sorry a bit of a read--
So my wife and the kids (8yr, 5 yr. 4yr.) go to Dallas to visit her brother and his family for the week. I am left to work and have a rather quiet week at the office and at home. I decide to take off work Friday and head down to South Texas. I strike out on Friday morning around 5am with just my dog Lucy. I hit the front gate by 8:30am and have nothing but a huge smile on my face looking at the wonderful weather and relaxation coming my way... I immediately hit the brush to look for sheds. Find a few but not many. One that I guess to be in the 150's but most in the mid 120-140's but having fun nonetheless. I walk areas I have never been in before and hit areas I know we have some super bucks hiding in... or so I hoped they would be there... I drink a few cold pops along the way and when dinner hits, it is a full on meal--- venison sausage, 1.5 inch steaks (of course I share with Lucy) and Bluebell Ice cream for a topper. I sit on the back patio, listen to classic country, feel the breeze and watch the moon come up. What a great day and even better evening.
Before daybreak, I wake up, have my coffee, make some biscuits, cause Lucy really likes them, and then set off around 8:30am to hunt some sheds. I immediately realize I was doing it all wrong. The sheds weren't at the protein stations like in years past, they were in the oat fields. However, you couldn't just see them with your naked eye, so I would pull out my binos and scan the field. It was as if they just appeared! So I revisited areas that I had hit the day before and whammo! I spent the entire day out in the brush, and by the time I returned back to camp around 5:30pm, I had found some 30 or so sheds ranging from a spike to 12 points with one matched pair. I shot one hog, missed one rather large and angry rattlesnake (emptied my clip of my 45) and picked up a load of fire wood just walking around. How beautiful is the world of South Texas?? Lucy took naps in the truck betwen stops and between me scratching her ears...
We have another round of steaks and some grilled veggies for dinner and managed to clear the freezer of the remaining Bluebell just for good measure. I think I awoke in my chair around 11pm and wandered back to my bed stopping to make sure the air conditioner was set on 65 degrees to make sure I was in full hibernation mode.
While I did miss the family and would really have loved for them to be there to enjoy all that I did, it was a super spring break even if it was only 2 days long!
I'm just sayin'.......
So my wife and the kids (8yr, 5 yr. 4yr.) go to Dallas to visit her brother and his family for the week. I am left to work and have a rather quiet week at the office and at home. I decide to take off work Friday and head down to South Texas. I strike out on Friday morning around 5am with just my dog Lucy. I hit the front gate by 8:30am and have nothing but a huge smile on my face looking at the wonderful weather and relaxation coming my way... I immediately hit the brush to look for sheds. Find a few but not many. One that I guess to be in the 150's but most in the mid 120-140's but having fun nonetheless. I walk areas I have never been in before and hit areas I know we have some super bucks hiding in... or so I hoped they would be there... I drink a few cold pops along the way and when dinner hits, it is a full on meal--- venison sausage, 1.5 inch steaks (of course I share with Lucy) and Bluebell Ice cream for a topper. I sit on the back patio, listen to classic country, feel the breeze and watch the moon come up. What a great day and even better evening.
Before daybreak, I wake up, have my coffee, make some biscuits, cause Lucy really likes them, and then set off around 8:30am to hunt some sheds. I immediately realize I was doing it all wrong. The sheds weren't at the protein stations like in years past, they were in the oat fields. However, you couldn't just see them with your naked eye, so I would pull out my binos and scan the field. It was as if they just appeared! So I revisited areas that I had hit the day before and whammo! I spent the entire day out in the brush, and by the time I returned back to camp around 5:30pm, I had found some 30 or so sheds ranging from a spike to 12 points with one matched pair. I shot one hog, missed one rather large and angry rattlesnake (emptied my clip of my 45) and picked up a load of fire wood just walking around. How beautiful is the world of South Texas?? Lucy took naps in the truck betwen stops and between me scratching her ears...
We have another round of steaks and some grilled veggies for dinner and managed to clear the freezer of the remaining Bluebell just for good measure. I think I awoke in my chair around 11pm and wandered back to my bed stopping to make sure the air conditioner was set on 65 degrees to make sure I was in full hibernation mode.
While I did miss the family and would really have loved for them to be there to enjoy all that I did, it was a super spring break even if it was only 2 days long!
I'm just sayin'.......
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