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Reagan1k

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  1. Testing out some GreenGo 800lb feeders for the coming year. Our crew put out two with 6 more to go. If all goes well, we'll likely replace all of out barrel / crank feeders with them or similar. Seem to be a good compromise between durability and ease of transport/positioning. Good info above on Texas Wildlife Supply. Ran a count on hogs confirmed killed from 10/1/20 through 1/10/21 and we were at 93. Wish it was more. Will probably try to bring in some traps this spring or call in an airstrike from Puff the Magic Dragon. We're by no means overrun, but are also conscious of the damage their doing long term.
  2. Agreed, but it was her dish and I wasn't eating it. Not my circus.......
  3. This weekend, my wife wanted to bake a few casseroles for some families who are sick. Needed a lot of garlic and didn't want to chop it. She sent me to the store with a list that included "Minced Garlic - Jar". I got everything she needed and sat down to watch one of the games, and then this ensues; Her - "Babe - I wanted the garlic in plastic squeeze bottle!" Me - "You literally wrote the word JAR on the list". Her - "Well, for future reference, if I say jar, I want the the plastic squeeze bottle."
  4. Looks good. Anchoring looks sound. Never underestimate Mother Nature’s ability to derail your hunt with some wind. I have a huge tower blind we got from Bode Feed 15-20 years ago. All steel framed and Hardie Board siding / roof. Big stairs up to a landing.... weighed something ungodly. It’ll be there forever. Legs were set on concrete pads with a big stainless chain deadman positioned like that. One weekend we drive in and noticed some trees damaged by wind. Drove by the blind and happened to stop to piss. The blind had been picked up and moved off the concrete pads- all four legs and stairs had moved about a foot. Fortunately it was still straight as the shift was equal. I have no idea if it was straight line winds or a small twister, but had they not installed that deadman, it would have been on its side for sure.
  5. Scope preferences vary so much depending on the originator of the opinion. Let's take the average Texas whitetail hunter spending 10-15 days a year in a stand hunting over a corn feeder from 150 yards in. Vortex (Rudolph, even Riton) will cover +95% of their needs and do it quite well. In fact, if they're used to a 20 year old Bushnell, they'll think it's a huge improvement. Same scope(s) in the hands of someone used to hunting long range, needing superior light gathering for that once in a lifetime shot opportunity will see the flaws and shortcomings. Neither is right or wrong. It's just their perception. Match the tool to the task if you want to maximize the value received based on the monetary outlay.
  6. Thanks for sharing that. I need to use that more often. Those would be great speedbumps to prevent me from stumbling into trouble of my own making. I've also heard....."Is true? Is it loving? Is it kind? Is it necessary?" Damn it....... if I'd just filter all the crap that wants to go from my head to my mouth through these, I'd have a lot less to worry about. About six months into sobriety my sponsor asked me to show him my credentials as the Chief of the Global Parking Lot Police. That stung a bit, but made a huge difference. I didn't realize how many times I sabotaged my own day by being a dick to a stranger over something that was insignificant to me.
  7. Yeah- it’s nothing more than a resentment waiting to happen. Like me drinking poison wanting the opposing party to die from it.
  8. A guy I know who has an immense collection of some of the finest weapons you could imagine just bought that CP33 with the brace. He's in love with it. He's retired and said he felt like a kid again with his 1st .22, but better since he didn't have to reload as often. I offered to take some of his NFA automatics off his hands if he wouldn't be needing them any more but he said he was sure the infatuation would pass.
  9. In their pistols, I think so. However, sort of like Hi-Point, their carbine actions are pretty sound. I for one am a proud Hi-Point 10mm carbine owner and it couldn't be more reliable. It looks like this KelTec P50 was built much more like their pistol caliber carbines than their throw away handguns. Promising anyhow. Biggest downside is that a day at the range, considering current 5.7 prices, might make you wish for a jam to slow the money burn.
  10. Nice job counselor - so it could have been any minority, even a Smurf......but no mention of a caucasian? He might want to find a friend to run the statements past before he "helps" any more......and yes....I'm sure she does want to put this behind her. Consequences are a bitch aren't they?
  11. I'm so grateful that part of my recovering involved divorcing myself from "politics". I still have ideologies and principals, but I don't discuss them, engage others abut them, or argue with those who's differ. I used to spend evenings writing letters to politicians - I owe Teddy Kennedy an amends I guess. I'd listen to talk radio, elevate my blood pressure, and drunkenly plan my political platform. Gone - I cannot control those things so I leave them alone. Those political engagements may be luxuries others can afford and remain serene, but not this drunk. On nights such as this I am eternally grateful that all I feel is sadness for our collective society, and have no other emotional connection to either side.
  12. Agreed. I thought the same thing.
  13. KelTec has introduced a Model P50 pistol, which uses FN90 mags (50 rounds of 5.7x28). It's "interesting" to say the least....ugly but interesting. What's intriguing to me is that it appears the industry is looking at ways to use magazines in the horizontal position. If a stock could be fitted to make this an SBR, it would make sense to me as a carbine. I looks like they may have that planned; using some sort of a wire butt stock. The groves in front of the trigger guard "look" like an intentional design for an under-folder to lock in place.
  14. I'm sure it's the same guy or guys. Someone got me set up to track hashtags on instagram and one of those was "urbanbowhunting". I started following from there. Will have to check out the Youtubes.
  15. Suburban deer are really interesting. They are allowed to come of age due to a lack of pressure and because of that there are a lot of big bucks taken in some very unusual areas. I keep track of some guys around Atlanta, Ga who hunt pockets of land in between subdivisions and they take some incredible deer. They can't get big if they don't get old. You can see the creases in that bucks left ear and know he's mature.
  16. ^^^^^ much truth to this. Sculpt pockets of brush bordering their fence or create situations to encourage their growth. Don’t be afraid to cut trails meandering inside your cover. It doesn’t have to be a highway- just permitting movement if the cover is very dense. You can also use cuts and fallen vegetation to create natural funnels on your own property. We do this a lot around bow blinds to control ingress and egress so that we don’t have deer able to easily walk right under stands where scent becomes a problem. If they want to get to a feeder for instance, you can control how they approach it. Ariel photos or google earth brings a lot of this to life. You can see funnels and sanctuary areas that are not always evident on foot.
  17. For the record, I'm not a biologist and do not hold myself as an expert. I've learned plenty upthread already. All I know is what I've seen over the years. Take this with a grain of salt. Deer seek different cover at various time. Whether for actual bedding (day or night) or to get out of the weather, etc, there seem to be some themes. At night we commonly see them bedding in fairly open mesquite flats. During the daytime they seems to prefer thick cover like a cedar thicker but other times it may be an oak flat with lots of shade. I think what you are looking for is a variety of cover with varying density. Give them an excuse to be on your property regardless of what they prefer. At times I think they want to have plenty of vision and minimal cover (mesquite flats) and other times they seem to want to be in an impenetrable fortress like a young cedar stand. Take what the land gives you and build on it from there. Leave some areas really dense. In other areas you would want to open up the ground level, but leave a full canopy by clearing out under and around substantial trees. Open fields also have their place for both forbes and fawning. If you predominantly have only one of cedar, mesquite, or hardwood then work with that but create differing levels of thickness. If you've got a mixture of hardwood, mesquite, and cedar, then look for ways to improve what you have and amplify it. What you don't want is just one type of cover AND thickness, because they want variety based on their daily needs. The ag extension agent or a biologist would be the right person to consult for sure and it would be worth the time and / or money.
  18. I saw it and anticipated it. It’s a mix of ignorance, plain ‘ol Surly bluster, and denial or deflection as was said above. The percentages are not for me to assign. I’m rooting for the guy regardless of his future record at Texas. I’m certain his story will help someone. All of our stories do- either as a redemptive tale or one that is cautionary if we don’t do the deal. It would be really cool if he becomes a shining example of recovery and is able to share his experience as he sees fit.
  19. Herman did more to send those guys to Bama than Sark. Herman may win the reverse recruiting championship this year.
  20. Not true. Hire aside, this isn’t correct unless it was surly humor. In that case, carry on.
  21. I haven't seen a confirmation of this, but I've read in a couple of places that some obscure line in the most recent stimulus package will allow Korean lend-lease M1 carbines to be imported again. Could be bullshit, but the market could certainly absorb more supply based on the demand at this point. Prices have gone nuts on those suckers.
  22. 2020-2021 season was below average for us in mature bucks. Numbers- not quality. We got hit with a lot of Hypogonadism a few years back and based on the numbers of mature velvet bucks we’ve taken this year and last- I think our total numbers in that age class were down.... with regard to unaffected bucks. We’ve had a high 140’s/low 150’s taken and another 11 that didn’t score great (maybe 140) but he was a brute with heavy horns that declined from last year. There’s a high 150’s 5yr old that’s going to make it. Not for lack of trying but he was only hunted with bows. However, we have an abundance of 130”-140” 3’s and 4’s so we’re chalking this year up an anomaly and hoping for a wet start to this year and that they all stay off the highway. 2021 and 2022 could be well above average. as @Spaulding Smailssaid.... time, money, and add patience. The hypogonadism is a variable somewhat unique to our place due to all the exposed granite, but we just deal with it and know that we “loose” a certain percentage of bucks from each fawn crop to that anomaly and work harder to not shoot any until they come of age.
  23. I don’t have any experience in small tracts @Spaulding Smails but I have seen some that I thought were managed well. They focus on making their property a sanctuary for game and allow the surrounding owners to experience then consequences of their decisions not to manage. Depending on the geographic layout, either make your perimeter a sanctuary and feed/hunt the interior, or vice versa and make the center a sanctuary and hunt the perimeter. Get creative with your feeding and time it both daily and seasonally to bring deer into or keep them on the property to feeder and then lay up. You won’t be able to control movement during the rut, but the rest of the year you can impact movement and bedding if you are creative. It won’t be perfect but it can result in a few deer making it to maturity, and then you may be able to use that as proof to change attitudes around you. Really you’re playing the long game with them.... both the neighbors and the wildlife.
  24. Here’s some from our place throughout the last several years. Down by Willow City Loop close to F’burg. Low fence
  25. It’s often forgotten that whitetail were virtually wiped out during the time when many of our fathers and grandfathers were growing up. It was rare for them to see any deer, so I get it. Don’t shoot the breeding doe. Those days have long since past, but the mentality can take a long time to adjust. A lot of us do things and believe things simply because that’s what we were taught or experienced. I don’t judge anyone’s stance because I don’t know from where it originates, but I will discuss and debate it based on current facts.
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