Photo above was from 2018 season. This one below from 2017. We saw him up until the end of the 2018/19 season and then after seeing him multiple times a week, he disappeared. GWs found a dead deer (not this one) with bolt in it and found several other, similar bolts down the street nearer Landa Park. The assumption is, he was taken.

I was in Port Mansfield last weekend and we hand fed bucks in the 160-180 range in the neighborhoods surrounding the harbor. I like the meat, but what I really enjoy about deer hunting is the quest to find exceptional bucks. If I could hand feed giant bucks at our ranch, the novelty would be gone, but just being around a bunch of deer pets doesn’t take the thrill out of hunting for me.

I was in Port Mansfield last weekend and we hand fed bucks in the 160-180 range in the neighborhoods surrounding the harbor. I like the meat, but what I really enjoy about deer hunting is the quest to find exceptional bucks. If I could hand feed giant bucks at our ranch, the novelty would be gone, but just being around a bunch of deer pets doesn’t take the thrill out of hunting for me.

Some idjit enthusiastically took this guy.

Fourth one from the left is a "bomber.

A good friend of mine is building a house close to Canyon Lake, he sees a lot of deer there all of the time.
Always wondered if you lived in an area where a lot of deer run around almost like pets if that takes away some of a hunters enthusiasm for actually hunting them?

Some of the very best places to hunt in Comal County are lands adjoining subdivisions. I think the antlers get bigger when the deer eat philodendruns.

No kidding. My FIL has a lease 5 minutes from Gruene. After hunting east, west, central and south Texas over a 40 year period, my highest scoring deer came from Gruene.

Fourth one from the left is a "bomber.

Too bad Bretzke's isn't open these days. Loveyed their coconut cream pie.