East Texas hunting 2022-‘23 season

[Statton48]

Cool pic of this pig …. Coyote behind him!!


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[Hix]

Round of Pitchers..




















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[Statton48]

That goofy tall sucker would make a cool
Euro

[Gumbo Man]

Nice ones.

[hogslayer78]

Got my first hard horned pic this year yesterday in East Texas.

[steve morton]

[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Hix

Round of Pitchers..

You’re holding out LOL

[steve morton]

[Tshelly]

Originally Posted by Hix

Round of Pitchers..




















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Withholding the goods


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[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

You’re holding out LOL

Just what I thought

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[Hix]

Was having trouble figuring out how to post pics
I’ve got a couple of shooters and some funky ones.


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[Tshelly]

Originally Posted by Hix

Was having trouble figuring out how to post pics
I’ve got a couple of shooters and some funky ones.


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I’ll have to turn phone notifications on for this years live thread


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[U.S.ArmyRetired]

Do any of you guys use Boss Buck gravity feeders? I'm wondering how they hold up against coons and squirrels.

[Hix]

Originally Posted by Tshelly

I’ll have to turn phone notifications on for this years live thread


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We will see what hangs around over the next few weeks. That 10 at my house is already MIA


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[Quackerbox]

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed.

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[Greenheadless]

3 year old.

[Duckologist]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed. Attachment 1100292

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Das gone be a bruiser 1 day

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[steve morton]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed.

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Thin em out! He's got to be tender! Lol.

[Tyrex750]

Ole 11 point

[GarGuy]

He identifies as an 11 ptr

[GarGuy]

Horn rubs everywhere this morning.

[Chew]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed. Attachment 1100292

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I don't know whether to shoot or kick a field goal

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[Chew]

Originally Posted by GarGuy

Horn rubs everywhere this morning.

Looks like all my nice bachelor groups are now pencil horned teenagers.















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[Landrover]

Just catching up with a very good thread!

Originally Posted by Landrover

Well, I may possibly have a tough decision to make come August or so. I have two small places (40 and 45 acres) in two different counties in East Texas that I dont hunt currently. I really like the lease i have in the hill country of 640 acres, which is basically only me. I have an opportunity to add 125 acres with a cabin to my 40 acre place in Smith County, but not sure if the deal will be done by August timeframe. August gives me enough time to get everything moved from the hill country to Smith County and get everything set up properly. Plenty of game there but just never had many options on 40 acres. It will be a tough decision to move on but doubt I could get around to both very often. I definitely will miss the exotics and the lack of worries about folks messing with stuff.......but I do like the pineywoods. Definitely a curve ball, but a good one I think I can hit!!!

Update: Looks like title company is getting close to wrapping up the deal. I have decided to keep my hill country place as waaaaay too much to deaux (and move) everything to Starville. Knowing my wife she will probably want to redo the cabin as soon as the papers are signed so no need for me to mess up my chances of hunting.....lol.

Originally Posted by Tshelly

They are still crushing the cotton seed as fast as we can keep it out. Questions on closest ton sacks of cotton seed to Huntsville, TX for next year really? We have been buying it at Tractor Supply or our local feed store


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Nice! I may need to build a few of those racks for the cottonseed. I put out the bags on the ground in the hill country and they tore it up per the landowner. Thanks for posting that as I had not seen that........did you buy or build that for the cottonseed?

Originally Posted by GarGuy

He identifies as an 11 ptr

Definitely a perfect candidate for a kid or new bowhunter!!!

[JhuntsAlot]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed. Attachment 1100292

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Man, I don't know. I think it would be cool to see what one more year does to him.

Symmetrical at least.




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[Tshelly]

Originally Posted by Landrover

Just catching up with a very good thread!


Update: Looks like title company is getting close to wrapping up the deal. I have decided to keep my hill country place as waaaaay too much to deaux (and move) everything to Starville. Knowing my wife she will probably want to redo the cabin as soon as the papers are signed so no need for me to mess up my chances of hunting.....lol.


Nice! I may need to build a few of those racks for the cottonseed. I put out the bags on the ground in the hill country and they tore it up per the landowner. Thanks for posting that as I had not seen that........did you buy or build that for the cottonseed?

Definitely a perfect candidate for a kid or new bowhunter!!!

Super easy. Just a t post driven in the middle and 4” wire mesh in about a 2’ circumference


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[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by Quackerbox

Got an up and comer at the claw hammer ranch. Things get tough he might get skimmed. Attachment 1100292

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That deer deserves a name. Goal post, Handle Bar, Joy Sticks?

[bbridges]

Have a couple of solid deer around this year. This one is my favorite so far.

[Landrover]

Originally Posted by Tshelly

Super easy. Just a t post driven in the middle and 4” wire mesh in about a 2’ circumference


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Ahhhh........i was thinking cattle panel. Is the t post in the middle so it does not get moved all over the place?

[Greenheadless]

QB, Looks like he may be easy to follow with that torn ear. Might be neat to see what he becomes, if he doesn’t get walloped.

[Quackerbox]

Ha! That deer ate peanut butter off a spoon I was holding this morning. Hence the claw hammer ranch. That's all you need to kill him.

Hes one deer out of 25 that come to the rattle of a pan of corn on a place we have in robertson County.

Wife was calling field goal by lunch

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[Greenheadless]

Figgered that was your lake place. Neighbors hunt though don’t they?

[Tshelly]

Originally Posted by Landrover

Ahhhh........i was thinking cattle panel. Is the t post in the middle so it does not get moved all over the place?

Yes. They can move the wire cage around and get to all the cotton seed easier.


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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Hix

We will see what hangs around over the next few weeks. That 10 at my house is already MIA


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The one we’re all hoping you get??

[Hix]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

The one we’re all hoping you get??

Yea.. the top pic i posted.. he’s the only one I had old enough that summered here this time.. he will return.
If not there’s always several new ones around here.


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[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by bbridges

Have a couple of solid deer around this year. This one is my favorite so far.

Mine too

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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Hix

Yea.. the top pic i posted.. he’s the only one I had old enough that summered here this time.. he will return.
If not there’s always several new ones around here.


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Oh. Maybe I’m mistaken then. I thought you’d been posting pics of a different deer on FB. THAT was the one I was talking about, but maybe that was someone else.

[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by Greenheadless

Figgered that was your lake place. Neighbors hunt though don’t they?

There is a member here that shot some deer up there a couple years ago. Pretty sure they shot all bucks including the biggest buck I've seen to date

The herd does need thinning for sure. Speeding idiots and drowning fawns isn't enough to keep them in check

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[Hix]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

Oh. Maybe I’m mistaken then. I thought you’d been posting pics of a different deer on FB. THAT was the one I was talking about, but maybe that was someone else.

Oh that’s the double drop tine deer down the road at my buddies


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[Bayouboy]

Found a number of fresh scrapes this weekend while filling feeders and mowing. Everything was in oak flat areas.

[Low Fence]

Started 1 mock scrape 2 weeks ago. Few doe, smaller buck and pigs so far. Next 2 weeks historically are when most of my targets return

[Etxbuckman]

Unsurprisingly the hogs found my feeder at my new stand sight. It’s at the convergence of a select cut and 2 SMZ’s so it was only a matter of time. It looks like a bomb went off under the feeder in all that soft black dirt, but I got the fix for that. Started putting a pen up and will finish it this weekend. They gonna be ****** when they can’t get back in. LOL

[Javelin]

Bucks starting to lose their velvet in polk county

[Gumbo Man]

Nice buck.

[Landrover]

Originally Posted by Tshelly

Yes. They can move the wire cage around and get to all the cotton seed easier.


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Gotcha........makes sense!

Originally Posted by Javelin

Attachment 1100478

Bucks starting to lose their velvet in polk county

Nice buck!
Is that panel tall enough to keep out hogs in east texas??? Are you hand corning that spot as it appears small ................or the feeder is hanging from the tree above the sight of the camera?

[Low Fence]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

Unsurprisingly the hogs found my feeder at my new stand sight. It’s at the convergence of a select cut and 2 SMZ’s so it was only a matter of time. It looks like a bomb went off under the feeder in all that soft black dirt, but I got the fix for that. Started putting a pen up and will finish it this weekend. They gonna be ****** when they can’t get back in. LOL

…. Oh they can get back in. Ask me how I know

[GarGuy]

Couple more of my deer cleaned up today.

[Gumbo Man]

Mine still have their bubble wrap.

[HFD38]

We’ve got a gnarly one making his rounds he’s been at every feeder on the lease.





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