nolanspawn

I actually had a nice entounter with a ringtal here in texas about 5-6 years ago. I got in my stand and had been in there for about 2 hours and sent to rest my feet against the carpet that was on the wall. All the sudden I heard growling. A ringtail had made himself a nice hiding spot in between the wall and the carpet. He proceeded to peak his head out and scare the crap out of me. I immediately got out of my stand and hoped he would come out. He eventually did when he realized I wasn't leaving. Crazy little critters.

I have a Canon Powershot S5. Its a really nice camera with some nice accessories.

Nothing spectacular, but some bucks that are going to be good ones in a couple of years. And the guys I hate

http://www.deertexas.com/movies/Deerhuntingwithabird.wmv Now thats an impressive deer hunting tool.

Is there some sort of medium that you can take out into the field with you that you can plug your Compact Flash cars into and download the pictures from the card onto. I want to say I have seen one before. There are times I dont have a laptop with me when I go to download so I want something that I dont have the bring the camera or the card back with me. Josh

Works now...nice bucks

No pictures that I can see

I have been a rifle hunter all my life. I started hunting when I was probably barely 3 shooting rabbits with a .22. Then when I was 4.5 I took my first whitetail with a 22-250. I have always wanted to maybe give bow hunting a chance. One thing that is always held me back was that the deer doesn't die right away. When I shoot a deer I always aim to break its neck, I like the deer to die instantly and not feel any pain. Its not that I think bow hunting is immoral in any sense, but before I just thought it wasn't for me. Now I am thinking about giving it a try. Thing holding me back now is that my ranch is only 200 acres. It just doesn't seem big enough to me that if I placed a bad shot that the deer would stay on the property and I really don't like trailing onto neighbors ranches. What do you guys think I should do to deal with this dilema? Josh

He definately looks as if he is going to have bases so large you wont be able to get your hands around them.

Just remember, I mentioned these are all the same deer. The identifying mark is on his left ear he has a white stripe. And as wtnhunt said these are Texas deer, they dont get this big at 1 or 2, not even in many breeder pens.

How old would you say this guy is. Incase you can tell that they are the same deer, notice the white stripe on his left ear. The first picture is this past December, then the second one is March and the rest are in May. Remember these are Texas deer, not as big as some of you northern guys big dogs.

I shot at one at this feeder about a week ago. I missed, it was an all around bad situation. I was shooting one handed while trying to hold open the window. Its a new stand I built and I hadnt put in the latches yet to hold open the windows. Plus trying to shoot 100+ yards with it facing dead on didnt help either. Yah I know excuses excuses. I did get a young one up at our ranch house. Hogs are the only thing I allow being shot from the ranch house. I dont care if its the end of the rifle season and Muy Grande is standing at the ranch cabin feeder, he is off limit labeled as a "Yard Deer". Josh

The feeder is a Monarch Hunting Supply 1100# Port Protein Feeder www.deerfeeder.com

JamesVee.....LeafRiver told me this Me: I am having a problem where my DC-6 is no longer showing a timestamp. It was showing one for many months, then one day just quit. I believe it was around a time I had downloaded pictures from the camera. I didn't notice it for about a month when I got back out there. LeafRiver: When it says stamp ON it is actually asking if you want to turn it on - there should be a question mark, when it says off it is asking if you want to turn it off.

I am guessing that the deer around our ranch like my new feeder. I am right now running a 50/50 AntlerMax/Corn mixture to get the deer used to eating from it. They are actually eating all of it and not picking out the corn. I am pleased with that. The feeder was almost empty so I went ahead and put 100% AntlerMax. I am pretty sure they will still eat it without the corn. We are seeing alot of bucks eating at the feeder which I like. Not seeing as many does as I know there are, I think they are getting run off by the bucks. Would have prefered these guys didn't find it.