Showing posts with label #Texas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Texas. Show all posts

Saturday, October 26, 2024

October 25, 26,27

Got down last night in time for a 45 minute  sit down, wind was perfect. Did not see anything. Charlie got in around  1030.
 I hunted the pop up this morning and seen a doe but but did not have a good shot, Charlie hunted the tripod at the bow stand and didn't see anything. 
  We put chum out at the field stand and the camp stand and we got in the stands around 430. 
We need new wind ribbons.

Saturday, January 6, 2024

12/31/23

What a beautiful morning 3 mph west wind, clear skies and 31 degrees. Here I am sitting in the pop up at camp stand. I have a bog pod death grip that my crossbow is sitting in, I practiced with it at the house and it really is a game changer for me. Nothing seen in morning. Got to pop up around 330. Wind is non existence coming from west maybe 3 mph. Feeder goes off at 430 which attracts the doves, cardinals and red shouldered blackbirds.

Saturday, January 14, 2023

my crossbow

I have a Barnett Whitetail Hunter STR with a Hawke XB1 scope, the scope has a speed dial so after the 20 yd pin is good you step back to 30 and when that has been sighted in you are good up to 100 yds if you can see that good.

does and spikes special season

So we are here again at charlies lease hoping to bag a doe or a spike. Feeder went off at 4 pm. Here the next day, hunted this morning it was 33 with 3mph south wind and at 4 it is 63 with 17 south wind. I am hunting in a pop up, 30 yds from feed pen.

Saturday, December 31, 2022

last 2022 weekend

Last weekend of 2022 season, in fact it is new years eve. We got here yesterday in mid afternoon and hunted til dark, seen nothing which is unusual for this stand. After the hunt we corned out at 3 places and have one more to do after this morning hunt.

12.31.22 it is 41 degrees, 3 mph se wind with high clouds. First light was at 708 with sunrise 735. Feeder is set to go off at 800 am and 4 pm
38 yds to feeder from blind.









Friday, November 4, 2022

Crossbow

 I got to go hunting with my friend Charlie the last couple of weeks, we would take off after lunch. His lease is about 85 miles northwest of Dallas. There are pigs and deer and since i am a guest i can only hunt pigs. Got a few pigs on camera but i have not seen any.
































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































My son and his coworker went diwn to Crockett to hunt this weeked and iiint 






















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































Tuesday, October 30, 2018

2018-2019 Crockett archery hunt

Here we are hunting in DCNF in October the weekend before gun season. We brought  down Randy, a coworker of Morgan's who has never been hunting before.
It has been raining down here so much that there is standing water where none should be, this is youth weekend and i have not heard one gunshot all day nor have i seen any trucks with kids in them.
Joe, Dale, Randy, Morgan and myself are here at this camp. Great food, fellowship and times.

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Bow hunting Crockett National Forest

Here we are hunting in DCNF in October the weekend before gun season. We brought  down Randy, a coworker of Morgan's who has never been hunting before.
It has been raining down here so much that there is standing water where none should be, this is youth weekend and i have not heard one gunshot all day nor have i seen any trucks with kids in them.
Joe, Dale, Randy, Morgan and myself are here at this camp. Great food, fellowship and times.

Tuesday, February 13, 2018

Crockett Bow Hunt 2017 -2018

Hunted down in Crockett 10/26 thru 10/30/17. There were 3 of us here. We did not kill anything but we ate really well. Matter of fact I don't recall seeing any deer hanging in any camps. 1st pic My truck and trailer. 2nd pic is our camp. 3rd pic os our evening meal cooking and the 4th pic is the meal which was rib eye steaks, bushes grillen beans and smothered potatoes. 


Tuesday, November 28, 2017

2017 October archery hunt

Hunted down in Crockett 10/26 thru 10/30/17. There were 3 of us here. We did not kill anything but we ate really well. Matter of fact I don't recall seeing any deer hanging in any camps.

Saturday, October 22, 2016

Bowhunting

This is the 4th weekend 10.22.16. Wind gusting up to 3 mph from the south, it is truly a beautiful morning to be in the woods. I am at Green acres and Morgan is at the hilltop. I have not seen anything moving.
So I read when I am in my stand it helps me pass the time. I came across a very interesting article.

http://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/acorn-facts-zmaz03onzgoe

As a hunter I learned about the trees that produce acorns which helps me when I go to a different place to hunt.

We spent the afternoon scouting at Hagerman, we found several trees to hang stands in but didn't get to go to the area where I had hunted previous.

This evening hunt is great, 74 degrees 8 pmh see wind. Now it would be even better to kill something.

Saturday, September 3, 2016

Pig hunt

So I was pig hunting 8.27.16 sitting in my tree when the neighbors to the south came by on there gas powered golf cart. Now I had heard this thing a hour or so earlier and knew it was close to Morgans stand then I heard it crank up and next thing I know it parked itself just on the other side of the fence. I don't think they ever saw me but they just kept looking towards the camera and after about 15 minutes they left.
   I figured my Hunt was doomed at that point when I heard grunts coming from the woods on my right ( west), they didn't wind me and there was about 12 pigs all in the 75 lb range. I let them all get up to the corn and I have a big tree trunk shielding me from them so I stood up and and drew my bow waiting for a good broadside shot, it happened a let the arrow fly and missed. My glasses were full of sweat and my vision was blurred a bit from my face mask. Well the pigs scattered and my arrow was stuck in the dirt. Now this all took place around 7:55 with still plenty of daylight left so I waited till dark hoping more pigs would show up but they didn't. It got dark so i lowered my gear, climbed down and retrieved my arrow and upon walking back to my gear, 18 yards or so I hear grunting in the woods 10 yards away and all I have is a arrow with a broadhead. I shine my light and there are 2 150 lb or so pigs now I know they are mad cause I am between them and the corn. I get back to my backpack and get my 8" bowie Knife and I see the run across the pasture. Now walking back to my truck which is 500 yds across that pasture in a different direction I keep hearing the pigs grunting and I walk forward 10 steps and turn around. What a scary hunt.

Saturday, August 27, 2016

Texas deer season 2016 - 2017

We are about 6 weeks away from the Texas Archery deer season and I guess the best way to get ready for it is to sit in a tree and wait for a pig to walk by and stick it. They have been on camera's in the hours before sunset and that's what time it is. We fed out this afternoon so we have stunk up the place too much...who knows.
  It is 90 degrees with a real feel of 94 and a 8 mph east wind.

Saturday, January 2, 2016

Last weekend 2105-2016 season

Last Saturday hunt of the year. Its kinda breezy 49 degrees wind from nw , there is a little corn on the ground I guess the birds have to eat. Me and Charlie are here with little Charlie, I am in green acres and his is at the chum pile

Saturday, October 10, 2015

First am hunt 2015 -2016

Got here in plenty if time to spare sunrise is at 7:28. It is good to be settled in and still have 30 or so minutes to spare before first light, it lets the woods settle down. These critters are not needing the corn by seeing all the acorns on the ground and they are plump looking.