Posted: 11/24/2010 10:13:09 AM EDT
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Anyone know where to find some in either Lamar or Gregg county areas? I go to school in Longview, but I'll be spending Christmas break in Paris. I called the guys I usually hunt with and none of them have seen any in a while... |
| Weather has been too warm during the day lately. You should be able to find them easily in hardwood creek bottoms this time of year. Especially this year since the acorn crop is decent. When the weather gets cold at night, they will huddle up and switch their feeding from night to day. |
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Quoted: Weather has been too warm during the day lately. You should be able to find them easily in hardwood creek bottoms this time of year. Especially this year since the acorn crop is decent. When the weather gets cold at night, they will huddle up and switch their feeding from night to day. We got skunked during out hunt in Fannin County until 2:00 a.m. last night. |
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Hell, everytime I go out I'm practically tripping over them. They move around a lot. They may be heavy for a few months then move on for a while. Just be patient guys, they seem to always come back as long as they have food and shelter. Hell , you're the same way. 
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Hell, everytime I go out I'm practically tripping over them. They move around a lot. They may be heavy for a few months then move on for a while. Just be patient guys, they seem to always come back as long as they have food and shelter. Hell , you're the same way.
Yeah but I sometimes bring gifts and I'm kinda useful to have around sometimes. Hogs are just good for killing. 
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Weather has been too warm during the day lately. You should be able to find them easily in hardwood creek bottoms this time of year. Especially this year since the acorn crop is decent. When the weather gets cold at night, they will huddle up and switch their feeding from night to day. We got skunked during out hunt in Fannin County until 2:00 a.m. last night. That sucks. Hogs tend to move around alot. Kind of like people. I saw one late today down on the Trinity. First time to drive and park down there on Simpson Stuart. I always ride a mountain bike down there. Had a couple hours to kill after eating Thanksgiving with family and went down there. When I got back to the paved road, I was met by 4 Dallas Police officers with guns drawn. One even had a shotgun out. Then I got to play the "20 questions" game with an officer. Who, what, when, where, why. Whole nine yards. Questions met with questions met with questions. Even took away my digital camera from me so they could look at the photos I took. Whole thing was stupid. I'm never ever parking there again, mountain biking only from here on out. I imagine 99.99999% of the the people that they see down there are up to no good. So I really don't blame them. But damn. They even went so far as to backtrack where they saw me walking to see if I dropped or threw something away. Would have been funny if they were not acting so serious. |
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Taking the wife down to the farm just a few miles SE of Paris on Monday to set beaver snares. Will probably run up a few hogs for her to shoot. I am told however to be careful in that area. Apparently Red River county was a target for TPWS to re-introduce black bear into the population. Just like the fucking beaver I'm trying to get rid of now.............  According to the scuttlebutt there have been a few folks run up on them, take that with a grain of salt I have no first hand accounts. I may actually get to send 405gn of 45cal hardcast hate downrange one day. |
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Taking the wife down to the farm just a few miles SE of Paris on Monday to set beaver snares. Will probably run up a few hogs for her to shoot. I am told however to be careful in that area. Apparently Red River county was a target for TPWS to re-introduce black bear into the population. Just like the fucking beaver I'm trying to get rid of now.............
According to the scuttlebutt there have been a few folks run up on them, take that with a grain of salt I have no first hand accounts. I may actually get to send 405gn of 45cal hardcast hate downrange one day.
Where I muzzleloader hunt up in Oklahoma they regularly see a couple of bears roaming around. I've yet to see one during deer season but you're not going to find me unarmed while I'm up there. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Weather has been too warm during the day lately. You should be able to find them easily in hardwood creek bottoms this time of year. Especially this year since the acorn crop is decent. When the weather gets cold at night, they will huddle up and switch their feeding from night to day. We got skunked during our hunt in Fannin County until 2:00 a.m. last night. That sucks. Hogs tend to move around alot. Kind of like people. I saw one late today down on the Trinity. First time to drive and park down there on Simpson Stuart. I always ride a mountain bike down there. Had a couple hours to kill after eating Thanksgiving with family and went down there. When I got back to the paved road, I was met by 4 Dallas Police officers with guns drawn. One even had a shotgun out. Then I got to play the "20 questions" game with an officer. Who, what, when, where, why. Whole nine yards. Questions met with questions met with questions. Even took away my digital camera from me so they could look at the photos I took. Whole thing was stupid. I'm never ever parking there again, mountain biking only from here on out. I imagine 99.99999% of the the people that they see down there are up to no good. So I really don't blame them. But damn. They even went so far as to backtrack where they saw me walking to see if I dropped or threw something away. Would have been funny if they were not acting so serious. I'm sorry that happened to you, Ben. We were planning to explore the Joppa Preserve last weekend and never made it, and I had to plan to get there and back without having to park a vehicle down there, per your prior warnings about the area/road. |
| Went out for the first time this season this afternoon hoping to sniper one on the Pedernales in Blanco Co. All I saw were two foxes, one coyote, six or eight does with a spike chasing them. I recocnozed the spike from last year but didn't have the heart to cull him and this year he's record class with devil horns a foot long. |
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That sucks. Hogs tend to move around alot. Kind of like people. I saw one late today down on the Trinity. First time to drive and park down there on Simpson Stuart. I always ride a mountain bike down there. Had a couple hours to kill after eating Thanksgiving with family and went down there. When I got back to the paved road, I was met by 4 Dallas Police officers with guns there was a marijuana field out there at one time and there were some skinheads who lived on the other side of 310 until their house mysteriously burned down one day, still lots of theft over there, and there's some weird stuff going on past the bingo hall. I wouldn't wander around down there unarmed. |
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I'm doing a weekend hunt in Paris next weekend. I'll let you know how it goes. My Dad spoke to the guy in Paris last Tuesday. He said his nephew was killing a hog every evening they went out to hunt (and this was before the cold weather). So now I'm pumped and I can't decided which gun to bring, AR? Pump 30-06? Rem 700 in 7mm Rem Mag? Decisions, decisions.... Then there's the handgun... Factory Remington 357 158gr SJHP or Speer 158gr SP handloaded with 2400? |
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there was a marijuana field out there at one time and there were some skinheads who lived on the other side of 310 until their house mysteriously burned down one day, still lots of theft over there, and there's some weird stuff going on past the bingo hall. I wouldn't wander around down there unarmed. I'm sure that there are ten kinds of bad going on around there at any one time. I have found a few stolen cars there. Never come across a pot field but it would be a great place for one. I made the mistake of driving and legally parking down there. Upon my return to the car I was driving is where I ran into the police with their guns out. Part of the problem was that day I was driving a Cadillac sedan instead of my Z71 Tahoe. Both are high on the list of stolen cars, the Cadillac looked more out of place down there I guess. I always ride a mountain bike down there instead, ride from the SMU area, down there. Any bad guy wants to start pullin' guns, I'll probably be long gone before they can react. All my pistols are of the hand cannon variety, Super Redhawk, 1911 etc. I do have a small boot pistol but I cannot hit anything with it beyond about 15 feet. None would work well dragging around down there. Plus there is an unwritten rule of mutual destruction down there. Since everyone else is armed, they assume I am too. Most people rarely get more than 100 feet from their cars down there. Since I go where cars cannot, I don't have problems. Lotta pigs though! They are tearing the living hell out of that place. In a deer thread I started the other day, I included some footage from yesterday of a hog sounder tearing up a levee down there. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8P6J0842VQ This pic below, I'm up on a levee, the oxbow lake is a about 1/3 of a mile away. Every foot of bare soil in that photo has been dug up by pigs. Earlier this summer it was a fresh built Dallas Water Dept water main. The ground was pancake flat. Now, other than some recent vehicle tracks, is a torn up mess. Every foot. http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7384/1000982.jpg |
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there was a marijuana field out there at one time and there were some skinheads who lived on the other side of 310 until their house mysteriously burned down one day, still lots of theft over there, and there's some weird stuff going on past the bingo hall. I wouldn't wander around down there unarmed. I always ride a mountain bike down there instead, ride from the SMU area, down there. 
good luck This pic below, I'm up on a levee, the oxbow lake is a about 1/3 of a mile away. Every foot of bare soil in that photo has been dug up by pigs. Earlier this summer it was a fresh built Dallas Water Dept water main. The ground was pancake flat. Now, other than some recent vehicle tracks, is a torn up mess. Every foot. http://img844.imageshack.us/img844/7384/1000982.jpg[/quote] |