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re: 17 Point in South Texas

Posted on 12/31/10 at 11:39 am to
Posted by Bama and Beer
Baldwin Co, AL
Member since Oct 2010
81611 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 11:39 am to
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South Texas hunting like this is just not hunting to me
I feel the same. I want to find a decent outfitter in the mid west and harvest a nice deer there. Or.... I can hopefully convince my buddy who lives in Montana and has a shite ton of family land to let me come up there and take a nice whitetail or mule deer. I just have to get all the cold weather gear.
Posted by cdaniel76
Covington, LA
Member since Feb 2008
19710 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 11:52 am to
I agree with 'neck and 'baitin...

That is NOT hunting. That's for the well off corporate execs from NY and Chicago who get a wild hair up their arse to kill a dear and are willing to shell out the $$$ for a fabricated experience of hunting. Yeah those ranch owners may make a lot of $$$ but it's still not hunting.

There's a satisfaction that comes with finding a great place, setting up a stand or two, placing feeders and trail cams, tracking a couple of big bucks for a couple years and finally taking one down on that cold morning when u see it peek its head out in the open for the first time.
Posted by Coast Tiger
Member since Apr 2005
1134 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 12:03 pm to
I will agree that you can't be some guy who pays the money to go to a place like this to be spoon fed a deer that you know he will get something and has never spent the time doing all you said. Setting up feeders, game cams, working the land. You can't be called a hunter without that.

I've done that on my old property in MS and it is very rewarding. I'm seeing it on this place too. I wouldn't tell these guys running this place that they don't hunt. They still do all the same work.

Lets be sure not to confuse the guys who run and set these places up with the people who just go out for the experience.

I agree with you 76!
Posted by Clyde Tipton
Planet Earth
Member since Dec 2007
38988 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 2:56 pm to
Good Lord, that's a monster.
Posted by willow2
Tulsa, Ok
Member since Jan 2010
1267 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 3:07 pm to
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that's not real hunting FWIW


^ this
Posted by faxis
La.
Member since Oct 2007
7773 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 3:44 pm to
I've done a lot of La and south Texas and while harvesting a deer is no big deal in Texas, killing a big one is. None of the places we leased in Tx were game fenced but we tried to manage them and on the one in Junction we had more 8 pts than you could shake a stick at. But once they got over 3 years old, poof... you'll never see them again in daylight without seriously hunting your arse off.

Those who say South Texas hunting isn't hunting don't know what they're talking about or are just jealous. It's just different.

Paying for a trophy like that though... nah. Wouldn't mean anything to me then.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
82922 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 5:02 pm to
One heck of a 10 point.
Posted by offshoretrash
Farmerville, La
Member since Aug 2008
10290 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 9:44 pm to
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But once they got over 3 years old, poof... you'll never see them again in daylight without seriously hunting your arse off.

Those who say South Texas hunting isn't hunting don't know what they're talking about


Yep I found out the same thing hunting out there. Our place was too small and got over pressured. The only time you would see a shooter was during the rut or rattling. I never killed anything big out there because everything I saw was broke up and I saw some big ones.

I saw a 190-200 class buck on the side of the highway in Menard. It was amazing to see something that big. Thinking back I should have turned around and shot that SOB!
Posted by redneck
Los Suenos, Costa Rica
Member since Dec 2003
53827 posts
Posted on 12/31/10 at 11:50 pm to
pretty much raising deer to shoot isnt hunting no matter how you put it




next time i catch a rat red i will raise it in a tub so i can take a pic when it gets huge amd claim i caught it
This post was edited on 12/31/10 at 11:52 pm
Posted by Rantavious
Bossier ''get down'' City
Member since Jan 2007
2088 posts
Posted on 1/1/11 at 12:43 pm to
quote:

pretty much paying to hunt deer raised to shoot isnt hunting no matter how you put it


better
Posted by Crawdaddy
Slidell. The jewel of Louisiana
Member since Sep 2006
18636 posts
Posted on 1/1/11 at 1:03 pm to
not real hunting at all. Like going to the market and picking out your meat is all.
Posted by redneck
Los Suenos, Costa Rica
Member since Dec 2003
53827 posts
Posted on 1/1/11 at 2:50 pm to
agreed
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