Happy hunting!

[jfowl31]

Tomorrow is opening day rifle season here in TX! I'm leaving shortly to head out to the lease.

Happy Hunting and good luck to everyone! If you get something, post pictures here.

I'm not hunting with the Cetme this year as I ran out of soft-point loads for it... Fall-back is a older Ruger M77 MkII in 30-06. It, of course, will do just fine, but I really enjoy hunting with the Cetme.

Shoot Straight!

-jfowl

[vista461]

Good luck!

I have another 2 weeks till gun season opens up again. I am heading out to the land and putting up my blind on sunday though :)
I will be using the CETME again:rockon:

[turmanator]

Yeah, and mine in TX don't start until the 27th!

[HKILLER]

Im gonna try to hunt Sunday, with the 6.8.

[WildBillCody]

I'm going in a week, using my Enfield Scout .303

Lots of Black Bears around down there, they have seen a bunch.
Kinda nervous :eek:

[HKILLER]

That is one sweet rifle cody good luck

[weasel_master]

Saw 5 grouse sitting in the stand and one deer. Didn't have a great shot at it, and it's the first day so I let it pass. Got 70 acres to myself so I should get a decent shot at filling my tag. Mountain lion took the neighbors dog earlier this week so I've been carefull to watch for that.

[Paperpuncher]

Tomorrow is opening day rifle season here in TX! I'm leaving shortly to head out to the lease.

Happy Hunting and good luck to everyone! If you get something, post pictures here.

I'm not hunting with the Cetme this year as I ran out of soft-point loads for it... Fall-back is a older Ruger M77 MkII in 30-06. It, of course, will do just fine, but I really enjoy hunting with the Cetme.

Shoot Straight!

-jfowl



Must be nice, lucky you. :rockon: I've not hunted since 2003 or 2004, and TX on top on that! Good luck to you, more importantly enjoy the getting away, and most important, be safe!

[WildBillCody]

Saw 5 grouse sitting in the stand and one deer. Didn't have a great shot at it, and it's the first day so I let it pass. Got 70 acres to myself so I should get a decent shot at filling my tag. Mountain lion took the neighbors dog earlier this week so I've been carefull to watch for that.

They saw a Black Panther down there last week, Lions and Tigers and Bears OH MY..... What is this Africa, I think I need something bigger than a .303, Wait the .303 used to take everything in Africa didn't it? I'm taking my camera for sure, I want a pic of that Panther..

[jfowl31]

Yippee!!!!!!!

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i15/jfowl31/IMAG0217.jpg

[M1 Tanker]

Damn nice start to deer season Jfowl! Congrats!

[WildBillCody]

Nice, did you have that tied to that fence before you shot it? J/K Nice day it looks like as well.

[drine]

Nice, did you have that tied to that fence before you shot it? J/K Nice day it looks like as well.


:roflmao:
Nice buck!

WBC, that .303 is perfect for all of the above. Lot's of guys around here shoot 7mm Mag and, as usual with the "one-up" crowd, some shoot .300 Mag. Way overkill in my thoughts. Maybe if I went to Alaska or Maine for moose or BIG bear I'd take a .300.

[Otis61]

Nice looking deer jfowl.

[gtty]

I'm going in a week, using my Enfield Scout .303

Lots of Black Bears around down there, they have seen a bunch.
Kinda nervous :eek:

That's a sweet rifle!!

[Planning]

Tomorrow is opening day rifle season here in TX! I'm leaving shortly to head out to the lease.

Happy Hunting and good luck to everyone! If you get something, post pictures here.

I'm not hunting with the Cetme this year as I ran out of soft-point loads for it... Fall-back is a older Ruger M77 MkII in 30-06. It, of course, will do just fine, but I really enjoy hunting with the Cetme.

Shoot Straight!

-jfowl

NICE LOOKING DEER!

we use to have a lease that was next to the johnson ranch ( near johnson city). it was a great lease, but they got tired of us shooting "there" deer when they crossed over into our lease, so they bought the land. lots of exotics deer(many africian). some osolots and mountain lions ( the mountain lions will try to get into the stand with you:icon_biggrin:) , etc.
i use to buy a new Ruger M77 MkII in .270 every year and deck it out. after every season i would sell it to one of my very good customers at a good price. i had a list and would draw a name.

great hunting area.......

ron

[jfowl31]

2 more bucks were shot this weekend! Both by others on my lease. 1 was a little 6-point that was 4 or 5 years old and needed to "have his genes removed from the pool"and the other was this NICE 8 point. His is on the left and mine is on the right. Sorry for the blood... for some reason his bled more than any we've ever seen while we were skinning/quartering it. There's a good chance that these 2 are father/son from the shape of the racks and body types they both had.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i15/jfowl31/DSC_0010.jpg

[jfowl31]

Oh and we spent the evening (me and the guy who shot the one on the left) starting to process these 2 big bastages. We are doing both of these into sausage links... the whole deer! I figure I'll do the next one into hamburger, and then maybe the next into jerky... who knows. But MAN stuffing sausage is tedious work. We cooked a little in a skillet though and it is some of the best sausage I've ever eaten and all we did tonight was just some Garlic and spices. Tuesday we'll do the rest with a bunch of different custom spices/rubs in all sorts of flavors. Even got some fresh japs to grind into some of them. Processing them is what makes all this so rewarding to me. It makes me feel like I'm getting back to the roots of mankind when I kill my own meat, then cut it up and process it start to finish on my own. I feel like everyone should do it at least once to really appreciate the amount of work that goes into everything we buy at the grocery store.

[Paperpuncher]

Beautiful deer! I agree that people have become desensitized with the luxury of being able to forgo any part of the killing or processing and walking into a grocery store to grab a nice clean package of steak. It's such a clean process, I believe most people have forgotten where a steak comes from. Mooooo, that's the thing on the farm where we get milk right?

[jfowl31]

Beautiful deer! I agree that people have become desensitized with the luxury of being able to forgo any part of the killing or processing and walking into a grocery store to grab a nice clean package of steak. It's such a clean process, I believe most people have forgotten where a steak comes from. Mooooo, that's the thing on the farm where we get milk right?

My in-laws thought I was crazy when I asked for processing equipment for my birthday and Christmas last year... But now I've got a grinder and a good crank style stuffer, a dehydrator, a vacuum sealer and I am REALLY enjoying the sausage making part of it. I LOVE sausage, so being able to customize it just the way I like is going to be a lot of fun.

[cfish]

jfowl, here is one I took last years at the end of the season.
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/nn79/cfish1/Antelope%20hunt%202010/IMG_0880.jpg

[gtty]

me back in the late 80's in Blanco County, Tx.

[Sapheit warrior]

Happy Hunting everyone. I got a doe on opening day in North Carolina. Going to be in Maryland for opening day of Shotgun Season for deer. Doing some Goose hunting with the wife's family on Thanksgiving also... Should be a good time. I love this time of year. Good luck everyone.

[jfowl31]

Finally finished processing that buck last night... 55-60 pounds of sausage, and that doesn't include the backstraps or the tenderloins!

Leaving in an hour or so to go back to the lease. I'll probably just take a doe this weekend unless I see a monster.

[weasel_master]

Shot this thing this morning. Was dragging it out when I saw a buck having his way with a nice sized doe. They ran before I get get my gun on them. Lobbed 4 shots as they were bounding away but didn't get em. Heading out again in the morning.

http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u240/weasel_master/IMG_6972.jpg
http://i169.photobucket.com/albums/u240/weasel_master/IMG_6973.jpg

[WildBillCody]

Went yesterday, didn't see much but footprints. It was windy, that might have been the problem.

[weasel_master]

Was pouring rain today and way windy. The top half of the tree I was sitting in fell off. Thank God it was leaning or it may have hit me. Two years in a row where it's be above 20 and rainy. Just ain't the same without snow and freezing your butt off.

[Norton]

A 8mm Mauser 98 sporter kill from yesterday. one shot broke it's back and it dropped in place. Not very big but it will do. I may make choriso out of part, jerkey and and steaks out of the rest.

[Sturmvogel]

Nice rifle Norton... looks like it could have sat in the rack at camp in years gone by. Not allowed to hunt with semiautos here in PA so it looks like an 'old friend' to me.

[HKILLER]

Nice kill open sights too?

[Sturmvogel]

Iron sights and it wasn't tied to a fence either HKILLER!!!

[Norton]

Lyman

[hunter_la5]

From tonight's hunt. The pictures are a bit blurry as the sun was going down and my camera was having trouble focusing.

10 point

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/hunter_la5/number%20two/Photo0237.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/hunter_la5/number%20two/Photo0239.jpg

4 point

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/hunter_la5/number%20two/Photo0230.jpg
http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b99/hunter_la5/number%20two/Photo0235.jpg

[Norton]

What happened with the Buck?
Is he hanging in barn right now?

[hunter_la5]

What happened with the Buck?
Is he hanging in barn right now?

No, unfortunately I had to let him walk (possibly the hardest thing I've ever had to do :icon_razz: ). The deer lease I do most of my hunting at only allots my family one "trophy-class" buck (> 145 inches of antler) per season, and my dad already shot one. I was just hunting for does, culls, and "management-class" bucks ( < 145 inches of antler, 3 years or older) tonight, of which I saw none. :icon_neutral:

[gtty]

That's a really nice mature buck! Back when I started hunting in East Texas (late 70's), you never saw many deer, much less a buck. To me bucks were like unicorns, you heard about them, but never actually saw one.