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There's a lot that goes into the mindset of not shooting doe. Much of it was machismo dating back decades, some of is geographic (guys from low deer density areas starting to hunt higher density counties, but a lot of it was financial. A lot of you are too young (probably) to remember the old day hunt / doe permit days of the Hill Country, but that led to 90% of the problems Central Texas had with herds of small deer and only young bucks. From at least the 50's through the 70's and into the 80's, many ranchers in Central Texas ran day leases. You paid $50-$100 a day to hunt and that gave you rights to shoot one "deer". However, TPWD also had a "Doe Permit" program that they ran state wide and they only gave land owners a certain number of permits for doe harvest based on the county population surveys. Some counties got X doe per 100 acres. Others may get none. You couldn't shoot a doe unless you had both a doe tag, and a doe permit.......You had the tag, but the landowner controlled the doe permits. I still remember them - White paper documents that had to be signed by the land owner and the hunter to accompany the deer. So.....Landowners leasing to day hunters would lease for $50-$100 a day but if you shot a doe, you had to pay extra for the doe permit. Bucks were wrapped into the daily fee, but not the doe. Hunters, knowing they were only on the land a few days a year had the choice; Pay $50-$100 and shoot a buck of any size, or shoot a doe and pay maybe twice that. With no stewardship incentive, the day lease hunters would shoot anything with bone poking through the skull rather than shoot a doe and have to pay extra. Multiply that mindset times 50+ hunters a year per ranch and the fallout was inevitable. This led to ranches that had incredibly high doe populations, no mature bucks, and massive stress on the land's carrying capacity. Back then a 3 yr old 14" wide 8pt was cause for celebration, and most hunters shot a yearling buck or maybe a 1 yr old fork horn or 6pt. When the doe permit program died and landowners were either pressured or incentivized by hunters to move toward season leases, the population had a chance to normalize. It took decades to retrain older hunters or bring in newer hunters who exhibited patience and practiced good management. You still have hunters who don't want to wait on a lease to develop a sustainable population of mature bucks. I guess they act this way for fear of being kicked off right when the mature bucks are of age, or just being short sighted and not understanding the potential of the land. However, Hill Country hunting is light years ahead of where it was 40+ years ago and everyone is better for it. Horn hunters have a chance to harvest some true trophy bucks, and meat hunters have the opportunity to aid in the management of the population through required harvest numbers.
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ClassicFirearms.com has Tula coated steel 9mm fmj for $0.50 / round. That’s not too bad if you want 1000 rounds for the range and don’t want to stalk Academy for 3 boxes at a time.
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Coyotes "investigate" gun shots in areas where they get used to hunters and gut piles.
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Spent the 26th and today making some calls to other drunks and checking on them. Two guys that had fallen out during the last few months have quit again; committed to attending our meetings that start back live tomorrow. Both mentioned that others and I had continued to check in with them even after we knew they were off the wagon. They mentioned what an impact that had on them and reinforced / reminded me about carrying the message to the still suffering alcoholic. We never know which seeds we sow that one day take hold when the soil is right. I've got to stay close to my core sober network, but what grows my sobriety is that 12th step and carrying the message. I may never see a particular drunk get sober, but if I do the work the right way, they may recover down the road whether I'm there to witness it or not.....and it pushes that next drink father from me each time I do it. I have got to do more of that - less self, more outreach.
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Any fans of older Winchesters? Pre-64 Model 70's are my deal. This is fairly amazing - worth a look and read if you like classic, scarce rifles. 1949 Winchester Model 70 Super Grade .35 Rem New in Box I'm guessing it will go well north of high estimate.
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Guys like Urban and Saban don’t start their consideration of an opportunity with thoughts of what it will do for their legacy if they fail. They see a challenge and trust they can make it work- whether that’s Texas or the NFL. They don’t start handwringing over legacy and thoughts of failure. That’s not how they’re wired. Whether he jumps to the league or not, his being worried about legacy if he fails isn’t in his top considerations.
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I'm sure the cattle would love to see me hauling seed out for food plots. That's a non-starter unless I hit that lottery tonight and can move the cattle off after securing title. Our place is pretty diverse in terms of cover, native food sources, and terrain so we have areas that are thick the juniper/cedar and other areas where there is none. I've seen some areas where its basically a waste land other than green blobs everywhere and that's no bueno for game.
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From personal observations I hate them in the macro sense. They provide some good cover but they suck a ton of water out of the ground and choke out other beneficial vegetation. We’ve started cutting them away from our oaks as we can to keep them from crowding out the mast production.
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Yeah- it has some negatives. What we are doing is adding some wire cottonseed feeders inside feeder pens where we have regular spin feeders. This year we filled a few of them through May and then let them play out to avoid the sterilization issue. We have a few areas that are remote and we know a lot of deer don’t travel to the central protein feeders (based on cameras and visuals) so we are using cotton seed in those areas for a little boost. Nothing heavy- just a few months worth to supplement.
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Protein: I've used Bode Feed, Lyssy & Eckel, and Llano Feed and Supply. We view it as purely supplemental and free feed. We don't have the budget to be a primary food source due to the acreage we'd need to cover. Free feed makes more sense for us. That way, when they don't want it, the feed isn't wasted on a repeating cycle. Ramping up cotton seed this year - Experimented this year. We don't hunt our protein feeder areas and don't feed that in areas we do hunt. Protein starts on or about January 15th and goes through October.
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Deer Management for big bucks: “Big” should be removed from the vocabulary and replaced with “Mature” in my opinion. Big is relative-maturity not so much. Maturity equals full potential and that’s all one can ask from a given property. The #1 factor is time (age). Regardless of the area one hunts, until you allow a breeding year’s worth of bucks to reach 5-6 years old, you don’t even know what the land’s potential is. If you stop shooting “big” bucks and only shoot mature bucks, the dynamic shifts. The laws of nature and Ford bumpers dictate that a smaller number of bucks make it through to the next year- year after year. Add hunting to the mix and most hunters don’t have a chance at a truly mature buck because they shot the “survivors” at 3-4 yrs because the were “big”. If you want the largest horns a property can produce, you MUST give that property the time to show it and that only happens when you allow the bucks to live long enough to display that potential. Pitfalls like uncooperative neighbors, poachers, etc. abound, but time is the one factor that must be allowed for in order to experience the potential of a land tract. I’ve seen low fenced “Hill County” land that wouldn’t produce a single 120” buck 20 years ago now crank out 140-150” deer annually and the occasional +160”. The only change is that the “rules” went from 8 point or better to +5 years or better. The land and deer didn’t change. What changed was the mindset of the hunters and the methodology of the annual harvest. It takes a few years to stack up a living population of 5 and 6 year old deer, but once you get there, it is sustainable.
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My feelings won’t be hurt if this gets shit-canned, but the discussion is somewhat different than the “Hunting 20XX” threads that are created every year, and good ideas are lost in subsequent yearly threads. I’m particularly interested in this more and more vs. the harvest of animals and would like to contribute and read other contributions. What are your experiences, product reviews, and tips on things like.... Managing for whitetail horn development, quail populations, etc. Feeders, feeding, feed suppliers, and food plots Blinds, tripods, tree-stands, etc. Camp set-ups, trailers, storage, water tanks MLD, low fence, high fence, large/small tracts Culling, buck/doe ratio, harvest amounts per acre. Apps for hunter communication, maps, topography Game cameras and scouting Hope to add my thoughts shortly. So much of my “hunting” is now more management than actually pursuing game, I hope this topic can be a permanent clearinghouse for a lot of information.
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Nothing to see here. Turns out someone’s wife got a vacuum cleaner instead of jewelry for Xmas.
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Yeah- it is a great round. Three from the 40’s are being sold and I’ve convinced myself I need one. Pre-64’s are my kink and a .257 would be a nice add.
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I’m bidding on a pre-64 .257 Bob next month at auction and am blaming it on (my excuse to my wife) the fact that I keep seeing boxes of that on the self and nothing else (like that .222 you saw). Fantastic rationalization on my part.
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Hard to get into the business without primers. Plenty of regular Joe’s have become resellers of personal stock, but no new manufacturers to speak of. Hell, in January and February prices were at multi year lows and there was a glut of supply.
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Good for him. I don’t blame him for being a little ticked off.
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Begun, the chicken wars have. Chick-fil-A versus Tyson Foods
Reagan1k replied to Parliament's topic in Business and Markets
You'll know where you stand as an attorney in your firm if you get assigned to go do a site visit at a chicken plant. Those places are gawd awful. You're on the bottom rung at the firm if you get that job. -
In my opinion and experience, “seekers” come in all varieties. Some may be alcoholics or addicts and others simply feel unfulfilled for whatever reasons. There are those among us walking through life fat, dumb, and happy who don’t seem to need a purpose or fulfillment. Seekers are wired differently. Whatever we seek in the macro sense can be gained through stacking lots of micro actions. The lightning bolt / miracle event isn’t necessary to create a sense of purpose. It’s the trim of our sail and not the direction or force of the gale that sets our course.
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I believe there will be a new classification in the NFA items - starting with the pistol braces. You won't be registering an SBR, you'll be registering a braced pistol. Stamp/registration will be different.
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Quoted for truth. Having purpose can be simply doing the next right thing and being of service to those around you. It doesn't have to be curing cancer or ridding the ocean of plastic waste. It's amazing how you feel when you get out of self and do something for fun and for free and for no other reason. Standing at a door and waiting for someone - holding it open even if they are 15 steps behind you. Letting someone go ahead of you in the grocery store just because. Stopping and picking up trash that isn't yours on property that doesn't below to you. The "purpose in life" question I believe is a myth, by and large, when it is centered on some type of accomplishment or accolade. In my experience, those who have a true purpose are those who are servants to mankind. That's not to say you have to abandon all worldly possessions and become Mother Theresa. Helping others get what they want (in a healthy and honest way) is a pretty foolproof method of also getting what you want. It applies as much in business as it does in interpersonal relationships. There's a great AA speaker who talks about how his professional career and business exploded when he quit focusing on getting what he wanted and instead focused on serving his clients and making sure they were happy and satisfied. Same goes for relationships, as long as they are healthy and with proper boundaries. Make a game of it. See how many times each day you can do something nice for a total stranger or a loved on, without ulterior motives. If you want to crank it up a level, do so and then see how long you can go without telling anyone about the things you did. Keep it between you and your higher power. Long story short - be of service in small ways every day, and larger ways when the opportunity is there, and those things stack upon one another to build that purpose and sense of self worth and contentment.
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Official bitch about your family 2020 holidays edition
Reagan1k replied to GhostOfTomJoad's topic in Lulz
Honestly I don't care - its your food. Put A-1 and mayonnaise on it for all I care. My only pet peeve is when the well done crowd wants to impart their preference on a large cut like a tenderloin or prime rib. Please don't tell me to cook it longer. Don't act disgusted when there is blood on the platter. That's where the disagreement comes in. If you want your piece burned, do it yourself after its carved. I have no problem with that. Just don't harass me to overcook the whole thing to your sole liking or criticize the final product. That's our unspoken code - She doesn't tell me to cook it longer, and I don't give her shit about the skillet. If you're paying for your own steak in a restaurant; ask the chef to drag it through his ass crack and soak it in dishwater for all I care. It's yours - that's a you deal and not a me deal. I won't call you out for ordering well done, just as I don't want a vegan / gluten-nut haranguing me about my sausage gravy covered biscuit. -
No - and I said that a little tongue in cheek, but the reality is that ingenuity and problem solving ability is vital. Some of the smartest people I have ever met became dumber than a box of rocks if faced with a challenge for which they didn't have an immediate answer. I'd rather have a team member who can find solutions even if in a round about method than one who is "smart" but paralyzed by adversity or anything outside of their comfort zone. Point well taken. As an engineering applicant in the OP's example, I would want the basic knowledge.
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And you're exactly the guy I would want to hire. I'm less concerned if you know the answer as I am if you can figure out the answer.
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