2021-22 east texas season

[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by EastTx

The buck I have been after all season showed back up this week after disappearing for a month.

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That’s a stud. Good luck getting him sir.

[Pineywoodkiller]

Originally Posted by Tree Phantom

What did y’all say the big bucks in Rusk County was doing.

They are laying low. Tons of young bucks moving around. Sticking to the thicket I guess


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[Tree Phantom]

4 hrs = 3 deer

[Antlers86]

I’ve been following this thread since day 1. Had a couple of really awesome East Tx bucks this season hanging around but they have disappeared. Both mature and I have watched 1 for 7+ yrs. It’s hard when they don’t return mid season like they normally do. Hopefully whoever got him is grinning from ear to ear. Passed on a couple nice 4 yr olds within bow range holding out for the big boys.

I took my son out with me opening of Rifle season and he got a double. Literally dropped both bucks within 5’ of each other. Both we had never seen before and he did perfect dropping them with excellent placed shots. My deer season is over unless my main target returns however I can’t complain after the Kudu surprise I was able to take last week as many of you already know. Pretty memorable season with hopes that it isn’t over just yet!

Deer activity has been a little different this season than years past but still seeing good numbers. Not sure if weather or pressure from neighboring hunters. I have seen less dead deer on the highway near me so that’s good. We went through a rough start at bow season with trespassing, cell cams jacked with as well as stolen, neighbor issues searching for deer on my place and finding dead deer at my stand gut shot early October.

I’m still itching to get in the saddle and take a deer with the bow. Need some colder temps to hang around so my food plots can get more action and maybe just maybe big boy return.

[Native Texan]

First weekend I haven't been to the lease since September. I would be hunting now but I have a party to attend tonight. Sounds like I couldn't have picked a better weekend to take a break because those at the lease aren't seeing much.

[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by Antlers86

I’ve been following this thread since day 1. Had a couple of really awesome East Tx bucks this season hanging around but they have disappeared. Both mature and I have watched 1 for 7+ yrs. It’s hard when they don’t return mid season like they normally do. Hopefully whoever got him is grinning from ear to ear. Passed on a couple nice 4 yr olds within bow range holding out for the big boys.

I took my son out with me opening of Rifle season and he got a double. Literally dropped both bucks within 5’ of each other. Both we had never seen before and he did perfect dropping them with excellent placed shots. My deer season is over unless my main target returns however I can’t complain after the Kudu surprise I was able to take last week as many of you already know. Pretty memorable season with hopes that it isn’t over just yet!

Deer activity has been a little different this season than years past but still seeing good numbers. Not sure if weather or pressure from neighboring hunters. I have seen less dead deer on the highway near me so that’s good. We went through a rough start at bow season with trespassing, cell cams jacked with as well as stolen, neighbor issues searching for deer on my place and finding dead deer at my stand gut shot early October.

I’m still itching to get in the saddle and take a deer with the bow. Need some colder temps to hang around so my food plots can get more action and maybe just maybe big boy return.

Congrats to your son and that’s a nice Piney Woods Kudu.

[SRK14]

Man this weather is terrible. I think I’m farther north than most of y’all as I am 30min south of Texarkana. It’s forecasted to cool down over the next two days but who knows. The warm front seems to have the skunks stirring at night

[Gumbo Man]

Looking forward to hunting the rain tomorrow instead of the muggy and foggy weather we have had this past week. I’ve always liked hunting the rain in a good all weather blind. Seems like that’s when the big boys like to move and rework scrapes.

[GarGuy]

Yall hang in there. We are only a couple weeks from the best hunting of the year.

[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by GarGuy

Yall hang in there. We are only a couple weeks from the best hunting of the year.

The fat lady ain’t even close to singing yet!!

[Snowflake Killa]

Great weekend lots of deer moving. Back on the protein

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[Hix]

I go home the 15th and I’m off for two weeks. Should be prime time.


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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Snowflake Killa

Great weekend lots of deer moving. Back on the protein

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Man we didn't see squat this weekend. I even got outside the box (literally and figuratively) and climbed a tree near a freshly worked scrape along a creek bottom where no one ever goes, and I didn't even see a bird.

My Plan C buck did show up in daylight, yesterday afternoon in fact, so I know he's still around. I'm gonna wait till the next good front blows through Saturday and go back up then.

[CWendling]

We got burned this weekend too. Nothin but sweat. Until dark. Over night had 2 monsters hanging at the feeders that havent seen all year

[NewBallCoach]

Ended up not going this weekend because of the heat, I was sweating getting stuff in the truck and decided it was a little warm. Hopefully get to go this weekend when it cools down a little

[manwitaplan]

Originally Posted by GarGuy

Yall hang in there. We are only a couple weeks from the best hunting of the year.

Seriously????? What time frame in late season is excellent. (East Texas). Not being a SA.


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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by manwitaplan

Seriously????? What time frame in late season is excellent. (East Texas). Not being a SA.


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If the weather cooperates the deer start running out of natural food sources so they hit feeders more regularly (like early season), and there's the matter of the secondary rut that happens around the middle part of December.

Unfortunately, in terms of natural food sources the weather has not lent itself to limiting their supply. No freezes = plenty of green stuff to munch on.

[Etxbuckman]

On a sad note it appears that the Wagon Wheel restaurant north of Trinity, that just opened right before bow season, is already closed down.

I swear that town cannot have anything good.

[Low Fence]

Main event was in daylight 2 times last week. Lots of movement still in all my sets, just need time to go.

Last week of season and 2 weeks following are the easiest by far to kill deer on most years. They are back on their velvet patterns and run down and HUNGRY! That 2 week muzzle loader season is Heck on my deer herds…. Good thing I can’t bowhunt them with the extra stamp money I pay to bowhunt. Just one of the many head scratcher rules of TPWD

[bloodstick]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Main event was in daylight 2 times last week. Lots of movement still in all my sets, just need time to go.

Last week of season and 2 weeks following are the easiest by far to kill deer on most years. They are back on their velvet patterns and run down and HUNGRY! That 2 week muzzle loader season is Heck on my deer herds…. Good thing I can’t bowhunt them with the extra stamp money I pay to bowhunt. Just one of the many head scratcher rules of TPWD

Our bucks tend to vanish around Thanksgiving leaving only does and a few spikes. I’m usually out the woods fully come muzzleloader season. Might have to locate a muzzleloader and give it another go. .


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[Gumbo Man]

I say it all of the time. I could have killed every buck on my place last year in the daylight in the last 2 weeks of season on corn or protein. Run down and hungry leaves them as vulnerable as being with a hot doe. But with that said I’ve watched deer the last 2 mornings grazing like cattle with everything still being so green. We need a hard frost or freeze to make it happen.

[steve morton]

Originally Posted by Gumbo Man

The fat lady ain’t even close to singing yet!!

Buck movement is picking up now.
Had a nice 3yo 8pt all over my feeder yesterday evening waiting for the does to show up.
This evening i had 6 does and wide 4-5yo 8pt out during the last 15min of shooting light.

[GarGuy]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Main event was in daylight 2 times last week. Lots of movement still in all my sets, just need time to go.

Last week of season and 2 weeks following are the easiest by far to kill deer on most years. They are back on their velvet patterns and run down and HUNGRY! That 2 week muzzle loader season is Heck on my deer herds…. Good thing I can’t bowhunt them with the extra stamp money I pay to bowhunt. Just one of the many head scratcher rules of TPWD

Absolutely correct

[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

On a sad note it appears that the Wagon Wheel restaurant north of Trinity, that just opened right before bow season, is already closed down.

I swear that town cannot have anything good.

I know I went there Saturday to eat there

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[JhuntsAlot]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

On a sad note it appears that the Wagon Wheel restaurant north of Trinity, that just opened right before bow season, is already closed down.

I swear that town cannot have anything good.

Originally Posted by Snowflake Killa

I know I went there Saturday to eat there

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Dang, I never got a change to stop in there to try it.

Drove by it this afternoon on my way to the lease and saw they even took the signs down. Unless Romo's is opening again.



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[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by JhuntsAlot

Dang, I never got a change to stop in there to try it.



Drove by it this afternoon on my way to the lease and saw they even took the signs down. Unless Romo's is opening again.







J

Yes sir and if you never ate at thia barn you really missed out on some great food.

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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Snowflake Killa

Yes sir and if you never ate at thia barn you really missed out on some great food.

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Trinity just can’t have anything nice. Thank God Tacos By The Trax is still there.

That being said, on Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page they indicated that they are simply looking for another location with lower rent, and will reopen as soon as they find something.

[bloodstick]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

Trinity just can’t have anything nice. Thank God Tacos By The Trax is still there.

That being said, on Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page they indicated that they are simply looking for another location with lower rent, and will reopen as soon as they find something.

What happened to Tacos by the Tracks location in Riverside? It just vanished some months back.

Their street tacos are legit


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[Snowflake Killa]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

Trinity just can’t have anything nice. Thank God Tacos By The Trax is still there.



That being said, on Wagon Wheel’s Facebook page they indicated that they are simply looking for another location with lower rent, and will reopen as soon as they find something.

Keep us updated

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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by bloodstick

What happened to Tacos by the Tracks location in Riverside? It just vanished some months back.

Their street tacos are legit


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They took the building that was there and moved it to the Trinity location. My BIL and I ate lunch there on Saturday and it was just as good as ever.

[Etxbuckman]

Question for the guys versed in hunting around weather fronts: Friday looks nasty from start to finish. Obviously Saturday is going to be very nice but I can't hunt that day.

My question is, would Thursday afternoon before the rain sets in potentially be any good?

[bloodstick]

Originally Posted by Etxbuckman

Question for the guys versed in hunting around weather fronts: Friday looks nasty from start to finish. Obviously Saturday is going to be very nice but I can't hunt that day.

My question is, would Thursday afternoon before the rain sets in potentially be any good?

From my experience, nothing trumps hunting the first couple hours after the front initially passes. If its a drizzle rain, thats my favorite time to be in a box or ground blind.


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[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by bloodstick

From my experience, nothing trumps hunting the first couple hours after the front initially passes. If its a drizzle rain, thats my favorite time to be in a box or ground blind.


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Absolutely true, but that fronts gonna pass through sometime overnight Friday and into early Saturday morning, so that's not gonna work. Initially this front was supposed to pass through on Saturday and Sunday was going to be the best day, so I made other plans accordingly.

[JhuntsAlot]

Well, thought I would take a chance this week and make a trip to my lease in Houston county. Have had a lot of "life" getting in the way this season.

With having the wife's birthday middle next week, then mine beginning of week after and our saviors at the end, next couple weeks are not looking good. I am running out of time.

Didnt get here until Tuesday morning and weather was decent, saw nothing but doe's (which I was hoping to thin out this season, but....lack of time) and had a sounder of hogs at feeder a couple hundred yards away and two different ones on either side of me at the same time in the evening. Both Tuesday & Wednesday. Guess I need to make thinning hogs a priority again after this season.

As of now, it looks like I will be putting all my chips in on the week between Christmas and New Years.

But also a little discouraged, as the two actual shooter bucks that have been around all year have not show on camera in about a week and a half. Day or night. There are several youngsters showing after dark that would be legal, but not what I am trying to accomplish at this place.

I sure hope the magical late season everyone speaks of will bless me with a miracle.

Sorry for the long read with no progress or nothing positive to give. I look forward to what you all are able to get on the ground.




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[jshouse]

Originally Posted by Preacher Man

How high are you putting those demand feeders off the ground? And are they high enough that you don’t have problems with hogs?

not high enough...

[jshouse]

Need to make a trip up for this one!


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[Low Fence]

Filled pens this afternoon. Main event again making daylight appearances. All 9:00-10:30am

@&$*+^ing swine are now daily in every pen. Eating about 150# daily…. And uprooted my free choice feeder in one. Feed pen only thing that kept it on property

I hate these vermin with every fiber of my being. 220 dead and I have more than when I started

[Quackerbox]

Originally Posted by jshouse

Need to make a trip up for this one!


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Oh hail no!!

[Etxbuckman]

I just found out the buck I've been waiting to come back to his core got shot several weeks ago on another lease.

I feel like I got kicked in the nads and punched in the gut at the same time. I am just sick. I had all the chances in the world in early October and never went in after him because it was too **** hot. Now I'm **** outta luck.

[Etxbuckman]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Filled pens this afternoon. Main event again making daylight appearances. All 9:00-10:30am

@&$*+^ing swine are now daily in every pen. Eating about 150# daily…. And uprooted my free choice feeder in one. Feed pen only thing that kept it on property

I hate these vermin with every fiber of my being. 220 dead and I have more than when I started

They're getting in your pens? How tall are they?

[Low Fence]

Full panels cut in half… 24”-25”. Worked for a few years. But they have them figured out now. I’m outta luck

After season I’m replacing all with hog panels and will stop feeding in them and switch over to coral traps. After I take out some known ring leaders I’ll start feed pens back up

Can’t have nice things……

[Hix]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Full panels cut in half… 24”-25”. Worked for a few years. But they have them figured out now. I’m outta luck

After season I’m replacing all with hog panels and will stop feeding in them and switch over to coral traps. After I take out some known ring leaders I’ll start feed pens back up

Can’t have nice things……

Half to change your name to medium fence.

Have you tried 2 strands of barb wire above the panels? Works for me on some i made too short


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[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Filled pens this afternoon. Main event again making daylight appearances. All 9:00-10:30am

@&$*+^ing swine are now daily in every pen. Eating about 150# daily…. And uprooted my free choice feeder in one. Feed pen only thing that kept it on property

I hate these vermin with every fiber of my being. 220 dead and I have more than when I started

Question. If they are in your feed pens daily and consuming 150 lbs of corn daily why are you not out there shooting them in the earhole?

[Native Texan]

Loggers are at it again on our lease, setting up today to start clear cutting again on Monday. The area they are cutting was thinned in September, and took me some work to clear all the limbs they left around my popup. Guess I'll be moving that stand this weekend.

I had a pig pipe staked out there until the hogs broke it off the chain and rolled it no telling where during October. One of the loggers saw the chain wrapped around the stake and how the ground was torn in a circle, and thought someone had staked out a dog there. Told the lease manager he was going to call SPCA about it until it was explained to him.
I'm getting tired of loggers.

[Low Fence]

… cause I typically have stuff to do between 1:30am and 3:45am. Lol
…. But today’s horrible wind allowed me to hunt there trail way off the pen and intercept them!

That ought to slow it don’t to 90 or so pounds a day…

[Gumbo Man]

Originally Posted by Native Texan

Loggers are at it again on our lease, setting up today to start clear cutting again on Monday. The area they are cutting was thinned in September, and took me some work to clear all the limbs they left around my popup. Guess I'll be moving that stand this weekend.

I had a pig pipe staked out there until the hogs broke it off the chain and rolled it no telling where during October. One of the loggers saw the chain wrapped around the stake and how the ground was torn in a circle, and thought someone had staked out a dog there. Told the lease manager he was going to call SPCA about it until it was explained to him.
I'm getting tired of loggers.

I feel your pain. I have lost about 100 acres of what I’m hunting because the timber company realized they could sell red clay and make the property more profitable than waiting on the timber to mature. My bow stand is down hill from a red clay hill and they’re digging about 150: yards from it now. Sat 2 times during bow season and got tired of listening to squeaky dozer tracks and dump trucks all morning. I still have about 300 acres unaffected but still have to pay for all of it. Rant over.

[Native Texan]

Originally Posted by Gumbo Man

I feel your pain. I have lost about 100 acres of what I’m hunting because the timber company realized they could sell red clay and make the property more profitable than waiting on the timber to mature. My bow stand is down hill from a red clay hill and they’re digging about 150: yards from it now. Sat 2 times during bow season and got tired of listening to squeaky dozer tracks and dump trucks all morning. I still have about 300 acres unaffected but still have to pay for all of it. Rant over.

Listening to dozers and dump trucks is worse than crows.

[AgHntr10]

Originally Posted by Native Texan

Loggers are at it again on our lease, setting up today to start clear cutting again on Monday. The area they are cutting was thinned in September, and took me some work to clear all the limbs they left around my popup. Guess I'll be moving that stand this weekend.

I had a pig pipe staked out there until the hogs broke it off the chain and rolled it no telling where during October. One of the loggers saw the chain wrapped around the stake and how the ground was torn in a circle, and thought someone had staked out a dog there. Told the lease manager he was going to call SPCA about it until it was explained to him.
I'm getting tired of loggers.

Seems crazy to have thinned in Sept then come back and clear a few months later. Never seen that before.




On another note rain through most of the night with a front blowing in, should be a dang good morning to hunt! I am at work but good luck to those of you still at it.

[bloodstick]

Originally Posted by Low Fence

Filled pens this afternoon. Main event again making daylight appearances. All 9:00-10:30am

@&$*+^ing swine are now daily in every pen. Eating about 150# daily…. And uprooted my free choice feeder in one. Feed pen only thing that kept it on property

I hate these vermin with every fiber of my being. 220 dead and I have more than when I started

We have been slinging 2 feeders and have a third free choice feeder near groveton and we can’t kill a hog to save our life.


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[Etxbuckman]

This is the season that keeps on giving.

So after finding out my primary target buck had been killed by someone on an adjoining lease opening weekend of the general season, I found out today that someone else on that lease killed my other target buck the same weekend.

I'm happy for them but still kicking myself for not going in in October and killing one of them myself. Lesson learned. Hunting in the heat might suck, but that time of year the deer don't care. If they're patterned go in and kill them because the rut brings nothing but heartache.