I love finding sheds, kinda like a bonus. Very cool, hope you find another one of those big East Texas bucks to chase this fall.

I will be in your neck of the woods for rifle opener...my brother and I will be hunting the DCNF. We are taking off early Friday morning before opener to get a decent camping spot and maybe scout the Big Slough Wilderness area for some of those big East Texas swamp bucks. We will be camping at the camp off of HWY 21. We plan on doing some rattling and filming, hope we get lucky...pray for cold weather.

A buddy I hunt with was hunting the DCNF bow season 1998 and shot a nice 8 pt that went 126 and is in P&Y. He found one of the bucks sheds while he was tracking the buck after the shot and the buck would have been bigger the previous year. There was a drought in East Texas that year so the deer didn't get the same nutrition.

Thanks guys, we are pumped. bad thing is this could be the last year for hunting the area because of the Parmer Lane extention. Things are looking good, we put the camera out last Saturday afternoon and these pictures were on it monday along with 140 more. The deer really took to the high protein/corn mix we have in the feeders. We also have big water barrels that the deer really use. The lease is only 20 acres but it is just 15 minutes from my front door an covered with deer. It's a cool lease because we also get to hunt crossbow during rifle season and with the new antler restriction we get to take out some of the spike bucks. The crossbow hunting allows us to take the kids for an evening deer hunt and be home for dinner.

Next we have to setup the ranch for rifle. We are hoping to get the hogs coming in and maybe a few deer for rifle. I will be headed down there this weekend to fill the feeders and fix-up some blinds. I'm sure we will do a little fishing. Will post pics if I remember to take some.