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So what did you learn this past season? #6611799 01/02/17 04:48 AM
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I learned your season can turn around quickly when you do as others have often suggested and stayed on the stand long after most guys have gone back to camp.


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6611809 01/02/17 05:03 AM
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I learned that I work too much during deer season. bang


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6611844 01/02/17 06:24 AM
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This was my second year hunting our new lease. After the first year, you change your set up for the better for the second year, and hunt harder the second year. After this second year, I've learned more of the deer patterns during different times of the season. Certain areas hold more deer near the bedding areas early on in the season, then shift to a different area of our lease. Once rut hits, there is definitely areas that have better buck traffic than others. I plan to hunt these areas during right time on my 3rd year!


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By hunting with my daughter this season, I learned why my dad always spent so much time hunting with me. It's the greatest thing and puts a whole new perspective on hunting.


Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: TexFlip] #6611862 01/02/17 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted By: TexFlip
I learned that I work too much during deer season. bang
Ditto....


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6611877 01/02/17 11:36 AM
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That if you take a new light bulb and put it in the light socket in the walk-in cooler that about a dozen guys off of 4 different leased pastures have been struggling with head lamps, truck headlights, leaving the door open, etc. in, for two seasons, and turn the switch on...there is light.





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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6611927 01/02/17 01:34 PM
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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6611986 01/02/17 02:24 PM
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That prep for next season needs to begin NOW. I got behind this year and kept thinking I'd get everything done, but never did.


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612034 01/02/17 02:58 PM
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Erath county deer are some nocturnal bastages.


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612059 01/02/17 03:13 PM
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If you park your truck facing the direction of your feeder, the Deer "Blow & Go", but if you turn it around they look in that direction once and ignor it. (My truck is parked 250-300 yards around the corner of the woods.) LOL...redneck experiment to prove it to myself. Pretty funny until you realize the way you parked spooked the deer.


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Slimpickin] #6612104 01/02/17 03:34 PM
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Season ain't over for 2 months. I'll let you know then.


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612184 01/02/17 04:26 PM
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Nice bucks don't just show up during the rut. After the rut and after the fair-weather hunters have gone home to watch football, the big guys are focused on bulking up for the winter and can get a little careless.

Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612417 01/02/17 06:32 PM
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Don't pass on one of the only two shooters you see because it's at your uncles feeder! He was more upset with me for not shooting it. He had missed him the day before. It felt wrong taking it from him. We never seen the deer again. think I seen him on here taken in Jack county. Our loss. There is always next year.

Second thing is don't get out of the blind until the hunt is over. Had two pigs down, got out with 10 min left to find the second pig, looked up and a buck was following a doe at 160 yards walking right to my feeder. That was this Saturday with two days left. Only seen two mature legal deer all season.

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That I need new place to hunt. I hunted every weekend and saw one deer.

Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: SnakeWrangler] #6612786 01/02/17 10:39 PM
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Originally Posted By: SnakeWrangler
Originally Posted By: TexFlip
I learned that I work too much during deer season. bang
Ditto....

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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612826 01/02/17 11:07 PM
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That 2 in the bush.........and none in the hand talks you into buying a muzzleloader.

Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612860 01/02/17 11:27 PM
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Lesson one: hunt more

Lesson two: find other ways to sneak in my blind

Lesson three: be more patient


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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6612982 01/03/17 12:25 AM
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Late season can bring lots of action especially around the second rut where bucks are after the few does that weren't bred the first go around.

Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6613064 01/03/17 12:52 AM
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There are five fewer 8 pointers on our lease, now! We have 5 hunters on the lease and we all took 8 point bucks this year!



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Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: Texas Dan] #6613086 01/03/17 12:59 AM
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That my season would have been a lot different if we didn't have cows on our place. Barbed wire feeder pen is going up soon for next year.


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There are five fewer 8 pointers on our lease, now! We have 5 hunters on the lease and we all took 8 point bucks this year!


was this a management plan to only
Kill 8s this yr or just a coincidence?

Re: So what did you learn this past season? [Re: rifleman] #6613113 01/03/17 01:11 AM
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Originally Posted By: rifleman
That 2 in the bush.........and none in the hand talks you into buying a muzzleloader.

Yessiree Bob....or borrowing one grin

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I learned that people are worthless enough to actually thrill kill as they drive by shooting 180" class bucks and cows on your place.


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That just because you invite a guy to hunt that says he is a big time hunter. Doesn't mean that he is smart enough to know that he needs a hunting license. This happens several times a year, you would think I would get used to it.


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And that a guy with an AR15 and dresses like Inspector Gadget Goes to War, says things like "where the dot points, the bullet goes" and "if ten pigs come in, none will leave" and speaks of running head shots at 200 yards. That all really means he can't hit a broad side pig from 75 yards.


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