Wandered off up to Young, Archer and Baylor counties today.

Got to spend a few hours with a long time friend filling feeders, working on blinds, and we topped it off with shooting a couple of does.

I forget what my buddy was using to take his, I took the bigger of the two at about 160-170 yards with my 375H&H.

nothing like a good time with a good friend & the table fare was just a bonus

I had a choice between a 1.5 to 2.5 year old spike and the doe, and I took the doe.

Robert and I have known each other for almost 40 years now.

Old men from another age getting to spend time working on blinds and filling feeders and then getting to set in a stand and discuss real time deer management and its future are great enough.

Both of us shooting a deer was icing on the cake.

awesome

Congrats CH, much else moving up there. I am in Knox county and hope to see something this weekend. Its been pretty scarce for me, although you wouldnt know it by the pictures on my camera.

Sounds like you had a good time

From what my friend was telling me it has been an odd season up there.

He is having deer around his feeders on a regular basis, along with pigs, but some of the other folks that hunt with him or hunt on some of the adjoining leases he manages have not been seeeing that much.

From the way he talked they have not been killing a lot this season, don't know if it is because the hunters are getting too picky about what they are wanting to shoot or if something else is going on that is causing the deer to change their patterns.

I don't ever go up there to prowl around with him on the weekends, and every time we have went out during the week and he has offered me the chance at a deer, I am 3 for 3, 2 last season, 1 this season.

I do know from past experience, that the deer up in that area really do get to patterning the hunters, and get to the point that they seem to disappear on the weekends, yet during the week they are all over the place.

Thanks, its has been strange, to go from 1k's pics on the cameras to almost none and no deer to be seen.

Oh well, I'll still be in the stand taking pictures if nothing shows.

congrats Randall, I bet they didn't walk off with a 375 round in em

Naw, she sure did not do that.

I hit her and she did the white tail version of the chicken dance for about 10 feet from the point of impact and then layed flat out and that was it.

Way to go CH! Sounds like you had a really good day.

It really was a great day.

As I have said before I have known Robert for almost 40 years and his family slightly longer.

They are some of the nicest most non-judgemental people I have ever had the honor of knowing.

They have always treated me as a member of their family, and I can truthfully say that I have never heard a single person make a disparraging remark about them.

I remember the night, that Robert called and we talked for almost 2 hours about his decision to start leasing oplaces and managing them and doing the sub-leasing to others.

I do not know that any of the advice I gave him was good or not, but he has been doing this for several years now and I don't believe he has many regrets.

He and his partners have really made a difference in the quality of animals that are on their properties, and I feel very priveldged to be able to go out and help him on these properties and see the difference their management strategies have had.

If I get to shoot a doe or two or some pigs, that is icing on the cake.

Spending a few hours out in country I grew up in and love, with someone that does not really worry about how opinionated I am on different issues, helps me get thru life.

Friends like Robert and his family are once in a lifetime gifts, and I feel blessed that the God I believe in allowed me to earn such a gift.