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in reply to: Happy Thanksgiving #36582

That’s why I use flu flu’s.. They just flutter down and I can hear’em coming. 😉

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in reply to: Happy Thanksgiving #28461

Squirrels use wood arrows for nest material. 8)

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in reply to: "Harvest" #17899

Can’t eat meat without killing, can’t eat bread without a harvest.

Don’t make much sense stated in the opposite.

Just me sayin………..

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #28147

Back to hunting, or rather hunting not.

I’m all rested up after a day of not getting up early, early. Stomping at the bit to go hunt in the morning but sometimes digression is the better part of valor.

50-60 mph winds forecast in this tinder dry country. Extreme fire danger. We’ve already had one small fire at the lease a couple of days ago with light winds. Too much wind tomorrow for me to risk it. I skeered of wildfires. 🙁

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #27888

Yeah and I gotta pick my ego up off the floor every now and again..

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #17175

Why not keep trying. What does one have to lose? Only to gain knowledge and a busted ego.:wink:

Makes for good campfire fodder. And success? Ahhh, to the top of the totem pole. 😀

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #16843

Steve say:

For the sake of argument though… lets say rattling and grunting are very successful ways of getting bucks to come. When they do come, I think we can agree that they are on high alert. This is ok for a gun hunter, or someone in a tree stand. But if you are hunting with a trad bow from the ground, you gonna get busted

Yup, my experience. Same with calling coyotes by myself. I might get them coming into bow range but the minute my mind starts the drawing sequence, they turn inside out and haul butt. It is simply amazing how fast a coyote can swap ends and be gone.

I can sometimes get shots if I have someone off to the side somewhere doing the calling. That system seems to pretty much be the norm for bowhunters when hunting elk also, a caller and a shooter.

Perhaps when trad hunting deer? Have a caller set up to keep the attention focused somewhere else?

The hole in that though is that most of us hunt by ourselves it seems. I do and I’ve tried rattling deer, grunting deer, calling turkeys, calling coyotes and have had critters come to me but:evil:they, I swear can read my mind and react before I can move a muscle.

It’s fun educating them though.:D

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #61924

I thought I’d try my new R2 turkey call today.. Ha it worked.

Don’t know if this will. forgot how to put you tube on here.

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #51550

Grumpy I’ve observed the whitetails around the panhandle for a long time.

I’ve noticed before the rut I’ll see does a lot, herded up with their fawns still hanging around and usually I see lots of young bucks. Occasionally I’ll see a mature buck cruising.

Then suddenly I start seeing very little. Maybe a doe with a buck on her tail, maybe a little buck with an ‘I lost my best buddy’ look about him.

My theory about the does, if the young’uns haven’t been kicked out yet they (the does) become scarce hiding to protect their fawns from the aggressive buck, especially the little first timers.. Of course they’re (the fawns)are not nursing anymore but they’re still hanging out with momma. I’m familiar with that syndrome…

I observed a momma last year let this stinking little forky get real close, sniffing on her, then she’d lead him off and her two fawns would just continue to chow down. After 10 min or so momma would come back, her and little ones would disappear. Directly here would come little bucky just sniffing away, look up and “Hey, where’d they go”.. Sneaky old gal she was…

The does that are hot, they and the lucky bucks are holed up doing their thing.

After a week or 10 days the fawns are on their own, the does are hanging out again and the bucks????They’re roaming some. Basically there always come a lull for awhile where nothing seems to be moving.

Just my thinking and observation… I spend hours just looking and watching sometimes.. Sometimes I doze off and I’m sure that’s when the real stuff happens…:(

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #40381

I feel for ya Grumpy. All I’m seeing is cows, coming, going, where they been (if they’d quit pooping so much they wouldn’t have to eat so much or maybe vice versa).

They took out the longhorns , then put them back with about 150 head of Angus. Messed up my business……. One thing about it, scent control is no problem….everything smells like cow sh**

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #22547

That’s cool…..Beautiful country you’re in.

As a person from the plains country, how y’all figure out where you’re going with out a large body of water to look across? :lol::lol:

Perhaps more importantly sometimes, where you came from.

Just kidding….my country has a tendency to not have any landmarks to use for aim points.

Good we have north stars and such eh?:)

And gravity so most of us know up from down……:roll:

Now good from bad………don’t watch my form……….

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #62207

Good luck. Seeing animals on the move is a great big plus. Now to get within in range. Hope you do.

I know this old feller ain’t going back tomorrow where he was yesterday.

I’ll be going back to where I saw life instead of all that dead that was surrounding me.

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in reply to: Best target #60943

I like the ones I hit so most anything lasts a good while…:roll:

:D:D

I mostly use burlap bags stuffed with plastic along with my 3D animal parts and pieces.

For broadheads I have an old piece of foam from a floating dock but I about got it shot up beyond repair.. So best for me for broadheads is to go to the archery range and use the dirt banks for a backstop.

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in reply to: Hunting 2016 #49746

While we’re talking hunting places I got a big GRRRRRRRRRRRR.

I was hunting early this morning and I saw game but no shooting.

I decided to go scouting and snooping and checking out some of my old mule deer haunts during the midday whilst the north wind a howling. Mule deer opens in 10 days or so…

This area I will show in a bit used to be green grass, mesquite trees, normal Texas Panhandle fauna. I’ve shot mule deer up here, coyotes and many quail. Me, my wife, grandsons used to come here and play, stump shoot, just get away.

Then about 10 years ago some hon-yuck convinced several ranchers in the area that the mesquite trees were drinking all the water out of the ground. Spray and kill mesquite, greener pasture forever. Poison will only kill mesquite.

Seems it killed everything except the tumbleweeds. The road that is blocked I used to travel all the time, not today.

It’s sad when we decide to mess with Mother Nature…. This plateau looks like after Armageddon now..

[Ralph]

in reply to: winter target range #39260

How you keep that tarp in place?????????? not gonna happen around here:D

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