November 24, 20223 yr 14 hours ago, MalibuSheriff said: Here’s an excellent older article on the .257: https://www.shootingtimes.com/editorial/ammunition_st257weatherbymagnum_031706/100524 Yep. That’s how mine is zeroed. Dropped a mule deer at 400 that didn’t take a step.
November 24, 20223 yr Popular Post This happened a few hours ago. 8.5 years old. 196 lbs. getting ready to put the tape on him. My bidness partner took him down. I guided.
November 24, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, deadshank said: Gonna peel his head after we cool him off. Wow!! Super nice! Congrats to you both!
November 25, 20223 yr Damn- I love that interior point on his left side. Very cool! Unique. That’s what makes a great buck IMO regardless of score. Congrats to all involved.
November 25, 20223 yr This happened a few hours ago. 8.5 years old. 196 lbs. getting ready to put the tape on him. My bidness partner took him down. I guided. Great buck and nice guiding! Are you aging off teeth or do you know this buck?
November 25, 20223 yr 6 hours ago, 686 said: Great buck and nice guiding! Are you aging off teeth or do you know this buck? Been watching him for 5 years now. Have pics and videos of him. Some have been posted on this board. Will still pull his jaw today. It’s pouring here and won’t go out for a while. Edited November 25, 20223 yr by deadshank
November 25, 20223 yr Been watching him for 5 years now. Have pics and videos of him. Some have been posted on this board. Will still pull his jaw today. It’s pouring here and won’t go out for a while. That’s cool, always great to put your hands on a deer you’ve been watching for a long time. It will be really interesting to see his teeth. Seeing progressions over the years are great. This was a buck we had a few years ago that showed up on cameras a lot:
November 28, 20223 yr I stared at a bunch of 2.5-3.5 8’s all weekend, some with some great potential. Have a problem group of hens I need to move along. Saw one nice super heavy 8 that was solid mature, working his way into post mature. If I see him again he’ll be a great management buck. Got to watch a bobcat play for a bit. Got all 3 girls in the blind and it wasn’t a disaster, as it usually is. No 170’s to be seen, but I consider the weekend a success.
November 28, 20223 yr Popular Post Hunted this morning by myself and then ran back to the house before lunch and grabbed my daughter. She has really taken to hunting over the past two years. Took this guy right before 4:30. Edited November 28, 20223 yr by Pdawg88
November 28, 20223 yr Hell yes! Idk why, but I dig the unique racks more. I’ve actually seen my dad pass on a buck because he wasn’t perfectly symmetrical. If I had a choice, I’d take the asymmetrical over a perfectly even one all day. Good shootin by the girl!
November 28, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said: Hell yes! Idk why, but I dig the unique racks more. I’ve actually seen my dad pass on a buck because he wasn’t perfectly symmetrical. If I had a choice, I’d take the asymmetrical over a perfectly even one all day. Good shootin by the girl! Yeah that’s kind of our problem on our lease, we have too many deer that look exactly like this. Don’t get me wrong I like a funky rack, but there is something about a nice perfectly symmetrical rack I can’t pass up. But we have too many old 8’s like this that will never get much bigger so we have started removing them.
November 28, 20223 yr Cooler is full. Guns are on. Buggy is gassed up. Extra pair of socks and underwear (clean). Flipped the bird to the rapists as I went through Waco a short time ago. No case of the Mondays here
November 28, 20223 yr Little Yag's popped a decent buck and I threw became one with the cows. Good weekend.
November 28, 20223 yr Congrats all. Had unexpected circumstances that fucked up my weekend hunting plans but hoping to get out Tuesday/Wednesday to hunt the dry/cold front. Fingers crossed. QQ: is there an advantage to hunting earlier in the season? I have some solid time off back half of December but was curious what it experience of other folks are in terms of when calendar wise the bucks decide to fuck off/stop coming to the feeder for the year.
November 28, 20223 yr Far from scientific research, but some of the best luck I’ve had has come in the last week of the season.
November 28, 20223 yr Early and late for us. Early because they aren’t being pressured by guns and the rut yet. Late when they are hungry and food is scarce and they have to start coming out for free corn that only gets spun during daylight
November 28, 20223 yr Start snorting and snarfing and trying to scare off all my deer this is what happens. Goofy twit won’t be fouling up my stalk again
November 29, 20223 yr 2 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said: Start snorting and snarfing and trying to scare off all my deer this is what happens. Goofy twit won’t be fouling up my stalk again
November 29, 20223 yr Got back from the 8 day hunt in Benjamin. The rut is on, we saw a bunch of good bucks, all 10 hunters have, at least a 150" class deer coming to their area. The big ones won't go into the feeder pens unless the road corn gets eaten, and they absolutely have to. Here is our "Big Toad". We all looked at pictures and couldn't get him to 5.5 years, so he walks until next year: CHIEF
November 29, 20223 yr 39 minutes ago, CHIEF said: Got back from the 8 day hunt in Benjamin. The rut is on, we saw a bunch of good bucks, all 10 hunters have, at least a 150" class deer coming to their area. The big ones won't go into the feeder pens unless the road corn gets eaten, and they absolutely have to. Here is our "Big Toad". We all looked at pictures and couldn't get him to 5.5 years, so he walks until next year: CHIEF Food, water and time is the only formula.
November 29, 20223 yr @CHIEF in the first pic he looks 5 easy, in the second pic looks 4; tough call. I usually let them walk too.
November 30, 20223 yr Those G2’s are easily 14” tall, most likely 16”. Damn G3’s are the tallest I’ve ever seen on a non high fenced property. If that dude survives until next season y’all are gonna have to draw straws or roshambo or something because he’s special
November 30, 20223 yr 21 hours ago, Herbie Hancock said: Those G2’s are easily 14” tall, most likely 16”. Damn G3’s are the tallest I’ve ever seen on a non high fenced property. If that dude survives until next season y’all are gonna have to draw straws or roshambo or something because he’s special I was the first to see him, he has been to some of the other hunter's feeders, but is on a "no kill" list. Since I was the first to see him, I get to be the one that shoots him. If someone is seeing him at their stand, I will hunt their stand to kill him. It's kinda set up that way through a mutual agreement. That way no one gets disappointed and no one else feels like a sheep killin' dog. Preserves friendships, which is what's most important. I get texts all day, CHIEF, your deer is at my feeder, I figured he ate $1.56 worth of corn, here is my Venmo info. All of these guys own their own business and are really successful, but act dirt poor. I picked up a carport from my wife's modular building company for $13.18 just to get it off their books. Told the group I expect their $1.32 when we get it here. One asked if he could pay it in installments. CHIEF Edited November 30, 20223 yr by CHIEF
November 30, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, CHIEF said: I get texts all day, CHIEF, your deer is at my feeder, I figured he ate $1.56 worth of corn, here is my Venmo info. All of these guys own their own business and are really successful, but act dirt poor. I picked up a carport from my wife's modular building company for $13.18 just to get it off their books. Told the group I expect their $1.32 when we get it here. One asked if he could pay it in installments. CHIEF That is funny stuff. Cheap bastards.
December 2, 20223 yr 8 minutes ago, Anastasis said: Well alrighty then. That slut will just let anybody jump her bones! Edited December 2, 20223 yr by DalTxHornFan
December 2, 20223 yr Nothing says class like last years empty beer bottle holding open the window of your blind, which, in a previous life, was actually one of crappiest travel trailers you can imagine only if you don't suck at imagining crappy things.
December 3, 20223 yr On 11/22/2022 at 8:41 PM, Herbie Hancock said: I eat a lot of weird shit. Sushi, cabrito, calf fries, Allsup’s corn dogs, tripas, lengua to name a few. But under absolutely no circumstance will I eat wild pig. Nastiest gotdamned critters. If you had classified Allsup’s burritos as weird shit this thread would have gone into lockdown.
December 3, 20223 yr This is an old blind out at our place. Guessing ~40’s vintage maybe hauled out to the place in the 60’s and abandoned in the 80’s or so. A solid 30+ years of new growth cedar thicket surrounds it. I found it tracking a deer.
December 3, 20223 yr We are so far from camp that we are setup to sit all day and not get bored. We setup a 2000w solar generator for a TV and small refrigerator: It has a 160w solar panel that keeps it charged: CHIEF
December 3, 20223 yr 5 hours ago, CHIEF said: We are so far from camp that we are setup to sit all day and not get bored. We setup a 2000w solar generator for a TV and small refrigerator: It has a 160w solar panel that keeps it charged: CHIEF Good to see that you remembered to bring a rifle!
December 4, 20223 yr Well I had a nice plan for today that went sideways. I was going to plant some more trees and do a little hunting, but dad got the bobcat stuck this morning in a spot where it’s in the way of a fence crew that’s building a new fence for us. And he was heading to the airport for a flight this morning so I got the stuck machine situation dumped on me solo. Took two hours to get the old backhoe started and in position and another two hours to dig and pull it out. Ass whip. Watched some deer from the house while I had a little dinner; saw two 3-yr olds fight hard for a solid minute and saw a nice 10pt really late; didn’t have enough light to really judge him, may be a shooter.
December 4, 20223 yr I'm jealous of y'all out farther west. I hunted all evening out here in the piney woods of Panola County and didn't see anything. We're all timber, and with enough oak trees on the place that there are still plenty of acorns on the ground. The deer could care less about corn, so you pretty much have to get lucky to even see anything.
December 4, 20223 yr Pulled a camera card, this is probably the buck I was looking at today, hopefully get a look at him tomorrow
December 4, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said: I’m most jealous of the “so far from camp” part. I’m the closest What does that mean? You’re closest to camp?
December 4, 20223 yr 43 minutes ago, deadshank said: What does that mean? You’re closest to camp? Yeah. My setup is the closest. It’s still a good distance, but I’d rather be the furthest. We have new (literally brand new) highway issues. And that’s not always conducive to relaxing.
December 4, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, fattyflattie said: Yeah. My setup is the closest. It’s still a good distance, but I’d rather be the furthest. We have new (literally brand new) highway issues. And that’s not always conducive to relaxing. Your blind is closest to camp? Are you saying you have only one blind to hunt from and that one blind is yours?
December 4, 20223 yr 47 minutes ago, deadshank said: Your blind is closest to camp? Are you saying you have only one blind to hunt from and that one blind is yours? Yep. There's a few community blinds throughout, but everyone has got their pasture. Not the way I'd prefer, but that's the way they run it.
December 4, 20223 yr 8 hours ago, fattyflattie said: Yep. There's a few community blinds throughout, but everyone has got their pasture. Not the way I'd prefer, but that's the way they run it. OK. I get to now. Our place is all community blinds. We have only 5 members so it works out pretty well. Family members and non-members / guests are subordinate to members when picking a blind. We have 14 total on 2700 acres so we don’t get over crowded.
December 4, 20223 yr 4 hours ago, deadshank said: OK. I get to now. Our place is all community blinds. We have only 5 members so it works out pretty well. Family members and non-members / guests are subordinate to members when picking a blind. We have 14 total on 2700 acres so we don’t get over crowded. Yeah. I'd prefer that, but just not how it's set up. When new member's join, it can shuffle a bit with agreeable members. I'll be for sure moving if there's ever a new spot open up. Most people will let you sit at their place, if they have a cull they want gone and it'd be a good one for kids, things like that. Unfortunately, we're only working with 1k acres, and it has an easement split in kind of a funky spot to exacerbate the situation. Adding insult to injury, the state created a highway bypass that went from a mile (way too close) to now 300 yards from camp. Has completely demoed the relaxation part of the entire deal. Really quite fucked the entire deal up, if we're being honest. Been a rough couple of breaks lately.
December 4, 20223 yr 18 hours ago, NotActuallyALonghorn said: I'm jealous of y'all out farther west. I hunted all evening out here in the piney woods of Panola County and didn't see anything. We're all timber, and with enough oak trees on the place that there are still plenty of acorns on the ground. The deer could care less about corn, so you pretty much have to get lucky to even see anything. This is same situation in eastern Oklahoma. Worse when I hunt out by Ponca City on the Salt Fork River. The deer have soybeans, milo, corn, and winter wheat for miles and miles. They look at a feeder and scowl “poor peasant”. Muy grandes out there though…
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