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what do you plan to kill this upcoming season
Posted By: txtrophy85
what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 09:13 PM
lets get the talk back to hunting.
what are your goals animals wise this upcomming year?
its my turn for a trophy whitetail, i hope to take one over 150 this december, although with the lack of rain it dosen't look good. i saw one last year that will push 160 if he did't succumb after the the rut. there is also another slick eight tht will be in the high 140's, low 150's that i would cap in a heartbeat.
if i don't get a whitetail, i'm going to try for another axis, one that would beat my 29' that i have already.
that and a butt-load of doves
Posted By: helomech
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 09:17 PM
Nothing less than a 9 point, and some hogs. I will let my kids and wife kill any deer that need taken out. If they get a shot at a nice one great.
Oh, and nothing younger than 3.5, hopefully 4.5. Just don't know if I can hold out.
Posted By: JJH
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 09:31 PM
I'm lookin' for one like the pic by your signature!
Posted By: dawaba
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 09:50 PM
Well, I just got back from a spring grizzly hunt on Alaska's Seward Peninsula. Got a nice bear: 8'10" and 25 5/8" green-scored. In Sept, it's Wyoming for bighorn sheep in Unit 5. Then in Oct, blacktail deer in Humbolt Co, California. November, I'll be chasing Texas whitetails. In December, it'll be pheasant in Kansas, and still, Texas whitetails (perhaps). All in all, a full year.....
Posted By: txtrophy85
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 10:02 PM
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I'm lookin' for one like the pic by your signature!
you and me both
Posted By: father of 4
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 11:19 PM
I saw one heck of a mule deer after mule deer season this last year on the Childress place and hope to have my stand built and ready and watch my Son get him if he wants then I will see what I can get.
Posted By: cbump
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/21/08 11:42 PM
a porcupine
Posted By: JakeinTX
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 12:48 AM
I am hoping to get my first White Tail Buck this year. Also, a few hogs and either a Axis or Black Buck would be cool!
Posted By: Seadog
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 06:33 AM
I saw a good size 8 point the day before the regular season and I know he survived the season so I will go after him during the bow season, (nobody on my lease bowhunts)!!! He should be even better this coming year!!! After that I suppose a couple of does for meat and ...!!!!
Posted By: luke70
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 10:53 AM
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a porcupine
Hope your packing a 460 Weatherby, their tuff buggers
Posted By: spudmonkey
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 11:40 AM
There were a pair of nice 10s spotted the last weekend of the season, my buddy took one, so I plan to take the other.
Posted By: cajundave
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 01:05 PM
The big one I saw last year but couldn't get a shot. I hope he's still around!
And a decent boar. I'm yet to get one with nice cutters for a Euro Mount.
Posted By: Brother in-law
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:19 PM
Whatever moves
Posted By: Sethfish
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:31 PM
i really want a canvasback drake with good colors
Posted By: Brother in-law
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:34 PM
Quote:
i really want a canvasback drake with good colors
Do you prefer hiding in the crepe myrtles or the kids corral during your stock? White or wheat bread?
Posted By: Sethfish
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:36 PM
I shoot at them with tracers
Posted By: TexasTransplant
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:41 PM
Every time I go out for white tail, I manage to end up somewhere with a bag limit of 1. I want to get more than one, if I can even get out this year.
And some hogs.
And at least one predator.
TBH, my goal is just to get out. Shooting anything will be a bonus.
Posted By: Brother in-law
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 02:41 PM
I like the istaca brand tracers, they are pretty rad
Posted By: 1000YRDSTARE
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/22/08 03:27 PM
Well I'm a "meat hunter", I don't eat the horns and seeing me deep freeze went out two nights ago! I lost everything!
So I will be going to South Dakota to hunt pheasants for a week at my brothers place in late October. A week after that hunt I will be in northern Minnesota to hunt deer with my father on our property.
Then to return to Texas a week before Thanksgiving to treat my father to a hunt in west Texas. At 54 he can't wait and brings it up everytime we talk.
After deer season I will be still trying to stick a pig out on lake lavon. Pigs are still 15 chevk4 0.
Needless to say it is going to be a busy fall but well worth it and fun.
God bless our troops
Posted By: Hoytman
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 10:45 AM
Dont care about the horns, i want a full freezer of deer and hogs and i want to see my daughter get a deer or hog this year.
Posted By: Curtis
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 10:54 AM
I think I have the best chance this year to take my biggest trophy buck ever. Which is not much compared to some being that I haven't even killed a buck over 110 before. This year I will hopefully let the arrow fly on a 140 or better. This past season was very successful for me and I was able to get quite a few does taken for the freezer. Next season brings forward a new ranch and a bunch of wonderfull oppotunities.
Posted By: TX_Huntress
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 01:49 PM
I would love to get one of the two double drop tined bucks seen around our west TX lease as season ended this past year. We may not be able to keep this lease after this upcoming season, due to all the costs, so maybe a nice muley too.
Posted By: BackWoodBubba
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 04:46 PM
I will have the best chance at some hogs and some yotes. And with some good deer added in there. I have to take care of some of the hogs on our place, its getting out of control.
Posted By: Gunslinger
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 04:56 PM
"what do you plan to kill this upcoming season?"
My wife.
Did I just say that out loud?
Posted By: TX_Hoghunter
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 05:05 PM
Whitetail buck 4 1/2+ years of age. Several does, a hog or two, another turkey, and maybe an exotic if the right one walks by.
-john
Posted By: Seadog
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 05:55 PM
squirrels, rabbits, coons, crows, sparrows, chickadees, chipmunks, snakes, butterflies, ants .....!!!
Posted By: RedRiverHogSniper
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 08:11 PM
I hope to get a squirrel that is as big if not bigger than TX_ Phantoms. I forgot what it scored but dang it was nice!
Posted By: RICK O'SHAY
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 08:15 PM
HOGS RECENTLY SHOWED UP AT OUR PLACE AND I'M LOVIN IT!!!
I PLAN TO CAP AS MANY OF THEM AS I CAN AND FILL EVERYBODY'S FREEZER! IF THEY GO NOCTOURNAL ON ME I'LL SHOOT SOME DEER.
Posted By: dogcatcher
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 09:14 PM
On the advice of counsel I invoke the fifth and refuse to answer.
Posted By: 7mag
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/23/08 11:31 PM
A midget...................if he keeps getting on my nerves
Posted By: highlonesome1
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 02:57 AM
Personally I am looking forward to dove season. Youth season, I hope my youngest can get some camp meat and if he sees big boy, well i can't tell him no. I figure my boys will do most of the shootin. I would like to get some good video during the rut. Thinking it might be a good idea to whittle down the varmit population. I would really like a fat bobcat mount for the lodge. Now that I am hooked on calling turkeys a nice fan mount for the wall.
Posted By: GOLDSTEIN
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 04:11 PM
I am looking to find a whitetail that will break me into the 170's class. I have some that got close, but now I am holding out. I havent killed a buck in 2 years. The one I am looking for is 5.5 years plus and HEAVY.
Posted By: PKnTX
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 04:49 PM
Whatever I can get a bead on (legally of course).
I'm serious.
If it has nutritional value, I'll hunt it, kill it
and feed it to my family.
Time, access and opportunity limits being what they
are I will be VERY happy to get a few good dove hunts,
a doe (the more the merrier) and possibly a duck hunt
or two. I've been blessed the past few years so whatever
meat I can put on the table and in the freezer is just
a huge BONUS.
PK
Posted By: atascosa_red
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 05:08 PM
Well, this year, I am going to kill whatever is legal with my bow. I have never killed a deer with bow, only hogs. I will have at least 2 deer in the freezer prior to regular season opens.....hopefully.
When rifle season opens, I will be waiting on the big one.
Posted By: ramit315
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 05:40 PM
Most likely a case or two of brew
Posted By: campcook
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 06:12 PM
Welcome back, Luke, haven't seen you for a while!
I dont PLAN to shoot anything - I WANT to shoot a Sandhill Crane or two.
Already have shot a couple of cottontails from my garden
Posted By: Texpppr
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 06:24 PM
Around Christmas time hopefully a nice Witetail buck and maybe a Nilgai. Before that Come september some Dove and after that in November some quail. First of all later next month going out far west texas and see what I can find. maybe an Aoudad, maybe Coyote, Bobcat, Javelina, Coon.. whatever happens to be there trying to get a drink after all the heat.
Posted By: kaptinkrunch1
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/25/08 06:30 PM
Doves, ducks and hopefully a buck (this year)if not a doe
I would like to shoot a hog I have never done that.
Posted By: AB Joint Outfitters
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/27/08 02:02 AM
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Quote:
a porcupine
Hope your packing a 460 Weatherby, their tuff buggers
That would probably look similar to this. I have always wanted a porcupine to mount and when this monster (this thing must have weighed 15lbs) came walking out in front of me I thought I had hit the jackpot. I had my 22-250 shooting 55g Trophy Bond Bear Claw bullets. I thought that with the soft tissue of the porcupine the Trophy Bond (they are supposed to be tough) would Zip right through with out expanding much and ruining the mount. Obviously I was wrong.... at 40yards if you shoot a porcupine with a 22-250 and a Trophy Bond it appears as though you carry a rocket propelled grenade launcher into the woods to shoot small spiny creatures therein making them explode.
Posted By: campcook
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/27/08 02:45 AM
NO NO NO the way you capture a porcupine is.....
and SOMEWHERE there is video but I don't know where.
You get a sligtly inebriated fat guy with a beard, wearing a kilt and top hat, armed with a grain scoop/snow shovel and a large galvanized trash can.
Take said equipment onto a large alfalfa field just east of Ft Stockton.
When you come up onto a porkie, you scoop him/her into the trash can.
When the porkupine is so large as to be able to stand up in the can, and touch the fat man's hand, then said fat man says (explitave deleted) and drops the can, thus releasing the porkupine.
The others he captured that trip are currently residing at the Ft Worth Zoo...
Posted By: TXBowhunter1
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/27/08 02:50 AM
Posted By: quackwacker58
Re: what do you plan to kill this upcoming season - 06/28/08 05:02 AM
Id like to shoot almost any deer with my bow, but really a nice buck (anything bigger than a spike lol). Also id like to get a pintail with a nice sprig.