2019-2020 Hill Country Hunting Thread

[rockco222]

Here between 45 and Goldthwaite. Full moon deer movement at a minimum. During morning hunts. Cold front blowing in late evening. Will keep updates when hunting.


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[Johnny Dangerr]

Cameras showing early morning and early evening movement.

10-19-19 7:33am Bucks fighting...............................

[TXhoghunter94]

I saw a few younger bucks this evening.

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[Puncher51]

It looks like buck #1 wants to have a split or two

[TXhoghunter94]

Yes he's trying to, cool how all of his points lean forward too.

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[bloodtrailer28]

Here are some doe kills over the past few years that shows how low they can drop...

Drop it Low...Doe Edition - YouTube

Flywise needs to watch this one long and hard!

Awesome vid sir and thanks for sharing

[TXhoghunter94]

Thanks! How has your season been going?

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[Johnny Dangerr]

Yea it's on. Buck groups are breaking up. Pushing the ladies................

[TXhoghunter94]

It was still slow in llano county as of Sunday, the ladies and gentlemen were still feeding together without any chasing.

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[BitBackShot]

I guess I should log this terrible butt-shot stag I took a couple weekends ago. Lots of these in Llano County - antlers in velvet but no trace of testicles. Weird.

Quartering away, I pulled it left. Hit the artery so he didn’t go far, but bad shot I shouldn’t have taken. Got lucky.




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[Puncher51]

My mom checked water at the ranch yesterday and saw one mature buck chasing a doe and a young buck chasing a separate doe. She said she also saw a few bucks that were still running together, so it looks to be hit or miss at the moment.

[Puncher51]

I guess I should log this terrible butt-shot stag I took a couple weekends ago. Lots of these in Llano County - antlers in velvet but no trace of testicles. Weird.

Quartering away, I pulled it left. Hit the artery so he didn’t go far, but bad shot I shouldn’t have taken. Got lucky.




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Tons in Llano Co and then quite a few in Mason and Gillespie Counties too depending on soil type and proximity to granite outcroppings.

[BitBackShot]

Tons in Llano Co and then quite a few in Mason and Gillespie Counties too depending on soil type and proximity to granite outcroppings.

Yessir, we're covered up in granite. Soil is all just crushed granite.

What causes it? Some sort of fungus in the soil or something?

[TXhoghunter94]

Yessir, we're covered up in granite. Soil is all just crushed granite.



What causes it? Some sort of fungus in the soil or something?

I believe so, we always have about 5 bucks like this every year. They stay in velvet until late December then shed the velvet and a week or 2 later drop their horns. They all have no nuts.

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[Puncher51]

Yessir, we're covered up in granite. Soil is all just crushed granite.

What causes it? Some sort of fungus in the soil or something?

It is still somewhat of a mystery, but they think it is a certain lichen that grows on the rock or on the soil that causes the bucks to be sterile. On some family land about 3 miles from our main ranch we’ll see multiple bucks a year, every year. In our main ranch we have only seen two ever. Pretty crazy.