I've got a couple of spots picked out for next season and I intend to camp out and rattle in at least one of them. As good as these deer I'm seeing are, I still think its a poor location, meaning, there's some serious deer out there in the less accessible portions of the ranch.

I've done a heck of alot of down and dirty hunting in the past, gearing up and finding a bush to hide in and what not. I've got a nice 8 pt horn mount from that and have seen plenty of deer that way. This is my 8 year old dsughter's first season hunting so I went ahead and got a nice, solid ground blind we could sit together in but its time we got out and did it the other way.

don't let it discourage you, no doubt those bucks won't give a darn

Seems to me that, as a co-owner of the ranch, he's probably paying quite a bit more than the average lease hunter... I hunt on a 1500 acre ranch. The cost to be on the hunting lease runs about $2500 per hunter per year. It'd cost a heck of a lot more than that to buy that 1500 acres.

Nah, Texas is the wild west....we ran out there and planted our family flag. We had to fight off the natives and the other squatters but it was worth it!

No, really, I bought in about 2 years ago and became a co-owner as opposed to technically hunting on my dad's land. It was a significant amount of money but beyond the deer hunting, its an investment. Maybe I'll build a home out there some day, I don't know.

It sucks for running livestock. Its too rocky and dense brush covered to run a significant herd of cattle. And the creek washes out the fence down in the canyon about twice a year.

Looks like a great place. Someday I'll get to TX too.

Well....we saw that buck this afternoon but only for a few seconds. He was just passing through, I guess. We had wind on him and were being quiet. No way to get my gun up and line up a shot in time. After that, saw nothing until a doe until very late. And....a white diesel pickup truck....grrr....