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Eleanors38

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5. I deer hunt a mile from the Uvalde Co. line near Campwood (Real Co.)...

Reply to Hangingon (Reply #3)

Tue Aug 18, 2015, 02:37 PM

Aug 2015

The owner's land is mainly pasture with lots of mesquite and some huge oaks. But I have noticed some abandoned fields along a dry creek where dove hang out. If he is up for it, I think I might try for dove whould we both punch deer tags early. Fat-assed white wings. Boy, it would be good with a planting of sun flowers!

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"Summer time and the ammo's expensive." [View all] Eleanors38 Aug 2015 OP

What happened to hunting season sales tax free weekend? Hangingon Aug 2015 #1

Oh, it's still around, but a case is in the 60s instead of the 40s, now. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #2

Southern zone opens a month from tomorrow for dove. Hangingon Aug 2015 #3

I deer hunt a mile from the Uvalde Co. line near Campwood (Real Co.)... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #5

Apples started dropping today so it's time to walk the trails and see where they can do their best Brickbat Aug 2015 #4

Ha! You must live north of Texas, if you have apples. We watch for acorn crops... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #6

Yep, northern Minnesota. I wish we had some oaks, but it's all spruce, pine and birch here. Brickbat Aug 2015 #7

Never hunted grouse. I have hunted woodcock and snipe, which occurred in... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #8

Grouse are good hunting and good eating. They cycle, and for some reason the good years mean Brickbat Aug 2015 #9

HA! The glass frontier. Dove will do that, too. I've bagged a couple that way in Austin. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #10

I reintroduced Bobwhite Quail onto my 40 acres three years ago oneshooter Aug 2015 #11

Those people who abandon their pets are singularly intractible Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #12