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This^^^^.

i did but i only went in on that because of my brother, my parents owned land in duval county but had to sell it in 2008 to help cover the cost of my mothers cancer treatments. I've lived here my whole life so have enough friends that i always have a place to hunt. that makes me fortunate. people who just move here will takes years to build up a network of friends like that, if they ever do.

Concur with Roger.

Took me a lot of years and effort to find the places I go now.

One of the hardest things is finding an area where all of the landowners stand on their hunters to keep them from shooting young bucks.

These were off limits to allow them to continue to grow and also to improve the genetics of the population.

Photo credit to one of my friends with a big lens.

These are just native deer allowed to grow up to full maturity. No imported genetics and the neighboring ranches have the same rules so when they move around during rut they are not shot.

All of the landowners and ranch managers are on the same page and make sure hunters clearly understand the rules.

My lease is 2000.00 per year. You get in prime South Texas, a lease will cost 6000.00 and up. My piney woods lease was a 1000.00. It varies across the state. Some guys I know hunt 20 miles from me and pay 1200 per year, but no water on that place. We have a big spring fed creek running through our lease.

I remember a little while ago (I can't find the post) about all the great new pro-gun laws the Texas legislature has just passed. I scanned through them and Michigan has had most of them for years. The only ones I remember is MI has always had open carry and we've been able to keep pistols locked in cars in parking lots of prohibited facilities.
Fifteen years ago, my wife and I went on a hiking trip in Ireland on our honeymoon. There were two middle aged sisters on it who had left their husbands in Dublin. They were quite well-to-do. The one's "job" was managing the family trust. They were nice and kept inviting us down to Austin, saying "we have some really nice lakes down there". I responded with we have some nice ones up where we are, too, in fact we call them "Great Lakes". Texans just think the world revolves around them...

I moved to Texas 38 years ago from Pennsylvania.(about 7 oil booms ago for those in the biz). Was lucky enough to become good friends with a guy who has 100 acres of prime bottomland between Blanco and Johnson City that is overrun with deer, hogs, and turkey. The only time I paid to hunt was when I went back to PA to hunt with Dad and my brother, who leased a small farm in eastern Pa.

Then it turned out the farm in PA was right in the middle of the Marcellus play, and they built a large natural gas pipeline right down the middle of the place, and the widow no longer leases it for hunting...….I think that qualifies as ironic!

Why would there be Texans in the Baaken? We have oilfield trash from all over the country here because there's not enough workers. Why would they be up there? The Permian is 10 times what the Baaken will ever be.

Nice post and pics!...., this thread was sucking so bad it was starting to remind me taking I-10 across Texas, just a long ways with a lot of nothing...

Took damn near 400 posts to get one with some substance! Thanks.............

It has been very entertaining. Nothing gets the masses here stirred up like Flave's trolling about Texas, and subjects regarding Leupold and the 6.5 Creedmoor.

When the Baaken was booming, there were people from everywhere, even AK.

So now it is not ok for Texas billionaires to buy hundreds of thousands of acres in Idaho and lock gates that give access to public land that has in the past always been open to the public?

Four to six thousand dollars a year just to go sit in a box and ground sluce a fugg'n deer?

That's one hellofa lot of fine steak dinners at nice restaurants. Deer meat ain't ever tasted $6,000 good. Those blinds better come with hookers and good whiskey for that much scratch.

I find that hard to believe, no offense, that the Baaken was booming while the Permian wasn't?

Just what i know. Two fellers' employers sent the because of the skills/certs they had, and were needed.

There were so many people from elsewhere, they were spending ND winters in travel trailers. lol

40,000 knife incidents in the past yr. No wonder i just live in my room. Well, ive had relatives visit the schiett hole and relatives native to Sweden scare me away.

I guess these are due to the Lebanese Christians, huh?

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...cy-record-stabbing-homicides/3470942002/

Agreeing here...😎

Are you being intentionally dense? Look at the thick dead love grass undrr the buck in the top pic. Its hard to track down a buck in that.

Who said i thot that pic was thick? I said you can hunt in that, meaning you can track deer up.

I know South Texas brush country. A lot of areas are too thick to crawl through.

The Big Thicket country of East Texas i hunt yearly have pleny of places you cant see more than 15-20 -yards, or in new growth pine pine you cant see 5 yards.

Crazy isn't it? I say more power to the landowner for securing the lease money, and good for the hunter who wants to do that. It's always laughable to me that people whine and cry about how and where a guy chooses to hunt. Even though feeder hunting isn't really my cup of tea (I'll do it for Axis deer) I fail to see much difference in hunting over a feeder and sitting in a tree stand over a green field/food plot on 50 acres of ground in the Midwest when it's 5* outside and the deer have nothing else to eat.

Can’t say....But, I would put Portland and Seattle as the top 2 shítholes in the US...Most major cities in CA are plug & play before or after The PNW big cities 😎

I’m glad I got to see Western Europe when I did, before the world flushed their collective toilets and flushed humanshit upon the civilized world. I have family that have been there recently and said they’d never go back, at least not until it’s cleaned up. Now is a good time to explore much of Eastern Europe since they seem to have been smarter about their immigration policies.