Dan, I just want to say thank you for what you do for all of us hunting deer. You're a great teacher as well as a great sportsman! Keep up the great work - keeping our sport alive!
Glad I came across this semi vintage video. The mullets were pretty cool back then even for us deer hunters. This is why you are where your at today Dan. The prehunt , the scouting, topo maps info is priceless to many and the honesty is what makes us men and that's what we need today now more than ever. The old ozzy tunes were badass back then and still are.
Hi, I just purchases 3 of your DVD's. I am in no way affiliated with Dan Infalt. I actually just started to study his material a month ago. This comment is for everyone else who wants to become a better hunter. The DVD's were well worth it! The information I gained while watching his videos has already made hunting well worth the little cost. Sure, he has many videos uploaded here on RU-vid. However, they are just scratching the surface as to what the videos have. I am looking forward to his future products. Ty Adam
Dan, im a young guy early 20s, been watching your stuff for about a year now. Even though all my hunting is in the deep Southeast, mainly Georgia and Alabama. The main teaching points you provide help me out a ton. Here in the marshes I hunt on the Georgia coast, the terrain is similar as far as there is lots of tall grass, water, swamp, etc. Your down to earth and straightforward approach has helped me push harder and I've gained a ton of confidence in chasing these deer here. Thank you for what you do and clearly have been doing for a very long time. Peace
Great video especially talking about lessons learned after the hunt. It was a great teaching video to show younger hunters that sometimes you do actually miss; and, to teach about learning from your mistakes and taking actions to correct those mistakes.
Anybody that says they don't snafu on occasion is fulla 💩. I trained two weiner dogs to track that's the ticket. Unfortunately in deep Dixie 🐍 galore I've been bit so many times I stopped counting I won't send a pup. But I do have a heck of a snake skin collection! 🐍👍🏻🦌🇺🇸
Dan impressive information that you share. The main thing I learned is your tactics of scouting, planning, execution of plan. To be able to sneak in and set up then find horns on glass confirming your scouting, is great. Yes we make bad shots or take shots that we should not have rushed or waited, wind blows or blades of grass can deflect the arrow, it happens. You will not always find your prey, they are tough animals. They get away, coyotes, mountain lions, someone else shoots them, it happens. Be humble, be honest, be true. Just found your channel last week and really am impressed with your humble, honest self and those with you. Wish we weren’t so far apart would love to pick the files over coffee and meals… best to you sir, respect always. Ron Beasley
Shows like Dan's blows the drurys outa the water. Dan could walk onto their properties and kill 200 inchers too. They couldn't come on public land and do what dan does. The beast is the best. Your absolutely right Dan. You are a true professional by showing the honesty, the lows, and highs of bow hunting.
Sure, you always want to recover everything you shoot and minimize the deer you don’t recover, but that’s part of nature as well. The deer doesn’t go to waste. That deer feeds many other animals, all the way down to squirrel’s gnawing on the horns. All part of natures circle.
Awesome video. Bad hits happen to all of us eventually. Good education at the end of the video!! Have you ever hunted a transition edges in marshes where you haven't had the opportunity to scout the winter prior? Just moved and have found some public marshes withing reasonable driving range. Any advice for map reading and trying to step foot on a new piece of property without winter scouting? Keep the videos coming!!
Yea, I do that a lot... marshes are easy, just concentrate on islands, and fingers. I have to very good video's that go in great depth about the subject for sale on my website: huntingbeast.com
The first experience I had killing a deer with a bow was tuff. Yea u get sick thinking u wounded a animal. I'll never forget that feeling. I'm sure it won't be the last time. But ya learn to aim small after doing that
The way i see it, when you make a poor shot and dont recover it, the best way to honor that deer is to learn from the experience and practice more. That feeling never goes away just gets less as time goes on. I shot a real nice buck 3 years ago and never found it. It still get me. If didn't make such a lasting impact though it wouldnt drive you to better yourself i think.
Good video. Honest video, not like alot of those "hunters" on the outdoors channel. Those people are actors hunting on highly managed property that's worth about a million or so where the deer ain't shot at till they're 5
You’re the real deal Dan and I appreciate this video and the message it sends. As a fellow hunter I respect your success and ethics in the woods. Love your content you’ve taught me a lot
Sadly, Dan is preaching the truth that effects all of us more times than we care to mention. I believe every veteran hunter could tell a story or two. 🫣🦌 Great video Dan. Thanks for reminding me….lol
My uncle was a professional butcher and would do deer in the fall on the side. He said he'd find old broadheads in deer all the time that weren't fatal.
Mad respect to you for posting this video. I agree with everything you said 100%. What you described is exactly how I felt when I was a kid and wounded a big buck that we never recovered. If it wasn't for my uncle and cousin convincing me to give it another shot, that day would have been my last hunt and I'm thankful it wasn't....so thanks again for deciding to share this video. Keep up the great work with your videos. I'm really enjoying the content.
This was such an awesome hunt! So this buck never caught you climbing up the tree or even looked your direction during set up? Just ordered your marsh and swamp bedding videos too, looking forward to learning more on top of watching all of your videos over and over. You're the man!!
Hard to believe but deer do survive being shot which is why they are not recovered. They are extremely tough animals . Thanks Dan for showing what can and does sometimes happen unfortunately. You have a great message for young hunters and I recommend this video to them as a teaching tool. Please continue the great videos. Much respect!
Man thank you for talking about the "wounding a buck" aspect. I almost quit one my first bow hit. Would of been my first buck which would of been a 8 point that walked up to me at 4 ft on the ground and sniffed me. I was intimidated to say the least. Instinct said lower my head and hide the white in my eyes. He turned and walked away. I stood and drew back, let.him get 10-15yards away and I put it in right behind his front leg quartering away and just pierced his front quarter. I searched for 3 days non stop, on day 4 I decided to hunt and saw him again. I almost quit hunting over the though of wounding him. Thank you for this video. I've learned a lot from you buddy. Your knowledge is above so many others out here
2 POSSIBLE REASONS... #1 They make mistakes. If they didnt we would probably rarely kill one. #2 It may have heard or saw a glimpse of me sneaking in considering how close I was.
I appreciate you choosing to air this hunt. 15-20 years ago i did not recover 2 deer in consecutive hunts. I was beside myself and was ready to quit, Luckily I was able to discuss the experience with some on our local hunting forum. My issue was not waiting long enough before tracking. You are familiar with Jeff Sturgis. He is the one that educated me on having patience before tracking. It is guys like you and him that educate and keep us in the hunt. Keep up the good work
One question y is your tree stand 625$ is it really that good and better than say a millennium feather light it's just there isn't really a stand out there on the main stream market that cost nearly this much and the sticks are super expensive also in the fact you have to buy one at a time no set with a price is there a reason for that or is just a way to make more money these are serious questions
I would suggest watching the video on this page about the build process and cost... The process we use to make this stand is very expensive. No corners are cut. Its super light, but still ridged and silent. Even the washers are specially made to not make noise. When you buy a bow, do you buy one with a machined riser and twist proof string, and quality components? or do you buy one with a cast riser and plastic limbs? We built the best stand ever built for the mobile hunter... If there was a way to bring the price down without lessening quality I would... I would love for everyone to get to experience it... Bit, plain and simple, my stand is machined much like a $1000 bow, and has more to it than a riser, a string, and a couple cams... We have been shipping 100's of them, find one guy with a bad review... I have only seen good ones so far...
Great teaching and that is why it is hunting and not grocery shopping. This guy's channel and real life hunting is a 1,000 times better than anything on the Outdoor Channel. Keep up the great teaching, hard hunting and footage!!!
good video.everyone looses deer.part of bowhunting,gunhunting,whatever.glad you dont doctor anything up and that's one of the reasons I watch your videos.keep em coming
I respect that you put up this video. Helpful lessons in it and not expecting for everything to go right every time! Your plan was well conceived and your approach was careful and successful. With a gun you would have had a deer in the freezer easily, but the challenge of hunting with arrows is what we are there for. Glad to hear it wasn't a dead lost buck!
This why I watch you daily Dan cuz I know you don't hide the facts, I know being a new hunter that the info and knowledge that I get from your videos will make me the best hunter that I can be!
Very well put together Dan,and yes it happens and yes it sucks but we are human.I have done it and yes it bothers me and I go back for days to find and see where I went wrong.
What a valuable life lesson and informational testimonial on life in general. Acknowledge it, analyze it, correct it, move on. What great, thoughtful insight into a not so fun topic. Honesty and transparency goes a long ways in building trust. The hunting community as a whole needs way, way more of this kind of stuff. I tip my cap and respect more concern for paying a message like this forward for new hunters who have struggled with a lost animal vs worrying about the fall out of airing it. It's a selfless act and says a lot about a person's real character. Very well done with tact and humility. Thank you!
you are one of the very few people that would go out in public and admit that sometimes we all make mistakes! and I for one commend you for this! because none of us are perfect! but you stayed after that buck for two days, and that is at least twice as long as I have ever heard anyone look for their deer! most of them, an hour or maybe two.
Yor a great person thank you. A real man/ hunter not only show there wins but also there losses. You learn more from your losses than you do from your wins.
Dan is the man!!! real regular guy .it happens this is hunting not everybody gets a 20 yard broadside shot I love your videos and learn a lot watching thanks Dan my kind of hunter
I'm glad you aired this and that I watched it for I lost a very nice 8 this year. I was so depressed. Never found him. After seeing this I'm encouraged to get back out there as I held myself to high ethics and felt I failed them and my fellow hunters. I have since practiced the same scenario and WILL get back out there . Thanks Dan.
Great video! Very informative. I'm relatively new to hunting and I have decided to hunt in a marshy area this year. I noticed last year that the bucks in the area seemed to hide out there and I'm trying to figured out the best way of going about hunting them. I hunt from the ground, but I'm thinking I need to atleast get some screw in steps to get up high and glass the marshy area. I tried still hunting the area last year, but its almost impossible to sneak up on deer walking through that stuff. Great video though very realistic to how the average hunter would go about things.
your videos are honest and awesome. I have a great dachshund that tracks deer with me and we've found a couple over a mile away from where they were shot .
dan just wondering whut u did 2 get the deer to cross the swamp.?did u call it or was it just on a pattern ?.and iff u called it in hue long did u look at it be four u called it ?
+Tony Lane Thanks for the kind words Tony... I am sure we will get some topo vidio's up soon... For now you could check out our video "hill country rut buck" Episode number 5, I go over hill country with topo's on that hunt.
what is the moast amount off time u have seen a certain deer inside off 25 yards and never got a good shot and in how many years have u seen him ?mine is 8 times in 4 years he exits the swamp to late .
Not often... Usually if they get that close I kill them. I had one shooter this year that came under me after it got to dark to ethically shoot, but normally, my set ups allow good shooting and they don't get that close and leave without an arrow if there a shooter. I did have one last week that came by at about 35/40 yards and I let him get thru that opening thinking I would get a closer shot and he turned and I didn't... But thats 35/40 yards, not 25...
Hey dan glad I found your videos. I am a new bow hunter 3 seasons now and your videos really opened my eyes to things I’m doing wrong. Question for this video. Do you scout for these beds during season?
During season, if I am not tagged out, I take an educated guess as to wear bucks should be bedded based on terrain and sign and hunt it. I look at the beds and formulate a plan after season.
Excellent video. Happened to me more than once and it'll happen again. I got a good hound. Taught him how to track wounded deer. If it's dead we findm. Double the fun. I get just as big of a kick out of tracking as I do hunting. Try it you'll love it.
Great video. If it was firearms season would you have setup at the same tree or farther out? Still like to archery hunt,but this year think I'll only have time around firearms season in the Upper Peninsula. Great videos keep'em coming!
Yep... Every now and then they dont follow the rules. He may have been looking my way though if he heard something during my approach or when starting to climb the tree... Not sure, but good observation.
@@thehuntingbeast appreciate the reply Beast. I've enjoyed all of your content and appreciate your traditional, straight forward style. Hope this season is treating you well. Me and two different buddies tagged out with good bucks on Thanksgiving. It was a magical day in the Wisconsin woods. Thanks for all your hard work for us fans. May you and your family be blessed
+Killemquietly Actually, I new I had bad arrow flight, but did not know why until editing this show. I seen the same thing you did, and realized something went wrong... I think it was one of the fletchings that flew thru the screen, don't know for sure cause the arrow was never recovered.
A good lesson in reality "Sometimes Sh*t happens. I haven't had the displeasure of losing a deer yet, but I know people that has had it happen. It's awesome that Dan has hunting buddies that he can call to help search with him. I have yet to find a hunter that I have befriended like that here where I have transplanted myself in Ohio. I have offered several hunters at my workplace and other times to hunt with me on my property, which borders the Shawnee State Forest, with no one coming forward on the offer. Where I came from the guys would jump at the opportunity. Go figure?
@Mary and steve Clouser miller Do I know you? You a lie?, What does that mean? Do you know me? Certainly I can see your lack of intelligence by the statement.
@Mary and steve Clouser miller I have missed, that's for sure but never have lost one. "you must didn't go to school?" Really!? Is english your second language?
Yea, that has crossed my mind too... It could be that it swiveled its head to watch cause maybe it heard something... Not sure. Could be it just did not follow the rules... Not sure. My bet would be it heard me at the vase of the tree.
@@thehuntingbeast I’m curious on why the buck bedded there in first place with wind in face instead of back. Your hand signal indicated that wind was coming into the face of the buck, and not the back. I would have assumed the buck would only bed there on a wind opposite of what you showed? Would he still have bedded on other winds?
