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cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 10 months ago I did an answer to a post a couple of weeks ago about hunting in Grayson County.We have the Hagerman wild life area,where big deer are killed every year bow hunting only.Hogs are free and incouraged so is doe hunting.Google the  hagerman wildlife  area and look at the rules. I am not to up to date about the rules  but the buck deer are big.Look at www.kxii.com and read the article about the 60 year old grand mother that killed a 19 point buck that is supposed to make b&c,she did it in her own acreage just east of the Hagerman.Picture is on the kxii web site. The big buck deer mentioned in the NRA hunting magazine 2 years ago mentioned a really big buck that was killed in North Texas on public land was a b&c buck killed off the hagerman.I understand its pretty well a free hunt with a course and a drawing.One of my friend has won it 6 times in the last 20 years.Anyway its a good deal for you bowhunters.Look me up Chuck
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 10 months ago cabledad,  I looked at that link from your post and can't find anything on the grandmother or that WMA you are takling about. Got any other place to look it up? ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
Jimmie Topics: 0   Posts: 35	Created 10 months ago It's listed under most discussed stories, bottom (R) hand corner.. It is a nice deer...
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 10 months ago www.kxii.com/news/headlines/69614607/html Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge 300000 acres on Lake Texoma.Chuck
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 10 months ago How's this for small worlds. I just got this emailed to me and thought I would share it with y'all. (Cabledad) Slow deer season? Not for these two hunters Deer season started slowly for most hunters. That's primarily due to lush range conditions that have fattened the deer and kept daytime movements to a minimum. Even when the hunting is slower than normal, some lucky hunter is in the right place at the right time. That happened to Steve Bowen in Cooke County and to Joyce Oolen in Grayson County. Bowen was hunting with traditional archery equipment on Nov. 4 when he shot the most unusual antlered doe anyone has reported in Texas. Oolen was hunting with a crossbow, virtually in her own back yard, when she shot a huge buck – probably the biggest Texas whitetail ever taken with a crossbow by a woman. Bowen was in a tree stand when he saw the unusual deer at about 40 yards. He immediately recognized it from game camera photos on the 800-acre Cooke County lease. "I thought the deer was a stag buck," he said. "The antler mass is incredible and there's just an explosion of Medusa-like points coming off the huge bases. When I found the deer, I was shocked that it was a doe." A stag buck is generally a male deer that's been accidentally castrated. It grows antlers that never shed velvet – never develop into hardened antler. The result can be pretty weird. Mitch Lockwood, white-tailed deer program leader for Texas Parks and Wildlife, said there are several stag bucks reported each season in the Llano area. Those deer are not injured and seem to have functional reproductive organs. Lockwood said the theory is there's some plant growing in the granite soil of Llano County that the deer are eating to cause the odd antler growth. When Lockwood saw photos of Bowen's 26-point trophy, he checked with other Texas whitetail experts before agreeing that it was probably a doe and not a deer that had sex organs of both a male and female. The male sex organs in hermaphroditic deer are usually internal, he said. "I think this particularly doe grew several years worth of velvet antler," Lockwood said. "A hard freeze last winter damaged the soft antler tips but not the bases. That's why the antler bases are so big and so many points are growing right out of the bases." This fall, theorized Lockwood, the deer experienced a spike in testosterone that caused her to shed the velvet, revealing hardened antlers that are so unusual that the rack will be very difficult to score. Lockwood said he did not know of an antlered doe from Texas that would score higher than 130 B&C points. Bowen's doe will score much higher, if anyone can figure out where to score the eight beam circumferences and how to differentiate the typical frame from all the nontypical points. The bases are about 10 inches in diameter. Oolen was hunting from a homemade ground blind on 23 acres owned by her and her husband, Donnie. Their home is on the property, bordered on three sides by the Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is known for monster bucks. In 2001, Jeff Duncan arrowed a 26-pointer that scored 2257/8 B&C and remains the largest free-ranging archery nontypical whitetail reported in Texas. Oolen said she's seen some very big bucks around the refuge, but they're seldom visible during daylight hours. Their remote trail camera had captured a photo of a big buck, but neither she nor her husband had seen the deer. Oolen, 60, is retired and hunts nearly every day. About 5:20 p.m. on Nov. 7, she was watching a small buck and a doe when the two deer got nervous and began looking at something in the brush. "I only had a small window to shoot through, and I got my crossbow up just as the buck walked out," she said. "I made a bleating sound to stop him and then took the shot." It was a good shot on a great buck. Oolen immediately recognized it as the deer from the trail camera photos. With 17 points long enough to score and exceptional mass on the main beams, Oolen's buck was scored last week at 1765/8 B&C points. An examination of the buck's teeth indicated he was 41/2 years old. I think I will definately check into this for next yr.  Shane, you in with me for having a look? ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
Hogdude1234 Topics: 25   Posts: 416	Created 10 months ago Heck yeah Gary!!! This is a stones throw from the ranch here in Forestburg Ya' know!!! _______________________________________ Shane Ladewig >-----------------------------------> TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member ______________________ ______________________________________________ Shane Ladewig >------------------> PRO STAFF MEMBER: TexasHogHunter.com Sniper Hog Lights Lone Star Surf & Turf Adventures
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 10 months ago Maybe when I come up there after the deer season, we can go have a look around. Pre-scouting mission man. ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 10 months ago Anybody comes to the hagerman let me know as I live about 4 miles from from it.I will help with your pre scouting mission. Chuck
Hogdude1234 Topics: 25   Posts: 416	Created 10 months ago txbhunter1 wrote... Maybe when I come up there after the deer season, we can go have a look around. Pre-scouting mission man. 10-4 on that!!!  ___________________________ Shane Ladewig >------------------------------> TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff member ______________________ ______________________________________________ Shane Ladewig >------------------> PRO STAFF MEMBER: TexasHogHunter.com Sniper Hog Lights Lone Star Surf & Turf Adventures
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 10 months ago We appreciate it very much cabledad (Chuck) and will take you up on that offer. Gary ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 10 months ago Its Saturday afternoon 6.30 pm and I was standing in my yard by the bbq smoker and a neighbor yelled at me to look at the two buck deer standing in the tree line 100 yards from my house.Their the first deer I have seen in this subdivision.Coyotes are thick I know you can hear them every night. Just thought you guys would like to hear my wildlife story for the day
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 9 months ago http://www.fws.gov/southwest/refuges/texas/hagerman/hunt.html This website will give you all the details you need to be able to hunt Hagerman. You will have to take an archery proficiency test prior to hunting and have successfully passed an archery safety education class also before sending in for the drawing to hunt here. The hunts look to be only 2 day hunts if drawn just as any of the other Type II hunts in the state. Thanks Chuck for the lead. ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
Hogdude1234 Topics: 25   Posts: 416	Created 9 months ago Looks like a great spot to hunt...gunna definitely have to do some scouting!!! ___________________________________- Shane Ladewig >-------------------------> TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member ______________________ ______________________________________________ Shane Ladewig >------------------> PRO STAFF MEMBER: TexasHogHunter.com Sniper Hog Lights Lone Star Surf & Turf Adventures
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 9 months ago You have to get drawn first and can only scout the day prior to your 2 day hunt. Prior to that you have to pass their archery tests and have an archery safety ed. cert. ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
Hogdude1234 Topics: 25   Posts: 416	Created 9 months ago txbhunter1 wrote... You have to get drawn first and can only scout the day prior to your 2 day hunt. Prior to that you have to pass their archery tests and have an archery safety ed. cert. I read all the info about the hunt.  Sounds like it would be a challenge to get in there, find the deer without spooking them and get the job done in that short amount of time...but I am all for giving it a try!!!! ______________________________________ Shane Ladewig >-------------------------------> TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member ______________________ ______________________________________________ Shane Ladewig >------------------> PRO STAFF MEMBER: TexasHogHunter.com Sniper Hog Lights Lone Star Surf & Turf Adventures
txbhunter1 Topics: 68   Posts: 930	Created 9 months ago Me too. just have to find an archery ed. class now. Hope they got some trees around for the profiency test though. Not sure I could hit the target without banking it off of a tree first.  LMAO!!!!!!   ______________________ __________________________________ TexasHogHunter.com Pro Staff Member gary@texashoghunter.com
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 8 months ago Well there are hogs in Grayson County.The secretary of our home owners association(fountain Creek) email us and told us that the hogs tore her fence down and chewed up her back yard,right here in Pottsboro,Tx.Thats pretty close.Chuck
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created 3 months ago I think if any of you bowhunters want to try the Hagerman deer hunt now is the time to get started.If I was a bowhunter I sure would.Chuck
cabledad Topics: 3   Posts: 78	Created about 1 month ago I drove through the Hagerman today 96 degrees and there were 2 fawns standing out in the middle of the main road.Went on a little ways and saw the biggest hog roots I have ever seen.I thought they had there hogs under control.Appears not to be any where undercontrol.Then stopped and talked to the Patrolman there he said they kill a few with there rifles and have somebody is trappingthem. a few years ago they trapped 600 hogs in one year.No wonder Grayson County is losing to the hogs.Chuck

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