hobbeeman
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I finally have been able to join a hunting lease here in West Texas (after looking several years for a way to hunt in my home State without $$)
My son (14) and I went to the lease last weekend (full moon) taking with us some smelly rotten catfish feed, soured dogfood, and moldy/smelly birdseed. We were instructed to bury this mess just off of the riverbed and that the pigs would likely find it within 24 hrs. After burying it the first night, we explored the lease, 10 sections (10 square miles) and saw turkey, whitetail deer, roadrunners, quail, mule deer, and lots of black angus Our '88 4-runner could not get stuck on any of the sand trails or in the riverbottom, nor matter how hard we tried
On the second night, we went back to a bluff about 60 feet above the buried smelly mess, across the riverbed, and sat from 3 hours before sunset, til about 2 hours after sundown. Wind was blowing from south to north, right up the bed of the river. We ate peanut butter and honey sandwiches, drank gatorade and observed the West Texas beauty all around us. We were especially impressed that we could make out the crosshairs in our optics by the light of nothing but the full moon
We did not see any hogs, and we did not get to shoot a single shot through either of our rifles but my son said that it was one of the best hunting trips we have taken
A good weekend.
My son (14) and I went to the lease last weekend (full moon) taking with us some smelly rotten catfish feed, soured dogfood, and moldy/smelly birdseed. We were instructed to bury this mess just off of the riverbed and that the pigs would likely find it within 24 hrs. After burying it the first night, we explored the lease, 10 sections (10 square miles) and saw turkey, whitetail deer, roadrunners, quail, mule deer, and lots of black angus Our '88 4-runner could not get stuck on any of the sand trails or in the riverbottom, nor matter how hard we tried
On the second night, we went back to a bluff about 60 feet above the buried smelly mess, across the riverbed, and sat from 3 hours before sunset, til about 2 hours after sundown. Wind was blowing from south to north, right up the bed of the river. We ate peanut butter and honey sandwiches, drank gatorade and observed the West Texas beauty all around us. We were especially impressed that we could make out the crosshairs in our optics by the light of nothing but the full moon
We did not see any hogs, and we did not get to shoot a single shot through either of our rifles but my son said that it was one of the best hunting trips we have taken
A good weekend.