126" @ 2.5? Dang, that boy had a future. Sorry to hear that.


Interesting thing happened at the hunter's supper Saturday night. The gent that shot the 181" buck brought the horns in and I think they talked a little about the deer. Another guy there happened to have the deer's sheds from two years ago (3.5) that he found on another place. They got to compare what he was then to when he was taken. Even at 3.5 he was already pushing 150". I hope you guys in that area reap his genetics in years to come.

By the way, I've seen the mounts and such at Cabelas, but being just a foot or two away from 181" of antler was something. He's got 40" on my best and those antlers went on forever. Congrats to the hunter-that truly is the trophy of a lifetime.

it will be hard to top that buck but there are big ones there.

Hey SlaminEm, how's you son in law? Last report was great, hoping it is even better each day. Let him know a bunch of strangers from across the state is wishing him well...

-dave

he was moved from sicu monday afernoon to a regular room.we are waiting to see who will accept him for rehab hopefully someone will real soon.the sooner rehab starts the better his chances are for a complete recovery.decook i will pass along the info to him thanks.

Anyone from Mills county know if there is a person who will search for hunting land for a group?

update on sil he will be coming to dallas for rehab either today or tomorrow.the police came to the hospital yesterday to talk to him about the shooting.i dont know what he remembered.hopefully its enough to help in there investigation.i'll have some m
more information in a couple days.
wthunter75 good luck in your search most people who have leases here keep them

Yeah we(the group) have been there for 15 years and have loved it but the landowner is retiring and going into more of a cattle business. Sometimes people think they can replace the easy money they get from hunters with straight cattle lease. I hope it works out for him. Lease hunting is never easy and we are not 100% on staying in Mills county, but we would pay a tip or fee to the person that puts us in contact with a good landowner. It is getting harder and harder to find land over 1000 acres. The two leases I had before this one were 200 acres. This place being 1850 really is nice, I'm not sure there are many places left of that size.

WT, I believe one of the local realtors there may be able to help you find a lease. Next time through pick up a copy of the Goldthwaite Eagle and you'll have the contact information for all the realtors.

nice to know if i ever need to move.

I take the weekly paper and have never seen any of our realtors advertise for this. Chamber web site keeps a list of leases available and a hugh list of hunters looking for leases. I will ask around some about the realtor thing and post up if I hear something interesting. That would be a great service for our THF members.

KG, one or two of them use to advertise that service but I looked at every ad in this week's paper and nobody specified that they still offer that service. However, I guarantee Wetzel or some of those guys have talked to landowners about buying/selling land and leasing has come up. They may not have a lot of leads, but you only need one, especially for a place that size. I think calling 2-3 of them is worth the time, imo.

Here is a list of realtors in this weeks paper.

Grayson Wetzel Real estate 325-642-2245
Joyce Martin Real estate 325-648-2648
Jackie Williams Real estate 325-648-2796
4G Real estate 325-966-3900
Live Oak Realty and Auction 325-938-6750
Agents Of Texas 254-386-5144
Georgia Deeds Real estate 325-648-2700
Jean Kirby Real estate 512-752-3171

well sil got moved to dallas for rehab.my daughter is happy she is staying with us until his rehab is complete.rehab will 3 hours a day 5 days a week should be pretty intense we will see what happens.happy for both of them.

So are we SlaminEm. Glad to hear the good progress.

im so ready to hit the woods and do some hunting.now my sil is better maybe i can go.kg68 whats the deer hunting like down that way.last time i went i saw a 2.5 year old 8 point had a nice rack.

The heavy rut has slowed in western Mills but there will be a flurry or two scattered through January. Late December almost always produces what some call a second rut here. Deer are still not hitting the corn but are coming to food plots which are growing very well with the recent rains and moderate temps.

Buddy of mIne dad got this one this morning it is 21 1/4 wide

That's a cool deer. I wonder what happened to him to grow like that? Awesome deer.

Great buck!!

really nice deer congrats to the hunter

Where was that buck taken? I watched one like that at Thanksgiving a couple of miles SE of Goldthwaite.

It was on the west side of town out towards mullin.

Here's the 3.5 year old 10pt I shot earlier this season (Nov 8) about 5 miles south of Goldthwaite:



Was thankful to get a shot at this guy from about 120 yards, especially since none of the other 3 hunters on our ~700 acre lease have taken a deer yet this season.

great buck congrats to you help your buddies out.

ttt