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It was bad all over Texas. We had a monster acorn and pecan crop. I don’t know what happened to our pig population, but most of them disappeared.

Gotta place to hunt, it's just not a lease. Neighbor gives me access.
It's sort of a weird setup.
It's 340 acres of wide open pasture and wheat field.
The south side butts up against a river bottom.
Along that fence, the landowner fenced off about 2.5 acres. I set a box blind inside the fenced off area, set up a feeder and plant a food plot.
Deer come up out of the river bottom. I kill deer every year. This year, due to my own ignorance, I missed a big old fat doe! 😖 Took a nice buck there in 2018.

They were like the deer. They weren't lost, they just didn't have to go far for cover for feed and water.

Muzzle loader mule deer in SW Kansas.

Our lease is in arbitration. 4 heirs already have half of what they’ll get on a 320 acre farm but can’t agree on who gets what of the rest. Actually it’s more like 1 of them can’t agree. Executor thought he laid out a fair plan a year ago but you know how that goes. Supposedly this spring the case comes up. We have been able to hunt 2 of the shares along with the contested area for the past 4 years IIRC but that could get cut drastically. So regardless of how the case shakes out I need to be finding some more land.

Would like to place a box blind in a new location on my property. However, the cost of doing anything right now is ludicrous. I bought a Muddy blind a couple years ago and it was the most overrated POS for the price. IT leaks and the walls have bowed in. I'm thinking about building something this go round.

Same chunk of public I’ve hunted since 2012, 2016 excepted. There are deer to be had without too much trouble, and pressure is generally light, especially for a spot so close to a town.

My plan every year is to shoot a doe in early season, then hold out for a big boy.
The reality is, I don't shoot a doe early because I don't want to scare the big boy that could be following her, then I end up shooting the first 8 point that walks by and have to hunt like crazy to find a doe late season.

I do have a new box blind to put up behind the house this year.

Move a couple of stands. Cut out shooting lanes (a never ending job). Repair winches (we have I think 21 on the place) Work on pickups, gators, side by sides, 4 wheelers, etc............... It never ends but is enjoyable in its own way. Only 8 1/2 months till season starts. Got to get after it.

Forgot to add.....KILL ARMADILLOS. they are taking over the place. Ranch hands killed 21 one day and 19 the next and they were not hunting them. Just doing their regular work. We all carry 22's and shoot them on sight but they keep increasing every year.

Maybe but no rooting, places where they go under fences are un disturbed. Hog wallows not used.

I'm going to shoot them dead, no changes needed.

My plan is to shoot deer. Several of them. It's been working for near 50 years.

I killed 15 this summer, bastards sure mess up a yard

Hunting in the dry woods they sound like a flock of turkeys coming in. That or rolling a bowling ball through a foot of potato chips.

Giving more serious thought to doing more ground blind hunting. I like the flexibilty......

Planting more trees
Hanging more stands and cams
Expanding plots to skid roads from recent logging on our place in PA

Going back to MO… tweaking stands in April replacing camera batteries. Meeting with farmer to arrange plots.

Going to be a fun year again

Resurrecting plans of a cancelled hunt last year & headed for the Allegheny NF to poke around. Maybe drift into Kentucky a bit. Looking for a little place to escape the worst of VT winters & get into some decent hunting.

Going to try to kill a deer with a bolt action 44 mag in the goofy straight-wall regulated southern part of the state

Shoot a pronghorn in WY and a couple of whitetail does here in TX.