Hog with a stick

[Caustic Burno]

Wild hogs are building a nest. That only means one thing it is going to be butthole cold.
I have refused to build a heated deer stand and still hunt out of a ladder stand.
Old Arthur has about got me convinced I need to build one for next year.

 

[Calman]

I am ahead of you CB.
Been hunting out of a heated deer blind for years now.
I can even make a pot of coffee in it. :nod:
Havent moved in a recliner yet though. :lol:

Cal

 

[backhoeboogie]

I'm plumb embarrassed to tell ya'll. 20 foot tube steel legs. Steel Cabin. Relief pipe goes 8 feet underground into a huge gravel cavity. Two swivel office chairs. Overhead shelving. Sliding windows. Coleman heater. Sits between two feeders on the upper flood plain of the Brazos. 1/2 miles from Pecan Plantation where deer hunting is illegal and they are overrun with deer.

It was built for the boss lady. She hunted it the first year and limited the first weekend. I was across the road in a tree on opening day and we each got 18 month bucks within 30 minutes of daylight. She aint been in it since. She's got her place in town now and prolly won't ever hunt with me again anyway. Its mine now? She can't move it unless she gets a cutting torch. Who knows, maybe the judge will give her the whole place when the time comes.

Hoisted it up by putting it in the dump trailer and lifting it to about 45 degrees. The rest was easy.

I could take the 5 year old grandson out there and hunt in it but the two year old would make way too much racket. Maybe when he is a bit older. All I have to really do is drive into the pasture with a pick-up and roll down the window and take my pick anyway.

I quit using the deer feeders 5 years back because they were hog magnets.

 

[dun]

And I thought I was a sissy because I put a roof over my stands and have padded swivel seats in them.

 

[TexasBred]

I am ahead of you CB.
Been hunting out of a heated deer blind for years now.
I can even make a pot of coffee in it. :nod:
Havent moved in a recliner yet though. :lol:

Cal

Cal got a friend that has a barbershop chair in his stand. Back when I use to hunt it was little more than a couple of boards nailed across a fork in a tree limb. Folks hunt in shorts and teeshirts now.

 

[Calman]

I am ahead of you CB.
Been hunting out of a heated deer blind for years now.
I can even make a pot of coffee in it. :nod:
Havent moved in a recliner yet though. :lol:

Cal

Cal got a friend that has a barbershop chair in his stand. Back when I use to hunt it was little more than a couple of boards nailed across a fork in a tree limb. Folks hunt in shorts and teeshirts now.

For years I wouldnt even think of using a deer blind,just hiding off a trail worked for me.But as I got older those comfy deer blinds sure started looking good to me. :nod:

Cal

 

[Caustic Burno]

Well I shook like a dog crapping a peach seed this morning. Seen eight, seven does and one high horned buck.
Dang horn reg saved the buck, I just have a problem on lettin five or six year old deer walk that will never be better.
I will hang with them tomorrow and then hang the smokepole up for another year.
I still want to make a muzzle loader and a quail hunt over in Georgia someday.
I miss the quail hunting they have become really rare in these parts, try to protect the few we got left.

 

[backhoeboogie]

Well I shook like a dog crapping a peach seed this morning. Seen eight, seven does and one high horned buck.
Dang horn reg saved the buck, I just have a problem on lettin five or six year old deer walk that will never be better.
I will hang with them tomorrow and then hang the smokepole up for another year.
I still want to make a muzzle loader and a quail hunt over in Georgia someday.
I miss the quail hunting they have become really rare in these parts, try to protect the few we got left.

There used to be several covies hanging here at the house. Not any more. Some blame the fire ants but there are still turkey everywhere. Some blame it on some kind of fungus that grows on deer corn in the feeders. Whatever it is, it has devastated the quail around here.

 

[TexasBred]

Folks turning everything into pasture last probably hurts quail population as much as anything. Everything preys on them then. Quail need cover which means some brush, weeds and trees.

 

[Anonymous]

Round here its the feral cats hurtin the quail and turkey population.
Got one less feral cat around as of this morning tho

 

[slick4591]

Folks turning everything into pasture last probably hurts quail population as much as anything. Everything preys on them then. Quail need cover which means some brush, weeds and trees.

I was reading about this a few years back and they said the number one cause for the decline was the shorter pasture grasses. I'm hearing where people that raise quail are releasing some around their places in hopes of repopulating them. As for as I know they have been gone from this part of the country for 20 years or better.

 

[dun]

I'll go along with the lack of suitable habitat. We've established several coveys on all of our farms by simply letting some areas get rank and not having as pretty of pastures. I should say "have been established" since it was all natural reproduction, don;t want the idea to be that we planted any birds.

 

[Caustic Burno]

The older home places had a lot of grown up fence row's, not like today where all are kept clean by spraying.
Pine plantations have hurt here nothing to eat in there, it was great 30 years ago when the first started clearing lots of under brush weed, and grass seeds. As they matured killed everything under the canopy.

 

[whitewing]

Well I shook like a dog crapping a peach seed this morning. Seen eight, seven does and one high horned buck.
Dang horn reg saved the buck, I just have a problem on lettin five or six year old deer walk that will never be better.
I will hang with them tomorrow and then hang the smokepole up for another year.
I still want to make a muzzle loader and a quail hunt over in Georgia someday.
I miss the quail hunting they have become really rare in these parts, try to protect the few we got left.

Quail we've got. If I can ever get caught up, I'm going to buy a decent quail dog in the States and fill a bushel basket with the things.