Hey Tex

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Fri Nov 14, 2008 10:26 pm

Late here..

Hunting in the morning. Wish us luck. We need it.

Love,
Joanna

Post by **tex** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 12:02 am

Hi Joanna,

It should be cold enough tomorrow that if you have any luck, you certainly won't have to worry about any game spoiling.

I'll almost surely still be snug as a bug in a rug, in a nice warm bed, tomorrow morning, while you're out "beating the bushes", but I'll be thinking about you. LOL.

Good luck, and stay warm.

Love,
Tex

kate_ce1995 · Post by **kate_ce1995** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 7:53 am

Good luck Joanna...my hubby is out this morning too (although I saw a deer jump our back stone wall...don't think it had antlers though...didn't have my glasses on yet either). Very foggy up here this morning. So the visibility isn't great. Hopefully something will stumble into his lap. Needless to say the two properties where we saw an 8 pt and a 6 pt earlier this fall posted their land last week.

Katy

harvest_table · Post by **harvest_table** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:37 pm

Had a good day at the office....we party hunt so can't take credit for this one (ya know what I mean) but it's venison in the freezer.

Thanks for your good thoughts. We will be hunting for the next week and it's lousy weather, cold, snowy and windy.

Love,
Joanna

annie oakley · Post by **annie oakley** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 9:46 pm

My Husband hunts too, In fact Unless I buy a chicken or brisket noow and then Deer meat and Dove are about all we eay. Only we weren't as lucky didn't get one this am
Love Oma

Post by **tex** » Sat Nov 15, 2008 10:19 pm

Joanna,

Congrats on bringing home the "bacon".

That's definitely not the type of weather I care to be in. It's a good thing you're used to it.

Love,
Tex

crranch · Post by **crranch** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:06 am

Congrat's...nice looking critter for the freezer field trip. I spent much of my younger days hunting for protein to put on the table. Wish I was still able to bow hunt now, our deer are so thick up here that cougars are moving in for the easy buffet. Not good to have all those big cats around when you have little cattle, chickens and horses...EEKKK! Hope they don't get tired of the deer...

Carrie

Post by **tex** » Sun Nov 16, 2008 10:48 am

Carrie,

My experience on several hunting leases in South Texas, and the highland lakes area of the TX Hill Country, is that once the lions move in, they won't quit until they have come close to exterminating every last deer, (or scared the remaining few out of the territory), or the cats themselves are killed. On a couple of leases that I had, it only took the cats about two years, to pretty much decimate the deer population.

Unlike the serene picture of them, visualized by many people, (and promoted by "anti's"), stereotyping the cats as "helping" nature, by removing the sick and weak, experience shows that they selectively kill the healthiest bucks first. The crippled and/or old does will be the last to be taken. I'm not sure if anyone has figured out why they do this, but it's definitely their modus operandi.

I'm not "anti-cougar" - I do appreciate their grace and beauty, but they are born to kill, and they are extremely good at it. Note that aside from packs of well-trained lion-hunting hounds, dogs have little or no value as a deterrent to cougars, and that's true for all sizes of dogs, so be sure to keep your dogs safe. Cougars have been known to come into backyards and attack dogs in open-topped kennels.

Regarding bowhunting - can you use a crossbow? I realize they aren't traditional in this country, but they are in Europe and Canada, and they're now legal for deer hunting here in Texas, during the regular season, (not during bowseason, unless the hunter has a doctors certification regarding upper body disability, which you presumably would be eligible for).

Hugs,
Tex