he's gonna be bow hunting,
he's been practicing with the Cabela's Fortitude bow,
and that's a fantastic setup that is just dialed in,
and I already know Lucas can shoot,
I've seen him in action at the ACM
at Cabela's archery contest that we do,
you know, he's got it dialed in,
I've been fortunate to have him both on my team
and actually have to shoot against him,
so I know that he's got game with that bow,
so I'm pretty excited to see, you know,
what we can have happen.
- We got into camp, and after flying with your bow,
you definitely want to check it out first,
and they have a great setup here with 3D targets
across the property at different ranges,
so being able to get out here, hang out with the guys,
just chill out and get your stuff dialed
in nice and easy, take the stress off,
and make sure that your weapon's functioning accurately,
is a huge deal, and to be able to do it
in such a great atmosphere, man, it's just great.
- So we're gonna start Lucas off in a box blind.
You know, we just put this one up recently,
and, you know, we know the deer are there,
it's in one of our favorite spots
where we used to have to put a pop up every year,
and now we've got a permanent setup,
and you've got shooting lanes out,
you know, one side that go back into a persimmon flat.
On the other side, you've got a big (mumbles) flat,
and I mean, it's just, it's a perfect place to go hunting.
- So that first morning we're out there,
and we get out there well enough time
before the sun comes up, it'd just been raining, like,
torrential rains, I mean, it's muddy and wet,
but we got out there and we got settled
in before the sun comes up, and the rain quits,
and we're sitting there, and you hear crunching,
and you could see the, you could see a silhouette
of a deer eating grass, and you could just see that rack,
just towering above him, and it was just not enough light
in the day yet, and the camera couldn't see him,
I could barely see him, and he just walked on off
and we didn't see him the rest of the day.
It was just fantastic, so much action going
on all around us, I ain't never seen so many deer (laughs)
around me in all my life, so to see all that activity,
it gets your heart going a lot, you know,
and seeing great animals coming in,
just beautiful, beautiful animals.
Our interest was definitely piqued when we saw that guy,
that we wanted to go back that night,
so we went back that night, set up,
everything was great, another, you know,
great active crowd of deer that came through there,
and he never came in, he never came in,
so we figured he might be a morning guy. (laughs)
So we went back the following morning,
sure enough, he was right there,
we got up before the sun come up,
we had plenty of time to set up,
everything, all the conditions were right,
beautiful, bright, sunshine-y day.
And I got my shooting lanes and the deer blind,
and everything was perfect,
and he was just chasing doe left and right,
eating a little grass here and there and chasing doe,
and he just would not square up to me,
and I'm not gonna shoot if he's not in the right spot,
so he, the one shot that we got,
he turned and just walked off.
I mean, he was probably two seconds, maybe,
it was the perfect shot, but he just walked off, (laughs)
said, "See you later, not this year."
- [Announcer] When we return,
Lucas and Wade form a new game plan,
and it looks like it could pay off.
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Welcome back to the Yamaha Whitetail Diaries
with Wade Middleton.
Country singer Lucas Hoge has been hunting out
of a box blind, but after sitting there
three different times without any luck,
well, it was time to try something else.
- I really, unless I'm hunting a phenomenal food source,
I get nervous going to a spot four and five times like that.
You know, the deer get nervous,
you're putting an undue pressure in there,
they get wise to you, and I just think it makes it harder
and harder, and we only had a few days left on this hunt,
and I thought, let's make a move,
let's try something different this afternoon.
And fortunately for me, I was free that afternoon,
and I was gonna be able to tag along with Lucas,
and we parked a pretty good ways away,
you know, made our way across the big spring creek
that runs through there, got up,
got set up, and just kind of had to sit there and wait.
We got in there about two o'clock that afternoon,
and immediately we saw a little spike
that came crossing right through, and in my mind,
I'm thinking, boy, if a big buck does the same thing,
he is gonna get hammered.
A doe kind of milled around out there,
we had a young eight point come in not long
after I'd started rattling, and, you know,
it was shaping up to be fairly perfect
for the late afternoon.
- He took me to this great spot,
the deer blind was perfectly hidden,
and it's a big, one of those pop up blinds,
and it's a big one, we could get four people
in there if we wanted to, if not more,
I could stand up straight, and I'm 6'2, so it was great.
Wade's sitting there with me,
and we just see all this activity going around,
and I peek up, you know, over see the blind
and there's trees right there.
Man, I just see this beautiful, promising rack,
and I'm thinking it's a 10 point, you know,
and he's pushing buck and he's pushing doe around,
and so I was sitting right where he came,
and he came across to my left side there,
and it couldn't have been better.
(bow string snaps)
- You got him.
Dude, I'm telling you right now, I think you smoked him.
I think you made a perfect shot, right there,
dude, I mean, it looked like it disappeared,
I mean, from my angle, it looked in the heart, didn't it?
It looked. (laughs)
It looked perfect in the heart.
Let's just sit here and wait a bit, let him do his thing.
- Good spot, my goodness, wow.
- [Wade] You know, we give the deer a decent amount of time,
and we start tracking, and, you know,
Lucas had watched the deer clear a,
you know, big old black brush bush out there,
and sure enough, we go up there and we start finding blood,
and you find a few more drops,
and you see that he's running hard,
and in my mind, he's running dead.
And that's the term that I say all the time
when a deer's been hit in the heart
and he's gonna go X amount of yards,
and he's just gonna fall over dead.
You know, because that's what I saw
when I thought the arrow went in and everything,
and how it embedded and how it was standing,
but as we got up a little bit longer,
there was two big puddles of blood,
and I'm thinking, that deer's not running dead anymore,
he stopped here and he's bleeding.
And when they stop and they're bleeding,
a lot of things can be going on.
He may not be hurt as bad, or maybe he's staggering,
getting ready to go down,
but there was definitely no splashes right there,
he had stood in this spot and bled, and we weren't maybe,
I don't know, 55, 60 yards from the blind,
and I heard a scrambling and a few little rocks,
and that made me nervous right then,
and we just backed out, we got out of there.
That's what I've always said, if you don't think
that deer's dead and your sign's not,
get out of there, you know, track quiet
and if you think something's gone wrong,
get out of there, and that's what we did.
And we decided to go back out and look a little bit
that evening, and we get back out there,
recreate it all again, we're able to track the deer
about another 100 yards,
but we just weren't finding any blood.
You know, we're thinking to ourself,
did we jump that deer, you know,
is the arrow still in him, plugging it up?
You know, if you're a bow hunter,
you've got a million thoughts in your mind right now.
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Anybody at home right now is they're,
they're either criticizing,
or saying we should have done this,
we should have done that, and yes, no, maybe,
that's what I always say in these bow hunting deals,
'cause you never have 'em until you have 'em,
but after tracking for a little while,
and the blood quit, you know,
and we made a few big circles, we got out of there.
I, in my mind, I said, this is a dead deer,
there's no doubt in my mind this is a dead deer.
We just come back with a big army of people
in the morning and start all over.
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- Lucas made a perfect shot last night,
and you could see that arrow go right in,
it's embedded perfectly in the shoulder.
We tracked that deer for about 80 yards,
and we possibly jumped that deer,
I'm a little nervous about that,
but well, we don't really know, blood just kind of stops.
I really believe that the left side of
that deer is, the hole's plugged up
from the arrow, so we're not getting a lot of blood.
We found a couple of big spots
where he definitely stopped at,
so we backed out of here last night,
we've got a search party out here with us right now,
we're gonna kind of start the Easter egg hunt,
the sun's just getting up, it was really cold last night,
so, you know, what we know is the shot was here,
the deer went that way, kind of down into a little valley,
and that's our last sign.
So we'll take search party, kind of spread out
into a grid, and see what we can find.
- I feel good, I wish we would have found him last night,
but I think he's gonna be right up here,
so it got awful dark, easy to get turned
around in this brush, so we brought the A team out,
we're gonna find this baby tonight, or this morning here.
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We figured we'd call in the A team in the morning,
so we got all the guys, and we decided
to go back to that same spot and just start
from where we were and just start looking
and start looking, and we found a little,
a couple little pools of blood that we couldn't find
at night, and man, that led us right to him.
Is he right there?
- [Wade] He's right there.
(overlapping chatter)
Jeff and I were standing right here.
Jeff and I were standing, you and I were right here--
(overlapping chatter)
- I walked all that treeline right there,
and we came right back passed it.
- [Wade] We were literally,
Jeff and I were standing right here, looking at two does.
- [Lucas] Are you kidding me?
(Wade laughs)
Yeah, boy, we got him, right where we thought he would be.
Look at that.
- [Wade] Get in there, buddy.
- Nice, oh, man.
I'm pretty amazed, this is just awesome,
to see something like this out here,
it's a great deer, great hunt, great shot.
It was cool to finally get to hunt with Wade,
I'd been fishing with him before,
but never been out in the field with him,
so it was really cool, to be hunting
with all my good buddies out here,
it's just a good time, good time for fellowship,
and everything like that, too, so.
To get a monster like this, I'm excited (laughs)
to say the least.
When you get an animal in your sights like that,
and you do everything that you can possibly do
to make it the best shot, the best kill,
everything just like it needs to be,
and then when you finally see that animal
in your hands for the first time,
man, it'll almost bring a tear to your eye.
I'm so glad I got to come down here,
the Whitetail Diaries ranch,
and hunt with Wade and the boys,
and I look forward to coming back someday real soon.
- [Announcer] Hey, be sure to check out
Lucas Hoge's new album, Dirty South,
now on iTunes, Amazon, or at LucasHoge.com.
(laid back country music)
Well, that'll do it for us for this week.
Congratulations, Lucas and Jeremy,
on your entries into the Yamaha Whitetail Diaries.
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