Official deer hunting thread

[2165 Turbo Rail]

Don't ask about the roof edge, that was a poorly thought out plan lol.

after this happen... mine looks pretty much the same... but longer in front


I might build another one next year. I want something up off the ground more so I'll just have 2 stands

[krazy kris]

leaving out now

[GrayStangGT]

I've been running behind, but I'm finally going to get the blind finished tonight and down to the lease this weekend. Hopefully do some actual hunting after thanksgiving instead of just going down there, checking the feeders and getting drunk lol. This will be my first time to deer hunt so it should be exciting. Building the blind has taken much longer than I anticipated, but it went from simple to a completely insulated 8x4 building lol.

Here is a photo of it partially finished, Last night I added a side window and a back one all that is left is to install the track and sliding plexiglass. Don't ask about the roof edge, that was a poorly thought out plan lol. All I purchased for the build was 2x4's and some plywood for the inside the rest is scrap I already had.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

I haven't been since opening weekend. I'm hoping to go Monday am Tuesday next week

[MstangsBware]

I went today with no luck...This weather blows and needs to cool off....ready for some 40* days....Going ahain this weekend so hopefully the weather will be cooler...

[krazy kris]

This is my uncle with the 8 pointer I shot today. Just as I set up on this buck and go to pull the trigger a fucking bird comes flying out of the bushes and startled me. I hit it a little farther back then I was aiming well this happened at around 5 and he just found it about 2 hours ago.

damn angry birds

[Badass2000GT]

This past weekend off my girlfriends fathers place I shot a 7 pointer and a doe. Here pretty soon I'll go to my buddies place and kill a nice looking buck.

[2165 Turbo Rail]

you can find small places like we did... our lease is only 200 acres. There are only 4 hunters but my dad and another guy hardly ever go. we pay $350 a year each and we pitch another $50 each for electric (the electric is billed to my dad and is just over $200 a year normally)

[MstangsBware]

I have hunted tons of public land and have done pretty well. You need to be a good scouter and willing to share though. No spot on PL is your own area. Also be sure to get ALL the rules straight. Most of them have additional rules than what TPWD states in the book. I personally think that you can find a place for 5/6 hundred bucks a year if you look hard enough and do better. Most good hunting leases are 2k and better, but I know several friends that spend less than a thousand.

This...You will also find that if there is say a 500 acre plot that is PL that only about 225 acres of it gets hunted....Most do make it that far into the land before finding a place to hunt. Of course without the use of a wheeler to haul your kill out you have to be ready for a trip when you kill something...

[Rafa]

I'm already getting pumped up...lol. Friend of mine let me borrow his camo clothing and sleeping bag. I'll probably go to store this weekend and pick some stuff up as well.

[BlackSnake]

Free public deer hunting areas in texas?! Just curious. The farther out/isolated the better. Any recommendations?! I found a lot of dove and archery spots for deer so far.

I have hunted tons of public land and have done pretty well. You need to be a good scouter and willing to share though. No spot on PL is your own area. Also be sure to get ALL the rules straight. Most of them have additional rules than what TPWD states in the book. I personally think that you can find a place for 5/6 hundred bucks a year if you look hard enough and do better. Most good hunting leases are 2k and better, but I know several friends that spend less than a thousand.

[MstangsBware]

Free public deer hunting areas in texas?! Just curious. The farther out/isolated the better. Any recommendations?! I found a lot of dove and archery spots for deer so far.

That is about all your will find that I can think of.....I did pass a place going to my leaase that is public land that is off 276 out past Mt Pleasant off I-30. There are also a ton of public hunting out by Cooper Lake that is pretty nice....

[Chopped54]

Free public deer hunting areas in texas?! Just curious. The farther out/isolated the better. Any recommendations?! I found a lot of dove and archery spots for deer so far.

Not free, but cheap...

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/public/lands/table_contents/

[4.6coupe]

Free public deer hunting areas in texas?! Just curious. The farther out/isolated the better. Any recommendations?! I found a lot of dove and archery spots for deer so far.

[slow06]

I'm a gun guy, I really enjoy shooting and working on guns. My in-laws, however, are hunters. The difference in my mind being that they like hunting and guns are incidental to that (for the most part). Anyway, the wife would rather not pay for ground beef, so for the past 2 seasons I have gotten into hunting with her dad, brother, uncle,and grandpa. I'm in it purely for the meat at this point, and since they don't ask me to pay towards the lease fee I'm only looking for doe.

Me with my first deer, a decent sized doe. Taken on the morning hunt of opening day, 2011.