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Just spoke with son Jeff on cell phone at deer camp and he and nephew Frank are finishing working on deer stands and blinds, cutting firewood, and general maintenace on old camphouse that my sons and I built in 1975.
About this time two weeks from this morning deer season will open, and my hunters will be strangling into camp with all sorts of stories and excuses. Sons, grandsons, nephews, grand nephews, and maybe a couple of good friends.
They have even built a box blind for me this year - I won't shoot anything except maybe a feral hog that might wander by. They are taking over the country.
I'm going for the fellowship, food, and stories around the campfire.
Life is good....!
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Sounds like a great time George with some good folks. Wish I was there to dutch oven cook for you guys, but have a group of my own that is hungry. Have a great time and take out one of those big feral hogs.
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Life is good George. Sounds like you are going to have a great time. Take some photos. I like to see pictures of your "old camphouse."
So you are entertaining also Heybud?
Ricki and I are leaving for Las Vegas in about 3 hours. I'll be gone until Friday. Then we're back here until the following Thursday, then we go up north to our ranch for 19 days! Then we're back here for about a week, then we spend 10 days in Pennsylvania with her folks. It's gonna be a busy month.
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JHAP & JWHAP, sounds like a fun-filled next few weeks. Hope y'all have a great time. Will you be able to check in with us - at least from PA?
Just do it...
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JHAPpy, don't forget...my pond is an hour from where your Bride's folks live.
No, that's not a threat.
See you soon!
I'll PM you my cell #
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I would rather eat the pig meat than the deer meat anyhow George.
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Deer season starts next Saturday afternoon for me. Texas reserves the weekend prior to opening weekend for childrens hunting. It will be my Grandsons 10th birthday and his Mom has a party scheduled for 11:00. DAMN!!!!!! So, he and I get to leave after the party and hunt that afternoon and the next day.
I really no longer get that heated up about shooting a deer but do enjoy taking him.
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Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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I'm now ready for deer season.... all the wheat has been planted, and is looking good with some of the recent rains I've had. The feeders are feeding, but the deer and pigs are on the acorns right now. The oaks are really dropping them right now, so activity at the feeders has been light. I did get a few good pics of some decent bucks.... Good hunting and fishing to all!!
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Those suckers look healthy.
I got my wheat planted and some feeders going. We got 2 different rains that totaled 6 inches. It came slow enough to help the land but I got absolutely no run off.
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Gary, That last deer (pics 2 and 3) looks mature. Neck blends into shoulders like it's one big muscle, his back is starting to sway, and, well...let's just say his belly resembles DD1's belly. Definitely mature. (Not to worry, Dave, I'm well on my way to the same look).
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Yeah, I know that you are a competent judge. I just put out a camera a couple of weeks ago. Nothing large came around as of last Sunday. And, they were 90% nocturnal.
Interesting thing. Wife and I went up last Sunday after the Cowboys had humiliated themselves. About 6:00 I went to replace the camera. There was a doe and yearling in the area. Ok, so we left. In the 3 or 4 miles before getting to the highway, we counted 14 deer. That's an unusually large amount but we enjoyed it. I told a guy about it the next day and he looked up the solunar tables for the area. He said that was a major feeding time. I've never paid a lot of attention to those tables.
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I saw a real corker yesterday and the bucks are making rubs and tons of scrapes...2 cameras up and a third will be soon but insultion in cabin project is kickin my old butt! I need a powered ladder and two extra arms.
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Gary, That last deer (pics 2 and 3) looks mature. Neck blends into shoulders like it's one big muscle, his back is starting to sway, and, well...let's just say his belly resembles DD1's belly. Definitely mature. I was going to say those would be nice looking yearlings in Ohio.
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Gary, It doesn't look like you have the legs on your feeder t-posted down. How do you keep the hogs from knocking over your feeder?
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David U,
The 8 pointer is definitely mature... depending on your definition. This is the third season I have been getting pictures of him, so I'm guessing 3.5 years old. He's got a good chance of getting bigger and older... he's smart, and stays nocturnal. I've never seen him, but he is a resident deer.
In my area of north Texas, this is a good deer. Too many small tracts and indescriminate trigger pullers, so the bucks have a tough time growing 3.5 years old. That may change next year...TPWD is talking about putting in a 13" spread minimum for most north Texas counties in the 2009 hunting season. That will let the younger bucks have a chance, for sure.
The hogs knocked down 3 out of 4 feeders in one week before I learned to bury the legs in the ground. I bury them about 12 inches deep... no problems in the last two years.
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Gary, That last deer (pics 2 and 3) looks mature. Neck blends into shoulders like it's one big muscle, his back is starting to sway, and, well...let's just say his belly resembles DD1's belly. Definitely mature. I was going to say those would be nice looking yearlings in Ohio. OK,maybe everything isnt bigger in Texas after all
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Razorbacks ... Why nowadays are they “Feral Hogs”? I like “Razorback” terminology best .. .
Anyway they are over running the country and thwart all attempts to control ….. dogs - traps – guns…
My sons know I wouldn’t shoot a deer if it walked in front of me and have set up a pop-up blind in a baited area for me to shoot a hog. I’m so shaky that I doubt I could hit the side of a barn door but I’ll give it a try.
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I have always wanted to shoot a hog with my bow, hope things work out for you George, the camp time is always worth the trip. I'm still looking for a buck but I have taken one doe with the bow already this year.
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Last weekend was Childrens hunting weekend in Texas. My Grandson/Pardner/Trevor turned 10 on Saturday and had a party. I wasn't there. I was too busy checking on everything to make sure hunting went well. After the party, Charlene brought him to the land. I had seen 21 deer that morning and early afternoon. He got there and about 4:30 we went out to the new stand that I had built. THE HILTON! We saw nothing that evening. Next morn, before dawn, we went over to a 9 acre wheat patch and hunkered down. After about 1.5 hours of nothing, I saw a really nice buck walking along the dam about 200 yds away. No shot presented itself so we bailed out and went after it. Trevor got his gun up once but couldn't really get a good shot. The buck went over the dam and he went after it. I followed along behind. Twice he froze and I knew he saw the deer. Then he knelt down and raised his 222. After a minute, he stood up and came back to me. He had been (in his words) eyeball to eyeball with the buck twice but it had been looking at him and he froze, When he knelt, it had gone back in the brush and didn't return. He told me that we might as well go to the house and see if Grandma was up and was ready for Breakfast. Then he said that since I hadn't come to his party that I owed him a present and WalMart wasn't too far out of the way on heading to the house. Ok, we went and I got soaked for $62.20 for some kind of game stuff. Does Bokagon sound about right? Anyway, it's the newest thing. We went hunting again that afternoon but didn't see anything. That is one more successful hunt in our rear view mirror. He fell asleep on the way back to the metromess.
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A good story from the Texas Hunting Forum. A guy there took his Grandson on a Childrens Weekend hunting trip. I think the boy was about 6. Sitting around the campfire at night with other men some stories got started. He looked at his Grandson and told him "What happens and is said at the deer lease stays at the deer lease.". A day after they got home the guys Daughter called and was laughing. She said she had asked her son about his first hunting trip. He told her "Mom, what happens at the deer lease stays at the deer lease.".
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Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley Rancher and Farmer Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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No hogs here, but I was just checking out our local deer regulations.
Tomorrow (Friday) and the next day is antlerless season in our county. I figure I'll try to take one in the morning. It seems like there are always several voyeur deer outside the bathroom window when I come out of the shower. I guess I'll put my rifle just below my towel tonight.
As I looked at the regulations, if we just use rifles, my wife and I can take a total of ten deer off our property in the next eight weeks. As state residents, my son and daughter-in-law can also legally take 10 deer off our farm during this time. If we were to use archery and black powder, the number goes way up.
Geeze, maybe I could get something out of my garden, and a little fruit off my fruit trees and berry bushes next year -- if the family were to help out our friends at Hunters for the Hungry.
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Good luck...I expect to see some good pics in the next few months!
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Oh Chris, How can you do dat? Dose are my cusins and frends! I really wish that my Yooper relatives and friends would tone it down, but dey won't. Dats juss plain embarreson! Suomi Poika (Knute/Ken/Catmandoo) P.S. If you told them about the Second Week of Deer Camp, why didn't you tell dem the story about my "Turdy Point Buck!!!!?" Turdy Point Buck P.S. Next -- I bet you guys tink we have akcents. We don't! You guys do! Second Week Of Deer Camp Da Yoopers
ITS THE SECOND WEEK OF DEER CAMP I GOT A SWOLLEN HEAD I'M LYING WITH THE DUST BALLS UNDERNEATH MY BED
AN ICY BREEZE IS BLOWING IN THROUGH THE TONGUE AND GROOVE MY PANTS ARE FROZEN TO THE FLOOR AND I'M TOO SICK TO MOVE
I DIDN'T DRINK TOO MANY ONLY THIRTY CANS OF BEER IT MUST HAVE BEEN THAT LAST SHOT THAT PUT ME UNDER HERE
CHORUS: IT'S THE SECOND WEEK OF DEER CAMP AND ALL THE GUYS ARE HERE WE DRINK PLAY CARDS AND SHOOT THE BULL BUT NEVER SHOOT NO DEER THE ONLY TIME WE LEAVE THE CAMP IS WHEN WE GO FOR BEER THE SECOND WEEK OF DEER CAMP IS THE GREATEST TIME OF YEAR
I REMEMBER PLAYING POKER THAT WEASEL MUSTA WON HE'S WEARING MY NEW SWAMPERS AND SLEEPING WITH MY GUN
HE'S SNORING LIKE A CHAIN SAW THE CAMP SMELLS LIKE A DUMP SOMEONE'S DIRTY UNDERWEAR IS HANGING ON THE PUMP
MUKKUS IN THE WOOD BOX EENERS PASSED OUT ON THE STOVE HIS FLANNEL SHIRT IS SMOKING I WONDER IF HE KNOWS
CHORUS
VITOS CRAWLING THROUGH THE DOOR I THINK HE GOT FROSTBITE HE PASSED OUT IN THE OUTHOUSE AND HE'S BEEN THERE SINCE LAST NIGHT
THEN GOOFUS STUMBLES THROUGH THE DOOR HE SAYS HE GOT A BUCK HE WAS COMING FROM THE WAYSIDE AND HE KILLED IT WITH HIS TRUCK
THEN MUUSTI CRACKS A BEER AND SAYS ITS TIME TO CELEBRATE GOOFUS GOT THE FIRST BUCK SINCE 1968
Da Yoopers - Da Turdy Point Buck
Let me tell you that you no, it's not so much the heat, as it is the gosh darn humidity. You no when u sit there in the bed, and your just sweaty you no? And you just, you go to reach for the water on the nightstand, and you slide right out of bed and the wife says, "Stop making so much noise! Your waking me up, go to sleep!" Well let me tell you, (yeah?) times like that, make me think bout movin up north, you no? (good idea) Ya I'd do it to. Course then I couldn't watch the Packers. You no the Packers are... Cause I like the Packers. I'd do nething for the Packers. Who can forget Vince Lombardi, you no? Back in the glory years? Not me, boy. Yeah nehow. Gettin to be that time of year, eh?(yeah, oh yeah)
Ya, I'm a deer hunter. How do you do? I got the deer huntin rep n tale for you. I'm so excited, it's my favorite time of year. I love to freeze my buns, chasin trophy deer. But don't clap your hands, to the stompin of the feet, because Yahey's like me, he can't keep a steady beat. no, m mm,
I got the great big knife, cause the hunting is my life. It's my chance to drink beer and get away from the wife. It's the boys night out, acting stupidly, say now, "baby, baby, don't you think maybe, how 'bout u n me, ya? haha (get away!)(ow ow ow!)
Well we partied all night, never made it to our bunks. And I was sittin in the tree stand, on the tree day, drunk. Wind was blowin 45, temp 30 below. I was freezin to death, then it started to snow. So I got out from the tree stand, start headin for the truck, and thats when I seen it there, the turdy point buck.
TURDY POINT BUCK?! turdy point buck. turdy point buck. (turdy point buck)
Well, he was 8 foot tall, weighed 12,000 pounds, with every step there was a shake, sh-shakin of the ground. He was ruthaful, so beautiful. Strutted right out of my dreams, he was created by God, just for outdoor magazines.
Now, I'm not much for thinkin, no, I dont do it often, but I had an idea. (yeah, what was that?) To put that turdy pointer, right in his coffin, ya. (turdy piont buck)
Couldn't get to my gernades, (yeah rite) the was in the shop, my stomach was tied into a monkey knot. Ya, my only hope was Betty Lou, she was the one, a combination AK 57 oozie radar laser triple-barrel double-scoped hit-seekin shotgun. (turdy point buck)
Ya, the women clappin in the back there, I gotta make that. Well he was comin toward me, gettin bigger n bigger, but my fingers were so frozen, I couldn't pull the trigger. I kicked off my boots, fired with my big toe, I was Dirty Harry, John Wayne, n G.I. Joe.
Ya, that turdy point buck, was only 10 feet away, ya, still I coudln't seem to hit him, and he wouldnt run away. And after 20 minutes, when the smoke cleared, there were hunters on the ground, and the worlds biggest dear. There, standin tall n proud, he looked at me and yawned, and then a flash of white, n there he was...gone. (oh its alrite clyde, dont worry about it)
Then 7 men got up, n the one fell down. A big lump of blaze orange, shakin on the ground. At first I thought he was one of the boys, but it was that no brother good in law of mine, from Illinois. (only cheeseheads, send him back on the next plane)
Did ya see the turdy pointer? Did ya see the turdy pointer? Did ya see the turdy pionter? Did ya see the turdy pointer?
As we jumped into the truck, and I'm gonna get that turdy point buck. Ya, I'm gonna get that turdy point buck. I'm gonna get that turdy point buck. (turdy point buck) (Hey, there he goes! There he goes!) I'm gonna get that turdy point buck. (Come on guys! Lets go get him!) Ya, I'm gonna get that turdy piont buck. (Hey grab your gun man! I got my beer, and I got that hit-seeker) If it's the last thing I do, I'm gonna get that turdy point, turdy point buck. Haha (tury point buck)
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This is what it's all about .... Friday night sat in a pop-up blind at feeder hoping for a hog. Nice buck walked within 25 ft of me and ambled to feeder and circled feeder couple of times eating, and spotted me in the blind. We had a staring contest and deer finally ambled into the brush. Must have known deer season not to start until next morning. Next morning same thing but a yearling buck - he knew he was safe with me. Enjoyed watching the sun come up and the woods come alive. Still no hogs - they were all down in the bottom rooting up the pasture. Great weekend - no deer taken - sons all experienced hunters and they have a "ten point" rule - lots of deer seen. "Thirteen Inch" rule aplies to grandsons and grand nephews when it's their week to hunt. Lots of food and fellowships and one on one time with my sons. Here's a photo of "pre-installed" retro-fitted Out House - talk about upscale ...
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