Is that what they call "scouting" in East Texas?

I have a friends son that showed a pig this year. He said he has over 1k invested so far. They said the pig is worth 50 cents a lbs. He doesn't know what he is going to do with it now. That's some expensive pork.

sometimes, I've got about 4 miles of road to scout when I leave the driveway... you have to look through thin trees acting as a road buffer, but you can still make out deer & hogs in the fields.

We call that ROAD HUNTING when I was younger now in East Texas it is scouting

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I've come to the conclusion it's just something to keep the kiddos busy.

it's scouting if you can pull in a gate and shoot 'em

Unless it is FFA.. Fathers Feeding Animals

I refuse to do it, I can be standing there looking at feed and water troughs that are bone dry and will make a phone call and go on about my business.

Show animals have gotten absurd in the last 20 years.

You musta started having kids in kindergarten if you have them in FFA now

But I hear you

yessir, it's still hard to make money off them. Best thing they do for you is give you a ton of tax write-offs.

they aren't my kids...wife raised them for several years though...not hers either.

Grandpa insisted that I only raise heifers. I left high school with 6 registered head of Polled Herefords, great start, never lost a penny.

Meat animals, steers, etc. are tough to do much with.

I got 1100 in Haley's show pig right now. I wont make it back, but that is how it goes.

heck, there are some folks on the steer side that go and tie up $10K in the calf alone for county shows. They aren't going to get their money back, but it gets their name associated with winning in the county for their own calf sales. (Even if it's not their own stock the kids are showing).

So how did this topic go from the AR restriction laws to showing cattle

Still on the fence regarding AR's. This time next year I expect to have fallen one way or the other.

Because folks don't really want to discuss them realistically.

TP&W set up the AR's to placate a very vocal segement of the hunting population of Texas.

The problem is, TP&W set up the regs without any real time information on the make up of the deer herd in the counties where the regs are in place.

Such things as sex ratio/age/total population, were not taken into consideration.

They just wanted to oil a squeaky wheel.