Last trip of the year...

[hammerman]

Here I go, back down to my lease that got centerpunched by both hurricanes this year. Reports are good from the lease owner and there is plenty of cover for me now that my stand is laying on its side I'll be taking my .50 Hawken and that CVA mountain .45 as backup(why reload when you can grab for another rifle? :rotf: )
I sure hope I can get one, I am 0-0 for deer this year and I am getting kinda tired of wild pork :shocked2: .
Wish me luck, this is gonna be the trip that the hawken gets cut loose in the woods(even iffen all I kill is dang coon :grin: )

 

[Stumpkiller]

Good luck to you. :thumbsup:

Don't know nuttin about Texas deer. But, hereabouts, when a woodlot has been harvested and the tops are scattered all over the ground the deer tend to use the roads and paths more, and will bed just inside the top piles/blowdowns. I think they don't want to get bogged down in the tangle any more than we do. Find the new funnels.

The good news is that three years from now the browse will be better and the deer will like those spots. But I guess Katrina and all left thousands of miles of "spots".

Good hunting and good shooting. :v

 

[Halftail]

Good luck on your hunt!

 

[roundball]

Hurricane FRAN went through North Carolina the first week of September'96...like a war zone...every 75-100 foot tree in the woods that extended up above the 50-60 foot trees was felled from the wind catching their huge leaf load...the landscape was completely changed, landmarks gone, etc.

I would sit in a bow stand and watch squirrels walk over to a huge white oak that had been uprooted get acorns from the branches that were down on the ground...no question FRAN made a huge impact on the deer's behavior and travel patterns but they survived and were around...good luck to you

 

[hammerman]

Well, the area is changed thats for sure! I got busted friday evening. Didn't see hide nor hare(pun intended) of anything but one sneaky squirrel after that of which I couldn't even get a shot!

Oh well, still got hog huntin here-abouts so I guess I'll learn even more recipe's for pork.