Have you ever had a weekend where everything seemed to go wrong? I left for the lease on Friday morning with 2000 lbs of corn, a new stand a fill feeder and a truckload of stuff for the GF and I to have fun. Guns, ammo, beer, food. We were ready. 35 miles west of Junction, BOOM! Right tire on trailer throws the tread. Find a good flat area off the road and set about changing it. Unload back seat to get to the jack in my F150. Get the lugs loose, jack trailer up...GF says spare won't come off. She was right. U joint style spare carrier. I finally got one nut off and bent the carrier enough to get it off trailer. Finished putting on spare, threw everything back in truck and take off. 10 miles later...BOOM! left trailer tire completely blows. Pull over off the road way at the 415 mile marker, back it into a flat rock are n the brush. GF says dolly off the trailer, take the tire to Sonora and she'll stay with trailer. I look at her like she's nuts. We now cannot get the scissor jack under the axle to lift it up. Again GF says dolly off the trailer, take tire to Sonora, she'll stay with trailer. Uhmmm, ok. I told her to get her 9mm out. She loaded it up and an extra magazine. She grabbed a bag of corn and went and sat in the shade of an oak. This was all against my better judgement, but figured I was only 5 minutes from Sonora. Wrong. It was 15 miles. I hauled arse into Sonora, found the tire shop next to the Napa Auto parts and he fixed me up. He had a new tire on there before I could purchase a floor jack at Napa. Nice guy let me leave without paying. Told him I'd be back in 30 minted with another tire. Hauled arse back to the 415 mile marker. GF still sitting there and no dead bodies laying around so that was a good thing! Got the tire changed and boogied on into Sonora where again he had it changed and installed in less than 10 minutes. I was glad to get two new 8 ply tires even if it did cost me $250. Made it to Ozona for gas, groceries, etc. and finally pulled into the lease about 6 PM. Found out the water is still bad so I knew this was going to be a baaaaaaaad weekend. Water comes out looking like used motor oil. I think the bladder in the pressure tank is deteriorated.
Unloaded the truck and the GF and I went out and filled 5 feeders real quick. Came back to camp, grilled some chicken thighs and legs and hit the sack. I hate sleeping all sweaty, dirty and nasty. Makes for poor sleep.
We got up at 0500 and went out to hunt about 0615. Dropped GF off in a spot where a big hog has been seen on camera. I went to another stand and found that the feeder was gone. Knocked down and moved 30 yards from its usual spot. Soooo, I sit there until 0830 seeing nothing of course. Go pick up the pieces of the feeder. The leg is broken off the barrel and I have no way to fix it. Pick GF up and all she saw was whitetails. Back to camp, eat breakfast, head out to fill the other 4 feeders ( including the destroyed one). Since I brought a new stand a fill for my stand location I decided to take the feeder that was at my stand and move it to the stand where the feeder as down. Smart. Fill three feeders then load my new one and some corn and head up top. My other feeder should have been empty or nearly empty. It wasn't. It was full. 300 lbs of corn full. I set up the new one and used a bucket to move corn from one feeder to the other. Finally got it low enough to tip over and dump the rest into the new feeder. Drove back to camp, picked up new camera stand (since something broke the other) went back up to set up camera and start feeder. Got camera started and feeder started but solar panel may be wired wrong cuz it fried the connections. Tried it twice. Gave up and hooked up battery to feeder. Worked like a champ! Back down to the other location with my old feeder. It's now about 1330 and its getting hot. Set up and fill my old feeder at the new location. Drive stakes into ground and wired the feeder legs to the posts.
One of the feeders filled Friday evening appeared to have a dead battery. Went back to camp, picked up new battery and went to fix it. New battery had no effect. Went back to camp, picked up backup timer. I swear the wires in this feeder have been spliced 10 times. Get the backup timer installed and tested. Works good. All of a sudden the feeder goes off and it wont stop! Got peppered trying to turn the darn thing off. Went through this twice s I figure the timer is bad as well. Just have to leave it not running and bring back a new timer next time.
Now its close to 1600 and it's hot. I looked at the temp at camp. 108 degrees. Horrible. We're both sweating like crazy and no water for showers.
About 1700 w went out to hunt. 109 degrees at the camphouse. Good thing there's a breeze on top! GF sees a wide 10 and a 6 point, I see a 3 year old 7 point.
Went back to camp and BBQ's more chicken. GF said rain was coming and she had watched the storm building. As I'm grilling chicken I can see the lightning getting closer over the mountain. I'm thinking rain=bath! I can smell the rain now. tell GF to get her stuff ready cuz if it starts raining I'll be nekked in about 2 seconds! Gradually it started to rain, but it only sprinkled for about 15 minutes. What a major let down. Haha! Back to sleeping while nasty.
We hunted again on Sunday morning but still no hogs or sheep to be seen. Hotter than hades by 10 AM too! Loaded everything up, including my SXS to get it serviced and headed back by 1100. Ate lunch at the Hitchin" Post in Ozona (again) and then hauled arse back to Kerrville.
Both myself and the GF are exhausted today.
Unloaded the truck and the GF and I went out and filled 5 feeders real quick. Came back to camp, grilled some chicken thighs and legs and hit the sack. I hate sleeping all sweaty, dirty and nasty. Makes for poor sleep.
We got up at 0500 and went out to hunt about 0615. Dropped GF off in a spot where a big hog has been seen on camera. I went to another stand and found that the feeder was gone. Knocked down and moved 30 yards from its usual spot. Soooo, I sit there until 0830 seeing nothing of course. Go pick up the pieces of the feeder. The leg is broken off the barrel and I have no way to fix it. Pick GF up and all she saw was whitetails. Back to camp, eat breakfast, head out to fill the other 4 feeders ( including the destroyed one). Since I brought a new stand a fill for my stand location I decided to take the feeder that was at my stand and move it to the stand where the feeder as down. Smart. Fill three feeders then load my new one and some corn and head up top. My other feeder should have been empty or nearly empty. It wasn't. It was full. 300 lbs of corn full. I set up the new one and used a bucket to move corn from one feeder to the other. Finally got it low enough to tip over and dump the rest into the new feeder. Drove back to camp, picked up new camera stand (since something broke the other) went back up to set up camera and start feeder. Got camera started and feeder started but solar panel may be wired wrong cuz it fried the connections. Tried it twice. Gave up and hooked up battery to feeder. Worked like a champ! Back down to the other location with my old feeder. It's now about 1330 and its getting hot. Set up and fill my old feeder at the new location. Drive stakes into ground and wired the feeder legs to the posts.
One of the feeders filled Friday evening appeared to have a dead battery. Went back to camp, picked up new battery and went to fix it. New battery had no effect. Went back to camp, picked up backup timer. I swear the wires in this feeder have been spliced 10 times. Get the backup timer installed and tested. Works good. All of a sudden the feeder goes off and it wont stop! Got peppered trying to turn the darn thing off. Went through this twice s I figure the timer is bad as well. Just have to leave it not running and bring back a new timer next time.
Now its close to 1600 and it's hot. I looked at the temp at camp. 108 degrees. Horrible. We're both sweating like crazy and no water for showers.
About 1700 w went out to hunt. 109 degrees at the camphouse. Good thing there's a breeze on top! GF sees a wide 10 and a 6 point, I see a 3 year old 7 point.
Went back to camp and BBQ's more chicken. GF said rain was coming and she had watched the storm building. As I'm grilling chicken I can see the lightning getting closer over the mountain. I'm thinking rain=bath! I can smell the rain now. tell GF to get her stuff ready cuz if it starts raining I'll be nekked in about 2 seconds! Gradually it started to rain, but it only sprinkled for about 15 minutes. What a major let down. Haha! Back to sleeping while nasty.
We hunted again on Sunday morning but still no hogs or sheep to be seen. Hotter than hades by 10 AM too! Loaded everything up, including my SXS to get it serviced and headed back by 1100. Ate lunch at the Hitchin" Post in Ozona (again) and then hauled arse back to Kerrville.
Both myself and the GF are exhausted today.
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