A pic to get you reved up for deer season!

[DigMe]

I decided to throw in another picture courtesy of my mom.

Here's a pic from two seasons ago. This is definitely legit because I've known the guy on the left since he was born and he sometimes comes and hunts our land.

These were all deer taken at a lease in East Texas called Boggy Slough. It's owned by the Temple Inland corporation at which my dad worked for 15 years. The guy that I know in the pic works out at Boggy Slough. I don't remember the story behind the picture but I'm guessing that these deer were all taken over the course of a short time period and then this is the picture after they've all been skinned and prepped at once. I think the way it works out there is that you kill a deer and you immediately take an equivalent amount of meat from their stock in their freezer and then they skin the deer and put that meat back in for the next guy that kills one. I think you can get your trophy later if you want but I don't know. Not ideal but that's how it is when you hunt on someone else's setup sometimes. Anyway...here's the pic:

A side note...my mom came across a guy out in the welding shop of the company that she works for who had gotten ahold of this pic from somewhere and was telling people that he and some buddies killed all these deer in a completely different place. Imagine his surprise when my mom busted his BS story! One of her closest friends is the mother of the guy in the pic.

brad cook

 

[Stand_Watie]

This isn't the same batch of bucks is it?



http://www.luftex.com/bucktracks.htm

Now look at this one



I thought it was kind of twisted until I read the caption.

 

[Rembrandt]

Is this the same corporation that owns Thompson Temple ranches in Kerrville, Texas? If so, they probably came from a game ranch.

I bow hunted Sheep at the one in Kerrville some years ago....had about 100 whitetail bucks (no does) in a 1000 acre fenced in area. They wanted $6500 for a deer hunt but had bigger ones than in your photo. Feed bunk deer don't excite me as much as the wild ones.

 

[DigMe]

Rembrandt,

No, I don't think that Boggy Slough imports deer and I don't think they fence them in either. They just have an excellent management program and have full-time employees who manage the wildlife year round. They have to cull a lot of does every year too. If we're running low on deer it's usually no problem for my friend to get us one. Sometimes we get some funny questions though when we take them in to be processed and it's not deer season.

I don't know if there is any relation between Temple-Inland and the Thompson Temple ranch. I'd say probably not.

brad cook

 

[DigMe]

stand_watie,

That probably is the same batch. I'd bet on it. If I wasn't so damn lazy I'd look at the picture and try to compare each deer head but oh well.

brad cook

 

[Ktulu]

Wow, the second one from the right on the tailgate and on the ground in Stand's picture it's the first deer on the right has an amazingly rack. The shape caught my eye right away.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Talk about a basket case!

 

[Stand_Watie]

Talk about a basket case

Did you read the caption? When I first saw the photo I thought somebody had killed a deer and was posing with it in a bed I thought that gal was a little wierd until I saw what they were up to.


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"This Deer is alive and recovering at Texas A&M veterinary school! The monster size buck was found tangled up in a fence with his neck broken. He will undoubtedly live out the remainder of his life on one of the Texas
wildlife breeding farms. The caregiver in the photos is Liz, a student at the veterinary school of medicine"
***

 

[444]

"When I first saw the photo I thought somebody had killed a deer and was posing with it in a bed"

I can top that, I honestly thought the woman in that picture was my sister. It looks just like her. No kidding. I really did.

 

[WhiteKnight]

Is it just me, or does the IV look like urine?

 

[DigMe]

Ok, I talked to my friend, Paul, who's in the original picture a couple of weeks ago and got the full info on Boggy Slough. It's (I think he said) 20,000 acres and only has high fence on 3 sides. However, the deer are all native, natural deer. They just have a lot of big uns as a result of good management.

He doesn't work there anymore though, now he's a wildlife specialist out at a different hunting area owned by the same company that owns Boggy Slough but this one's called Snapping Valley and it's outside of Jasper. I think that one is 12,000 acres. They do have high fences on all sides because they have some Elk and some African breed ( I can't remember which one) out there. They don't really hunt those though except he said they might take one elk every 5 years or so. I told him to send me any good pictures they get this deer season. Both Boggy Slough and Snapping Valley have employees who manage the game year round in addition to other duties. Mostly the people who hunt out there are clients and employees of Temple-Inland.

brad cook