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Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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well we pulled the trigger on this, well be 5 of us total on this 1400 acres. Thats not to bad. ALwyas figured 500 acres per hunter down there, so you aren't far off and with 5 good hunters shoudl be fine. Congrats.
We can keep Larry Root and all his idiotic blabber and user names on here, but we can't get Ralph back..... Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, over....
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going to run out there next weekend and figure where we set up our feeders and blinds. year round lease. plus i can haul my boat and fish lake falcon.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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You'll probably drive right past my house on your way. You taking 77 to raymondville, down 186?
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will probably take 16 from freer.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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unless the other way is shorter.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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i'll send you a pm before i run down.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Excellent! That area is a bit too far from me, but if I had a chance like that, I'd probably forget that!
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use to drive farther to work, but will defiantly plan on going for more than just a day at a time.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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I'd put locks on your blinds,might save you a few surprises in the morning.I hunted down there 20yrs ago.It was real common for land owners to invite locals to hunt your lease while your gone.Don't let the owner know when your going to be down,just show up during the week every once in a while to keep them guessing.Game cam by the gate might be good too.Good deer country if it's not over hunted.I went 77 to Riveria,285 to Hebbronville,16 to Zapata when I went down there.Good luck to y'all.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............
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More than strange hunters in your blind. Wets like to sleep off the ground. We've caught more than one in our blinds. Hunted 5 years north of San Ignacio about 20 miles halfway to Aguilares. Spent a couple of years off 16 near Bustamante. Lots of game at both places. One ranch was 10,000 acres the other 3500. Good luck. Hasbeen
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brother text me pic of the part of lake falcon, the lease is up against looks like a pretty good amout of shoreline on the lease. we'll headed out there this weekend to take the fifth wheel and feeders/blinds.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Used to catch some good amounts of catfish out of there.
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i'd like to catch some big gar.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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Rog before he stroked out and died my uncle from Poteet used to catch some big gar below the dam at Choke Canyon.
On another note did that duck call Miles gave me to send you arrive safely???
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Rog before he stroked out and died my uncle from Poteet used to catch some big gar below the dam at Choke Canyon.
On another note did that duck call Miles gave me to send you arrive safely??? Yes it did, thanks. should of messaged you, sorry.
God bless Texas----------------------- Old 300 I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull Its not how you pick the booger.. but where you put it !! Roger V Hunter
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No problemo. Been too busy to check here anyway. Just makin' sure.
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Rog,
I ain't telling you something you don't already know but I've been through Zapata prob'ly half a dozen times in as many years. As you know before the Border went down the tubes it was a growing concern as a retirement community, what with the climate and good fishing right there.
Before the jet ski incident where that American got shot I talked to a local (an Anglo retiree) who's upscale house fronted the lake. He complained about the constant boat traffic without lights at night coming in from the Mexican side. Of course nobody wanted to say anything for fear of reprisals. Then after that shooting the DPS was all over that lake for awhile, so I dunno how it is now.
Last time I was there was just over a year ago (I was doing a 200 mile Rio Grande water-sampling project with a student and her family, them being originally from the Border). Got to speak at length with her cousin, a Zapata local, an American Tex-Mex Redneck in his twenties.
Biggest hunting-related problem he said he has had is with theft by illegals on their ranch. Including trying to steal his truck while he was off in a blind.
Birdwatcher
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