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gstoneberg:
Nice pics RA, looks like a great place to spend a weekend or 3.  I wish I could see the pictures on the big flat screen here at work, but I couldn't pick out the javi on my phone.

I spent a day and a half hog and deer hunting with the rifle in central Texas earlier this week.  It's quite a contrast from the ash, osage and hackberry woods I've been posting up to now on the east side of Dallas.  It was a rifle hunt out of a box blind so it doesn't fit very well here, but I thought you might like to see the change in terrain between northeast and central Texas.  Of course, the Texas hill country (and you could argue this is too far north to qualify) is box blind territory.  The first picture was taken in the dark from the bed in the blind as I was hog "hunting", LOL.  Hard to hold the phone still enough with such a long exposure. My night vision equipped AR15 is standing in the corner.  A sensor overlooks the feeder so I can sleep and be woken up when hogs (or deer or coons or pocupines) are there.  It's rough hunting, but fun. :)



And here's the view from a different box blind looking first to the west and then to the north at the feeder.  I slept/hunted there the second night.  You can see the pop-up bow blind in the second picture.  No luck there this year.  The acorn crop is huge and all the normal patterns have changed.  All the trees visible here are mesquites and junipers.  I have one nicely reflexed juniper sapling I cut here seasoning in the shop, waiting to become a bow.





This ranch is at the very edge of live oak territory.  10 miles to the west and the only trees you see are mesquite.  Sadly, the ranch is up for sale so this is the last season.  Hope to get one more knapping get-together done there this spring before he sells it.

George

gstoneberg:
I moved my ground blind and a feeder to the hottest hog sign on the property.  Looks like this:



George

half eye:
Had a couple warm days and most of the woods snow went away so used to chance to build me one of my temporary "fightin holes".....it's a dug-out in the middle of a pile of "tops" been down for 3 years.....the hide is LOW I shoot with the bow flat, the arrow clears the ground by 1 inch when I shoot. Set legs folded and the butt on a boat cushin.....in these woods there aint squat to blend in a tree stand or a ground blind so this is what I use.......damned crazy old men anyways 8)
rich

Fred Arnold:
I haven't hunted yet this year, not because of time restrictions or lack of interest but our weather has been unreasonably warmer than the norm. I've never hunted from a stand but have several natural ground blinds erected.
My son Jeff uses a climbing stand and oldest son David took a doe last month from the ground.
This is the back of my small acreage (big yard) looking across from the top of  about a 80' drop to the bottom of the creek bed.
I generally like to stick pretty close to this natural funnel working its path down to the creek from the corn field directly south of the property line.
The last two photos are of the creek bottom just east of the building looking to that side of the property.
And these two shots were taken on the west side looking south west to the other side.

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