Opening morning deer rifle in Texas

[tex452]

Good luck and stay safe.
I'm hunting with the grandkids in Leon county this weekend.
One friend is hunting the Coleman county place, another friend is hunting the Burleson county place.
The nice cold "30*" mornings are gone, lows in the 50's highs in the 70's.
The bucks are rutting so you never know.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

Good luck. We were out putting up a new double tree stand yesterday and saw a really good buck. Lots around - all fat. We had a super easy winter last year (mud all year - ugh), so very little if any winter kill. Bulls are in rut now here.

 

[tex452]

The grandson dropped me off and there was a nice buck there, he is bow only now like I use to be, I'm hunting with a rifle but I do miss my bow hunting days.

 

[TCRanch]

Did you see this? 14 year old girl in TX shoots a record buck. Well done, young lady!

‘I shot the big one’: Teen’s patience leads to potential state-record buck

A 14-year-old in Texas looks to be a new state record holder following her harvest of a 31-point buck this week.

www.kwch.com

 

[Caustic Burno]

My current position this morning, my bow stand with a Model 12.

 

[tex452]

Nobody killed anything on any of my places, we saw very little movement all weekend.

 

[Brute 23]

This is one time of year I actually enjoy FB. I like seeing all the people get out and hunt with their families, especially those kids knocking them down.

 

[tex452]

This was my hunting buddy Sunday morning, about daylight she was ready to back to the house, I had to come up with something.
She loves white faced cattle.

 

[Brute 23]

My hunting buddy

 

[Caustic Burno]

Nobody killed anything on any of my places, we saw very little movement all weekend.

I'm seeing plenty of does.
This morning at 7:30 15 yards.

 

[Ouachita]

This is one time of year I actually enjoy FB. I like seeing all the people get out and hunt with their families, especially those kids knocking them down.

Those memories shared with others make it all worthwhile. I still don't do FB myself, but my wife and kids do, so I still get to see most of the good pictures.

 

[greybeard]

Did you see this? 14 year old girl in TX shoots a record buck. Well done, young lady!

‘I shot the big one’: Teen’s patience leads to potential state-record buck

A 14-year-old in Texas looks to be a new state record holder following her harvest of a 31-point buck this week.

www.kwch.com

My uncle worked as a Govt predation hunter on that arsenal for decades, right outside of New Boston Tx. He killed and trapped 100s of bobcats, coyotes, feral hogs and armadillos and had authority/permission to hunt deer. Got lots of mounts hanging on his walls but no deer that large. The reason for armadillo extermination is that they would bury into the big dirt covered ammunition bunkers. Sister called me today to tell me about this deer and the young girl. Evidently, my uncle and his offspring are somehow either kin to her and her family or know them well.
I wouldn't know her if I met her on the street.

Both my parents worked at RRAD in WW2.


BUT, (there's always a but)

It is said, that everyone has a double or doppelganger...

 

[TCRanch]

It is said, that everyone has a double or doppelganger...

Except the exceptional young hunter has a genuine smile, even in her eyes. And no frizzy hair.

 

[coachg]

Here's a hunting tip that might help .

 

[TCRanch]

I'm seeing plenty of does.

Are you seeing many fawns? Not sure what's going on around here, but the fawns are getting waxed. Coyotes or bobcats are most likely but that many? As in, the pups come back to the house with a fawn leg, spine, skull almost daily. We had a number of does with twins and 2 with triplets that I saw almost every morning in the alfalfa field, and I haven't seen a fawn down there in days. Mr TC has only seen a couple in his blind, which is a few miles northwest.

 

[Caustic Burno]

Are you seeing many fawns? Not sure what's going on around here, but the fawns are getting waxed. Coyotes or bobcats are most likely but that many? As in, the pups come back to the house with a fawn leg, spine, skull almost daily. We had a number of does with twins and 2 with triplets that I saw almost every morning in the alfalfa field, and I haven't seen a fawn down there in days. Mr TC has only seen a couple in his blind, which is a few miles northwest.

Coyote pair take out on average 20 fawns a year raising a litter. I don't know what the bobcat predation rate is.
I bet hogs take out more.

 

[Texas G@l]

The rut is on here in Montague county. I watched a really nice 8 point chasing does all over the pasture out front of the house this morning along with a smaller buck getting in his way.

Kept watching so long I was late to work.

 

[4hfarms]

Sat last night in a 2man stand. Saw a doe with twins sneak in and hang out for about 5 minutes about 15yards. In that 5 min I watched the twins nurse on her.
Wow! First time for that.... Told my wife I watched the meaning of life.

 

[Brute 23]

Drought is hard on fawns. Nature tells the doe to survive at all costs.

 

[SBMF 2015]

Baling corn stalks about dusk tonight I had 12 does in a group come across the corn field. Didn't see any antlers, but there are some pretty good scraps along one side of the field