Great vid as usual with great insight! I learn something new, said or unsaid, every time I watch it when I get back from a hunt. Thank you for your dedication to the art!
Congratulations on a great bow hunt! Your comments & insight during the hunt are priceless! I feel like other channels miss those details which as a bow hunter I really love to hear. Stay true to those values & the bow my friend. Great video 💯 Plan on bow hunting Hawaii in the near future!
Awesome content....was just there last month on the 28th till the 3rd with friends.... they hunted but I fished instead. Like you said, as well as my friend's have said, not much deer as years past. Great hunting vid...
Great video! Love the narration. Would love to hear narration from both perspectives; hunter who is trying to get in close & and your perspective on what you would do in those situations.
Nice buck! Bring back memories! Damn I remember gutting my deer with thousands of flys just buzzing around, look like there non while you were deboning your deer. Stay blessed 🤙
Nice breakdown Ryan! Sad to see that they are eradicating so heavily. I spent a month over there a few years back and would see officials going out at night to eradicate.
mechanicals ftw. great for when things don't go to plan. good job ryan. they definitely got the 4 weeks archery season right spreading everyone out. its a shame they can't do it for sheep and bring back ewe first before rams to bring down ewe numbers and improve ram age class.
"Mechanicals ftw" 💯. There was a time I wouldn't be caught dead with one ... but times change and so has the technology and build for sure. Some folks told me they "don't like the 4 weeks spread." Oh well ... maybe they complained that it was too crowded before 😂. Would be cool if management structure could change as you suggest. However, old habits die hard in Hawaii ... maybe never. "It's too crowded" spread um out, "I don't like it, not enough pressure to move them around for me." "No more big rams." Ok, let's close it down some and maybe make limited tag holders and control some ewes ... "No, everyone gets a tag same time and killing ewes is eradication." Brah ... Hawaii is hard, some things (like our illogical and emotional community, cannot help). ...And we have a government, in an interest and weak culture to try to please everyone even amongst illogical requests, figures out the best way to go more illogical and please no one. 😂
It is for sure. However, I do have to admit I kind of hated it in our crowded local public hunts. I didn't have any fun continually getting close, waiting hours on their beds, only to almost routinely have another hunter be upwind eventually and blow um all out everyday haha. It was pretty bad at one point. 600 hunters in 30,000 acres a day is literally the statistic back then. Some other areas I used to hunt would be on the order of 200+ hunters a day in 3,000 acres. Was crazy so I eventually just hung it up.
DLNR website and regs for the state public hunts. Pulama Game Management on Lanai also has lots of axis deer hunting opportunities on the privately held hunting areas. There is also a year-round archery permit in areas closer the roads and buildings maybe less acceptable to have gun hunts in.
The Island of Lanai is like 98% privately-owned. However, the State leases about 30,000 acres of it (where this hunt is held) and is it open to the public to apply for annually. It is, by the data, likely the most popular or participated public hunt in the State.
I watch your videos over 10 years ago about stick bow when i was starting out my bow hunting journey. Glad your still making videos
Thank you for the nice words. The stickbow may return .... 🤯
Nice buck congrats!! Good to see there are still some over there.
Great vid as usual with great insight! I learn something new, said or unsaid, every time I watch it when I get back from a hunt. Thank you for your dedication to the art!
Awesome bradda, just came back from my first trip learned plenty! Learned from this video too alohas 🤙🏾
Mahalos for sharing your hunt Ryan. I enjoyed watching. Makes me wanna pick up my bow again and head over to lanai. 🤙🏽
Great buck, much respect! I'll be back to Lanai in April to hunt for the 3rd time. Can't wait!
Congratulations on a great bow hunt! Your comments & insight during the hunt are priceless! I feel like other channels miss those details which as a bow hunter I really love to hear. Stay true to those values & the bow my friend. Great video 💯 Plan on bow hunting Hawaii in the near future!
Awesome content....was just there last month on the 28th till the 3rd with friends.... they hunted but I fished instead. Like you said, as well as my friend's have said, not much deer as years past. Great hunting vid...
Great video! Love the narration.
Would love to hear narration from both perspectives; hunter who is trying to get in close & and your perspective on what you would do in those situations.
Good break down on the stalk pretty on point. 🤙
Congratulations! Mahalo for sharing. Keep carrying that heavy camera I know I appreciate your efforts! God Bless
The thingg defies the laws of physics. It's light on day 1 and somehow gets heavier each subsequent day 😂
Great hunt Ryan! I’ve been back on the mainland over three years already, definitely miss spending time on Lanai!
Thank you for the video showing awesome video
Congrats! 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼
Nice buck! Bring back memories! Damn I remember gutting my deer with thousands of flys just buzzing around, look like there non while you were deboning your deer. Stay blessed 🤙
If there was no wind, I'd probably be inhaling flies on a deep breath while deboning haha!
killa video hawaiian chee keep it coming bradda
Congrats!
Nice breakdown Ryan! Sad to see that they are eradicating so heavily. I spent a month over there a few years back and would see officials going out at night to eradicate.
Sad for hunters good for the community and environment on Lani
I always hunt down low. Right on the Kiawe line. Catch them coming in the trees for the day. Orr coming out in evening.
mechanicals ftw. great for when things don't go to plan. good job ryan. they definitely got the 4 weeks archery season right spreading everyone out. its a shame they can't do it for sheep and bring back ewe first before rams to bring down ewe numbers and improve ram age class.
"Mechanicals ftw" 💯. There was a time I wouldn't be caught dead with one ... but times change and so has the technology and build for sure. Some folks told me they "don't like the 4 weeks spread." Oh well ... maybe they complained that it was too crowded before 😂. Would be cool if management structure could change as you suggest. However, old habits die hard in Hawaii ... maybe never. "It's too crowded" spread um out, "I don't like it, not enough pressure to move them around for me." "No more big rams." Ok, let's close it down some and maybe make limited tag holders and control some ewes ... "No, everyone gets a tag same time and killing ewes is eradication."
Brah ... Hawaii is hard, some things (like our illogical and emotional community, cannot help). ...And we have a government, in an interest and weak culture to try to please everyone even amongst illogical requests, figures out the best way to go more illogical and please no one. 😂
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Great video man! They are fast moving animals. Been following you since you hunted trad.
May bring back the trad haha
@@ryankohatsu8836 yeah man, it is very rewarding.
It is for sure. However, I do have to admit I kind of hated it in our crowded local public hunts. I didn't have any fun continually getting close, waiting hours on their beds, only to almost routinely have another hunter be upwind eventually and blow um all out everyday haha. It was pretty bad at one point. 600 hunters in 30,000 acres a day is literally the statistic back then. Some other areas I used to hunt would be on the order of 200+ hunters a day in 3,000 acres. Was crazy so I eventually just hung it up.
@@ryankohatsu8836 Man that sounds horrible… not like hunting at all. I have a privilege to hunt private land I guess.
Congrats on your deer! Looks like a great hunt opportunity. Where would I find out more about hunting on Lanai?
DLNR website and regs for the state public hunts. Pulama Game Management on Lanai also has lots of axis deer hunting opportunities on the privately held hunting areas. There is also a year-round archery permit in areas closer the roads and buildings maybe less acceptable to have gun hunts in.
If you only get one on lanai...you can always get more on Maui. There's thousands of axis deer on Maui.
Right ... except Lanai is pretty much the only public hunt I can hunt axis.
great video, where'd you get your Tabis?
I can't remember exactly. Couldve been WalMart or local fishing store. I've probably had those exact ones for 10 years.
Bro I live Oahu and have been wanting to learn how to hunt. What's some good recommendations to get started?
Easiest would be to shadow someone locally. Maybe that's something worth making a video on later.
Is this private land? Nice buck btw!
The Island of Lanai is like 98% privately-owned. However, the State leases about 30,000 acres of it (where this hunt is held) and is it open to the public to apply for annually. It is, by the data, likely the most popular or participated public hunt in the State.
@@ryankohatsu8836 Oh, okay! Mahalo!
Are you able to hunt public with any sort of success in Lanai?