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Only 3 months until hunting season

Kevin — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:00:28 +0000

Only 3 more months until rifle season starts - August, September and October. Rifle season in my part of Texas starts at sunrise on the first Saturday of November. Hunting season is my favorite time of year. Not because I get to go out to the woods and shoot something, but because I get to be in nature without burning up with this Texas heat. The weather turns off cool, the deer start moving, the bugs slack up on their blood sucking. Being outside in December is much more enjoyable then being outside in July or August. Another thing that I enjoy about hunting season is being outside with my kids. When we are walking to the deer stand, or even sitting in the stand, the wind will start blowing, the birds are flying around looking for something to eat. The sun starts to set, the sky turns beautiful colors, the leaves on the trees are a golden color and as the setting sun streaks through the clouds, its a beauty beyond description.

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Survival Rifle Ammunition

Kevin — Thu, 10 Feb 2011 01:52:46 +0000

It was the last weekend of regular deer season, saturday night. A long time member of the deer lease drives up to the camp, and backs his truck up to the scales. That is usually a sure sign that there is a deer in the back of the truck. They get the doe weighed and are stringing it up to skin when I walk out there. As the skinning of the deer proceeds, there are a few of us standing around helping and watching. The topic turns to the cost of ammunition and bullet performance. Like a lot of hunters, I tend to buy the cheapest ammo on the shelf - and that is usually Remington Core-Lokt. Over the past 14,,,, 15+ years Core-Lokt is about all that I have bought and shot deer with. During that time I have had no complaints. There is usually a hole going in and a larger hole going out. The guy who shot the doe goes on to talk about Remington Core-Lokt and how he has since switched to Winchester softpoints. The rifle the guy used was a 270,,,, I dont remember the exact make or model. After talking for a little while, the person who shot the deer said that he has not been happy with the performance of the Remington Core-Lokt lately and that he felt it may not be expanding like it should. So he switched to the Winchester softpoints. I can say one thing about the doe that was being skinned, there was a massive amount of bruising, bleeding and tissue damage. It was like the whole area where the bullet went through had residual damage to the surrendering tissue.

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December 30 2010 evening hunting trip

Kevin — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 05:00:50 +0000

This evening my wife and I decided to go out to the lease and get in a stead - but before we did, we had to go get the pit from the deer camp. The Friday before opening weekend, my son and made a trip to the deer camp and brought my pit out there for everyone to use. Its a home made pit, made out of a 250 gallon butane tank and a 150 air tank. The cooking surface is 6 feet 9 inches long and 29 inches across. My son-in-laws birthday is towards the end of December. So we made a trip to the deer camp, got the pit out before deer season is over, and now we can cook for my son-in-laws birthday. One of the reasons "why" we wanted to get the pit out of the deer camp, is that after the season is over, some undesirable people like to go in there and steal stuff. So far we have had a saw, and a set of antlers stolen. What kind of scum bag goes into a deer camp and steals antlers,,,,,.

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Thoughts on hunting post SHTF

Kevin — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 16:55:51 +0000

During the great depression of the 1930s, whitetail deer and wild turkey were almost hunted to extinction in certain areas around the USA. From what I understand, the East Texas wild turkey was hunted to extinction levels, and birds had to be imported from other parts of the nation to restore the population. The same thing happened to the whitetail deer population in East Texas. The one animal that does not seem to be affected from hunting is the wild hog. Even though the majority of the 50 states has an open season on wild hogs, their population is still thriving. One of the big differences between wild turkeys, whitetail deer and wild hogs - is the amount of off spring that can be produced. Deer and turkeys reproduce once a year. Wild hogs are like rats, they reproduce all the time. Related Articles:

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Planning a hunting camping trip on the river

Kevin — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 23:06:03 +0000

A buddy of mine called last night and asked if I wanted to go on a camping / hunting trip on the Angelina River sometime soon. My answer was "of course". I'am not going to disclose the exact location or dates until after the fact. The plan involves getting one of the primitive camping spots on the Angelina River close to Jasper, Texas and go hunting in the public hunting lands. When I bought my hunting license, I also bought a fishing and public hunting lands permit. Being on the river would give me the chance to do some fishing, camping, and all kinds of hunting. The trip will probably span 2 - 3 days. Now I just have to get a map of the public hunting land available where we are going camping. When I bought my public hunting lands license, a few days later I received a hand book with maps of the entire state of Texas. The hand book showed where the public hunting lands are at.

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Looking forward to deer season

Kevin — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 14:44:51 +0000

With the summer heat starting to break just a little bit - the past couple of days have been around 91, 92 or 93 degrees, a couple of weeks ago day time temps were in the 97, 98 and 99 range - its time to start looking for deer season. My daughter and I just got finished eating breakfast, and I'am getting the truck loaded up. Over the past few days I charged 5 or 6 - 6 volt batteries for the feeders. When we leave home, we are going to go by Tractor supply in Jasper, Texas and pick up something like 12 bags of deer corn. We have 6 feeders to check on, and I'am figuring 2 - 50 pound bags just to get the feeders started.

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Watching Some East Texas Whitetail Deer

Kevin — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:29:34 +0000

Decided to get up and go out to the woods this morning. The weather was just about perfect - not too cold, not too hot, not too windy, and the wind was in the perfect direction. With the wind blowing in from the feeder, that put the stand down wind from the deer. Around 6:30 am, 2 deer came out of the tree line, stood around for a little while and then went back into the woods. Around 7:45 am, 3 deer came walking down the old logging road and stopped at the wildlife feeder. A few minutes later a single doe stepped out of the wood line, looked around and then went back into the trees.

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Wildlife Quiz what happened to this pine tree

Kevin — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:03:25 +0000

This is a wildlife test to see how well you know your stuff. What animal damaged this pine tree? Here is a hint - it is not a deer. Location - East Texas, USA Date - October 2009. Post your comments in this thread of the hunting forums.

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Survival Quiz – ID these tracks.

Kevin — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 01:59:31 +0000

This tracks were found along a shallow creek in East Texas. What kind of tracks do you think they are? Location: East Texas, just north of Beaumont Date: January 18th, 2008

Survival gear neoprene gloves

Kevin — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:36:46 +0000

Neoprene gloves are my preference for cold weather. But these are only good to around 30 degrees. Once the temperature reaches the mid 30′s, I have a pair of thin, insulated gloves that I put on, and then pull the neoprene gloves over them. The rubber of the Neoprene allows the gloves to stretch over…

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