ahhhh..........................get off work so I can hunt and when I do get off work my phone not ring or have to have a loptop in the blind with me like i did everytime I tried to hunt last year.

We bought a new place this year and this will be the first time I've hunted Texas in 10 years.

I'm looking forward to getting the feel for how the critters move around the property, especially as we get the stands in place. I've got film on the place since July 4th and I've already seen some frequent flyers become less frequent and some new faces appear. As the fall comes on and the acorns drop and the persimmon fade out, I'm sure the intensity of the feeding patterns I've seen so far will change. I'm so looking forward to the rut! It should be a mad house out there.

Hogs must die. I've popped 3 in two separate events, and it's startling how fast their feeding patterns at the feeder have changed as a result. As they become nocturnal, I see a new thermal scope in my Christmas stocking

We are also having fun choosing and placing new stands

Thank you Lane, he did gain quite a bit from last year. I think he will probably go home with someone this year...

Retired

Hunt from 9/28 to 1/7/2020

Get a larger deer than my best which was last year

Hoping my wife and hunting partner also gets a bigger deer

Out of meat so wanting to fill the freezer with something early not necessarily a buck

If not a larger deer than just sit, observe and enjoy while thanking our Lord for his blessings.

Getting my son in law, Command Sargent, Major who is retiring from Special Forces after 32 years a decent buck as well as my 2 grand sons




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Get my stepson his first deer.
Get my dad to come to camp with me
Have fun, relax, and enjoy just being in/around camp
Shot a 140” buck

My goal is to just sit in the stand and watch nature walk by. Put a couple of doe in the freezer also, and a couple of pigs.

I’ll tell ya, ccbirddogman has got his priorities straight, planning to quail hunt. Man, that’s fun.

This will be my first deer season in 7 years. Prior to that I was on a lease for 25 years but our group lost the lease and my sons were playing college sports so I was occupied with that. Finally this past December my wife and I bought some land in east Texas about 3 hours from our home.

At first I was seeing a jillion hogs but only a few does and smaller individual bucks at my feeders. Then I started seeing a group of 4 to 6 small, young bucks together. Then they disappeared. After a few weeks a larger, legal buck showed up and again some smaller bucks. But yesterday, my neighbor who I just met who lives about half a mile down the road showed me pictures of a large 10 point with kickers that he caught on his camera that was obviously a mature buck. He also showed me his last years buck which scored around 145 with multiple kickers. So now I am as excited as can be.

Just finished planting my first feed plot I ever attempted so we'll see how that goes.

My goal is to get a better buck than the best I ever shot in Victoria county which was an eleven point with about a 17 3/4 inch spread.

This is only my third year hunting after not being able to for about 15 years. I got a deer on Fort Hood in 2017 and haven’t seen a shooter since. I got out of the Army and we moved to Lufkin last year, I’ve been hunting on my father in laws place ever since. Given little to no success there yet, I have committed to hunting the Davy Crockett National Forest as well as his place. I have two goals this year;

Take a deer with a bow (first year bow hunting and it doesn’t matter the location)
Take a deer with my Marlin 336 30-30.

I personally think the Marlin deer will be the more special of the two regardless of the size or sex. The Marlin was my grandfather’s rifle, the first rifle I ever shot and the only rifle I know of that my grandfather used to hunt on his land. He’s been gone for 25 years and my wife had the rifle cleaned up and brought back into service after it fell into the wrong family members hands and they abused it. One day, I hope my son takes a deer with the rifle so it will have 3 generations on hunter behind the glass.

After I figure some of this hunting business out better, I have weird goals like;

Harvest an animal wearing overalls and a flannel shirt (grandfather again, he never wore camo and I think hunters nowadays get so lost in the latest camo this or expensive whatever, hunters in the 70s didn’t wear all that mess and they killed plenty of deer)
Harvest an animal on my own land. This one will take some time considering I don’t own any haha
One day, I’d like to go back to the farm I grew up on and ask to take a deer there. I’m sure I’ll be shown the door.

This list should get me started I guess. Hey so, this is my first post thanks for reading. As you can tell, I’m new to both forums and hunting. I’ve got all the online pointers I could need, any pointers on hunting DCNF would be appreciated though.

My Goal for this year:

Sit . . . In . . . A . . .Blind, with a couple buddies. And if I can bag some freezer meat, I’ll be happier than a puppy with 2 thingies.

Next year, I hope to land somewhere

I just want to get off work so I can hunt.