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 20 Days and counting!!!
#208226
09/09/07 11:04 AM
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Chuckybrown
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Well, our place is MLD III, and season opens three weeks from yesterday, or 20 days from this morning.....not that I'm counting of course!
If we could just get some cooler weather to move on in, it would be nice!
Feeders have been running for about a month now, as they were all destroyed when we got 7+ feet of water in the pasture during the last flood.
September is the month we let the ranch rest, and no one goes down into the hunting areas. I'm planning on going up the Thursday before opening morning, and sleeping real good that night, because I'm sure I won't sleep well the night before.
I put five deer in the freezer last year, or was it six?? Anyway, we've still got meat left over, and I'm making vensison breakfast tacos for Sunday School today.
Yup, I'm rambling. My neck is swollen, and I've got this overwhelming urge to make a scrape in my living room, LOL, so I'll just come here as an outlet...
Are the rest of you ready?
Chucky
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208227
09/09/07 12:12 PM
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PlastikBulletz
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Still getting ready. Dont know if ill be ready for opening weekend, but I am sure trying! To bad on the rain man. Have the deer moved back in yet?
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208228
09/09/07 07:52 PM
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East Texas
Woodsman
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we are a level 3 but we dont start till oct.13, and i cant wait!!!
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208229
09/09/07 10:48 PM
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Chuckybrown
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Quote:
Have the deer moved back in yet?
Yes, the counts are showing the deer have moved right back in. We have the Trinity River on three sides of what we call the "bottoms", and after all that rain in Dallas and the rest of the Trinity watershed, boy did the water come downriver.
Ever smelled rotted three week old / wet corn in a feeder barrel? Well, trust me, it doesn't smell bad at all compared to three week old rotted protein pellets infested with maggots! It was all I could do to keep from hurling.....
Chucky
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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09/09/07 10:56 PM
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Team Hillbilly
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Team Hillbilly
I started out with nothing and I still have most of it left.
Paralyzed Veterans of America
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208231
09/10/07 01:00 AM
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PlastikBulletz
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Good to hear they are moving back in. I dont know if I could handle the nasty things! Bad enough (dont tell anyone) field dressing critters turns my belly a bit. I can gut a fish no problem, but warm blooded animals I have trouble with.
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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09/10/07 01:06 AM
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Team Hillbilly
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Hummmmmm gets easier the more you do I guess  I rise mealworms as well, great for bluegills and crappie. 
Team Hillbilly
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208233
09/10/07 01:36 AM
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Chuckybrown
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Yea, come to think of it they looked like huge mealworms...
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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09/10/07 01:38 AM
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Team Hillbilly
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Really good on a jug line if they are about 2" long  
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208235
09/10/07 01:54 AM
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BBDhillcountry
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Does anyone know about the deer and or hunting in McColluch County near Melvin Texas?
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208236
09/10/07 04:49 AM
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iluv2hunt
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Does anyone know about the deer and or hunting in McColluch County near Melvin Texas?
The biggest buck I have killed to date came fron Melvin. I got him right behind the place they call Twin Oaks. Twin Oaks is the local beer joint, or at least it used to be. At any rate, the deer hunting is real good in that area. The closer you get to the Ford Ranch the better it gets. The Jacoby's own a lot the land around there and are good people too.
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Re: 20 Days and counting!!!
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#208237
09/10/07 06:38 PM
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BBDhillcountry
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Thank you! That is very exciting. I just got finished setting up one feeder this past weekend and I am going to set up the other 2 this weekend. I put a camera up so I will share if there is anything special to look at. This will be the first time hunting in that area. I usually hunt in Llano, Gillespie and Mason counties. Thanks for the encouragement. I am so excited!
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