hunting

[Darin115]

Hunting has been a wash for me this year. I have killed a few but I have been unable to put my oldest son on a deer. My youngest, 8 years old, managed a yearling with a crossbow in September. It was his first ever. My oldest son passed on the same deer a week before.

My father was sick all Summer and passed away last Monday. The time I spent in the woods in the early season I spent it just pondering the situation. I did see a lot of deer early in the season but had so much to do and had so many things on my mind I just decided not to shoot them.

Now when I have time and want to kill one I am not seeing any. My oldest son did see 2 doe last Saturday evening but they were out of his shooting ability range. A guy I go to church with is a trophy hunter and owns his own land. My son is hunting with him the rest of the season so he can shoot a doe or small buck. I am grateful for him allowing him to hunt with him. Santa is bringing him a brand new Marlin XS7 .243 rifle. So I am sure he will spend some time in a tree with his new gun the last week of deer season.

We had a huge acorn crop this year making deer harder to locate. They can find acorns anywhere unlike in lighter acorn crop years.
Maybe next year will be a litle brighter and more productive.

I think I will start crappie fishing this Saturday if it don't rain or the wond isn't howling.

Darin

 

[wekiva bird]

In game zone 3 there is no limt on bucks , and 2 antlerless deer per day on either-sex days. They are talking about change it to less deer next year. An have open coyote seanson.
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Holy crow! 12 to 14 deer? You must have quite the population down there. I haven't had venison for three years and not for a lack of trying.

One deer is a huge blessing for us up here.

 

[Baymen Moe]

I had to post this picture because it was my son's first deer hunt @ 9 years old. Although we saw no deer (this was a few weeks ago) we both had a great time. I now have a life long hunting buddy. Very satisfying to have him in the woods with me. Next year he'll be introduced to waterfowling because I'm better at that.

 

[Teach97]

his is my boy's trophy this year

 

[chickened]

Nice... blackbuck?

 

[Teach97]

yes it is

thanks...it is getting mounted

 

[chickened]

That is cool. I seen a big herd of them in Texas back in 1991 while hunting on a ranch north of Laredo.

 

[Teach97]

this one came out of Texas...the Poppy has a lease

lots of exotics running around down there

 

[wekiva bird]

Baymen Moe: It is great to have a hunting buddy.

Teach97: Nice blackbuck

 

[destinduck]

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