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Made it to my lease in Texas earlier this week and have to pics to share.

Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:00 pm
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:00 pm
This is my quail lease and quail are almost non-existant this year. A buddy and I went up for a couple of days, this property is 37k acres and part of a 140k acre ranch. We drove about 200 miles over 2.5 days. Shot ducks, hogs and yots and took a bunch of deer, both mule and whitetail pics. The deer hunters on this ranch are on a strick management program and the ranch has its own biologist onsite. It is low fence and the deer hunters get one mature buck 5.5 years of age or older.














The deer on the right just got finished kicking the arse of the deer on the left. I got pics but at 400 yards, in high grass, they didn't come out.




Here is the deer on the left after it got its butt kicked.





This guy was chasing a doe. The biologist put him on the do not kill list and thinks he is a 4.5 year old deer.



Here he is from the back








I saw these two at the camp house feeder, but at 400 yards, in the early morning light, I could not see antlers and thought they were does. When I started looking through the photos I notice the antlers. These deer were visible through the window.








This post was edited on 12/20/19 at 2:13 pm
Posted by Stexas
SWLA
Member since May 2013
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:04 pm to
Great pictures. Did you see the bulletin on CWD near del rio?

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This post was edited on 12/19/19 at 10:06 pm
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:06 pm to
No, we are north, near Paducah
Posted by AUCE05
Member since Dec 2009
42571 posts
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:17 pm to
What time do I need to show up?
Posted by Mr Breeze
The Lunatic Fringe
Member since Dec 2010
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Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:19 pm to
Beautiful part of Texas have never hunted up there only south and west.

Great photos and story behind them.

Posted by AutoYes_Clown
Baton Rouge, LA
Member since Oct 2012
5177 posts
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:21 pm to
TD OB GTG 2020 location

Lets do it.
Posted by Marlo Stanfield
Member since Aug 2008
2068 posts
Posted on 12/19/19 at 10:30 pm to
Callahan Ranch?
Posted by Sasquatch Smash
Member since Nov 2007
24037 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:02 am to
What's the ratio of White-taileds to Mulies?
Posted by kengel2
Team Gun
Member since Mar 2004
30822 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:05 am to
Id love to get back out to southwest texas and shoot a monster mule deer.

Pictures are fantastic.
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:08 am to
From what I have seen i think it is 15% mules and the rest whitetails
Posted by PawnMaster
Down Yonder
Member since Nov 2014
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Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:12 am to
Great pics man! Looks like a paradise.
Posted by bnb9433
Member since Jan 2015
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Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:13 am to
quote:

What time do I need to show up?
Posted by PT24-7
Member since Jul 2013
4373 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:13 am to
beautiful pictures. Any run ins with comanches?
Posted by Run up middle
DeRidder
Member since Oct 2012
1410 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:30 am to
What’s the name of the ranch? I know a guy that owns one there about that size
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:38 am to
We are asked to not use the ranch's name on social media, but this isn't owned by an individual.
Posted by Run up middle
DeRidder
Member since Oct 2012
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Posted on 12/20/19 at 8:50 am to
Ok. This one is an individual that owns it with another part in New Mexico. Awesome deer and bird hunting there.
Posted by No Colors
Sandbar
Member since Sep 2010
10421 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 9:00 am to
quote:

quail are almost non-existant this year.

Curious why? Seems like Texas has been in a bit of a wet cycle the past few years? Of course I know it's totally local. It can be dramatically different in just a few miles.

Do they have records on historical bird numbers? I'm curious about their cycle and what controls it.
Posted by Ron Cheramie
The Cajun Hedgehog
Member since Aug 2016
5143 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 9:45 am to
Drought hit Texas real bad this year
Posted by wickowick
Head of Island
Member since Dec 2006
45815 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 9:53 am to
This summer we were seeing good numbers of quail from the road, then we had 8-10 weeks of no rain and many days over 100 degrees.

Rolling Plains Quail Research is about 100 miles south of us and they have about 4500 acres. This is their bird numbers form past years based on helicopter surveys

Posted by Chuker
St George, Louisiana
Member since Nov 2015
7544 posts
Posted on 12/20/19 at 9:55 am to
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The biologist put him on the do not kill list and thinks he is a 4.5 year old deer.



Thats a beautiful deer. And to think they are giving him at least one more year....


Bonus question, do mule deer taste the same as whitetails?
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