Storm the Field
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
I know this dude must still be young, b/c he appears to be out stumbling home from the bars at 3 in the morning.
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Blastfurnace 2024
Currently mid-60's and raining in Houston. First time in weeks that it doesn't feel "warm" outside. Alas, it's not gonna last for us. We'll be back to the low 80's with high humidity tomorrow and Thursday. Generally crappy weather for us the next 6-7 days, with highs 5 above average, lows 10 above average and muggy. Gonna be in Baton Rouge this weekend for LSU/Bama game. Will be in the low 80's and swampy at a goddamn November tailgate. So tired of this shit.
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Blastfurnace 2024
Neither being November nor getting dark at 5:45 can't stop it from being 80 degrees.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Weekend went about as expected out at our place based on camera action the last few weeks. No deer or hogs active during the daytime except for a group of doe that show up to one particular stand every morning and evening. One of the guys hunted with his daughter and took one of the bigger ones yesterday evening. I helped with a late night deer harvesting session for first time in years. Uncomfortably warm and muggy all weekend out at the lease. Poured buckets on my drive home and now it's hot and steamy outside. Just doesn't feel like deer season yet. Cameras picked up some good-looking bucks passing by on both Friday and Saturday night, well after sunset. Until the weather cools down and/or the rut starts, I'm not expecting to see much during shooting hours. Was looking back through the photos on the camera linked to my account and the last time I picked up any daytime feeding action was back in mid-October when that brief front passed through and it dropped to the high 40's. Planning a return trip 2 weekends from now, so hopefully it's at least in the 60's by then.
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Blastfurnace 2024
We got decent rain in my neck of Houston Wednesday night and yesterday morning.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Looking like I might dodge the rains this weekend. Only about 30% chance until Sunday afternoon and I'll be on the way back home by then. Gonna be hunting in short sleeves and swatting mosquitoes though. Thanks, La Nina.
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Blastfurnace 2024
Another weekend ahead where the low doesn't get out of the 70's. Moderate cool front should bring some more storms late Monday/early Tuesday and drop temps a bit closer to average.
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‘24-‘25 Non-Texas Winter Thread
For a second, I thought this said "Non-Winter Texas Thread" and that actually made sense.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
I believe the BLS report estimated a -45K hit from Hurricanes for last month.
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All Encompassing Mortgage and Real Estate Thread
LOL at ADP +233K earlier this week.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Wife's best friend has been rehabbing a cabin her Uncle owns up on some acreage in the mountains outside Glenwood Springs. Just sent me a screenshot of this hoss of a Mule Deer she picked up on game camera recently.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Sounds right. This is East Texas, so decent bucks rarely make it to a "mature" age in our neck of the woods.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Wish I could have got a body view so I could get a better idea on size and age. Thinking he's pretty damn close to the camera and it's causing a bit of forced perspective to make him look bigger than he probably is.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Own the minerals on all 620?
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Crew of about 7-8 on my camera at 9:45 last night, including 2 absolute tanks that were much larger than the rest. I'm heading up Friday afternoon for Opening Weekend and might try to get in a nighttime hog hunt if I can get there in time and conditions aren't too sloppy following the rain. None of the other guys getting there until Saturday so don't really feel like getting stuck in mud, in the dark, all by my lonesome. We had the same solid buck (by East Texas standards) show up at a different feeder at 8:10 last night, exact same time as the night before. I swear to god we're dealing with vampire animals out at our lease. They only come out at least 30 minutes after sundown. I haven't seen any daytime feeding action on the cameras since that last little 48 hour cool front 2 weeks ago.
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Blastfurnace 2024
Middle of next week, maybe. Until then expect days like today. At least there are some actual water droplets falling from the sky in my area. Almost forgot what that looked like.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
Was the landman just gonna pull out his wallet and pay for the lease in cash?
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2021 - Is inflation finally back in the conversation?
Q3 GDP and Inflation numbers released:
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Come borrow some of ours. They've cleared out some nice 25 yard circles around our feeders. Nothing but rutted up sand. Funny enough, me and some of the other guys on my lease just spent part of the morning talking about putting up hog panel fencing at our 2 newest stands. Hogs have really taken over those feeders this year. Deer rarely ever get a chance to come eat in peace. We estimate it'll be about $300 per feeder to put up 6 16-feet panels and a t-post every 4 feet. That sound about right?
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Shall we talk about heavy music?
Ghost announces a huge international tour this Spring and Summer. https://metalinjection.net/tour-dates/ghost-announces-world-tour-seems-to-be-teasing-new-material Final stops are in Austin 8/14 (Moody Center), Fort Worth 8/15 (Dickies Arena), and Houston 8/16 (Toyota Center). I'm definitely planning on going to the Houston show. Been wanting to see them live for a long time.
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Blastfurnace 2024
It's snowing hard in Aspen/Snowmass and Crested Butte this morning. Looks like Denver should get it's first dusting tomorrow and seems likely y'all are done with temps above 60 for the foreseeable future.
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Hey Oil Barons.......
How many acres? No experience with KS, but it looks like Colby is on the outskirts of one the more active oil plays in the state. 2 decades in this business I have never once heard of a modern day lease bonus figure that low. Like $20/acre is something I'd expect to see in a lease taken 40+ years ago. 3 year term is pretty standard. 1/8 is basically the bare minimum default royalty in the absence of negotiation.
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
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Hunting 24/25: big bucks and a lot of ducks!
Forecast of 82/65 and 40% chance of rain on Saturday and Sunday at my lease. That's following 2 days of heavy rain on Thursday and Friday. Looks like it will be damn near perfect in time for Weekend 2, but unfortunately I'm gonna be out of state for a football road trip. If I decided to sit out this weekend, I wouldn't be able to make it out until 11/15, so a warm, wet Opening Weekend slopping around in the mud it is.