What a Difference a Day Makes! | Off Grid Log Cabin Sauna Ep 9

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Off grid living In the Canadian wilderness - wildlife, dramatic weather, living off the land, building an off grid log bathhouse cabin and cast iron cooking on a woodstove.

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nothing

really expect anything where I went anyway but I want to rule it out for the morning basically I went down to the south end of the property around the beaver pond down there it's actually a duct whichever surprise that still some open water so that won't be the last probably day of open water on there two ponds but this confirms what I thought I went back there behind the property as well

back through the open hardwoods then down into the sewer cedar swamp down here is through swamp by the pond and then back up through the trail and no tracks which just means nothing's right there right now because the first the snow is fresh but it's not really lots of feed down there so notice there is some feed but there's acorns that I found earlier up on a ridge I would imagine the deer had more over to that to feed but ironically all the walking ended this morning and the result I did walk maybe 10 miles a walk and way back here places I've never been which is this is the time of year I didn't want to explore those and saw lots of sign well not lots of sight I saw some sign way back there on that oak ridge and then it drops down to a series of beaver ponds and there's actually active beaver in those ponds there's lots of fresh feed the dams have been talked up and the ponds were full so then there's moose and deer sign around those ponds and crossing each of the beaver dams so nice little funnels they're easier spot to hunt but it wasn't that much sign then when I circle back it came on the other side of the metal here all there's a bunch of metals beaver metals because this is inactive there's no beaver in these ponds down this way because there's no feed left they eat eat it all off years ago so there's little meadows drops you know beaver old Beaver Dam and dried-up swamps a little bit of water or dried-up metal it's a little bit of water going through the center of them anyway that's just over here on the other side of the this Creek in the metal and there was fresh dough sign clicked two dough's and a decent-sized buck by looks of its in there as well so that was a very fresh if they were there as I was going through for sure so that's where I'm heading in the morning hook it up Rita illegal shooting light is one will leave here which is half an hour before sunup because right there down at the valley here would be one of the spots they come to fact I've seen tracks in there in the last week or so right here at the bottom of the hill so I'll do that I'll sneak down I'll get get the wind in my face and I'll just still hunt all along that edge of the the meadows and through the hemlock forest where I can walk a little bit quieter and then I could look out to the meadows and then into the open herd which to my right so I'm spending a few hours doing that in the morning whoa - that actually

I have to start getting a little bit more serious about hunting now it's just November or the night so I've got about a month month and a half of bow hunting left to the end of the season but only another week of rifle season so I think what I'll do is concentrate on something here with the rifle because it is hard for us to hunt because it's so massive it's big woods here there's no agricultural no agriculture at all in this area which means they have you can't it's a lot harder to pattern the deer because they're not going out to an agricultural field like your cornfield or soybean field or something to feed they're just wandering all through the bush hitting the fresh acorn or the most current and oak trees most of those that look like the acorns have already been cleaned up by the one other ways though so they're just picking out raspberry plants and all kinds of other stuff so just widespread there's nothing pattern patterning them and it's a different kind of hunt very challenging and this is not like the US or even southern Ontario others it's actually the term few and far between it's very fitting for here because the wildlife is few and far between so you could go for miles and miles and not see a deer track here you're lucky if you see a deer so make some dinner and then just check over my gear one more time and then get ready to head out in the morning

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it's been a little bit of talk on my Facebook page but him again lately because of that tallow I made I guess and last week or one a little more recent videos anyway so tell was the fat that I've rendered down and then actually here it is here that's what I'm cooking my fries in right now they're frying my potatoes in but a couple years ago I made this pemmican before the season brought my canoe trips so what pemmican is is traditional food that was used by the voyagers and the career Dubois when they were exploring this country founding the country really owned the fur trade so exploring from Quebec West and trapping and trading as they went so they had to because they were going so far and they were working so hard they needed a really high energy dense food source and this is what they came up with so basically what it is is rendered fat and tried venison I guess in the past traditionally it would have been Buffalo because they traded it from the natives of First Nations they west further at West for the Bison more plentiful so it be dried bison and basically jerky and then you pound it break it into little pieces and then mix it with the towel melt the tallow mix the tried meat in it and then put whatever berries you had as well to add some more flavor and calories some carbohydrates so I put dried blueberries in mine like cranberries would be another thing that'd be probably fairly popular or common back then anyway I like it i salt the the jerky salted the jerky and then I found it and put it in here and that's two years ago I think I made that and it's perfectly fine and it lasts pretty much forever and it tastes good still all I can anyway what I like to do because it is you really have to get used to that and it takes a long time to get used to just eating chunks of that nothing else so I was never able to fully survive on that for accurate work I could survive I guess but didn't find it palatable enough that that's all I wanted to eat for a trip so what I've have been doing or what I was doing with a lot of it this is my last thing kind of maybe four packs left of this is I would put that in the frying pan melt that down and then cook my meal in it so it adds all that flavor calories to the meal without having to eat that straight so what I will do now oh yeah started these french fries these fried potatoes on the fire before I went out hunting

so they're precooked and now I want to I'm gonna take those over to actually I'll put them in a separate Bowl heat that pan back up put this in get the pan up to high temperature then finish off the fries fry that again and then I have a bison steak a buffalo steak I ended up actually buying this when I was in town getting my groceries for the week I really like bison or Buffalo and it's a nice little steak so I'll cook that separately but also in this and then put the two together that's my dinner well cut that I'm going to throw some onions and garlic in there as well always like that

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ended up pulling that pemmican putting it back in the bowl because I'm crowding the pan here with these potatoes so they're taking longer to cook and they're going to be harder to get to crispy because I don't have that much fat in there or oil and I'm crowding like I said so too much moisture and not enough exposure on all four sides to the grease anyway so what was going to happen if I left that pemmican in there all that meat was going to total find jerky was going to burn so took it out and I'll put it back in I'll finish these off then put it back in and then put the the bison steak in there with some onions and garlic [Music]

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should probably save someone some participation ahead there deer-hunting first thing in the morning so be nice so I didn't have to bother cooking anything for breakfast no but I could just have oatmeal with my coffee because it's a pentagon pemmican pemmican flavored french fries basically wish i had some cheese curds actually going up pemmican poutine would have been nice yeah that's really good actually man Vinnie take a little bit off this bison steak for ya perfect medium-rare perfect

I'd like to do something that I actually filmed probably a dozen times and and I've never actually edited a video and released it to you guys and that's Mel opening mail I know a lot of youtubers do that and I've just never felt like I don't know

this feels pretentious or a little bit strange still be opening mail on camera but on the other hand I've always felt guilty for not thanking people enough for sending me stuff because you know a lot of people will go out of their way they spent money they spend their time you know wrapping stuff and shipping it off and then I like tried to thank them thank them if I have the contact information directly but it doesn't always work out so I'm going to open these things quickly on camera like I said a little bit awkward let me know if you actually like to see what I people are sending me I could do this a little bit more often I guess I don't get into the PIO box that often maybe once every three weeks or so so some of this stuff has been sitting there for a while people are reaching out saying did you get this or that and that's the reason I just don't get there often enough to to get it maybe in a timely manner so I'm gonna open these things quickly I won't talk about it too much I won't go on and on so I'll just show you what they are and who set them and and just know that I do appreciate it though oh no I'm sure put everything to good use you know including toys and stuff for Callie so get into this very very quickly so people do send me stuff a lot and a lot of times it's some really nice handwritten letters that light is so bright find a better way to do that a lot of times it's handwritten notes or full actually open one from a guy who sends me something quite often it's amazing how much time like I said people are putting into it how much thought they put into sending somebody something that they'd never Matt and I really really do appreciate that

that doesn't uh just because I haven't shown it doesn't mean I don't appreciate it

a lot of times companies send me stuff to do right now but I guess that's part of the reason I don't like opening a mail and camera set sometimes you're just looking for free publicity and I don't feel like it's the product that I want to endorse so I'll actually end up saying anything which is probably not right either it's not fair of me it's very nice mug actually it's a little gold coin here says I've crossed the Arctic Circle thank you do you appreciate that this is a letter from guy named Ron he sends stuff probably every once every two months maybe and he just puts a ton of time and effort into writing these long everything that is on his mind about you know helpful advice boat filling the cabin things that he's done in the past this a novel I do read as much of it as I possibly can and I and I really to appreciated that he always makes me something as well out of your fold leather

so thank you for that really appreciate it Ron Shawn I hope you guys enjoy these please read the burning instructions in the candle tag before lighting if you have any challenges or questions reach out look forward to hearing from your thoughts be well Perry so they make beeswax hundred percent pure Canadian visa beeswax candles burn time 220 to 240 hours burn time 90 to 110 hours tapers very very generous of you and I know that these are not cheap but they were well worth the money to buy pure beeswax candles I always wanted to make them actually on my own and never got around to it personally because of the cost and the availability of that much wax so I'll get a lot of use out of those thanks very much I'm not sure I think this is from and I need to find the name they sent me an email the publisher I believe of dick Brennan Keyes one man's wilderness and this is first wilderness my quest in the territory of Alaska by Sam Keith so the publisher reached out to me last month I think it was and asked me if I could write the foreword in the next edition of one man's wilderness the next one that's going to be released now what in addition just was recently released with the foreword written by Nick Offerman from parks and recreation which honey guys actually joke about me being similar to him so thank you for these thank you for everything I really really appreciate it as I keep saying please don't ever feel like you need to send me anything I just appreciate you guys are that you're following along and you're supporting the channel and give me your comments and your likes and your subscribing to the channel that's enough thanks for me but of course I really appreciate all the time and effort you put into sending stuff as well on Callie does as well she's been getting some gifts as well and she'll be opening hers in the next episode I'm sure so thanks everybody really appreciate it okay I'm gonna get out there dear maybe might be on the move or there might be hunkered down it's pretty windy and very slowly get maybe hmm five almost six inches of snow since yesterday when I was cleaning up in the afternoon getting all the building materials stacked up like their logs and stuff so I could find them it there's no snow at all on the ground now four or five inches and it's still snowing so we end up with no snows all day like to predict eight maybe ten inches so what I'm gonna do is try to stalk through where I found the deer sign yesterday there was some fresh buck scrapes and tracks and droppings just back here on the other side of the metal they're gonna walk slowly through they're going to overdress so that I move slowly like typically when you're doing into our activities you end up overheating and sweating and then you that freezes and you get cold but when you're still hunting for game like this even in the cold you want to move as slow as possible it's almost like stand hunting you just gonna walk I'm going to walk a few yards and stop look around keep scanning ahead of me and all around me is in case a circle and then sometimes I'll stop for a 5 10 15 minutes maybe even longer if it's a really good spot or I suspect that there's deer nearby let them calm down because typically stop when they hear the sound of me walking

which I don't like these pants for that reason because a little bit noisy so that makes me have to walk slower too and be careful about what it brush up against so anyway stalking right along and if I break a branch or something deer ears that they stop for minutes and stare in that direction to see what it was and if nothing moves or they don't get my scent then they'll go back and doing whatever they're doing so I'll have to keep walking slowly like that and see what if I can get close enough to a buck like I said they might be hunkered down but should be the rut should be going good right now so the buck should be chasing the dose and harassing them so like I said I'm over dressing for that reason I can always strip down when I'm moving fast coming back or if I shoot a deer or something so I didn't bring my camera yesterday when I was walking around today I will I'll put it in the pack so I won't be able to film everything but focus is something interesting I'll pull it out and show you what I'm up to I like to wear my fur hat but that's a little bad idea idea during deer season so I'm gonna be wearing one hunter orange

this might be overkill thing is you can always put more clothes on me

or take clothes off if you have it but you can't put more on if you don't have it so I get too hard with this which I might just down jackets really puffy and one well I can take that off and put it in here in a pocket or into the backpack well that's twice today that this young buck crossed over the dam right here by the Kevin looking up at the cabin right now when I got up this morning came outside he started coming down the path behind the cabin down towards the water towards the Beaver Dam there was tracks coming off right past the cabin just kind of circled around and actually stopped to feed a little bit so probably during daylight by the looks of the well like rate at legal shooting light so half an hour before sunup probably about looks of how much snow was in the truck and it was headed that way so I followed a little bit and then decided that I would circle all the way around the metal see if there's any deer on this side and then down to the next metal and then back up around to where I thought that deer might be going sure enough I get all the way around and just just a boat all the way back to the the property boundary on the southwest side and decided that deer must not have gone that way must have gone back the other way so I stopped picked some birch bark off a tree so I get a fire going later and ended up passive his pitching the taking the birch bark off and putting it my pocket I look over and there he is staring at me so I swung my rifle up he took off didn't know what I was I guess because he went down to the south and just spooked it off a Ridge and I started giving a doe call and I guess it turned right away and came and got down windermere ate in the open hardwoods too but I spend just a little Ridge between us and I didn't see him anyway I started tracking and when I figure out where he was going

came all the way back all the way through my tracks all the way back to here essentially on and off we were playing playing cat and mouse in the thick woods here at the hemlocks so he would go a little bit I would circle he would pick up my scent or hear me and he would circle and and ended up that I got to this little clearing right here at the edge of the stream and jumped him he was standing right here he went running across the water here and repass across the dam again so it's probably right back to where I originally put him out this morning so I'll give him a little break and go back out there just slowly track into the wind maybe maybe an hour from now give him time to settle down it's a good buck for food young buck but good body size yeah it's tiring the snow is getting pretty deep it actually is adding to the amount of effort it takes to walk through it but it's pretty and makes for easy tracking until which tracks are fresh looks like there was a at least one doe maybe two doze in here with that buck this morning as they were last night so I figured it would be so I might be able to just set up right there by the cabin every morning and evening for the rest of the season with the rifle to shoot down to here crossing the dam and then on bow season kicks back in and a week and a half all set up right on the edge of this Beaver Dam get a stand in there it's a good time to talk maybe about hunting I've got a lot of people most people that follow this channel know that I hunt obviously but there is some people that are uncomfortable with it at least or that or don't like it at all are kind of anti hunters this is common joke it says none of us is getting out of here alive and if you think about that for many well guess from your own perspective so if you know that eventually you're going to die how would you choose to die you know obviously you're not going to choose the slow and painful death you're going to hope to go pass away in your sleep of old age or in old age and that's just not what happens to wildlife so if you were a deer how would you like to end your life typically the animals in the wild almost never die of old age maybe never typically especially up here taken either by predators or injury or often here it's a it's a starvation in the winter or could be even freezing to death but usually from malnutrition first or an injury from predator attack or something else are falling through the ice that's a common form of death here as well so if you put it in perspective to die by hunt at a hunter's hand is actually one of the lesser evils and when it comes to evil hunters that I know majority of hunters especially as you get older are not evil we harvest game food from the land and we take an animal's life we do have remorse I think that probably the best definition of evil is causing something or somebody pain unnecessary pain and discomfort and that's certainly not what Hunter's doing we don't meme game Nate mmmm animals trying to make them suffer our goal is to take an animal cleanly humanely and end its life quickly so that there is no suffering and you know sometimes the consequence is that mistakes are made and there may be some undue suffering but that's not the intent of the hunter so the hunter is not evil so I can certainly say that's the case from my perspective at least it's only it's not even ten o'clock I've only been out here for two and a half hours but I put a lot of miles on unlike what I said this morning I moved a little bit too quickly here probably knowing that he was coming back to the cabin should have known he was gonna hang up here taking it really slowly the time I got the rifle up he's just I couldn't get a safe shot at it but it's starting to clear up a little bit actually

well this ducks flying way up there hurt some flying around earlier low to the water Tim but did any Goodson's peeking in through the clouds there is beautiful snow stopped I think I'll go up and make a tea and then I said give a deer an hour and head out again off yeah I'm gonna stand up push them right out of the area so I think maybe I'll give them a break for a full day at least maybe two days well this is why I don't stand hunt in a new spot like don't go to one spot and sit main reasons that I just don't know the area well enough yet this is my second fall here didn't really do much deer hunting here last year but the only times I did quote it actually saw a deer down here in the valley so the cabins just over there if I come over across the hardwood ridge back down into this little valley it's to the south and west of the beaver metal it's all these hemlocks in here so the deer like to get in there when the snow falls because it's not as much snow on the ground and it's also cover so what happened is this morning when I saw the truck crossing the Beaver Dam coming right past the cabin and over to this way I walked over to here but the wind was blowing in there so I ended up backing out and actually honestly looking for a different deer and then coming back to this spot from downwind so I went all the way around the metal far far down to the next following metal way down the creek and back up when I got all the way to here essentially on the other side of the the all those dead trees that got hit by lightning few years ago just on the other side of that that's where I put up that young buck that ended up circling me and I played cat and mouse with him all the way through the boys on the north side of the middle so then I jumped him and he was with a dole this time at the beaver pond or at the Beaver Dam Bi treat by the cabin so they ran right past the cabin again kind of split up and then came running through here so I'm following this running track right now and it's probably headed up over to my other pond where the next thicket is where the next batch of heavy cover is for hiding but what's interesting is I just found another track coming out from there from this morning going up this way

so I'm assuming what happened is that the buck in the dough we're in that spot together when I jumped them this morning they separated the dough must have come up through here she's probably the one that I see all through the summer for the last two years that kind of lives down on this part of the property so I guess the buck hit and I'm going all the way around and then trying to come back over here to try to find her again so this spot as I'm getting to know this property and now that I've walked such a vast area in with some snow down and not seeing all that much sign I'm thinking this is probably one of the better spots you just sit so I had already identified this little Rock Ridge here is somewhere to sit with my back up against the tree and be able to cover this whole valley now I don't know if there's other hunters in the area haven't heard any shots or four-wheelers or anything this week which surprises me because if they were out the boat as you pushing dear into this area because there's not much activity here with just me anyway I am going to continue following this track slowly just to confirm my suspicions and maybe set up this evening and just wait to see if they come out again meantime I'm gonna look first spot I think to get a player going dry up my clubs and maybe a cook a steak up its hoping maybe have some venison liver this morning thinking that's not gonna be the case a tough hunt it's a big big land up here and there won't be deer for miles and miles like zero it's hardly any game at all actually right now and they travel and they don't go to one spot that on bed in one area and they don't feed in one area so it really is random which is why typically we do what's called drives here in Ontario on this kind of terrain we get a bunch of guys and they'll work their way through a bush when the deer come up to standards the standards are the ones that get the shots and you get to see some pretty country too and it's not as boring so it's sitting around waiting in a low productive spot not seeing much anyone see what we can find here

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turning it to be a frustrating false infer going out for a walk this morning walk

hunting sitting ain't walking a couple of hours maybe for three hours this morning didn't see anything didn't even see any fresh tracks came back flipped on the cabin for the rest of the day and just went for a walk right now and the moose and two deer have walked in my footprint since I was out this morning which they do like to do the curious and it looks like a fat police resisted so they tend to walk in footprints of whatever animals gone before them and often backtracking to see where I came from or a person has come from so that's what they did moves and ear so try again the smaller tomorrow morning still early I could be out strolling don't let the fire almost die off our dad down fire about backup me up dinner going let's get ready to go back here in the morning [Music]

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