Love listening to these during travel! Entertaining and educational from who I believe to be the best pressured Whitaker bow hunter! Thanks for the experience Mr. John👍🏼
Hearing you talk about your time at the state hospital brought me back to my first job in the mental health field as it was also at a state operated security hospital for the mentally ill and dangerous. I entered that job naively, and as it was for you, a complete wake up call!
Much more exciting, no cell phones or cameras, you would sit there with the excitement of knowing there could be a monarch around each corner. Now you sit there bc you already know every deer in the area bc of your camera
John, although I was close friends with Chris, he never told me stories of your childhood or early deer hunting. It made me wonder if you ever told him, or if now as the years advance your just in an old guy story telling frame of mind as I am. Thanks for posting these. It’s honest, down to earth story telling. That’s something almost impossible to find on RUclips or anywhere online. Keep them coming please.
Suggestion for next story: Scariest moments or most frightened you’ve ever been in the woods. Something unexplained you saw/heard, or maybe a close call while climbing in a tree for example.
@@johneberhart4062 Not necessarily but heck if you have a good bigfoot story then let's hear it haha! I just mean times that you've been scared shitless in the woods. Could be an encounter with a person, animal, scary moment climbing a tree, etc. . Just a moment that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
@@HockeyTownHooligan5 Concerning myself, I was hunting when trees around me started falling and didn't know there was a tornado going through about a mile from me. Winds where I was hunting were 60 plus MPH and I stayed in the big oak hoping to catch the deer movement after the storm passed through. I saw nothing and was a bit concerned about the tree I was in falling over. I took a body builder that a friend of mine brought up to hunt with and put him in a tree and I was 1/4 mile away in another tree. About 20 minutes before dark he started yelling my name and I refused to answer and eventually it turned into Help! When I went to get him he was fine and I asked what were you yelling for and spooking all the deer during prime time. He said, and I'm dead serious, I am afraid of Bigfoot. I swear to God, that's what he said and he was serious. Never took him again and he was a big guy. I asked him what the hell he wanted my skinny ass for. Wierded me out.
@@johneberhart4062 HA! That is pure gold. I got caught in a tree during freezing rain two years ago. Not too fun climbing down when everything is covered in ice. I had a guy that I shared hunting land with(I didn't know this dude very well) get into the back of my truck and take a pair of green sweat pants out of my tote and wore them. He said he forgot his camo pants and figured I'd "help a fellow sportsman out." I was kind of shocked at first so I didn't confront him about it right away, just sort of laughed it off. I thought about it throughout the day and eventually called him later and laid into him. Told him to never touch my stuff again and to stay out of my shit. He ended up apologizing and bought me a 6 pack lol. I still hunt there but I make sure to lock my truck now.
Awesome story John. Glad everyone got home intact! My Dad was rifle hunting in NH in the 1950s w a friend whose rifle malfunctioned after the first shot. He jumped on the deer and had the rack in his left hand and was plunging his knife into its neck while the deer was struggling to buck him off. (Charlie was small, but strong, and a tree guy, so a bit crazy!) My father came to the commotion and was yelling "Let him loose before he kills you Charlie!", I'll shoot him! Charlie wouldn't let go... He got the deer himself. Guess he didnt trust my Dad😃 My Dad always finished the story with, "Can you believe a guy doing that? What a man!😳
Great story. Kinda reminds me of my first big buck. Same type terrain . Same size 8 point rack. I also walked up on him while he was still alive but he jumped into a waist deep creek and couldn’t get out the other side and drowned.
Haha, I bet that meat would have tasted awful! I feel that ever person that finishes school should have to volunteer in a mental health institute. Great video Mr. Eberhart! thank you, Kenny
LOL I cracked up listening to this. Remind me of my crazy uncle's that they are some big construction working fighting kind of men that would probably have done the same thing. Lol Great story, great buck!
Great story John. You are a natural storyteller and have a way of describing everything in great detail. It's always interesting to hear what you have to say about hunting especially and any other topics as well
Thanks Adam and if I didn't add the details of the hunt, they wouldn't be worth listening to. I feel so sorry for the TV and micro managed property hunters that just go out nd kill deer in food plots after they get the pictures of bucks coming out into them, they miss the whole bowhunting experience and learn nothing about actual hunting. That was one reason I started writing articles about kills, so I would have the why, when, and where details for future hunts.
Leroy was not happy because that buck was bigger than any he had ever taken. He was a very strange man and he didn't work. His wife was a nurse at St. Joe hospital and she totally supported him. He was also very abusive to her and she was scared for her life to leave him.
I actually make things from acorns like flour, and white oak is the best because of not having as much bitterness as other ones. Get to know the deer like them to because we have a lot of White Oaks in Ohio.
Wow. On so many different levels Wow. We used to drive thru that Northville hospital for kicks and what a creepy place. We’d get thrown out by cops every time. My friend worked there and has similar story’s. He said he’d take those patients a brand new TV and come in the next day and the TV would be completely taken apart on the floor of their room. Even playing Northville Golf course always just seemed scary and too close to that hospital. I’ll bet there’s gigantic old city bucks living on that closed hospital ground now. Again Wow!
Was a strange place to work and I know they closed it down quite a few years ago (well after I moved up north). My sister lives in South Lyon and she said the place turned into a jungle and then the tore all the buildings down. I played golf at that course on the corner of Newburg and 7 mile, I think.
I never wrote an article about that spike, so my memory is sort of short on it. I took a doe that day as well. If I tell that story it would be very brief. I had the same bow and he was on public at the end of Doctors Club road by Curan.
Oh okay i see. Well maybe if you have a few brief stories you can think of and add them together to make a nice story. I remember in your video that you were most excited about that spike just figured it would be cool to here about it
What a story, scary but funny at the same time, reminds me of the time my son and I released a young bear from a foot snare. Oh the crazy shit we do sometimes.
@@johneberhart4062 not that we could see. I walked out the snare cable and threw a painters drop sheet over it, my son ( 6'4 ) tackles it to the ground ( it probably weighed only 60 pounds ) it stood up with him on top, I had to grab it's feet and pull them out from under it, then get the snare off it's foot. When we left it go it just stood there looking pissed at us. Everyone was OK, I ended up with teeth marks in my boot , luckily kept all my toes. We have it on a old video card somewhere
Awesome story! I have watched two different videos of you saying white oak acorns are preferred by deer an are smaller then red oak acorns, I believe you have this backwards white oak acorns are three times the size of red oak acorns? So do deer prefer red oak or white oak acorns ha
I've definitely won a lot of money in bars over the years. Don't play much anymore but it wouldn't take long to get back into it as it's like riding a bike. Knowing how to use english on the cue ball IS the game.
That was probably the best hunting story I've ever heard. Better than most hunting videos I've seen.
Love your stories, reminds me of 1st going hunting with my grandfather! Love them memories
Love listening to these during travel! Entertaining and educational from who I believe to be the best pressured Whitaker bow hunter! Thanks for the experience Mr. John👍🏼
Thanks Q
Thanks for the trip down memory lane of a childhood in Michigan. These make for great listening while driving.
Thanks Clint
Heck of a story!!
Hearing you talk about your time at the state hospital brought me back to my first job in the mental health field as it was also at a state operated security hospital for the mentally ill and dangerous. I entered that job naively, and as it was for you, a complete wake up call!
Everyone should have to work in a place like that. That's right, those people are on the streets nowadays.
Great story thanks for sharing John.
Interesting to see the beginnings of a great hunter and the lessons learned along the way.
It was a much more fun time to hunt, because nothing then was predictable.
Much more exciting, no cell phones or cameras, you would sit there with the excitement of knowing there could be a monarch around each corner. Now you sit there bc you already know every deer in the area bc of your camera
@@user-kh8bp6ue8y Amen to that!
Really great story John! I love hearing old hunting stories!
The older ones are more interesting because they were more in the learning mode.
John, although I was close friends with Chris, he never told me stories of your childhood or early deer hunting. It made me wonder if you ever told him, or if now as the years advance your just in an old guy story telling frame of mind as I am. Thanks for posting these. It’s honest, down to earth story telling. That’s something almost impossible to find on RUclips or anywhere online. Keep them coming please.
Great story. Those bucks are extremely mean when injured. Been there. Thanks, John.
I know I don't want any of that.
Suggestion for next story: Scariest moments or most frightened you’ve ever been in the woods. Something unexplained you saw/heard, or maybe a close call while climbing in a tree for example.
You mean like seeing Bigfoot?
Lol
@@johneberhart4062 Not necessarily but heck if you have a good bigfoot story then let's hear it haha! I just mean times that you've been scared shitless in the woods. Could be an encounter with a person, animal, scary moment climbing a tree, etc. . Just a moment that made the hair on the back of your neck stand up.
@@HockeyTownHooligan5 Concerning myself, I was hunting when trees around me started falling and didn't know there was a tornado going through about a mile from me. Winds where I was hunting were 60 plus MPH and I stayed in the big oak hoping to catch the deer movement after the storm passed through. I saw nothing and was a bit concerned about the tree I was in falling over.
I took a body builder that a friend of mine brought up to hunt with and put him in a tree and I was 1/4 mile away in another tree. About 20 minutes before dark he started yelling my name and I refused to answer and eventually it turned into Help! When I went to get him he was fine and I asked what were you yelling for and spooking all the deer during prime time. He said, and I'm dead serious, I am afraid of Bigfoot. I swear to God, that's what he said and he was serious. Never took him again and he was a big guy. I asked him what the hell he wanted my skinny ass for. Wierded me out.
@@johneberhart4062 HA! That is pure gold. I got caught in a tree during freezing rain two years ago. Not too fun climbing down when everything is covered in ice.
I had a guy that I shared hunting land with(I didn't know this dude very well) get into the back of my truck and take a pair of green sweat pants out of my tote and wore them. He said he forgot his camo pants and figured I'd "help a fellow sportsman out." I was kind of shocked at first so I didn't confront him about it right away, just sort of laughed it off. I thought about it throughout the day and eventually called him later and laid into him. Told him to never touch my stuff again and to stay out of my shit. He ended up apologizing and bought me a 6 pack lol. I still hunt there but I make sure to lock my truck now.
Great story, have experienced similar situations.. Have hunted behind swamp daedalus, very effective....🦌🎯
Awesome story John. Glad everyone got home intact!
My Dad was rifle hunting in NH in the 1950s w a friend whose rifle malfunctioned after the first shot. He jumped on the deer and had the rack in his left hand and was plunging his knife into its neck while the deer was struggling to buck him off. (Charlie was small, but strong, and a tree guy, so a bit crazy!) My father came to the commotion and was yelling "Let him loose before he kills you Charlie!", I'll shoot him! Charlie wouldn't let go...
He got the deer himself. Guess he didnt trust my Dad😃
My Dad always finished the story with, "Can you believe a guy doing that? What a man!😳
That's a great picture and a great story, too!
Thanks Joe.
I’m loving the story’s. Keep them coming!
Will do and next are some thought provoking videos on entry and exit lights.
Great story. Kinda reminds me of my first big buck. Same type terrain . Same size 8 point rack. I also walked up on him while he was still alive but he jumped into a waist deep creek and couldn’t get out the other side and drowned.
That made it a bit easier, but if it were so deep he drowned, must have been fun getting him out of the wet and likely mucky ditch.
@@johneberhart4062 It was waist deep. I got soaked but didn’t care because I was so pumped up.
Awesome stories john ive learned alot from listening to u ur a heck of a hunter
Thanks Michael
Great story! Keep them coming.
Will try, have many more.
Haha,
I bet that meat would have tasted awful!
I feel that ever person that finishes school should have to volunteer in a mental health institute. Great video Mr. Eberhart!
thank you, Kenny
Hilarious! Great story and good luck this year! Can't wait to see/hear about it
Don't assume I will kill something. I have empty years just like everyone else that hunts regular property. Good luck to you as well.
@@johneberhart4062 i love the humility, but I have faith in you
LOL I cracked up listening to this. Remind me of my crazy uncle's that they are some big construction working fighting kind of men that would probably have done the same thing. Lol Great story, great buck!
I just passed on a couple of 2.5 year olds last week. It's shocking how things change
Near Alpena that's where I'm from and where I've hunted my whole life! Not the best hunting but I love the deer camp life!
Great story!
Thanks
this was a good one.
John! I hope you are making a million dollars off the ads in this video. I had to watch/skip over 20!
Great story John. You are a natural storyteller and have a way of describing everything in great detail. It's always interesting to hear what you have to say about hunting especially and any other topics as well
Thanks Adam and if I didn't add the details of the hunt, they wouldn't be worth listening to. I feel so sorry for the TV and micro managed property hunters that just go out nd kill deer in food plots after they get the pictures of bucks coming out into them, they miss the whole bowhunting experience and learn nothing about actual hunting. That was one reason I started writing articles about kills, so I would have the why, when, and where details for future hunts.
@@johneberhart4062 I couldn't agree more. Thanks for taking the time to share with us
Great tell!
Thanks
That’s a once in a lifetime story! 😂 wonder what Leroy had to say?
2nf that
Leroy was not happy because that buck was bigger than any he had ever taken. He was a very strange man and he didn't work. His wife was a nurse at St. Joe hospital and she totally supported him. He was also very abusive to her and she was scared for her life to leave him.
@@johneberhart4062 key words are “not happy, didn’t work.” Goes hand in hand.
Very captivating!
Thanks you and it was intense for a while.
I actually make things from acorns like flour, and white oak is the best because of not having as much bitterness as other ones. Get to know the deer like them to because we have a lot of White Oaks in Ohio.
Wow. On so many different levels Wow. We used to drive thru that Northville hospital for kicks and what a creepy place. We’d get thrown out by cops every time. My friend worked there and has similar story’s. He said he’d take those patients a brand new TV and come in the next day and the TV would be completely taken apart on the floor of their room. Even playing Northville Golf course always just seemed scary and too close to that hospital. I’ll bet there’s gigantic old city bucks living on that closed hospital ground now. Again Wow!
Was a strange place to work and I know they closed it down quite a few years ago (well after I moved up north). My sister lives in South Lyon and she said the place turned into a jungle and then the tore all the buildings down. I played golf at that course on the corner of Newburg and 7 mile, I think.
You should tell the story on your first buck with a bow the spike
I never wrote an article about that spike, so my memory is sort of short on it. I took a doe that day as well. If I tell that story it would be very brief. I had the same bow and he was on public at the end of Doctors Club road by Curan.
Oh okay i see. Well maybe if you have a few brief stories you can think of and add them together to make a nice story. I remember in your video that you were most excited about that spike just figured it would be cool to here about it
What a story, scary but funny at the same time, reminds me of the time my son and I released a young bear from a foot snare. Oh the crazy shit we do sometimes.
That would be crazy, was mom around?
@@johneberhart4062 not that we could see. I walked out the snare cable and threw a painters drop sheet over it, my son ( 6'4 ) tackles it to the ground ( it probably weighed only 60 pounds ) it stood up with him on top, I had to grab it's feet and pull them out from under it, then get the snare off it's foot. When we left it go it just stood there looking pissed at us. Everyone was OK, I ended up with teeth marks in my boot , luckily kept all my toes. We have it on a old video card somewhere
@@jeffboutilier5075 And that was just a small bear. Animals have different muscle masses for sure.
My friends that had paper routes did make decent money.
Awesome story! I have watched two different videos of you saying white oak acorns are preferred by deer an are smaller then red oak acorns, I believe you have this backwards white oak acorns are three times the size of red oak acorns? So do deer prefer red oak or white oak acorns ha
Very arousing story.
Yes it was!
Man, not surprising JE is a pool player. Betcha he could win some $$ off unsuspecting victims 👍
I've definitely won a lot of money in bars over the years. Don't play much anymore but it wouldn't take long to get back into it as it's like riding a bike. Knowing how to use english on the cue ball IS the game.
@@johneberhart4062 I knew it!!! Thanks John love the channel great stuff. Kick some ass this year.
It's messed up in ohio now you can't put a deer out of its misery with a blade. It is because the killing blow was is with a blade.
If you ever have to do it again slice close to its lower jaw bone less meat guarding the jugular