I don't know why I'm posting here, but thought might be something interesting and different. First time I've setup a video camera while hunting. I put it on top of the blind under the camo with just the wide angle lens sticking out. Problem is to keep the grass away from the front so it doesnt auto focus. Anyway, for first time First group of two Shovellers. partner shot the first one and you can see it splash in front. I shot back over the blind and got the 2nd one. 2 shots - 2 birds. http://www.roblay.com/videos/20041218DuckHunt_2Shovellers.mpg (7.5 mb) A solo Widgeon partner took down in one shot. 1 shot 1 bird. http://www.roblay.com/videos/20041218DuckHunt_Widgeon1.mpg (17.3 mb) A solo Widgeon that partner and I double teamed. a few shots - 1 bird. http://www.roblay.com/videos/20041218DuckHunt_Widgeon2.mpg (9 mb) Pretty slow day for duck hunting, I'll get some better video in January after a few cold fronts. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
HOLY SHlT!!!! HE KILLED DONALD DUCK!!! IDOL OF MILLIONS!!!!!! Damn Rob what are you gonna do?!?!?! Image Unavailable, Please Login
I'm glad to see another hunter on here. I thought I was all alone. Good job too. My friend was telling me about a place down in Texas that his uncle hunts at and his uncle said he's seena 34 point Buck out and around but never when he's hunting. The place was liek 2 hours from Austin and 4 from San Antonio. It was some ranch. I can't remember the name of the place though.
I don't have a dog and Jennie's dog is worthless, except at waking me up at night barking at squirrels. We have 8 people on the lease and 2 have dogs.
Looks like a perfect day out there. I'd like to see the video of Rob swimming out there after the ducks. His hunting buddy would be yelling at him, "STAY...STAY...No swimming, we're here to hunt. Focus...Focus..."
I'm not flaming, but in my experience, Thirty-Four? I find that hard to believe, because even with the best optics, it would be difficult to count that many points. A buck doesn't get old enough to grow twelve, much less thirty-four, points by staying motionless in one place for more than a few seconds, and it would take me more than a few seconds to count to thirty four. Not saying you are exaggerating, or even that your friend is exaggerating, since its like a third or fourth hand story, these things tend to get embellished. If it is indeed true, it's probably on a high-fenced, private hunting ranch where the herd management has explicitly avoided harvesting this animal. He probably wouldn't have achieved this in the wild.
I know jack about deer hunting, but there is a deer head at the Outdoor World in Grapevine that has at least 30 "points". They call it the "non-typical" record holder for Texas, shot by Brady. Not much of points though, just looks like a crazy diseased thing with a bunch of points sprouting everywhere. Not a pretty symetrical rack like most deer you see.
Hell, I have seen bucks with, by my own count, 24 points sauntering through my neighborhood as if they owned the place. If I had the ability to process the carcasses on my property without creating a huge stinky pile of bones, innards, and skins, I could eat for 10 years off what wanders though my yard. Heh... Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
I know it sounds like a downright lie. I'm not going to argue with you there. I refuse to believe it till I see it with my own eyes. I've seen 1 20 something before but that's it. And that was in a picture from a friend after he got it with a bow.
How about some whitetail in far southwest texas near Comstock. First one is a 10 point from last year. You can see the edge of the blind in one shot. Then later a 10 point from this year. Many of these buck are 3 1/2 year olds from bred does bought off a managed place. The next couple of years should be outstanding! Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Excellent pics! With regard to nice racks, , What's the "typical" record holder for TX? I've only hunted in NW Texas, and infrequently too, so I guess I didn't realize that there are texas deer with as many points as what some of you have seen. Make the 30-something pt. story more believeable, but still really crazy EDIT: Looking at those pics again, that is one hell of a nice buck in the 3rd picture!
Those are some great photographs. Seeing things like that make me miss deer hunting in Brady,TX with my cousins.
I've never understood why you call it 'hunting'. You don't hunt, you sit and wait. And you hope that a deer will show up so you can shoot it. But you've loaded your deck by providing food for the deer over a period of months/years at the place where you wait. I guess I just don't get it, and no, I don't hunt. I did shoot an antelope when I was 14. It made the record books in Wyoming, it was a big SOB. The 'hunt' consisted of getting up before sunrise, driving to the hunting area and getting out before dawn. We found a rise to lay on and we waited as the sun came up. We started looking for animals as soon as there was enough light. We eventually spotted a heard and then had to sneak up on it. I remember crawling on my knees through sagebrush, trying to get close enough for a shot. I shot one time and hit my target. We spent the rest of the day doing the same for the rest of the party. That, to me, felt like 'hunting'. We were out looking for our prey, not sitting and waiting on it. Semantics, I know.
I HATE sitting in a blind. I would much rather "stalk." It becomes a total sensory experience. You have to sustain peak awareness of your environment for long stretches, and avoiding detection is much, much harder. It makes you work alot harder, and the reduced likelihood of success makes the payoff sweeter. Next time, I think I'm going to hunt with a black powder rifle, to make it even harder on myself.
