2020/2021 Hunting Thread

[Brisketexan 105154]

16 minutes ago, BabaYaga said:

They're property is split into two parts by 765, between Doole and Millersview.  North and south, as 765 runs East and West.  Their little shanty town is right there at the junction of 765 and 4444, on the north side.  They are building a ranch house on the south side, further back off the highway and behind a gated fence as breakin's happen all the time at the other place, as it's right off the highway.  

Buddy's family all live in Angelo.  His step brother, who is out there all the time is a former Force Recon Marine and multiple Blackwater (and other) contractor.  Talk about having someone to sit around the fire and tell stories with.  Man.  

Dude, they're putting those windmills damned near right on top of em there.  Of course, those also make good new shooting lanes, so....there's that.

My friends' place is further north, just a coupla miles south of the south side of OH Ivie.  Different country out there, but a lotta deer.

[BabaYaga 15301]

Just now, Brisketexan said:

Dude, they're putting those windmills damned near right on top of em there.  Of course, those also make good new shooting lanes, so....there's that.

My friends' place is further north, just a couple miles south of the south side of OH Ivie.  Different country out there, but a lotta deer.

Tons of deer.  I have a giant 10 on my wall taken off their place.  We go back and forth between their place and mine outside Coleman.  Big O's of course.  Have you been into Coleman and gone to Rancho Pizzeria?  Or their new steakhouse or wine bar?  Family that owns are friends with the Goree family from MIdland (HUGE O&G family.  Very well off).  They are Dallas and used to work for Texas Monthly.  It's as nice as any place I've ever been, and you have guys in suits next to guys in camo.  They also have two vineyards so their selection is really nice.  For the ladies, they have an amazing B&HB built on a vineyard.  There's an old stone house out there they use to serve 5-course meals.  It's a little gem in the middle of nowhere.  I've surprised wife and buddies wife by taking them there and the guys heading down to the ranch.  It's quite posh.  

Rancho

B & B

 

 

[BabaYaga 15301]

Yes, I'm a Rancho fanboy.....;)

[deadshank 24653]

Still at it.  

[Both Tacos 1806]

9 man limit this morning by 8:00 to kick off the last weekend of the duck season. It was pretty fast and furious. Dog didn't know what to do with the birds falling as she was bringing them back to the blind.
Then we finished off the morning with duck kabob tacos.
Going after them again tomorrow with 5 guys and we left with birds still coming in so hopefully a repeat will happen.

[deadshank 24653]

Haven’t been to #12 all season long. 

[Herbie Hancock 7367]

How do you not have all of Lubbock flying over right now? Dad sent a pic from the house and visibility is probably 1/8 mile

[Herbie Hancock 7367]

Double

[Lat22 4015]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Haven’t been to #12 all season long. 

Y’all’s sendero game is strong. 

[Lat22 4015]

1 hour ago, deadshank said:

Haven’t been to #12 all season long. 

Y’all’s sendero game is strong. 

[deadshank 24653]

8 minutes ago, Lat22 said:

Y’all’s sendero game is strong. 

3 pigs came out.  
 

3 pigs are now having their mail delivered by the groundhog. 

[686 3449]

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

[686 3449]

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

[686 3449]

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

[686 3449]

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

[686 3449]

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

[Kennythetiger 9389]

Boy, you can say that again!  

[Johnny Chimpo 478]

10 hours ago, 686 said:

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

How do you eat those cranes? 

[Both Tacos 1806]

And just like that the '20-'21 hunting season is done. Can I get MLD tags for ducks? Mallards are just starting to get here.
It's been hell of a season with lots of great hunts and memories.

[fattyflattie 4639]

3 hours ago, Johnny Chimpo said:

How do you eat those cranes? 

Steaks. They are delicious. 

[Brisketexan 105154]

Steaks. They are delicious. 

We used to cut them into strips, like steak fingers at DQ, batter and chicken fry, dip in gravy. In college, that was a regular game-day setup when we were watching CFB on the all Saturday. Big platters of chicken fried crane strips, cold beer - folks loved em.

[Alex Karev 1030]

Sand Hill Cranes.

We call them the Ribeye's of the Sky.

Edited January 31, 2021 by Alex Karev

[deadshank 24653]

2 hours ago, Alex Karev said:

Sand Hill Cranes.

We call them the Ribeye's of the Sky.

One of the guys in our camp can mix metaphors on a world-class level.  He once called them the roast beef of the sky.  
 

True story. 

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2732]

Going after these nastys this weekend.

[4th_and_18 687]

Mercy kill on a very young axis. Came out and was visibly shaking. Started to walk towards the feed and fell over. Got back up and turned around. Missing a shoulder and who knows what else. Put her down. Walked up and she’s just skin and bones and whatever parasites were crawling out of the wound. Guess someone missed high. On a baby.



She would try to lick her wound and fall over. She looked back in my direction and just had that look of pain. No more suffering for her.

[williemackgarza 1826]

Nice you put her outta her misery

[686 3449]

Damnation. Tapatalk Quintuple post must be a record. We did limit out again this morning, let’s see if Tapatalk goes crazy again:

[BabaYaga 15301]

On 1/30/2021 at 7:11 PM, 686 said:

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

Ribeye of the sky!  Very nice!

[BabaYaga 15301]

15 hours ago, T’Boo Ted Marshall said:

Going after these nastys this weekend.

[686 3449]

Here’s a few stills from a video of a huge flight on Saturday. We cut 16 birds out of it.

[Lat22 4015]

On 1/31/2021 at 2:42 PM, deadshank said:

One of the guys in our camp can mix metaphors on a world-class level.  He once called them the roast beef of the sky.  
 

True story. 

Does a wild Pope shit in the woods?

[Cajun 11714]

Lat and I had a friend who would do that kinda shit all the time.  Not really a mixed metaphor, but one time, after much alcohol during a conversation we were having about what we'd do with lottery winnings he stated and I quote -

"I'd buy an authentic Spanish Scallion and live on the sea!"

He was dead serious.

[deadshank 24653]

Blind #7 down by the river.  Super-thick Cambodia area. Lots of white brush and persimmon.  The pigs love this spot.  The blind is about 200 yards from an 80’ drop off into the river.  

[deadshank 24653]

3 minutes ago, Cajun said:

Lat and I had a friend who would do that kinda shit all the time.  Not really a mixed metaphor, but one time, after much alcohol during a conversation we were having about what we'd do with lottery winnings he stated and I quote -

"I'd buy an authentic Spanish Scallion and live on the sea!"

He was dead serious.

He’s gonna need a bigger scallion. 

[Cajun 11714]

I always wanted to commission a Mexican artist to paint him on a velvet canvass sailing into the horizon on a giant onion, but then the Cartels ruined Nuevo Laredo for all of us.

At least I was able to get one of these as a gift for Lat22 before all that shit happened -

 

Edited February 2, 2021 by Cajun

[fattyflattie 4639]

Lat and I had a friend who would do that kinda shit all the time.  Not really a mixed metaphor, but one time, after much alcohol during a conversation we were having about what we'd do with lottery winnings he stated and I quote -
"I'd buy an authentic Spanish Scallion and live on the sea!"
He was dead serious.

He just could never see that...scallion


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[Cajun 11714]

5 hours ago, deadshank said:

Blind #7 down by the river.  Super-thick Cambodia area. Lots of white brush and persimmon.  The pigs love this spot.  The blind is about 200 yards from an 80’ drop off into the river.  

Cambodia, eh?  Just wait till you’re up against the little man in the black pajamas.  
 

Worthy fuckin’ adversary.

[ROFL BOX 6649]

On 1/30/2021 at 9:16 PM, 686 said:

Limited out in Dimmit this morning

Damn, y'all limited out 5x in one day?

Sheeit, I need to look up what the possession daily is.

[686 3449]

Damn, y'all limited out 5x in one day?

Sheeit, I need to look up what the possession daily is.

Yeah yeah. I bought Tapatalk Pro or whatever it’s called to get rid of the ads; when Im posting pics now it gives me the higher res option ( which previously was “VIP only”) or whatever. So I figured I would give it a shot and select the higher res on the Crane pic. After I hit “post”, Tapa freezes with just a circular “loading” type of icon I’ve never seen before. I wait a minute or two, lose patience and put the phone down and go to sleep. I check things mid day the next day and apparently it went berserk trying to load.

[deadshank 24653]

We’ve got a few of these very light deer on our place.   Nobody has let the air out of one because the Indian spirits may descend upon us and wreck our shit. 
 

Anyway, kinda interesting. 

[hookemATL 11758]

Something tells me if you kill one, you'd wake up the next day with your pud turned inside out and antlers growin out ya butthole.

[deadshank 24653]

42 minutes ago, hookemATL said:

Something tells me if you kill one, you'd wake up the next day with your pud turned inside out and antlers growin out ya butthole.

But they taste like chicken...allegedly.

[hookemATL 11758]

Chicken of the Woods Brand Venison

[Armybrat 40851]

[williemackgarza 1826]

Chicken of the Woods Brand Venison

It is chicken, right?/ jessica simpson

[crash_davis 23113]

wonder if they knew each other? and what the fuck was the dude shooting at? there isn't a turkey between them.

https://www.reddit.com/r/watchpeoplesurvive/comments/l825o6/turkey_hunter_gets_shot_in_the_leg_by_another/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

Edited February 5, 2021 by crash_davis

[deadshank 24653]

Got tired of the dirt under our skinning rack so we built a better pad.  Not perfectly level but it’ll do. 

[NotActuallyALonghorn 4976]

So, let's post our redneck blinds. Here's the blind we use at my FIL's place. He has like sixteen acres in a long rectangle shape, and probably two thirds is a wetland creek bottom (complete with overcup oak for the forestry nerds). Someone gave him this old trailer that had a bunk and stove in it. It's been a deer blind for a couple years now, but we just recently actually cleaned it out. Gotta paint the inside a darkish color so we don't outline ourselves with the big windows. We get pigs year round no matter how dry it is due to the spring fed slough on his property.

[Both Tacos 1806]

So, let's post our redneck blinds. Here's the blind we use at my FIL's place. He has like sixteen acres in a long rectangle shape, and probably two thirds is a wetland creek bottom (complete with overcup oak for the forestry nerds). Someone gave him this old trailer that had a bunk and stove in it. It's been a deer blind for a couple years now, but we just recently actually cleaned it out. Gotta paint the inside a darkish color so we don't outline ourselves with the big windows. We get pigs year round no matter how dry it is due to the spring fed slough on his property.

That just pure genius right there. Nobody would see me all day with a set up like that for a blind.

[deadshank 24653]

The Shinto Arch shrine in Nagasaki got nothing on us Appalachian- Americans.