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That's a damn nice offer GW. Very generous.Thanks ! But I'm afraid I have no desire to hunt in Texas. I have plenty of hunting here. Got 13,000 + acres of State forest just up the road and hundreds of thousands more within a half hours drive in any direction. Baiting is illegal here, the State land is all heavily forested and deer numbers are comparatively low but I do like to wander. Water isn't a problem, it's everywhere. In fact the ground, trees and everything else is covered with it in it's frozen white form. There is no cell service where I hunt here either. If you get lost or fall and break something you better be able to get a fire going or you're likely to freeze to death. I might die of thirst or heat stroke there.

It's all good JG.

Blackheart, I'll make you an offer. I made this offer years ago more than once, never had any takers. Mosey on down to Uvalde Texas, pretty much any time you want, as I'm retired. I'll meet you and we can go to my lease. I have a camper and there is a line shack you can stay in. Be sure to bring water as there is no potable water to be had other than what you bring in. Also bring anything else you require as we are 20 miles from the nearest town and six miles off the paved road.
If you want power, (it may be 90 degrees at 10 PM, May through September), you can use a spare generator we have.

Its a 60,000 + acre, low fenced/no fenced ranch, out of which we have a 1,700 acre pasture. No it is not high fenced, but we do bait. Chances are you are from and area that has plenty of public land which to hunt. You may spot and stalk in your home territory. Other than for turkey, varmints or sneaking up on a feeder at night with thermal, while hunting pigs, we don't. That is not local custom here.


What I will do is take a 55 gallon drum and paint it fluorescent orange and hide it somewhere on our 1,700 acre lease. If you can find it in 3 days, I'll give you $2,000, and pay your gas back. The only caveat is that you have to spot and stalk. No motorized vehicle.

A few views of the topography that you will be traipsing



175 yds. from an elevated blind



+/- 270 yds to the dot from the blind!




You will probably want to wear brush pants and long sleeves, even if it is 100degrees F,



as just about every plant you will brush up against either pricks, claws



sticks or stings!



Hint, bring a good pair of tweezers and a magnifying glass. Those little tiny clusters of Cactus hairs are hell to get out with fingernails or a pocket knife.

you will want to wear footwear that gives good ankle support.



I will provide you with a two-way radio to keep on your person while spotting and stalking. There is no cell service, and should you become dehydrated or break a hip or ankle, I'll need to come get you.

Anywho,

Come on down, it will be an experience. I know that the guys that I have entertained in the past that were from different western states told me that having hunted for several days, and enjoyed the hospitality, it changed their whole view of the way we hunt here, and each said they would like to come back.

Best,

GWB

Tired of in sensibilities, we kill meat to eat, we kill people to remain safe

"Harvest" is about as irritating as people who go out of their way to say something like "I don't hunt anything unless I am going to eat it!"... As if providing life-sustaining food is the ONLY legitimate reason for freeing the spirit of one of Mother Earth's noble creatures.... And they themselves are more righteous than you because they ONLY hunt with this high standard as their goal.

Well, sometimes you don't need the meat. But you may need the fur. You may need the hide. You may need to just get rid of some critter that is causing problems. Now, I don't believe in being wasteful, or abusive to nature, but holy cow, people sure can take it too far. It's the same neo-hippy mindset as "harvest".

Hypocrits. You're all just a bunch of sissies bitchin' because people don't use your preferred verbs and pronouns. You're no different than the word-nannies you're groaning on about. You're so woke because you "kill" stuff and talk about it with the crudest terms and that makes you more authentic or macho or redneck or genuine than anyone who isn't exactly like you, or do you prefer that I say "exactly like (f)aerselves"?

Generally, I “whack”.

IMHO, words mean things.

In my world one harvests crops.

Game is killed.

It peeves me to no end when I hear a "hunter" say he "harvest's game.


Your thoughts?


GWB

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