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Need Some Rain!
#8251267
04/28/21 11:44 PM
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BbarVRanch
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Here in S. Texas!
Soon!
And plenty of it.
Deer are tearing the supplemental feeders up.
Bucks growing antlers. Does getting heavy with fawns...
Everything could use some green stuff.
How's your places looking? You guys still feeding?
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251302
04/29/21 12:16 AM
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soonersorlaters
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Erath County. Nice early green-up has saved a few coins on the overuse of protein feeders so far. New bone showing on the bucks and the does look like they're carrying triplets (so big). Turd floater about to hit now so hoping we can carry some decent browse fairly deep into summer before they start eating us out of house and home. Good luck!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251312
04/29/21 12:25 AM
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Joined: Oct 2013
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Ol Thumper
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3-5”s here tonight, please come take some!!!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251330
04/29/21 12:36 AM
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Michael W.
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Most of Texas needs rain badly. Looks like we have a pretty good chance in the next couple of days.
A clear conscience is often the sign of a fuzzy memory.
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251333
04/29/21 12:37 AM
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freerange
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Bad timing on this thread. North Texas got a lot of rain today. Between all the problems on the border and the lack of rain, Im glad Im outa STx.
At some point in life its time to quit chasing the pot of gold and just enjoy the rainbow. FR Keep your gratitude higher than your expectations. RWH
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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04/29/21 01:09 AM
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Creekrunner
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Tornado warning here, mainly for south San Antonio. Tennis ball size hail. Got the truck in the barn, finally. Man I gotta get rid of some crap!
...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251516
04/29/21 02:41 AM
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flintknapper
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Too much in my neck of the woods, wish it would stop.
Spartans ask not...how many, but where!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251518
04/29/21 02:44 AM
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dogcatcher
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Nice and green around Abilene, we got over 4 inches of rain this morning.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251663
04/29/21 10:37 AM
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Dave Davidson
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Bowie in Montague County has gotten wet with over 4 inches and more coming today. I was going to head there today to see how things are. However, it looks like more light stuff will be coming most of the day.
Ponds were down about 3 ft and this ought to cure a lot of that.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251756
04/29/21 12:25 PM
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Hudbone
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losing tanks in Lasalle County. Nothing green on the ground, nothing
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251758
04/29/21 12:25 PM
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ILUVBIGBUCKS
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For you guys wishing for the rain to stop, don't!
I've only gotten a touch over an inch total in the last week where some within 2 miles of me are well over 2.5". It is great to get some but to be deep into spring and still struggling to get grass going in the pastures is not good.
I'd much rather have to check cows with mud boots on every day and try and find a few days of dry to lay down grass to bale than NOT have any to cut!
Stock tanks in our area are really, really low and in other areas southwest of us are down to mud or even dry. Not a good way at all to enter summer.
High fence, low fence, no fence, it really doesn't matter as long as you're hunting!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251759
04/29/21 12:25 PM
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Old Rabbit
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Sure wish we could send you some from East Texas. I still have wet areas in my garden from last weeks rain, and we are under a flash flood watch starting today.
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251811
04/29/21 01:24 PM
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txtrophy85
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South Texas is bad bad dry. Tanks are low or dried completely up, low brush is burned from freeze.
Hill country looks good, Oaks are a little slow comming on but still much greener than down south
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8251823
04/29/21 01:30 PM
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Hudbone
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Amazing how stout the mesquite is
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8251831
04/29/21 01:36 PM
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BbarVRanch
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The blizzard set back the huisache a bit, but even it is starting to come out now.
I thought my ranch was dry until I shredded a ranch over by Cuero this week. It looked like the dead of winter. Bare ground.
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8252001
04/29/21 04:15 PM
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Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 13,142
CCBIRDDOGMAN
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I was surprised how green it was in Dickens County last weekend not growing tall but green. And it rained pretty good there last night. waiting on report from ranch Cowboy on how much
Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8252081
04/29/21 05:51 PM
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TLew
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Erath is green as green can be like mentioned earlier. Already seeing good antler growth on bucks, and they continue to hit the protein feeders along with the natural browse
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: Hudbone]
#8252106
04/29/21 06:19 PM
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68rustbucket
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losing tanks in Lasalle County. Nothing green on the ground, nothing My weather report shows .17 since midnight in Fowlerton. Forecast for Friday-Saturday is 1.6”. Bring it!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: 68rustbucket]
#8252233
04/29/21 08:43 PM
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ILUVBIGBUCKS
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losing tanks in Lasalle County. Nothing green on the ground, nothing My weather report shows .17 since midnight in Fowlerton. Forecast for Friday-Saturday is 1.6”. Bring it! Boy would that country pop with 1.6" on it. I've always been amazed how fast it responds to a nice soaker down in that country. Hope yall get it!!
High fence, low fence, no fence, it really doesn't matter as long as you're hunting!
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: ILUVBIGBUCKS]
#8252271
04/29/21 09:28 PM
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Joined: Nov 2018
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Frio Town
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For you guys wishing for the rain to stop, don't!
I've only gotten a touch over an inch total in the last week where some within 2 miles of me are well over 2.5". It is great to get some but to be deep into spring and still struggling to get grass going in the pastures is not good.
I'd much rather have to check cows with mud boots on every day and try and find a few days of dry to lay down grass to bale than NOT have any to cut!
Stock tanks in our area are really, really low and in other areas southwest of us are down to mud or even dry. Not a good way at all to enter summer. Well said!!
"Let's Go Brandon"
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: ILUVBIGBUCKS]
#8252292
04/29/21 09:43 PM
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Joined: Nov 2018
Posts: 207
Frio Town
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losing tanks in Lasalle County. Nothing green on the ground, nothing My weather report shows .17 since midnight in Fowlerton. Forecast for Friday-Saturday is 1.6”. Bring it! Boy would that country pop with 1.6" on it.
I 've always been amazed how fast it responds to a nice soaker down in that country.
Hope yall get it!! Having lived here in the brush country for all my life, I can relate to the response time for the grasses and brush. Keep in mind however that it can turn back to brown or bare just as fast.
"Let's Go Brandon"
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8252367
04/29/21 10:30 PM
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Biscuit
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Had a bunch near the speedway
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8252377
04/29/21 10:36 PM
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Dave Davidson
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Wound up with 4 inches South of Bowie. Needed it badly. More is supposed to come in the next couple of days. Even with that, the ponds/tanks/ water holes didn’t completely fill. Been dry a long time.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: Need Some Rain!
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#8253133
04/30/21 07:12 PM
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dogcatcher
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We have 5" total with more coming through Saturday.
Combat Infantryman, the ultimate hunter where the prey shoots back. _____________"Illegitimus non carborundum est"_______________
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Re: Need Some Rain!
[Re: BbarVRanch]
#8253162
04/30/21 07:54 PM
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BbarVRanch
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Got 1.5 inches since this morning! If I'd known, I would have started a thread earlier! 
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