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Hey all,

I just wanted to post here that I will be leaving first thing in the morning for a open range hunt in SOUTH!!! texas for a black buck or axis (heck maybe both) but the place im going is BIG!! and no promises are made so I may come home with nothing this trip but we are treating this one as our stalk and find mission and possible shoot or take notes and return to shoot later. I will update here and only here to start and bleed to other places after that. My fingers are crossed for a big hit but going on a 7.5 hr truck ride with an open mind. Wish me luck!!!!!!


Later
TGT

Good luck sounds like an adventure.

Awesome, congrats Tom. Hope you get both species and they are monsters. Just hope you don't shoot at any rabbits

darn rabbits in east texas are bullet proof. I have already shot a deer in South Texas and it really liked my .308 unlike the terminator type rabbits in latexo!!! After this hunt next stop is either lampasas for axis or your place for a couple of days of great east texas huntin.. Now that you have an extra feeder there I need to find a blind to put on it!!!!


Later Brother
Tom

tgt wrote:darn rabbits in east texas are bullet proof. I have already shot a deer in South Texas and it really liked my .308 unlike the terminator type rabbits in latexo!!! After this hunt next stop is either lampasas for axis or your place for a couple of days of great east texas huntin.. Now that you have an extra feeder there I need to find a blind to put on it!!!!


Later Brother
Tom

LOL, I could not resist.

Let me know when you are ready to come on over.

Good Luck tgt Sounds like a lot of fun.

He was in Uvalde @ noon I tried to call him a min. ago and he did not answer they must be hunting.

I have found that the most important thing to remember when you go on a road trip for hunting is to make sure the window is down before you pull the trigger, cause it is really hard to match the tint on the window of a 78 trans am.

one down and details will come tonight. I just got home and let me tell you it was a tough couple days near bracketville. Here is one picture of what I got and I will try to post the story tonight.



Thanks
TGT

Nice Black Buck tgt

Awesome, that is a beautiful buck.

Hey man whats that little red dot at the base of his neck?

Congrats on a nice Black Buck!

Really great looking Black Buck. Congratulations!

Thanks everyone and it was a great time. I am no journalist or a professional writer so here is the condensed story.

We started Friday and about 5 pm and hunted until dark and saw some incredible animals but just did not see the one. I did see a slightly smaller black buck but passed on him or the hunt would have been over in 3 hrs from the start but I had to be picky. We hunted and crossed every bit of the ranch in search of the right animal and I almost got a huge axis in velvet but could not get the shot off.

On Saturday they put me on a large buck that was around 250 yards away but we were not sure and we were stalking on foot (hands and knees to be truthful) and did not have much room for extra stuff so I did not have my rangefinder to get a good estimate of range and I did not feel comfortable with the shot. I could not get steady enough on my sticks and not knowing how far he was was not a great combo so I passed to try to get a better shot at him but he bolted. Not sure how many of you have seen these things in person but they are JUMPY!!!!! and will bolt if the remotely think you are up to something. So Friday no harvest Saturday no harvest. The ranch had put me on several amazing animals but I did not take on so I had to stay another day and make this day count.


Sunday, wake up see tons on animals in the morning but was unable to get a clear shot and it was getting HOT! My guide set up a place for us to sit and stalk on an area that we had seen the larger buck at in case he came back. After several hours we saw a few bucks and then he came out. He was actually running straight for our blind and we were on the ground so we had to stop him. Keith was able to get him to stop just long enough for me to get one shot off at just under 100yards (close to 80 I think). I was very surprised that this animal was going to get that close to us but he did. The 300 win mag suppressed did a great job and he was down pretty quick. Shot placement could have been better (hence Texasleftys question about the red dot) but I had only so much time to get the shot off and make it count. I will post up a few more pics as soon as I can.

Thanks to everyone at the spanish gourd ranch and my guide Keith for making it a very memorable trip. If you ever have an opportunity to go to south Texas TAKE IT!!!! The place is beautiful and the animals are amazing. This ranch was 5000 acres of pure hunting grounds and let me tell you it takes some time to cover that area.

Nice, way to go!

Sweet, congrats man.

Nice!! Congrats!!

helomech wrote:Sweet, congrats man.

it's almost time for me to come take a shot from the hottub !!!!!




tgt

tgt wrote:

helomech wrote:Sweet, congrats man.

it's almost time for me to come take a shot from the hottub !!!!!




tgt

Let me know when, this next week off is not looking good. Got plans for Saturday, and then I have to leave Sunday night to go to recurrent training for work.

Thats cool. After everything that I have done this month im not sure the wife will let me out for awhile but as soon as she does im heading your way!!!!!!! I wish she would come but with the little one its no bueno!


Later,
Tom

tgt wrote:Thats cool. After everything that I have done this month im not sure the wife will let me out for awhile but as soon as she does im heading your way!!!!!!! I wish she would come but with the little one its no bueno!


Later,
Tom

Heck she is more than welcome. We would just have to watch the monkeys around the little one. They are usually real good with most kids.