3 Day Catch and Cook in Mountains with Homemade Bow 

It was perfect as it was.

Well hell boy's you just brought back a 50yr old memory of my mum and aunties,they would gross us kids out by sucking out the eye balls at the end of the meal. It grosed me out just as much fifty year's on. But thanks for a great watch,thougherly enjoyed it.👋😁

I thought the fish eye exploded at first! LOL good stuff man.

I thought it was the blood of that fish bro lol

@@kevenetcobanez4380 Me too, glad he eplained it because I thought they were eating undercooked fish, not too gross either way

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yeah he does

I truly believe he's short on subs because he burns all his food! LOL

Haha favorite comment of all time 💙

wrggg

That's a very Native American outlook on things, and I heavily respect that there are others who follow the same concepts in hunting and the like.

@@anubispup4760 Indeed. I'm Scotch-Irish descent, my kin landed in North Carolina back in the 1760s. Of course being drawn to the mountains (which I learned just recently are actually part of the same VERY ancient coastal ranges, Appalachia and Scotland close to 2 billion years ago), many of the Scotch Irish that penetrated deeply into the Iroquois Cherokee regions found familiarity with what the Gael called the gralloch prayer, or the "gutting thanks" to the little brother giving his body to us and his spirit waking from the dream. This familiar tradition impressed both parties upon each other in many instances, and much of the deeper mountain villages were joint European/Cherokee inhabitations. Many of these HIghlanders, although formally Christian, held true to much of the old natural ways when they fled from the fallout of the Jacobite Rebellions. Not ironic at all that many of my ancestors were also German, who pushed often alongside French trappers and other "mountain men" through the Cumberland Plateau, carrying Shaolin's Germanic woodsman ideals as well. Indeed, the Cherokee were isolated regionally from much of the early strife of the French/Indian wars leading up to the Revolutionary war, and MUCH of Eastern Tennessee and Western North Carolina and the lower Virginias are populated of descendants of Germanic, Scotch-Irish, and Cherokee mountainfolk. I *HIGHLY* recommend two books by Horace Kephart, "Our Southern Highlanders," and "Camping and Woodcraft," the former being a treatise on the kinds of folk who were still in the hills living versions of the traditions that came over the waters, the latter being one of if not the best 1900s era bushcraft study books available. Both are circa 1907/1911. It is very important that we continue to protect these ideals, for they stem directly from the more spiritual from all of our ancestors: peoples who, while perhaps most close to the sharp edge of life and death, carried with them universally these principles taught to them by their forefathers and the natural world itself. Respect, gratitude. The more divorced we become from our foundations, taught to us everywhere we look by every culture in history as it is a universal truth from High, the more we falter and become very small, diminished people who see no light in their day, and night holds no shadow dark as their despair and confusion. A great pleasure to read your two comments, I wish you both the very best.

waidmannsheil!!

Are you even Christian?

Hey man, thank you. I've lost fish before too not a good feeling :p

@@XanderBudnick I know the feeling but at the end of the day something is gonna eat it. Predators and scavengers can smell it from miles off. Something is gonna live another day because of that kill.

Its a bummer, but thats a good way to think about it. At worst, a ton of insects got fed that day.

Although i agree with you completely, a retrieving dog might help out a bunch when hunting for bird. Like not essential by any means, but would certainly help in aloooooooot of cases.

Yup, as humans we are good at rationalizing things. Like why it's ok to cause animals slow, brutal deaths for our own enjoyment :D

Yeah it would have been nice if things went differently but I guess it happens and It will sooner or later. wonderful experience overall and I like to think another animal is munching on a tasty snack and some sort of enormous bird used the arrow for its nest :p

Buzzards, coyotes and worms gotta eat too

Plenty of things in nature to clean up human errors

That remind me of some deer who got shot with an arrow in its ribcage, it survived and the broken ribcage actually fused with the arrow in it.

It'll even degrade and soak into the earth providing some form of nutrition for plants or something

Not an easy wood to work, but the results can be amazing.

Congrats.

That's amazing my man! I have also yet to have a successful hunt. I think it'll definitely come with time. Clay himself is self-taught

Stick with it! I didn’t grow up in a hunting family either. I just spent as much time as I could in the woods and still do today 😉

if that's what it takes to make you feel like a real man, then I can only express my profound sympathy for your deficiencies....

Im a similar spot, i hope to start with rabbit hunting soon either with a bow or pellet gun (upgraded to a .22lr once i obtain my license) or both. Then move on to bigger game when i feel i am ready

good to know - ill keep that in mind

Thanks man

We totally agree! Thanks from Canada 👍

when i started reading your comment for a second i thought you were going to say kill lol

Thank you

Thank you :)

yah i had a nosebleed lol

fun idea

@@XanderBudnick yessir!! You are ours favorite buschraft/outdoor youtubers that combines interesting and funny narrative in every single video and making it soo enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work sir, and be safe. Much love

Stop obsessing with him i know who you are

@@filippyknow I’m gay af for xaddy

@@raddishtt we all are! Xander's Daddy bring it on!!! 🥵🥵🥵

Bears have a lot more to fear from HUMANS than we do of them. You have much more risks and dangers from humans in a city environment than ANYTHING you will encounter in the wilderness.

Pretty sure EVERYTHING in Australia wants to kill you!😉 Cheers from Midwest USA👋🏻

Maybe I'm a stupid American but isn't everything deadly in Australia? 🤣 maybe we're more scared of Aussie creatures and you're more scared of ours simply out of unfamiliarity haha. Well, have a wonderful day!

Im from germany and when i think of australia i imagen anything there is Deadly snakes spiders even Rock fish im more wiling to fight a bear than the Animals you have there i mean you think about nothing and a spider who you didnt even see kills you

While Australia has more poisonous animals ( than almost anywhere ) we only have one poisonous snake here in Ontario. Also, here in Ontario, we really only have one bear species, the Black Bear. It’s the smallest and least aggressive of the bears. Male moose are actually more likely to attack you than a black bear. As a safety method some people carry bear spray, a pepper spray, should they be actually threatened. The other safety procedure is to hang your food bag in the air via a tall tree so the bears don’t scavenge your food supply during the night. The Brown bear and the Grizzly are a legitimate concern in western Canada ( British Columbia, northern Alberta, the Yukon). In those situations bear spray is very highly recommended as is a large caliber rifle appropriate to the task. But again, generally these bears smell humans with Beagle like senses and wonder off before there is any chance for interaction.

You're a fool if you think his goal was "pleasure." You should be ashamed to think this way.

Well ... i would prefer they actually used guns. The successrate is far higher. Not 100% obviously but a bow in 2022 ... don't know man.