Deer on NASA RD 1!

[ByronB]

Yeah, yeah... pics or it didn't happen.

But there was a nice young 8 eating on the side of the road just east of the space center! Seems like a very developed area to see a deer. Anyone seen this guy around ?

My Wife and I literally saw a young 8 point walk out of their front gate last week ( main entrance on the west side ) Really no way to keep them enclosed near the entrances. I am surprised more of them do not get out. The larger bucks tend to stay on the east side of NASA due to the brush. Occasionally the big ones will have does penned up near the fence. The deer also come out of the brush east of NASA as well and will feed along Space Center Rd. There is a whole bunch of acerage for the deer to live in just east of NASA.

[JLivi1224]

My Wife and I literally saw a young 8 point walk out of their front gate last week ( main entrance on the west side ) Really no way to keep them enclosed near the entrances. I am surprised more of them do not get out. The larger bucks tend to stay on the east side of NASA due to the brush. Occasionally the big ones will have does penned up near the fence. The deer also come out of the brush east of NASA as well and will feed along Space Center Rd. There is a whole bunch of acerage for the deer to live in just east of NASA.

I did notice that acreage when looking in google earth shortly after. Really cool.

[ByronB]

This Picture was taken of a Buck on Ellington field about 5 years ago.

I used to live in Bay Point neighborhood.....right next to Ellington. Before they built Sylvan Park and started building more houses, I saw two or three deer like this outside of their fence. There used to be quite a bit of brush back there at one time. Hard to imagine they were right there and then I drive five hours back then to hunt. LOL

[Jarred]

Was this him? Friend sent to me a couple days ago


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[bullets13]

Crazy stuff

[JLivi1224]

Was this him? Friend sent to me a couple days ago


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I don't think so. Wasn't that heavy.

[Casey]

This is the buck in my video. He was so fun to chase around. I had just moved to Clear Lake area and worked on site in Building 30A. Those cops chased me off so many times!!!


This is not my pic, by the way.

[TexZ71]

I recommend anyone to drive down nasa rd 1, Saturn ln, and space center blvd at dusk or late at night. Also in the u of h campus off of Bay Area!

Yep! Also Red Bluff and Kirby. I've seen some monster bucks on Red Bluff!

[W-O]

Red Bluff probably was the most poached road in Texas back in the 80's.

[GrapeApe]

Red Bluff probably was the most poached road in Texas back in the 80's.

It still is pretty high on the poaching list with Armand Bayou being so accessible to the average poacher with wire snips. I'm surprised nobody has tried to poach the buffalo that are there.

[Crazy Horse]

This Picture was taken of a Buck on Ellington field about 5 years ago.

There are some monsters behind North Fork.
Start looking on your left just past the big blue water tank on your way to work.
That new subdivision has pushed a lot of them north towards Middlebrook, but there are still a few around...

Come over to UHCL at sunrise to see the monsters. They like the free buffet of edibles the school plants for them. Straight jaw dropping monsters.

Yep. Check out the canal area too. We’ve bumped several monsters there too.
Plus, check out the pipeline across from Armond Bayou...

This is the buck in my video. He was so fun to chase around. I had just moved to Clear Lake area and worked on site in Building 30A. Those cops chased me off so many times!!!


This is not my pic, by the way.

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I could be wrong, but I heard that buck was killed in 2013 by a bow hunter.
Not sure if JSC still allows it, but they used to allow employees to hunt them via a draw.
I know there is on chem plant down off Bay Area that still has a draw hunt for their employees...

[Thumper]

The property that NASA sits on was owned by Jim West who also owned the Chupadera Ranch in South Texas. Deer were roped and hog tied by the ranch hands then flown to the property NASA now sits on and released during and just after WWII. My Late FIL was the ranch foreman who was in charge of relocating the deer. They were flown in a military C-47 made available to Jim West as a military War Contractor. All sorts of south tx critters were relocated to different properties owned by Jim West during this time period.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Marion_West_Jr.

http://www.texasarchive.org/library/index.php/2011_01704

[Casey]

Not sure if that buck would have lived another 20 years after my video was shot or that pic taken. Those were grabbed in 1993.

[Crazy Horse]

Not sure if that buck would have lived another 20 years after my video was shot or that pic taken. Those were grabbed in 1993.

His grandson then?
The one I’m talking about, who looked just like the one in your pic, could always be seen in the SE corner near NASA 1 & Space Center...