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#651 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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Had one about 250 out. They're doneskeez manana
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#652 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Good luck.
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#653 |
Four Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: Granger, Halletsville, Cohutta Wilderness Georgia, Laguna Atascosa
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#654 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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We got 6 today fellas. 3 mature cows and 3 calves (size of a mature whitetail)! I missed a big bull. Packing animals out now. Stories later! It was a wild day!
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#655 |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2017
Location: RGV
Hunt In: Anywhere I can go legally
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#656 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: San Juan, TX
Hunt In: Starr county
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Awesome. Congrats
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#657 |
Six Point
![]() Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Brazos, Milam, Grimes, Victoria Counties, Public land
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Meat Haul! Congrats!!!
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#658 |
Four Point
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Mercedes
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They should eat well
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#659 |
Four Point
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Burleson county, Menard County, Alaska
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Wow!! Awesome job
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#660 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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We shot 4 more cows, recovered 3. I missed a bull at 400. Had the range right, we missed on the wind. Cross wind was gusting pretty good. Skated right past his back side. Park help asked us yesterday if we could shoot them one. We are donating 2 of these 3 to them. They have been a big help, it's been a great hunt!
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#661 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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Congrats on the Neal guys
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#662 |
Four Point
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Burleson county, Menard County, Alaska
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leave me some for next year!
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#663 | |
Four Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2015
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: Granger, Halletsville, Cohutta Wilderness Georgia, Laguna Atascosa
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Holy crap! Stacking them up!
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#664 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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Thank yall!
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#665 |
Six Point
![]() Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Brazos, Milam, Grimes, Victoria Counties, Public land
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Yall are killing it!! Congrats! Good job for donating to volunteers. The Talbotts are good people and tremendously supportive! Way to go guys
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#666 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Texas
Hunt In: All Over All The Time
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#667 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Texas
Hunt In: All Over All The Time
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#668 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
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Looks like people did their homework, sucked it up and headed to unit 3 on this hunt. Glad the unit was overlooked during our hunt.
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#669 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Tyler
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What caliber are y'all shooting? what grain bullet? Average shot distance? Unit 3 is pretty open.
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#670 |
Six Point
Join Date: Oct 2006
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#671 |
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2017
Location: Spring, TX
Hunt In: Not sure yet
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Awesome. Congrats!
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#672 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Denton
Hunt In: Caddo
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How do the Nilgai taste?
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#673 |
Pope & Young
![]() Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: San Antonio
Hunt In: In camo
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I hunted Unit 3 on the first bowhunt. Was the hardest hunt I’ve done. Physically and mentally. To ride back there everyday and then walk almost 1.5 miles to my spot was a beech. Saw tons of animals but it’s just to wide open for a bowhunter. Rifle, I could’ve shot 20 nilgai each day.
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#674 |
Six Point
![]() Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Brazos, Milam, Grimes, Victoria Counties, Public land
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Best wild game I've ever had, I like it more than venison. Niglai has less of a gamey taste.
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#675 |
Ten Point
Join Date: Sep 2015
Location: Fannett
Hunt In: Marion Co, Jefferson Co
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Hell of a hunt right there!
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#676 |
Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Pearland
Hunt In: East, South, hill country
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Heading down tomorrow for this weekends hunt. Anybody else hunting this weekend?
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#677 | |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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You are correct Sir! We had done quite a bit of homework prior and also had a unit 3 report from a few fellow TBHers. Unit 3 is no joke, be prepared to put in lots of miles! we put in 30+ in 2.5 days. Sometimes if you want something bad enough, you gotta go get it! Im happy to share info with anyone wanting it. |
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#678 | |
Eight Point
![]() Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Boerne
Hunt In: Real County - The Divide
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#679 | |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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The other two were a 7 mag and a .308 w/ 168gr Barnes I believe My buddies custom .308 was the ticket, he regularly shoots 500+. We also practiced with it prior to the hunt so we could all take some long shots. Our closest shot was probably 150y as they were running at us. Longest was probably 450. Average was 300. The main problem we encountered was that it was so flat that it was very difficult getting good ranges. My buddy left his wind meter at home and our middle of the road rangefinders were just not cutting it. |
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#680 | |
Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Pearland
Hunt In: East, South, hill country
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When going to unit 3 is it better to start in the north or cut over across the lake in the middle? |
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#681 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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I can't post link, but google valley morning star, laguna Atascosa tick. There could be an emergency firearms hunt for section 7.
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#682 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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What a hunt fellas! Ive never had a hunt that was so enjoyable and so painful at the same time! Haha! We arrived late Wednesday night and setup camp at Adolph Thomae park. Woke up headed to Orientation at 0800. Orientation consists of a 30 min video full of info about the park and about your hunt. Good video but a bit long imho. You do a quick meet and great with the park employees, volunteers and the federal game wardens. All very nice helpful people. We grabbed a quick bite to eat and headed out to scout. We already had our mind made up on checking out 3 since we had done the most research there. The first 2 miles of the trek is a large trail through 8 that takes you straight to the top end of the Laguna where you cross a small muddy creek straight into 3. We did bike this leg to save us a bit of time (I recommend if your able to). Almost immediately getting into 3 we already spot our first group about 800 yards away! We make a stalk towards them to get a better look at what the group consisted of. Its about 20 strong with a mature bull and a young bull. We back out and let them be, in hopes that theyll be around in the morning. We make our way further into 3 and start to get a better look of the lay of the land. Wide open with several large and small thickets of wooded areas. We would use the wooded areas to move along if able to. We spotted another group and made our way toward them. We got to within 500 of them and decided to sit in this small thicket and glass in all directions. Within 30 min we had a bull walk to within 250 yards of us and sit down in the wide open. We would later find out that they actually do this alot since it allows them to see a long ways in every direction! We watched him for 30 more min and then he made his way off. We had already spotted a few other groups in the distance but since it was getting late we backed out and started making the long trek back. We were pumped for the start of the hunt tomorrow! We get back to camp a bit late after grabbing a bite to eat and some groceries in town, only to find that the winds from the front moving in had collapsed our tent and broke most of the poles! It was chaos in the park, campers were struggling to pack up to leave and others just left their stuff and went. Not exaggerating, probably 40-50 mph winds! Sand was beating us in face, smaller tents were being blown away, stuff scattered everywhere!
![]() Friday morning the first official hunt day. We made our way into 3 and almost immediately had a bull and a cow come running out of the thicket to our left. We had to jog up to a small hill in front of us to try and get a shot. We make our way there but realize that the bull has made us and is moving off to our right. I duck back down and run behind this small hill about 100 yards to where I think he will come out. I see him come out and I setup up on my bipod for a shot. I shoot at what I think is 300 when he slows a bit. He kinda stutters but doesnt jump or fall and then continues in a full sprint. I make my way towards where I shot and dont find any sign of me hitting him. Come to find out he was at about 350. I must have just scared the crap out of him when I shot, no blood ![]() ![]() ![]() Saturday morning comes around and once again we get up and out to the field late. We had dang near killed ourselves the day prior hauling out kills that we decided to sleep in a bit. With the animals constantly moving we knew that we would find them no matter the time. We get into 3 and start glassing, making our way into the area we always find them. Its not long and we find a small group moving across one of the pastures. It consists of a bull and 3 cows. We spend a bit of time trying to get on them but they never get within 500 and our dang rangefinder aint helping us. We walk to another area with a small bit of cover where we can sit and glass. We spend about 30 min there and then find a good size group way off in the distance. We glass them for a bit and talk about how we should get closer. This group has about 25 total and 2 were nice bulls! Right before we decide to make our way towards them we see that they are actually moving and are going to come our way! They are moving towards a watering hole behind us. We move to our right about 50 yards as it will provide us the right cover and the best shots and we wait! They finally get in front of us and we get a range of 400. My buddy sets up his .308 so I can get a shot at one of the bulls. At this point the wind is a constant 20-25 with gusts up to 35 and its a cross wind! We guess at the wind holdover and I crack off a shot. Well dang it if we didnt guess wrong! The shot is dead on yardage wise but the fearce cross wind sails it left and it skates right behind his back side! NOOOO! ![]() ![]() |
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#683 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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Ill PM you some maps and info I have later this evening. Although we didnt make it up to the northern part of 3, Cutting across as we did was not difficult. We did glass the northern area and didnt see much movement. We shot all of ours in the center of 3, and another group shot 5 out of the southern part of 3.
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#684 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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Thats great! They are loaded in 7! We spoke with several of the staff and they verified that they see the most there! Not sure why its been closed to hunting.
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#685 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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#686 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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#687 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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The emergency hunt for section 7 is a proposal by the refuge to the USDA, which is accepting comments. There is a link on the lanwr website for your comments. Comments will be accepted until Friday. This is according to the refuge manager. Start making your comments be known tbhers.
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#688 | |
Six Point
![]() Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Brazos, Milam, Grimes, Victoria Counties, Public land
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#689 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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I just made some comments to the link on the LANWR website recommending year round hunting for nilgai there, hunting other areas that have not been hunted and opening up the hunting for archery and muzzleloader from October to January in hopes it would harvest animals with the fever tick.
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#690 | |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2017
Location: RGV
Hunt In: Anywhere I can go legally
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I understand that we cannot get selected for every hunt every year but it makes no sense to not get more hunts when the park allows these companies to cut in line and kill these animals and sell the meat for a profit. There is lot more I have on this issue but the local community has fought a losing battle on this issue. I hope next year or in the near future you guys send me a message and tell me I was wrong but I seriously doubt it. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk |
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#691 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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Rgvhunter. Please make your comments to the USDA via the link on the lanwr website. I've been emailing the doi on a regular basis to get more public land available to hunt for us valley rats. We just gotta keep after the big dogs in dc. Keep the faith.
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#692 | |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2017
Location: RGV
Hunt In: Anywhere I can go legally
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#693 |
Six Point
![]() Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: College Station
Hunt In: Brazos, Milam, Grimes, Victoria Counties, Public land
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HEY! This looks like GREAT NEWS!
I'm currently reading the Environmental Assessment, 41 pages in length. Very interesting. Takes me back to college years as an Environmental Science major... I may give synapse of the EA later if any care to know without reading the full jargon. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G891A using Tapatalk |
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#694 | |
Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Pearland
Hunt In: East, South, hill country
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#695 |
Ten Point
![]() Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Round Rock
Hunt In: TX HillCountry, Granger WMA
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A few more pics...
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#696 |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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#697 | |
Eight Point
Join Date: Nov 2013
Location: South Texas
Hunt In: Hither and yonder
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#698 |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2017
Location: RGV
Hunt In: Anywhere I can go legally
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If you are going to comment on the environmental assessment you need to keep it clean. There are some comments on there that could have been worded much better but if it's inappropriate nobody's going to listen to you even if you do have a good point. It might even get deleted. I logged on yesterday there were only five comments, 6 with mine. Six comments are not going to change anything. You need lots of comments hundreds of them if you want to make any kind of impact.
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#699 | |
Six Point
Join Date: May 2017
Location: RGV
Hunt In: Anywhere I can go legally
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#700 |
Nubbin' Buck
Join Date: Oct 2017
Location: Pearland
Hunt In: East, South, hill country
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we found them. Hope they hang around for the morning hunt.
Big shout out to TxFireFighter! Thank you very much for the info. Should be a Great hunt! They did warn us about if the government shuts down the hunt will be over! Fingers crossed! |
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