browningguy
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in south Texas, and the wind is howling! Doubt anything will be moving in this but we'll wait and see.
That's exactly why you go. Even on days you don't think anything will be moving, you sure can't kill'em from the couch.thanks, just got a doe, so something for the freezer
We had a bumper crop of acorns too. I am so glad that I grew hunting deer before the use of feeders. I spent a lot of time scouting and filled all 6 tags with the biggest being a nice heavy racked 9 pt. If they don't come to you, go to them. I love it.I didn't hunt much this season, not deer, anyway. I'm in the post oak woods and we had a bumper crop of acorns. Haven't seen a deer on the camera for a month and I only see one now and then. No hogs, even. Seems they like acorns, too. So, I haven't wasted my time. If we don't have so many acorns next season, we should have plenty of healthy deer. Nobody is shooting much around here, everyone complaining about the acorns.
Glad you got some meat. Enjoy the chili.
We had a bumper crop of acorns too. I am so glad that I grew hunting deer before the use of feeders. I spent a lot of time scouting and filled all 6 tags with the biggest being a nice heavy racked 9 pt. If they don't come to you, go to them. I love it.
It is all good MC. I miss the quail hunting. Ducks around here is hit or miss unless you want to fight the crowds and the guides in east Arkansas. For some odd reason the Game and Fish Comm. stopped the Hog hunting on public land unless it is deer season. Said that trapping is more effective. Private land is open all year. Shame because there is 170,000 acres of Nation Forest 5 miles from my house. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if I had a pork shoulder in the smoker. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.That's great if you have enough land to hunt that way. Land here is $10,000 an acre, so I couldn't afford much. The woods are so thick, feeders are about the best way, anyhow. I'm more of a bird hunter, anyhow. Deer hunting is something I do when I'm bored. I'd rather be bird hunting, ducks, geese, doves. But, we have lots of game here. I keep meat in the freezer, if not deer, then hogs. But, hogs ain't been interested in corn, either. I thought about gathering up a bunch of acorns in the back yard to bait the trap with.
Yep, deer hunting in Texas is more and more a rich man's sport. I killed my first deer on a lease in Leaky, Texas that my grandpa had when I was 11. This was in 1963. No feeders back then, and I hunted a heavily traveled trail, but we had 25,000 acres on which to FIND those trails and things are more open in the hill country. We did plant oats back then, though, for a food crop. I'm going to plant a food plot for next season and try that as well as feeding.
I remember my grandpa griping when he dropped out of that lease that it was getting just TOO expensive.....$125 a gun. ROFL! Good luck finding a decent lease now days for $3000 a gun. Meh, I don't care for deer hunting THAT much. But, we bought out in the woods to retire. I have a gun range in my back yard and my box blind and tree stand about 200 yards into the woods. I'm happy. I plan to smoke some venison sausage and some store bought ribs on my smoker this afternoon and maybe pop a few rounds through my Bushmaster M4. Livin' the good life.
It is all good MC. I miss the quail hunting. Ducks around here is hit or miss unless you want to fight the crowds and the guides in east Arkansas. For some odd reason the Game and Fish Comm. stopped the Hog hunting on public land unless it is deer season. Said that trapping is more effective. Private land is open all year. Shame because there is 170,000 acres of Nation Forest 5 miles from my house. It wouldn't hurt my feelings if I had a pork shoulder in the smoker. Makes my mouth water just thinking about it.