who has hung it up for the year?

show of hands.

after this trip I may have one or two more deer trips in me. We will see.

May pass up the deer blind for the duck blind

Yep... don't want to.. but have to work the rest of the season... time to prepare for bass fishing now!

I don't quit until I'm out of tags or out of time. But this year has got me just about ready to be done between work and everything else that's kept me from hunting much.

Still got a lot of season left. Still hunting till the last afternoon of ML season for me.

Never...

Gonna hit it hard for next 8 days. Denton Cnty this am. Parker Cnty tomorrow. Then back to Denton Cnty.

Just getting started

Certainly not in east Texas. Year round, 24/7.

9 more days to get it done for us.

Headed back out again tomorrow thru Monday.

Sneaky, you ain't got enough meat yet?

I hunted for the last time this morning, I go under the knife next Thursday and we are taking our family vacation starting today until Wednesday. I'm hoping to be able to take my son out during the youth season.

Not quite.

Done for this season.
Sergery 12/24. Yes, Christmas Eve. Known now as a Hydrocone Christmas. A bit blurry. Back on my feet in 2-3 months.
Perfect. Fishing and turkey season.
Had rotator cuff repair last January so, deductible is met. Had to get it done.
Otherwise, I would be there now although my Llano deer are tired of being molested and ready to be left alone.
Can't complain. Had a good year....

Not just yet. Should be able to hit it next weekend. Could be a whole different story if I had a duck spot to hunt.

I haven't deer hunted much since wife and son scored on their bucks Thanksgiving week. Son and I have been varmint hunting, and I am waiting to get a doe or two when the muzzleloader season opens. We are gonna start trying to shoot some ducks and squirrels.

Not yet!

Not yet, I burned some vacation so after tomorrow the only day I have to work between now and the 5th is Wednesday. I've have some unfinished business.

I'll keep hope alive until the last day.

Not me! I'm just now starting to see deer! Been hunting HARD since opening day.

I'm out

Brother went up to the farm this weekend looking for this guy..........

We're done. Unfortunately my 11yo grandson, who is my designated shooter, came home with a couple horrible grades at beginning of holiday break. I've always had him on the no pass, no hunt, no fish plan and that won't change. He's really bummed out and so am I. I look so forward to our trips together. Hopefully this will make an impression on him. He is a humbled young man these days.

thats awesome!! Your grandson will reap great personal rewards because you gave him structure, consistency and consequences. That's not as fun as hunting, but immeasurably more important.

Oh and for the op. Texas hunting season never ends. So we don't either.

I was done a little over two weeks ago when Mrs. B took her second buck, our freezer is full. We'll probably book an exotic hunt next spring, then it's back to our fishing schedule until fall.

Tagged out and done on deer, first time to do that in awhile actually. Still like and afternoon set when I can to see what is still coming in.

I have taken nice bucks late in the season many times, but this year we just haven't seen any big bucks since the rut in November. I know I get depressed as the season draws to a close. Nothing I enjoy more in life than deer season. Hopefully I get in at least two more hunts.

Just getting warmed up. MLD season runs until the end of Feb.

Never EVER give up!!!
Here in east Texas, the big boys are run down and hungry. They're probably more predictable now than they've been since early October. Starting to come to feeder pretty regular.

I am hunting for myself this weekend. I havn't killed a deer in 15 years or more. It will have to be a good one for me to drop the hammer on.

I have not seen any antlers since Thanksgiving morning, but I will not give up until the end.

I still have a spike to kill..

Nope, just starting to get serious about it.

ME!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm probably gonna get 1 more trip in next week hopefully. Bandera for WT. But, I won't be hunting.

Gonna try and pull together a group pheasant hunt. And dove hunts.

But for deer, I'm done.

Sitting in a tree right now up in Marion County.

Got one nice 8 pt last month in Baylor County and one doe way back in the first week of the season back in October. Drew back on a nice 8 pt last week in Rusk County. Arrow nock came off the string as I drew back. That really sucked.

Will head to Baylor County on New Years Eve to close the season. It has been a good one, although at times frustrating!

We are seeing the effects of a bad fawn crop a couple years in a row. Haven't seen but one shooter buck and I think he is gonna get a pass

Gonna finish the season with a couple of doe bow hunts. Killing a deer period with a bow is tough. Got busted twice this morning drawing back.

Filled Tags Completely this year with my bow! Been a good year, so I am done for the year hunting.. although I think I have been in the woods more scouting lately than I even spent hunting this year. I am a little bit obsessed! Cant wait till next year

Haven't decided yet! Freezer is just about full. May go just for buck look. If it's just freezer we've got a special doe & spike season until Jan 19th

Knee surgery on the 26th was poorly the end of my year. We don't need any more meat so I'd have to know one of the big boys are showing up to even think about trying.

Freezer's full of venison (a Somervell Co. 8 point and a Wood Co. doe)but I'll be going back New Year's day and finish the season mainly just to hang out with family and friends. Maybe watch my feeder for a hog.

not me

I plan on fighting it out until the last hour

Still hunting deer but mainly getting ready to go after the yotes really hard for a while! We have a good crop of deer killers this year that need to be thinned out before fawning season. Then there's the pigs that have to be kept in check. Then we will try to get some turkey hunts in when we need a break from fishing and next thing you know it will be opening day of dove season. No rest LoL

Mine ended the 1st week of December. Not winning a stand during Camp Bullis and my job had me working every weekend while taking college course. NOw loosing my job my job kind of puts a damper on hunting.

I and my 15 year old son said "to heck with it" at 5:37 pm today. Next time we hunt we will do our best to reduce the varmint population of the state if Texas.

Sounds like we are kindred souls!

Hard to say. My trophy and my cull are down on Spade. Two of my hunters are still after their trophies. I darn near lost my life in pursuit of my trophy, so maybe I need to call it quits while I am ahead.

Honestly, I may give it all up after this season. Never have I been griped out so many times in a hunting season for the absolute smallest things. This year has been hard, personally, and it may be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I woke yesterday morning to my best friend and long time hunting buddy tearing me a new one about gutting my buck at the feeder. Kiss my butt! I was so sick it took me 3 hours to gut it, and even after that, I was so weak I couldn't get him in my truck.

Very tempted to take all the hunting gifts that he has given me over the past 20 years and go put them on his porch with a note that says "thanks. hunting was the only pleasure I had in life, and you have ruined it for me".

Last night I loaded all that crap in my truck to take to his house this morning. Even took my first deer, a Spike, that I shot when he was with me when we were 8, and I broke the heck out of it last night. Mud stomped it to pieces, put it in a box with a note that says "as you know, this thing was my most valued possession in life. this is what you have driven me to".

Sorry for the rant, just been one of them years. Hunting is usually my only escape from the BS, but it seems to have actually made my depression worse this year. Probably going to call my taxidermist and processor to tell them I won't be picking up my trophy or meat. Hopefully Lonnie can sell my buck and get the money he put into it back. If he give me grief, I'll take him every mount that he has done for me back and tell them to sell them for his own profit.

Never thought I would be saying/typing anything like this

So you smashed your first kill because you and your friend got into an argument over a gut pile?

Wow man that's a lotta drama over just a gut pile in the wrong place. I think you did no wrong until you lost control over tha arse chewing. I think your buddy was over the line but friends allow that occasionally. I say put the stuff back where it belongs and get whatever y'all enjoy drinking and get drunk with him. Then and only then tell him about smashing y'all's mount. I bet he laughs his arse off about that. Now y'all got another reason to go make more gut piles to argue about. That dude knows all about you and still wants to be your friend. Don't throw that away.

BRAVO Sir!! That is how it should be, I've been that way with my kids since the beginning. It works. Grandkids will get the same treatment.

We had a decent deer season this year, now gearing up for hogs and yotes.

Had not planned to, but had to. Between recovering and now work, no time left. Work 12 hour nite shifts next 3 days and season ends Dec 31.
That is for deer. Have a hog hunt scheduled down there in about 10 days. Hope to add pork to my venison supply.

I am done, punched all the tags I want or need. I plan to go yote and cat calling - going to try to kill one with a bow this winter. Other than that it will be shooting foam targets till elk season 2014.

If any of that up there makes any sense to you.... seriously, go get some professional help.

God Bless

I've tagged 3 so far. I still have some LAMPS tags that need to be used, but I'm pretty burnt out on deer. I'd rather kill some piggies.

X2. Funny how hunting teaches us patience, yet we can't insert it into our lives.

I can't even put another steak in my freezers. I need to wait until our new house is completed in February to get more freezer space. Hopefully, can make some sausage and finish processing everything. Then, hoping to book an exotic hunt in April/May for either an Axis or Black Buck. A new freezer seems to be in my future.

Still a few days before the fat lady sings and I intend to get in a few more hunts before she does.

Seasons not over and I still have tags

I feel like my season's just beginning after working so hard to get my boy his deer. Lucky I'm on a level 3.

Boy I need to hang it up. Spent over 16 hours in the blind two days after Christmas without seeing nothing but a Jackrabbit twice

I'm good now. Still pissed though. Took butt chewings all week, just didn't need one from him. Ya don't expect the one person you look to for support to perpetuate your problems.

Stress from my job boils over to my personal life, and I shouldn't allow it.