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  • Found him. Hunting by yourself sucks! Once I got him gutted,I had to drag his fat ass up a hill and down the edge of a wheat field about 100 yards. Great way to start the season. Good luck gentlemen! 

  • Our boys shot a massive toad yesterday.  5.5yrs, 160lbs.  For Coleman county, that's BIG! Look at that layer of fat!

  • It’s been a long three weeks to finally getting my hands on this buck. As I mentioned in an earlier post, we started getting pictures of our 2 target bucks this year about 4 weeks ago.  On 11/2,

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I did some turkey hunting the last two weekends. Tried to get my 15yo daughter on a Jake this AM but it wasn’t to be.

Cut a new lane and installed a backstop at the ranch where I can shoot 785 yards. Rang the steel on the first shot which was cool.

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Steel through phone skope:

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I shot an NRL Hunter match about a month ago in Brownfield. Tons of fun and really stepped my long range game up.

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Damnit. Not what I wanted to see on the camera.

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Damn hogs have rutted everything up so bad that the sand under one of the legs eventually washed away after some rains.

Fortunately, it doesn't appear to have landed on the solar panel, so should hopefully just be able to pick it up and dust if off with minimal damage. That said, wanna get back out there soon as I don't want it laying on its side for too long.

2 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Damnit. Not what I wanted to see on the camera.

Damn hogs have rutted everything up so bad that the sand under one of the legs eventually washed away after some rains.

Fortunately, it doesn't appear to have landed on the solar panel, so should hopefully just be able to pick it up and dust if off with minimal damage. That said, wanna get back out there soon as I don't want it laying on its side for too long.

Would it be worth installing some kind of foundation to prevent it from happening again? Not talking about a slab, but maybe sink some pressure treated or creosote piers in some post holes and some means of anchoring the feeder supports to them.

I always secure feeders with concrete form stakes. Easier to drive with a small sledge than a t post or rebar and the holes make for great tie wire tie points.

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4 hours ago, 686 said:

I always secure feeders with concrete form stakes. Easier to drive with a small sledge than a t post or rebar and the holes make for great tie wire tie points.

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4 hours ago, sith_horn said:

Would it be worth installing some kind of foundation to prevent it from happening again? Not talking about a slab, but maybe sink some pressure treated or creosote piers in some post holes and some means of anchoring the feeder supports to them.

I already had a bunch of candy cane shaped pieces of inch-thick rebar through the holes in the feet, which worked fine the last few years, but the ground just finally gave way under the leg on the lowest side. I could see on the camera it's been leaning a bit for a few weeks, so I'm assuming a strong wind hit or a big fat pig ran into it and finally tipped it. Been completely empty since early February, so doesn't have hardly any weight to it. Think I'm gonna move it over a couple yards to a now flat area and stick some 2" concrete pavers under the feet. 

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I was supposed to head up to the panhandle for the last weekend of turkey hunting. All the rain up there has me sitting at home. [emoji22]
Will try and get up there this weekend. Hopefully it dries out quickly

On 5/1/2025 at 3:41 PM, Storm the Field said:

Damnit. Not what I wanted to see on the camera.

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Damn hogs have rutted everything up so bad that the sand under one of the legs eventually washed away after some rains.

Fortunately, it doesn't appear to have landed on the solar panel, so should hopefully just be able to pick it up and dust if off with minimal damage. That said, wanna get back out there soon as I don't want it laying on its side for too long.

Schedule working out to where it looks like I'll be able to run up on Sunday morning and create  3-day weekend for myself. Appears likely this will be the last weekend until October where it went get much hotter than 80 and the overnight low will dip into the 50's. Gonna resituate and fill that feeder and start running it again so we'll have a hog-hunting spot this offseason. Also knock out a few other small projects that I'd prefer not to do when the heat index is touching triple digits.

We don't have many pigs in my part of Arkansas but we've recently had a sow and some piglets show up. Caught 3 of the piglets and then this guy found the trap and won't stay away.

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  • 3 weeks later...
5 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

FYI, Academy has a bunch of cellular game cameras on sale this week.

Would recommend this deal if you're in the market:

2-pack of Flex G-36 for $99. The SpyPoint app is easy to use and cheap (of free if you only want 100 pics/month).

https://www.academy.com/p/spypoint-flex-g36-360-mp-cellular-game-cameras-2-pack

Spypoints are good for the money but they require premium batteries and I lose connectivity from time to time. 

12 hours ago, Cousin Strawberry said:

Spypoints are good for the money but they require premium batteries and I lose connectivity from time to time. 

i get by fine with a $25 rechargeable battery off Amazon. Goes 3+ months on a full charge.

Made a short trip up to my lease on Friday. Main point of the trip was to load up my buddy's UTV on Saturday morning and take it in to finally get serviced, but decided I would try to get in a pig hunt on Friday evening since we have 1 feeder running at the moment. Let's just say that did not go as planned. Was miserably hot, but I grabbed my little portable fan, stuck 2 ice cold beers in my backpack and headed down to the stand.  Opened the door and saw 2 active wasp nests, at least 2 dozen daddy longlegs crawling around and a small scorpion on the inside of the door. Needless to say I decided to pass and headed back to the cabin. Set off a few bug bombs in that stand and another nearby before leaving. 

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  • 1 month later...

Already getting antsy for hunting season. Just a little over 7 weeks until North and Central Zone dove season. I propose we start the '25-'26 thread when we get down to under 30 days.

Gotta run up to East TX sometime later this month to pick up my buddy's UTV and trailer from the repair shop and drop them back off at the lease. When I do, think I'm gonna go ahead and fill and start running the feeder my camera is on, just for shits and giggles. We'll head up again sometime before Labor Day with a bunch of the guys for an official work weekend to get ready for the season. Earlier this Summer, I bought a small 2-seat cross between a golf cart and a UTV so I'll lug it up there and leave it for the Fall. Will be pretty damn useful for getting around the place without scratching my truck up.

Getting some fat does on camera right now. Need to make a run out to fish the pond and do some maintenance. Cheapest bags of corn I have seen are under cover at HEB (~$9, vs $11 near the land). 

6 hours ago, Storm the Field said:

Already getting antsy for hunting season. Just a little over 7 weeks until North and Central Zone dove season. I propose we start the '25-'26 thread when we get down to under 30 days.

Gotta run up to East TX sometime later this month to pick up my buddy's UTV and trailer from the repair shop and drop them back off at the lease. When I do, think I'm gonna go ahead and fill and start running the feeder my camera is on, just for shits and giggles. We'll head up again sometime before Labor Day with a bunch of the guys for an official work weekend to get ready for the season. Earlier this Summer, I bought a small 2-seat cross between a golf cart and a UTV so I'll lug it up there and leave it for the Fall. Will be pretty damn useful for getting around the place without scratching my truck up.

Seems like this quote is just ran across yesterday from Notes on the Settlement and Indian Wars Of the Western Parts of Virginia and Pennsylvania from 1763 to 1783, inclusive, together with a Review of the State of Society and Manners of the First Settlers of the Western Country by Joseph Doddridge seems appropriate.

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As soon as the leaves were pretty well down and the weather became rainy, accompanied by light snows, these men, after acting the part of husbandmen, so far as the state of warfare permitted them to do so, soon began to feel that they were hunters. They became uneasy at home. Everything about them became disagreeable. The house was too warm. The feather bed too soft, and even the good wife was not thought for the time being a proper companion. The mind of the hunter was wholly occupied with the camp and chase. I have often seen them get up early in the morning at this season, walk hastily out and look anxiously to the woods and snuff the autumnal winds with the highest rapture, then return into the house and cast a quick and attentive look at the rifle, which was always suspended to a joist by a couple of buck's horns, or little forks. His hunting dog, understanding the intentions of his master, would wag his tail and by every blandishment in his power express his readiness to accompany him to the woods. 

 

  • 2 weeks later...

Who wants to kick off the 25/26 Hunting thread??  I'm looking forward to getting out in the woods this fall....let some pretty mature (4.5-5.5 yr olds) bucks walk last year and curious if mother nature provided enough to fulfill their potential. 

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