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Ep 124 The Hunting Stories Podcast: Trent Ellis
Join us as we recount some unforgettable hunting adventures, filled with both triumphs and comedic twists. From a surprising public land expedition with young cousins Luke and Levi to a rifle season full of unexpected surprises, these stories capture the essence of hunting with family and friends. You'll hear about the time Luke outsmarted us all with a perfect shot on a massive buck, leaving us in awe and laughter. Each tale is a testament to the humorous and unpredictable side of hunting, where even near-misses become cherished memories and lessons learned.
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Howdy folks and welcome to the hunting stories podcast. I'm your host, michael, and we got a really good one for you today. Today we're actually connecting with I mean, he's a social media influencer, but he's absolutely definitely a hunter. One of your hunting buddies has sent you one of his videos. They're hilarious. I've posted several on my Instagram page. If you aren't following me, get on there and follow me, but then, if you aren't following Trent, make sure you check out the show notes and give him a follow as well. That being said, let's go ahead and kick this thing off. I don't want to steal any of his thunder, but, trent, thank you, the Hunting Stories podcast brother. How are you?
Speaker 2:I'm good, Michael. I appreciate you having me.
Speaker 1:Brother, I'm super excited to have you here, man. I've been following you for a while and you are one of the funniest people I think well, now I know you, but one of the funniest people, I think, on Instagram and social media and all that stuff, and so I'm super excited to hear some of your stories, man. So let's start this thing off right. Why don't you introduce yourself to the folks that are listening, in case they don't already know who you are?
Speaker 2:So my name is Trent Ellis. I'm from Northeast Mississippi. I've been doing social media and YouTube now for a little over a year, so I'm pretty new to the game. But I'm just a you know you hear this all the time but I'm just a good old boy like the rest of us, you know. Yeah, I guess I'm just not afraid to make fun of myself as much as everybody else is on camera that is and put it out for the world to see. But yeah, no man, I'm born and raised mantachi, mississippi.
Speaker 2:um, outside of tupelo and uh, when I was 17, I joined the marine corps and I was in for four years, got out after my contract ended in 2017. So I started 2013, got out 2017, met the love of my life while I was in and married. Her, brought her back and we went to college at Etiwamba Community College for two years in forestry and then transferred to Mississippi State. My wife finished her degree in forestry and wildlife management there.
Speaker 2:I went into online business degree, uh, from there, got into insurance and investments, um, in 2020 and got fully investment licensed in 2021 and pretty much did that full time. Well, I did. I did that full time from 2020 to last year when I started doing social media and, uh, I just, you know, I just got to seeing a lot of people on online doing some funny stuff and I was like man, you know, I've always kind of thought I was the class clown and you know could do some could do some relatable stuff for especially the folks here in the south.
Speaker 2:You know, and and uh, um, and I was like, hey, I'll just try it. You know, try it for a week, and if I don't hate it I'm just going to continue doing it and see what happens.
Speaker 2:You know, and maybe 10 years from now, I won't have to pay for my hunting stuff. So, uh, I did, and it, it, you know, started doing okay, and I just kept going and and you know, we're, uh, we're here, so we're, uh, we're here, so we're not we haven't made it or anything like that, but we're still doing it.
Speaker 1:So, whatever that means, you know, man it's. It's a lot of fun too. The most I think you've recently posted a video where you were transitioning. Uh god, that video cracked me up, man. I was like where's he going with this? I like when it got to the punchline which I don't want to ruin for anybody. When you got to the punchline I was like mother fucker. Okay, okay, good on you, man, you had me yeah, yeah, I it's.
Speaker 2:It's funny I can't remember. Um, I think I think I did that short video. I can ruin the punchline. I think I did that short video after um, I actually killed that buck. So what happened was was you know, I've had a crossbow. There's a place in mississippi that you go and I'm not going to ruin it because I know how public land guys are, which I've been more private land in the last year. Uh, I've kind of come over the dark side, but uh, but I know our guys are with burning spot so I'm not gonna say it. But there's a place here in mississippi that if you go hunt it, most people are gonna have a crossbow and I bought it just for that and, um, I went out there just to stay competitive, or is it like regulations that you have have across?
Speaker 1:no, it's it's to.
Speaker 2:It's to. It's like you can hunt in this area with a compound, but even if you have one inside of 30 yards, your likelihood of capitalizing because of the way you have to hunt um, like I said, I know I'm being very vague here, but that's fine, that's fine but basically you know it's, it's you need.
Speaker 2:You need to have a crossbow in there if, if you're going to, if you're going to go in there and kill one. I mean because when you draw back you know if one's at 20 or 30 yards it's going to see you. I mean 40 yards could see you, but anyway. But I never did use it. I went. I went and hunted with a buddy of mine, corey Corey Lear, with Monarch Hunting Products out of Texas, got a shoot house from him and we set it up in the field here behind the house and a Monarch blind and a Monarch feeder and it's about 40 yards, right at 40 yards from the blind, but his blind has bow windows. It's about 40 yards, right at 40 yards from the blind, but his blind has bow windows. And I'm like I'm going to shoot a deer in a food plot with a compound bow. It's going to happen. This is going to be good.
Speaker 1:You know something like the Drury's, you'd watch on the Drury's or Midwest Whitetail or whatever.
Speaker 2:So I had a buck out here. That was a big deer for me. It was a big deer, I mean he had a brow time.
Speaker 1:That was 10 plus inches long, wow and uh yeah crazy brown sign, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I had gotten pictures of him all late summer up until the velvet season and I hunted him the three-day velvet season that we had and saw him every day, but could not something happened every day for him not to come in and give me a shot. So fast forward another you know month, we'll say, and, uh, he comes out, man, and I, I mean I hunted, I hunted here behind behind the house like crazy, I mean just every, every time I was going, I was going out and hunting this buck, and he finally comes out in the daytime to where, like, he was normally coming out right at the last minute of shooting light, so I wasn't gonna shoot and I couldn't get him on camera. And I'm like man, I'm not going, like no, I'm not doing it. And uh, but he finally come out, like 20 minutes before daylight or 20 minutes for before, uh, daylight ends. And, um, I was like this is, this is working out perfect, like I've already got a small buck at the feeder eating. He's not, he's not, you know, worried about anything, like he.
Speaker 2:As soon as I saw him at the edge of the tree line, I mean he was at the feeder five minutes later, okay Walks up and I pull back. I got the camera set on him and he's at 40 yards 42 and I pull back and I got my 40 yard. You know, I got the dial on 40 and he moves and I'm at the point now where I'm like screw it, I don't care, I don't care if I don't get this deer, this shot on camera.
Speaker 2:I'm fixing to shoot this freaking deer so I don't move the camera, but I sat there and hold him and I counted up later while I edit the footage and I ended up holding that bow back for a minute and 58 seconds before I shot and what it was was when he moved he ran off a smaller seven point and took him a minute to come back and I later ranged where I shot at him and I shot at him with his head down, okay, so that tells you how good of a bow hunter I am. At a long distance uh, 30 yard past 30 yards I suck at bow hunting. I shot at him with his head down at 47 yards, okay, and he I think he ducked the arrow before I even pulled the trigger on my compound. I mean, it was terrible.
Speaker 2:I shot and I was like man, that is terrible. It went way over his, it probably went six inches over his back and I'm like this sucks, I was so mad, I was like you know what.
Speaker 2:I've got a crossbow in my house and I'm sitting here 40 yards from the feeder where this deer I shot at that deer 47 yards with a freaking compound, and I've got a crossbow in my house. So I decided the next day I actually made a video. I got on my long form video on YouTube where I'm actually killing the deer. So the next day I'm like I'm going back out that evening to hunt him. I'm not going to see him. I'm not gonna see him. He's a, he's a good deer, he's a mature buck, I think, and you know they don't get shot at twice two days in a row. But I'm going out anyway.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I told myself, I said I'm gonna shoot this thing with a crossbow, but I'm gonna make this part of the video. And I did a little video, you know, telling everybody like, hey, I got a crossbow here, I'm freaking using it. I love y'all, but I'm using it, I don't care what you say and I ended up shooting that deer with that crossbow that night at 50 yards that's amazing, man, that's amazing heart shining.
Speaker 2:So I want to say I want to say that next, uh, that next day or two, I'm like I got a perfect idea. I can bait everybody in with this.
Speaker 1:I'm transitioning bull crap and I'm going to relate it to the crossbows. I'm pretty sure they're going to support me, my dad and my brother. I just don't know I don't think they're going to like it, and I was like what's going on here?
Speaker 2:Yep, that's it. That's it, man. That was too funny.
Speaker 1:I was like, all right, right man, I guess if he wants to do his thing, chop his pecker off. That's what he's gonna do. And then you're like I'm switching from compound to crossbow and I was like everything's still valid, everything he just said is valid yeah, that was amazing so to the listeners.
Speaker 1:Obviously, trent does some hilarious shit. Make sure you follow him. I'm gonna put links to everything in the show notes and at the. We'll talk a little bit more about that. But, Trent, we're here to hear some stories and that, oddly enough, that became a pretty good story. They're just talking about your social media clips, but I know you've got a couple of stories specifically prepared for us man, what, uh?
Speaker 2:why don't you set the stage, man? Oh yeah, so I mean, I guess I've got two that are like the biggest disappointments of my life. I think everybody loves, loves to hear others pain.
Speaker 2:So, and I've had, I've had if any of your listeners or followers of mine they're going to, they're going to want to hear this, cause I've had a a pretty jam up season this year so far, so they're looking for a little humble pie. No, so, like I think I started telling you earlier, um with my cousin, luke. You know, I made a. I made a short video about my first cousin, luke Ellis, who is a who's an amazing hunter. I mean, he's amazing. He's 20 years old, just turned uh 20. Shout out to Luke Uh, october 27th was his 20th birthday. So, um, amazing hunter, 20th birthday. So, um, amazing hunter. And uh, but this early this year, in september, during the velvet season, he smoked a. I mean the deer that he killed, um, it had coat, it had. I got a dot mountain ducat. I'm showing you right now that on the right side of this deer, that's the base. No shit, I mean it was not it wasn't.
Speaker 2:It wasn't like a, it wasn't like 170 inch iowa buck, but I'm just telling the thickness on that deer's horns right there, man, that's big elk.
Speaker 1:Antler right there, man, that's great. Yeah, I mean it was, it was impressive.
Speaker 2:he killed a mature buck, uh, but anyway, um, so luke luke's always been like his daddy and he's had just that luck. You know, like they're good, they're great hunters, great great hunters. But, ma'am t, if, if somebody, if somebody could be lucky, loot and sean ellis okay, are, are, are they lucky? They just it's like they go out, they go out there. I'll be hunting five days a week on public and and I'm gonna walk a mile miles every time and my uncle Sean pull up and he'll be like bringing his tree seat with him and he'll be like, yeah, I'm going to, I'm going to walk, I'm going to limp down there about 300, 400 yards and sit down and he's going to shoot a dad, 140 inch, pope and young, like I'm just you know.
Speaker 1:I've met plenty of hunters like that on the podcast man People are like, yeah, all the time there's two kind of hunters. There's guys that are like, yeah, I'm just lucky, I just put something down every time. And then there are the guys that are like, yeah, I hunted for 10 years before I got one and I'm like, yeah, it sounds more like my shit, but yeah, there's definitely those lucky guys out there.
Speaker 2:So Luke kills that deer and I, thinking about it with zero animosity, I was like man, that's awesome and uh, but I was like this would be a great video. So I made a phone call character video to where you know, a buddy of mine quote unquote calls me and asked me if I saw the deer luke shot and I go into. You know, yeah, that's cool. And then he reminds me of the deer that luke killed back in 2019, 2020, whenever I can't remember it was december of one of those years, but that was a true story, you know, uh. So we had been I had been hunting this public ground, you know, for a while and uh found some really, really good sign and luke and his dad um, there he looks younger brother, levi. I took him with me and luke and sean. I told them I was like y'all need to go over here to this specific area and y'all need to climb somewhere right in here. And I can't give out those details or I could say one word. A lot of people would be like I know exactly what he's talking about anyway, uh. So so I told them I was like I think y'all need to go over there, hunt there, me and Levi, I'm going to put him in the stand. Levi, at the time he was probably 12, 13 years old and Luke was yeah, he was. I want to say Luke at the time was 14. You know, 14. Levi might have been younger than that, so Luke was not a. I mean, luke at the time didn't have his driver's license. I mean Luke at the time didn't have his driver's license.
Speaker 2:And so we get to our spots and I'm sitting there watching Can you say midget on this podcast? You certainly can. Okay, there was a midget comedian I can't remember his name, but he's funny as all get out and I was sitting there watching him because I mean it was warm, the wind was blowing into the thicket and I'm like I'm not going to say jack crap. So I'm sitting there watching him and I hear something behind me and I turn and I look behind me and I mean it's just a dadgum rocking chair. I mean this son of a gun. He is wide and he, he looks right up at me. He's 20 yards from me. As soon as I turn, he looks right up at me and he, he, he wheels and runs. Well, I just immediately I throw my 308 up and I'm boom, boom, boom. I mean, that sounds like a semi-automatic and I got a bolt action.
Speaker 2:But I was hunting in an area where the pine trees were like here, here, here, like they were all around me, so it wasn't like I could wait and get a good lead on him. It's like I was trying to shoot through the gaps and well, anyway, he runs out to about 200 yards and I shoot and he stumbles and I'm like, oh crap, he just stepped into a hole or I just waylaid his butt. Yeah, well, he, he, he disappears and uh, and I turn around, I start putting my gun on my back and I'm like, oh man, here we go here we go, here we go feeling good.
Speaker 2:Luke texts me and he's being a smart aleck, he's like you gonna get him yet. You gonna get him yet, dad, gone boy, you know, because they're, they're within earshot. They're actually at the time they were just over a thousand yards from me and uh, so I, literally I, I turn around and I start climbing back down the tree and I make two climbs down the tree and I hear boom, boom and immediately I just I just dropped. I was like, oh no, there, no way, there is no way. Within two minutes of me shooting at this deer, luke or Sean have shot another buck. That's different. And Luke, I called Luke and he's oh my gosh, I just shot a freaking monster. He's dead. And I'm just like, oh, I'm so happy for you, bud. I'm so because I know. I'm like there's no way. There's two monsters in here this close.
Speaker 1:You're like go ahead and count how many holes are in that deer right now.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so basically that deer ran from my position and ran 70 yards in front of Luke and Luke said he looked back in my direction Because Luke knew exactly where we was hunting. We had orange on, we could see each other, yeah, and he said he looked right back at my direction. When he did he was broadside at 70 yards and Luke shot him once right through the pump station and he hit the ground and did that front crawl, you know, and luke shot him again, finished him off. There's a six and a half year old eight point that was 18 and a quarter inches wide on public land. Yeah, that was, that was the hardest. That was the hardest time, because I'm like I got my 14 year old cousin here that has smoked a deer that is twice the size of anything I've ever killed. Yeah, and had I not been on my phone watching that comedian, maybe I could have heard. You know, you go through that whole thing, but you're also at the same time, you're like, hey, congratulations, buddy.
Speaker 2:You know I'm trying to be big cousin trent here, you know like being you know, you can tell sean sitting over there, he's like man, sorry bud, that's how it goes.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so I got to ask where did your shot land, or did he step in? Oh, thank you, thank you.
Speaker 2:So we get back to camp and we hang the deer up and Luke starts gutting it and he says Dadgum Trent, come here and look at this. And right here on his ear, right there on the inside of his ear, I mean half an inch from his brain I shot that song on right over the ear, right there. If I'd have been a half an inch to the right, I'd have hit him right in the brain and dropped him dead.
Speaker 1:no, I shot that deer I shot.
Speaker 2:Yep, it had a bullet. It had a bullet mark going right across the top of his ear, right there on the inside of it, you trumped it. I just stunned him. That's I did. I did, I trumped him. That's right, that's right yeah.
Speaker 1:The deer stood up, pumped a fist and said fight, fight, fight, yeah, yeah son.
Speaker 2:So that was like you're talking about pouring a gallon of salt in the wound. I'm like, oh my gosh man, this is terrible yeah.
Speaker 1:Well, at least I'll say like you didn't like hit it to the point that it maybe would have died if it had ran a little bit farther. You basically missed it. I mean, you hit it, but you didn't lethally hit it.
Speaker 2:No, no, I counted that whole thing as a miss, like that was yeah, it was yeah, it was terrible. It's still, to this day, probably the biggest deer that I've messed up on. Yeah, but that was no. I think that was December of 2020. Because it was, it was no, I'm sorry, no, no, no, that was December of 2019, because 2020 I had a phenomenal year, I mean after 2020, I was like you can't tell me nothing. And then for the last three years, it's been 2021, 2022, and 2023 has just been like let's break you down, boy. Yeah, for sure, man, that's awesome.
Speaker 1:It reminded me of a story. I'll tell you real quick. It's actually not my story, but it's from my father-in-law, who's passed away, and my brother-in-law and my other buddy. They were in Washington hunting elk with muzzleloaders. So 50 cow open sights, having fun. They just had, I think, cow tags, Nothing but cow, or maybe it was spike tags, yeah, spike tags.
Speaker 1:So they're sitting I don't know maybe 150 yards from each other, but with the topography there's no risk of injury or anything. They're hilled between them and one of them, my buddy Steven. He's sitting there and two spikes roll in and he just is like all right, hell yeah, and boom, and he fires one and they both just take off and they run around the corner, basically, and go to my brother-in-law who's on the other side so this is why I remember this right, the animal running from one hunter to the other. My brother-in-law goes and he pulls up his and he's oh shit, there's two here. So he fires at one. Meanwhile my father-in-law is like two feet away from him, sleeping, so like I don't know how he slept through the first shot, but like those 50 cal muzzle loaders, like he lost his shit, like getting woken up like just by the loudest smoke everywhere. He woke up screaming almost like ran. He just like woke up running.
Speaker 2:Basically, um, either way they didn't kill they hit.
Speaker 1:Luckily he did shoot the other ones. They ended up he woke up screaming almost like ran. He just woke up running. Basically, by the way, they did kill. Luckily he did shoot the other ones. They ended up dropping two spikes in a period of like 30 seconds and they say it was the worst packout they've ever had. But it reminded me of that story and it always makes me laugh, thinking about my father-in-law just like from dead sleep to shocked out of his mind from a muzzle that had grown off two feet from him. So man, shocked out of his mind from a muzzleload of growing off two feet from him. So, yeah, and then that's a. That's a great story. Was the comedian brad williams, the? That's the only comedian I can. Yes, yes, yeah, yes, yeah, yeah, oh, it was it was hilarious.
Speaker 2:I can't remember exactly, I just remember what he was wearing. He was wearing his bow tie, white shirt, black vest, rolled up sleeves. I remember it like it was yesterday and it was a great. I can't remember exactly what bit he was doing, but it was hilarious. And I was sitting there kind of having a little belly roll and I heard that right behind me. I'm like what was that? And it was kind of the point in season where you're used to squirrels so you're not really, you know. You're not really, you know, on alert all the time time. Yeah, it was bad, it was bad.
Speaker 1:That's too funny, man. That's too funny. Your cousin's name is Luke, right, yeah, luke Ellis.
Speaker 2:Luke Ellis man.
Speaker 1:What does he think about that? Does he feel ever? Have you ever told that he feels sorry that you missed that one? Or is he rubbing it in?
Speaker 2:your face, dude. No, luke does not feel sorry at all. No, first of all, luke's 20. He's a 20 year old and a 58 year old body and mind. Okay, pretty much. So. I mean, anytime you talk to him he's like talking to an old man that went to school in 19. You know 78, you know, uh. But I mean he, seriously he, he's just, he was, he was good about it. He didn't try to rub it in or nothing like that, even at 14, he knew what kind of position I was in and he wasn't going to sit there and just completely celebrate and talk it up. He knew he was mature enough then to know like this is awesome and I'm going to celebrate, but I'm going to save it until when Trent's not around.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that reminds me of Coulter Wald. Are you familiar with Coulter Wald the musician? Oh, yeah, oh yeah, he looks like he's 12, but his voice man is 75 years old.
Speaker 2:Oh, that was insane. The first video I ever looked him up on, cause he's younger than me, I'm 29. 29. And I looked him up he, he, uh, yeah, he does. He sounds like he's 70. Like he smoked a carton of cigarettes a week. Uh, for the last 30 years.
Speaker 1:You know, I was uh. I went to his show one time. He was supposed to come and I looked him up and I was like what is this? And I was actually before he had a mustache. We looked even younger and I'm like no way that guy is singing this music. He actually ended up not making it to that concert because he got in a bar fight in Canada. He was 18 at the time, or 19. Got in a bar fight, got concussed and couldn't fly to the show, so he ended up never making it down.
Speaker 1:Wow, but yeah I totally understand the old man and the young man's body. That's pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I got one more story.
Speaker 1:Perfect, that's pretty cool. Yeah, I got, I got one more. I got one more story.
Speaker 2:If you've, got something for it. I got all the time. Yeah, the, um, the, the. Probably the biggest heartbreak, um was me and my brother were on. We're on public back in 2020. I think it was 21 or 22.
Speaker 2:And, uh, we, we were walking, we, and uh, we, we were walking, we had gotten in late I think it was probably 7 30 when we got to the gate because it had been raining all night and we were trying to time it like it was gonna be a perfect day because the rain was gonna stop at like eight o'clock. And we're like, oh heck, yeah, man, let's, let's get out here. And let's, let's get out here right when it stops and and the ground will be wet. So the deer, you know, we can slip, and it was rifle season and where we were going was, you know, a big, big bottom, big slough bottom and everything, so you can see in certain areas a decent ways. And, uh, we're just gonna slip. Well, we get back there about a mile and we notice there's a doe in the distance, a little over 100 yards from us, and we're like, man, that's, you know, let's just, let's sit here for a minute. So we sat there and we're right before a bend in the trail and this trail is in the middle of the hardwood, bottom right next to a river and uh, or I say it's, it's a, it's a bigger creek, you know, um, wouldn't be big enough to to take many boats down, but anyway, um, we, we get back here and we're watching this doe for maybe five or ten minutes and trey looks at me and he's like you know, we still want to climb. They said do you, you know, do you want to? Um, do you want to sit here and watch her? Do you want to go ahead and get the saddle and, uh, bump her off? And I was like, yeah, let's just go ahead, and let's just go ahead and move through and bump her off, and we'll get in the saddle and go ahead, and let's just go ahead and move through and bump her off, and we'll get in the saddle and set till, you know, one or two o'clock.
Speaker 2:Well, we take 10 steps and as soon as we do, we've round this barely you could call it a corner and uh, as soon as we round it, on the trail in front of us probably 70 yards yards, I mean there is a giant and he is broadside and he literally just turns his head and looks at both of us and I am, at the time, I am so overwhelmed. I'm like praying to God, thanking God. I'm like thank you so much as I'm raising up on this deer. I'm like, thank you, jesus, this is so easy. Like this is I, thank you so much.
Speaker 2:And that deer just keeps looking at me. Oh no, and I'm like, are you sick? And I start to bolt, I'd start to put another round in there. And you know, and uh, as soon as I do that, he runs off and there's a couple of deer behind him. The doe runs off and, dude, I'm not kidding, I take the gun and I grab the barrel and I take the gun and I bring it across my back and I I'm fixing to like snap this thing, because that was the second deer that year that I had missed. No shit. Second deer, the second deer with a gun that I admit.
Speaker 2:Now the other one was right at day. It was like 603 am could barely see it through my scope, but it was legal, and I misjudged the distance. I thought it was 100 yards, it was 180 and um, but so I gave myself some forgiveness on that one, but this one was like 70 yards from me and I had I've never had a problem missing deer with, especially with a gun. Yeah and um, and so I. I got to the point I was just. I was so infuriated I brought that gun on my bag and I went to snap.
Speaker 2:I was going to do everything I could to snap that gun and my brother stops me. He's like no, no, no, don't. He's like dude, are you shooting those freaking ballistic tips? And I'm like, yeah, he said man, I know you didn't see this, but there was a huge branch in front of that deer and he said, as soon as you shot, he said I saw the center of that thing blow up and we went up there and there was a. There was a big vine that was probably, you know, a little bit smaller than a coat can. That was in front of that deer about 10 yards, and I shot. I mean it was right, I guess it was right in line and it was still at the point in time like it was overcast, even though it was like eight o'clock. I guess it was right in line and it was still at the point in time like it was overcast, even though it was like 8 o'clock, 8.30, it was still overcast to where you could see, good enough, but you couldn't see everything like a vine, especially in that situation. And I smoked that darn vine and as soon as that bullet hit it it blew up.
Speaker 2:So I'm still infuriated and this is not the best part of the story. So I'm going to, I'm trying to be mature. I'm trying to be mature and say you know what I'm, however old I was 25, 26, whatever I'm like you know, I've, uh, I got a wife at home and I need to, I need to grow up a little bit. All right, let's keep going, let's keep going, let's we're at this point.
Speaker 1:Quick question was after you missed the first deer earlier in that season, did you go to the range and sight it and go? Nothing wrong with this? I don't understand what happened. Or did you just so just chalk that up to a bad shot when you missed?
Speaker 2:uh, I think, okay, I I chalked that one up as a bad shot, okay after this, though.
Speaker 2:after this, though, I did go and check my gun, okay, after this, I went and checked my gun and, uh, I was dead on. Okay, I was dead on. So, um, yeah, so it was not the gun's fault at all, but I, you know, I'm like, all right, let's keep going. You know, let's get to spots, cause the deer ran to where we were going and, um, so we had about another three, 400 yards till Trey got to his spot, and then I was going to continue on walking and go down another couple of hundred yards and turn in and go to mine. Well, trey turns in, trey's my brother I don't know if I said that or whatever, but Trey's my brother.
Speaker 2:I don't know if I said that or whatever, but trey's my brother and, uh, he, he turns in to the slough bottom area that he's gonna go, and I keep walking down. Well, when I get to my turn, I turn in and I walk maybe, gosh, I don't know 50 yards. Okay, in between Trey and I there's like a big cane, thicket, if you will. And all of a sudden I hear, and I look up, and it's the same freaking deer, no way. And he's running through the cane, his racks, just like that, and this time he comes out at 40 yards 40 yards.
Speaker 2:Oh man, get your cross, so I'm sitting there going back and I'm like, oh, thank you, jesus, you you're merciful, thank you. And I pull up on him at 40 and I mean I got the crosshairs as he's loping. I'm like this is a dead. He's going on my wall. Son, this is going to be the best story in the world. Click.
Speaker 1:Oh God no.
Speaker 2:What happened? I racked the shell and tried to get back on him. He crosses the river and goes across and I can't ever get back on him. He's chasing does, and I immediately I'm like, okay, I know, I had another round in there. So I walked back to where I tried, because I had to walk up another 50 yards to try to get on across the river. And so I walked back and found the shell. There is the most faint of a point to where the firing pin hit the bullet. Yeah, just the most faint little dot there. Yeah, okay, yeah.
Speaker 1:Just the most faint little dot there. It hit like a glass cap, yeah, okay.
Speaker 2:And so I get to my tree and I start punching the tree a good bit, you know. Once I get up there and get down, well, the next day I'm going squirrel hunting with my buddy up here and I said I got my .308 in the truck. I said, man, I got this shell and I got my .308, and I said I got my 308 in the truck. And I said, man, I got this shell and I got my 308. And I told him the story. I said, let me, let me shoot this gun real quick. So we put a target out there at 80 yards same shell. Yeah, same shell, same gun. Throw it in there, boom,
Speaker 2:dead on. That was just one of those days that god was like um, today is not your day and I am going to build some patience with you, buddy, today's a building day for you. Uh, yeah, and it was. So. It was just one of those things like because my brother was like did you, do you think you didn't see the? You know the bolt down all the way. And I'm like no, heck, no, that was not the case at all, it was just for whatever. And that's the only. To this day, that is the only misfire I've had with that gun and that's a Browning X-Bolt that I've had for now 15 years. That's insane.
Speaker 1:That's insane, especially that the round then went off the next time you tried it. That's crazy man.
Speaker 2:It was a Hornady. It was a Hornady. I can't remember it wasn't an American Whitetail, but it was a Hornady something, so it was a good round too. It was a Hornady something, so it was a good round too. It wasn't like I bought a box of 20 for 19 bucks at Walmart. They were good shells, good gun, everything. It was just yeah. So I have nightmares on the daily or on the weekly about both of those deer.
Speaker 1:Just that, deer's day man. Good for him, man, he survived you twice yeah, well, trent man those are great stories, man. I often get a lot of feedback that I need more whitetail stories. That's, that's great. Because, uh, sometimes whitetail hunter is like, well, I just go sit in the blind. So it's fun to hear those stories. Even though you don't necessarily love those stories, people like to hear them. So thank you, man. Um, any more pop to the top of your head, or you want to wrap it right there, up to you, sir.
Speaker 2:Man, I think we've pretty much wrapped the good ones right there Perfect. I've got some successful ones, but I'll have to come back on another day and give you some success ones.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you know what's funny is more often than not we get those stories like what went wrong, because like those are more memorable sometimes, and definitely in your case. Right then, uh oh yeah, just walked out there, shot that deer, went back to the truck and had some beers like that's not that great of a story.
Speaker 2:But you miss. That's what you want one day. Yeah, that's the way you want it but it's not always how you get it, so yeah, all right, man.
Speaker 1:Well, let's do this. Then why don't you tell the people where they can find? You give them your youtube, instagram, tiktok, whatever you got, and uh, we'll share that in the show notes okay, uh, so you can find me on every single platform.
Speaker 2:just my name, trent ellis t-r-e-n-t-e-l-l-i-s. The only thing that's different on instagram is it's I want to say it's trent, underscore 21. Okay, but uh, but yeah, if you, if you type in my name, I'll be the only guy that looks like me with a blue check mark by his name. So that's it, yeah.
Speaker 1:Cool.
Speaker 2:I do a lot of. I do six, six comedy shorts, uh a week that I put on every single plat, uh, every single platform, um, platform, um. And then I, I try to, you know, do two to three long form videos a month on YouTube. So you know, that's, that's geared. You know more serious, but still got some witty stuff in there.
Speaker 1:Just me being me Perfect man. I was going to ask if you kind of just wing your videos. But it sounds, if you're doing them that consistently you're, you're probably putting a fair amount of planning into the videos you're putting together. Is that right?
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, yeah, I mean I'm putting together. You know I try to get all my videos shot on Monday if I have any carryover on Tuesday. But like this week, you know, we'll be next week, we'll be in Gatlinburg for a few days with some friends of ours and so I'll have to get all my next week videos done today and tomorrow and Sunday and I'll space them out. But I just get the premise of what I'm doing and then I kind of you know, once I've got fun with it, I kind of have fun with it when I shoot the video and just kind of let it flow. You know, try not to write a script or anything like that. Cool man.
Speaker 1:Cool man, Cool. Well, I love what you're doing. You've cracked me up regularly and I'm in a couple groups with a bunch of hunters and your videos seem to keep showing up, man. So I knew I had to get in touch with you. So thank you, Trent, I really appreciate it. Brother. Hey, I appreciate the invite, Michael?
Speaker 2:Yeah, of course.
Speaker 1:All right, guys. That's it. Another couple stories in the books. Thank you guys, so much for tuning in. I also know I've been mentioning a fair amount about voting recently. It's all done, thank goodness. Happy to have that crap off TV and a lot of the things I was rooting for happened. Hopefully they did for you, too, if you went out and voted and took someone with you. Thank you, guys very much. Trent, thank you, of course, for coming on the podcast. I really do appreciate you, brother, and your content is hilarious. Keep it up, man. I really do appreciate you, brother, and your content is hilarious. Keep it up, man. I really do appreciate that. You listeners. If you aren't following Trent, do it. If you aren't following the Hunting Stories podcast on Instagram, do it. Whatever, you're listening to this on right now, please give us a follow and review us so that we can get more people listening, more people reaching out to tell some fun stories. But that's it, guys. Thank you so much. Now get out there and make some stories of your own.
