Houston's first buck brings a family hunt to Eastmans Hunting Journals

Brandon Mason joins Houston and Bryce DeGroot in Montana, following a whitetail's trail-camera history back to 2023.

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Rut-Crazed Montana Buck Gives a Hunter One Chance | Eastmans Hunting TV

Brandon Mason has a reason for being behind the camera beyond getting the shot: "One of my favorite parts of hunting is helping others get their start." Eastmans Hunting Journals' only new upload follows that idea into Montana's Missouri River bottomlands, with Houston DeGroot hunting alongside his father, Bryce.

"Rut-Crazed Montana Buck Gives a Hunter One Chance | Eastmans Hunting TV" begins with supervised rifle practice before the family settles into a blind. There is history to study, too: trail-camera images of the buck stretch back to 2023. After limited movement on the first day, the team moves its blind beside an active rub site along a fence line.

The eventual opportunity requires more waiting as the buck moves among does. Houston gets his first buck, and Mason admits that even operating the camera left him shaking. The episode includes sponsored app advice and a separate payment-platform ad segment.

The upload reached roughly 4,200 views and is drawing the strongest daily audience among the channel's active videos. Behind it is Ike Eastman's waterhole elk hunt, whose unusually specific attraction is a bull trying to bugle with its mouth full of water. Todd Helms' older Horizon Vandal 2 review also continues to draw views, moving from bench testing into field shooting positions.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while daily views are running below their usual pace. Nearby outdoors channel North To Alaska had a substantially larger week; Eastmans Hunting Journals brought in about 176,000 views across its catalogue, with Houston's Montana outing supplying the fresh chapter.

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The numbers

Here is how the channel's week and its most active uploads compare.

views gained this week: this channel and similar channels

North To Alaska

1,013,583

Mangy dog tv

1,011,891

OKLAHOMA OFF-GRID

365,870

Jay Siemens

322,604

Eastmans Hunting Journals

176,194

southernprepper1

128,982

Bass fishing Productions …

64,715

Field Trips with Robert F…

30,082

Uncut Angling

11,507

subscribers

286,000

no significant change in the last 7 days

total views

170,177,228

views per day

15,724

typical day: 26,008

first-day views of each video posted this week

Rut-Crazed Montana Buck Gives a Hunter …

3,283

subscribers: this channel and similar channels

Jay Siemens

306,000

OKLAHOMA OFF-GRID

304,000

Bass fishing Productions …

302,000

southernprepper1

300,000

Eastmans Hunting Journals

286,000

North To Alaska

284,000

Field Trips with Robert F…

275,000

Uncut Angling

274,000

Mangy dog tv

264,000

As of November 9, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.