This is one of the saddest threads I've read on this forum. Texas is supposed to be renowned for our hospitality and our go to attitude to assist someone reaching out for help. There are a couple that are somewhat helpful. There's posts on here that are completely WRONG. There's posts that are silly, and most egregious of all posts that are flat out condescending. Good Lord, the man isn't asking for anyone's spot.

NastyNate33, I hunt public too. My reasons for switching from private lease to public are my own. And it has taken me a couple of years to start seeing some success. I have drawn doe tags for SHNF for the last 3 years and filled it this year for the 1st time. I also aggressively hunted the same small sounder of pigs for 3 weeks, and finally outsmarted them and got my shot. I was within 10 feed of that darn sounder once sneaking up on their bedding area. I could smell them.

So, it can be done. And when you succeed, it is so gratifying that it is almost as good as getting your first ever deer. What you take out of the public forest, you have earned.

Now, I read what you are doing. It's all the right things - hunting the wind, scouting, etc. I'm going to PM you, hopefully you are still around the THF and realize that there are some of us willing to understand and help. That's what this forum is supposed to be all about.

"The Best Place in Texas to Talk Hunting"

This is one of the saddest threads I've read on this forum. Texas is supposed to be renowned for our hospitality and our go to attitude to assist someone reaching out for help. There are a couple that are somewhat helpful. There's posts on here that are completely WRONG. There's posts that are silly, and most egregious of all posts that are flat out condescending. Good Lord, the man isn't asking for anyone's spot.

NastyNate33, I hunt public too. My reasons for switching from private lease to public are my own. And it has taken me a couple of years to start seeing some success. I have drawn doe tags for SHNF for the last 3 years and filled it this year for the 1st time. I also aggressively hunted the same small sounder of pigs for 3 weeks, and finally outsmarted them and got my shot. I was within 10 feed of that darn sounder once sneaking up on their bedding area. I could smell them.

So, it can be done. And when you succeed, it is so gratifying that it is almost as good as getting your first ever deer. What you take out of the public forest, you have earned.

Now, I read what you are doing. It's all the right things - hunting the wind, scouting, etc. I'm going to PM you, hopefully you are still around the THF and realize that there are some of us willing to understand and help. That's what this forum is supposed to be all about.

"The Best Place in Texas to Talk Hunting"

I bow hunt public land. I find deer dropping and tracks Litteraly everywhere and I try and set myself up where they will be walking through. There are new tracks every day so I assume their moving a lot at night. Some stands I can see far but most I’m surrounded by cover and a trail or a field on the other aide. I hunt the edges but I don’t like hunting the bigger fields because the wind is constantly changing directions. As of right now I’m right on the Texas Louisiana border in newton county