This is why i like watching you and your crew. It the truth that being said not fairy tales stuff. Thanks for the up load. Keep your head up.

This is the absolute best example of what being an ethical hunter is all about! Thank you sir for setting a positive example for all of us who hunt!!

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and for appreciating us telling the truth of how it unfolded.

And this is exactly why I respect and follow you. You are a tremendous advocate for the hunting community. Honest, loyal, take responsibility and you don't hide behind any filters. Thank you for your character and openeness.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the kind comments. It is comforting when people appreciate the honesty we try to show in our content. I get that some want bigger, bigger, bigger. That is not what drives me. I want to tell hunting stories that are man against himself, which is often what is missed in hunting stories that are portrayed as man against nature.

Thank you for a sincere story! Keep shooting until the beast is down for good 🦌

This and meat eater are the best hunting shows ever made

Good on you Randy!! Keep up the great work!!

Great video. I love the brutal honesty that you show what hunting sometimes is.

Always fun always ethical, no better purveyor of hunting dreams and reality than you Randy. Thank you

Sorry for the rough situation. Thanks for showing folks the hard side of trying to get the freezer filled. Also thanks for all the hard work crew for great videography. The multiple angles are a really neat perspective. Good work.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. And thanks for watching.

Watch at 27:14. Buck was hit in the neck! You can clearly see the glimmer/sheen of blood where it was hit. Good follow up looking for it. Incredible what they can live through.

@wyatttaylor2250

5 жыл бұрын

you are so right holy shit

This is a good example of good morals. Nothing to be sorry for you did all you could.

You found my super secret hunting spot. I camp right there and hunt the mountains in the background. I'll be looking for arrow wounds on my deer from now on. I'll let you know when I find your buck. Thank you for making hunters look good. You give us all a standard to shoot for.

Tremendous respect for this decision. You never know how people who are in control of editing a film will portray events, but I do believe this went down exactly as shown. If every hunter held themselves to this ethical standard, our sport and the resource would both be much improved. Plus one Randy Newberg fan.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

I think failures can be more important stories than successes, which is why we show them when such happens to us. I'm here to tell stories about hunting, and sometimes the stories don't end the way we want. Thanks for watching.

Great vlog Marcus and Randy. I felt for sure he was going to topple down that one time. Amazing, and thanks for sharing. Mahalo and Aloha from the Big Isle "🤙"

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching.

Thanks for showing the reality of hunting: not all hunts come out like a Curt Cowdy production. But your absolutely right a wounded or crippled animal most definitely counts in your daily if not over all possession bag. Your comment after you found blood when you said " My hunt's over" is what every tag holder needs to understand. Whether it ducks, upland, or big game.

See 27:15 . There is a bloch of red that shines on the left side of his neck. You did all that was exspeted as a hunter to find him. It is amazing how they recover.

Absolutely great show!! Awesome display of dedication to your ethics would be hard for most people to pass up a shot on that 4-point the last day. Just started watching your channel keep the hunts coming

Big Thumbs up for the vid . And for your Pig Headness to your shot and your time to look for the deer.. Its the hardest thing to leave a wounded deer on the range. Keep your heads up you done your best to find it.. And as me I have had the same thing here in New Zealand.. We don't have tags for reds and the like only Elk.. Thanks again Randy and Crew..

Randy Newberg, Do not be sorrowful for reality TV show of hunters emotional honesty. A real genuine man has Integrity, and is practicing of being honest continually and showing a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for saying that. I still kick myself for not performing better on this occasion.

I have watched a lot of your videos but this one was like watching a re-run of the last hunt I did with my brother for a Blue Wildebeest ram. Different continent and different animal but the same script, He misjudged the angle it was facing him and the 308 bullet glanced off the rib cage and exited behind the shoulder. Lots of blood and easy to see which animal because it was dragging its left front leg but every hour that passed it got stronger and the blood trail got smaller. Spent the rest of the hunt on that animal. Followed it for three days by which time it had only a slight limp. Fortunately it decided to leave the bachelor herd and went onto a grassland with a herd of zebra. Got to within 200m and I finished with with my 375H&H. You did the right thing to stay on that mule deer. It sucks to go home empty hands with a hollow feeling inside of you but that's the difference between being an ethical hunter and not just a shooter. I can respect that.

Great video... I love video like this where they tell the truth... Real hunt... I don't like when they cut video or not recovered animal... Real hunt...

Happened to me In Challis,Idaho in 2011 Mule deer bow hunt. Had 4 long days trying to find that buck in some very rough country. Never did find him again. Went home without that buck sick to my stomach.

Beautiful video me friend randy

Another entertaining video, you guys are my youngest son's favorite hunting site.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. Glad he enjoys our content. If he ever meets us in person, he will probably reconsider his decisions to follow us ;).

@406highlanders

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fresh_Tracks He would love to run into you guys on the mountain, would make his day! If you had time check out the video of his first deer. Video name is- Montana mule deer, Koy's first deer

It's bound to happen to the best of us at some point or another. Hope your path crosses his once again when he's in his prime, and you get a redeeming opportunity as a reward for your first encounter/choices.

Shoot heavy arrows. More FOC. Single bevels cut on contact

Randy please go hike those mountains. Did you use any scent control?

Such a heartbreaker for sure. Albeit you had another great time out in God's country with a great long time friend and your crew. I feel for you, I wounded a whitetail doe with a rifle and bumped it and couldn't find it for a long time. But by the grace of God, I felt the nudge to check this small clearing in the woods and there she was so I took that second shot. My Dad and brother have stories about wounding an animal with both bow and rifle and having no luck finding it and just feeling so sick about it. No real hunter/outdoorsman wants that to happen, a quick clean death is the goal. But to error is to be human. I have even more respect for you and your CODE after watching this one, and you never giving up until you had to. That deer reminds me of Rocky Balboa, he got hit HARD, stumbled quite a bit, but refuses to go down. Good luck in the draw hopefully you will be able to do this again, but with a more desired result. Thanks for sharing the story no matter what.

Great episode, but I find it funny how when B-Mack of the HUSH crew never recovered his whitetail in MO, people were EXTREMELY hard on him. I mean, they even hired a scent dog and asked permission to go on private land to try and recover this buck. Really no different here, but in this instance everyone is completely opposite and nothing but supportive for Mr Newberg. I am also supportive of Randy. I just find it pretty unfair is all.

@Lexidezi225

Жыл бұрын

Life ain’t fair buddy. How can it be

I hate it but you know, I really think that if he was hit vital enough you would find him at a water hole. That is the first thing they usually look for if possible or in route to. Personally, it was good you put this video out. Its the nature of the beast at times and those watching that have had this happen will hopefully find info to help. In return those that think we are just totally heartless people might realize we get plum ass sick over these things.

I've watched this one 3 plus times Randy. And I'm with you I would hunt that deer like you did you made the choice to Shot. But. Look at the bright side the Buck was young and Strong you saw him again. Thank God the coyotes didn't kill him. I believe in my heart is that Deer in will grow old and big

My wife always asks me "do you know where my gardening pad went?" No dear, I do not. Good thing I don't have a hunting show to expose my untruth.

Howdy, a fellow Nevada hunter here. At 27:13 you can distinctly see blood on what would be the exit side of the neck. which, from the looks of it should have put that deer down. Then again at 34:22 even at great distance you can see that same blood spot, or at least "appears" to be so. Supposedly near the spine on the back there is a "no mans land" where a person can slip an arrow through without causing enough damage to kill it. I dont know if that holds true of the neck also, but from the position of that blood spot, that is a very lucky deer. I have never seen an animal stumble like that, only to recover and be fine. Has to be a one in a million chance.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

It was a first for me. I've replayed it a hundred times. I should have got my foundation set better before drawing back. A buck looking for danger can drop down, spin away, and make for a bad hit when the arrow finally arrives. All my fault and I should know better.

@statikpunk

5 жыл бұрын

anybody thats hunts for long enough is going to have a few stories of things going sideways. I know I do. that might make for a good "special episode" just having people you know talk about strange unplaned things that happened during a hunt. it would probably make a lot of new hunters feel better about the things that go wrong in their hunts. especially in this world of instagram perfectness where every buck died in 30 steps and was 200 inches ;)

@kingofthesofas

5 жыл бұрын

I have seen a few deer in my time take an arrow through the slot between the spine and the vitals and they act just like this. My brother in Law who lives in Montana had the same thing happen with a Pronghorn.

On an unrelated note: Randy, please let Johnathon O'Dell know that I am willing to start a podcast just to get him to cook me some wild game dinners (and pass on some recipes).

Right over his back. This has happened to me more then once. I've also hit them and not gotten them. We make every effort walk every mile. riffle or Bow. Sometimes they just get away. I think you did a fine job trying to finish him off.

Kinda amusing, I travel to Bozeman pretty much 2x a week...but I also travel through the Washoe Valley pretty regularly. Probably more a symptom of my semi-nomadic job/lifestyle...but our paths seem to cross a lot. Perhaps someday I will find you standing in your tracks and I can shake your hand. I'll keep my eye on every Dairy Queen I pass! lol Edit: I know Oregon is a bit of bish to deal with (rules/cost/game density), but come hunt some Roosevelt and/or Blacktail (Columbia Whitetail? Good luck. lol)....you won't be disappointed.

@dalebaldwin6377

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the honesty and integrity.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Roosies are on our list. Just a matter of "when."

@MrAcuta73

5 жыл бұрын

@@Fresh_Tracks I've had some BIIIG old bulls in my sights on 3 occasions. Hunting Roosies isn't about finding animals, it's getting a shot. I've had cows at 10yds and couldn't shoot. The Temperate Jungle is THICK. Once had a massive 5x5 at 20yds....couldn't shoot. Avoid rifle seasons outside of the South Coast. They don't make body armor capable of stopping .30-06 and Portland "hunters" are scary....nuf sed. North Coast general rifle is not somewhere you want to be. Archery might be a bit crowded, but at least you aren't scared for your life. And it's a LOT more fun.

Many hunting productions are in it for the kill and ratings and to do so hunt private land only. Your DIT/ Public land show is in a league of its own. You show the conservation aspect, the ethical hunter aspect and the true outdoorsman aspect. I've yet to see you OR anyone from your crew portray yourself as something you are not for the sake of the camera and viewers. It is these reasons why I love your show and watch them over and over again with my kids. God Bless and Happy Hunting...

Great video. I don’t feel so bad for my own failures if that’s any consolation.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

I screwed it up. Sitting on my butt, with slight torque of the wrist ,on a deer that is spring loaded and looking for danger, ends up with this result.

@ryanbailey6600

5 жыл бұрын

I still greatly appreciate the lessons I can learn from your videos. In so many videos I see people performing (which in effect advocate) unethical hunting practices, like 1,000 yard shots. People see those videos and try to emulate them. I’d rather be in your camp any day versus theirs. I’m just learning to hunt though, I’m 44 and didn’t grow up doing it. I’m probably harder on myself for my failures because all around me I see twelve-year old kids successfully tagging out. When I see you fail, it brings it back into perspective for me and I reapply for another tag the next year. Many Thanks!

@ryanbailey6600

5 жыл бұрын

BTW Randy, you are teaching me to hunt and I greatly appreciate it. Instead of buying a $4,000 custom rifle I bought one off the shelf and spent the remainder of the money on applications for other states. Thanks.

May I ask what unit this is?

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Out of respect for other applicants and folks who hunt these areas, we don't give out unit number of the places we hunt. That would put intense pressure on the applications and those areas shown on our videos. Hope that makes senses. As we said in the video, this was in central Nevada.

Honestly I'd love to get a typical book like Us on Winchester ammunition boxes, my dream, that and a 6x6 or larger elk lol

didnt u post this a while back

@albertledesma5173

5 жыл бұрын

Nope. Brand new.

We all have been three Randy and if it hasn't happened to u u haven't been hunting long enough I agree with u on trying to find him it hard as hell to have to leave in six day and now his still out there at least if u where close to home u can keep going g back to look for him or till trial Camara picks him up that how i new he was ok put till that day he showed up on that camera it bothered me that i couldn't shoot straight but we went back to the place where I shoot at him two weeks later and he was fine the trail camera pick up my miss the arrow hit a twig now bigger than a straw and deflected it up just enough that it just cut the skin on his belly a d so I had to wait till rife a d then i made sure that he was going home with me tha ks Randy for telling the real side of hunting because that's why the call it hunting and not killing deer thanks again Randy some day I would love to fo hunting with u

Well I understand the feeling been there done that and the that is used in all my hunt's as a reminder that shit happens and you as person grow wiser

All I ever find in that sage brush is rattle tails. Be careful they can really mess up a hunt.

Your cammos are good, your stalking strategy is very, very good but they see you everytime. As long as your face and hands are not covered they look like bright luminous blobs against the background vegetation. I hunt with a muzzle loader and learned years ago to wear a cammo mesh veil and cammo gloves. I also learned not to wash my hunting clothing with detergents because they all contain a agent which fluoresces in UV light in order to make the whites whiter and colors brighter. The lenses of our eyes filter out UV light to increase our long distance eyesight. The eyes of most animals don't filter out UV light so if you use commercial detergents you may as well be wearing a neon sign in the bush.

I would take that shot. I swear that's a dead deer especially doing the death stagger. Just shows how tuff they can be. Great to see you did everything you could to finish but it's not up to us we are given the animals. Lessons to make us humble.

I appreciate you more ever video, and especially for showing the more challenging circumstances and "unsuccessful" hunts. Too many hunting videos are far to focused kill and trophy size, which diminishes the sport. I wish your mixers would have left the background music out when people are talking. I'm guessing a lot of your viewers don't have the best ears with firearms use/practice and sometimes shooting in the field without ear protection.

@johncware66

5 жыл бұрын

The sunrise sequences in they video are outstanding. Capture the magic.

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the kind comments. I agree with the music levels. Sorry about that.

Tough hunt Randy but I totally agree on your hunt ethics. If you shoot an animal and hit it keep hunting the same animal is the best way to hunt. It may be hard and even like your on a roller coaster. But you did the right thing as a hunter sorry you didn’t get another chance at that buck 😒

@Fresh_Tracks

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you. And thanks for watching.

Wow can someone dislike this video wtf is wrong with u