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    Rookie needs some advice

    Agreed on both counts. Be careful about getting to close to the roost, you can spook them outta there. In the evening, if you can set up where they can see the decoy, they sure might come over. Especially if you can set up between where they've been and the roost. This morning, were there...
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    Bino opinions please

    Lots of great recommendations. You will likely never regret spending as much as you can to get the best you can. Great bino's are a pleasure to use and as you get older your eyes and therefore energy will really appreciate it.
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    Growing up - a story

    "Everything in life is indexed by the toughest thing you ever did. In a society where the toughest thing many have done was take a dump and survive their mother-in- law, the index is a little light. " That sir, is a great line, and true.
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    Your Favorite Backyard Hunts

    My favorite backyard hunt ever was when I was a teenager, my cousin and I would go to my granddads house, he'd pull out some old shotguns and had them over and say, you boys go down to the tank (a pond as we call it in Texas) down in the pasture and get you a few ducks. We'd been playing in and...
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    Bark Collar for a big Stubborn Dog

    I got this subsonic push buttom contraption from Amazon, made by Hoont, I think it was only 15 bucks or some such, I got every dog in the neighborhood trained, 100% success. They bark, I hit that button, they shut up, they try again, I hit the button again, after a few rounds they quit and...
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    Share your efforts getting new people into hunting!

    Great stories all! Apparently walking cute Brittany bird dog puppies through suburbia, even during the self distancing, could be a great way to recruit hunters. People stop me constantly and want to know all about how they hunt or tell me stories about how they used to hunt over bird dogs...
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    Worth buying a Preference Point for Pronghorn in Colorado?

    Every year I have to talk myself through accruing preference points for pronghorn. Every time I convince myself its a great idea, I have to remind myself that you can get landowner permits, semi guided, and even guided hunts in Texas and New Mexico from $1500-$2500 and when the numbers are run...
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    "You know this is why I hate hunting, right"

    That is a great story, I'm showing this to my kids! I have to admit, I have hated getting up early a bunch of times but I have never regretted it. Way to go on carrying on the traditions!
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    Landowner Closes A Public Road: What Next

    Ha, never thought of that! That is a good way to come up with combo's.
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    Who isn't traveling for Turkey season this year?

    I would travel if it weren't for all of this. Then again I might not be so stir crazy if it weren't for all of this. But I just can't get comfortable to traveling to another state and as is well known, Texas is highly limited on its quality public lands. But I might just hunt some anyway, you...
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    Pointer breeds hunting fur

    Oh, that reminds me, my great granddad, according to my granddad, had brittanies that tree squirrels. I've often wondered about this, since my brits will certainly get after every squirrel they see in the city and since we don't see too many squirrels in the bird hunting areas there would be no...
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    Ever considered a career change to hunt more?

    My Granddad was a career farmer so he could hunt and fish more. He'd work 20 hours a day to get a crop in or out then he head off somewhere to hunt or fish. During the drought of the 50's he drove from Texas to Alaska to fish for months. Every few weeks he'd find a small town with a phone...
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    Pointer breeds hunting fur

    I'm sure they were American line dogs, probably from a line of under some old farmers front porch dogs. And my uncle won't even make a knife for me! Once he masters something he moves on. He bought a bi-plane, took it apart to see how it worked, and once he curiosity was satisfied, never got...
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    How are you spending your time?

    Well, since I'm not working as much I finally have time to do some work on the hunting and fishing organization that I've always wanted to start. Merges all of my past in personal and professional hunting, pastoring, and counseling. This distancing might just set me off in my dream direction!
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    Pointer breeds hunting fur

    Ha, he is a very interesting guy. He built and certified an airplane, from scratch with an engine from a Volkswagen Beatle, when he was 18. Caught and raised all kinds of wild animals. Build knives and guns and such. He's a real eccentric. Their GSP did it all, pointed quail, fetched doves...
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    Purchasing Colorado Preference Points

    I did the same, only points for all big game for me this year. Bird dog puppies on upland hunts are my everything this year.
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    Content Production - What and How to Present?

    Great on you to want to do everything you can to honor, validate, and support distancing. I can tell you as a mental health professional there are people who are making very risky and unhealthy decisions based on their fears of other people's opinions deriding distancing. Maybe not so much...
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    New guy frome ky

    Girls and things in our teens and twenties sure are a dang distraction from hunting aren't they. I regret a lot of time missed in the field....but I'd probably mostly do it the same again.
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    Pointer breeds hunting fur

    My granddad and uncle used to hunt wild hogs here in Texas a lot with GSP's. They were great at finding the pigs and baying them up. Ol' Blue had his guts ripped out by a pig and after healing up was murder on them, and wouldn't just bay them up, he'd have a whole sounder dead by the time the...
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    2020 Controlled Hunts

    Awesome, thanks for the info and congrats on your success!

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