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« on: October 24, 2023, 08:31:34 pm » |
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I know some of y’all bound to have hunted some. We gotta post it people. Heck, make up a hunt, ain’t nobody but you gonna know it! Tell us about some dogs. Tell us about some long dead dogs because they are always the best ones and their legend grows everyday they are gone. I’d love to hear how good some of them were. Don’t be shy now, y’all get to typing.
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Reuben
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« Reply #1 on: October 24, 2023, 10:39:51 pm » |
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Road Kill
About 3 weeks ago my wife and I headed to the beach just a few miles from the house to ride and enjoy the scenery. On the way back I looked down the pipeline and about 200 yards from the road I saw a big black hog strolling across the pipeline, the time was 10:30 AM.
That got me to thinking, a lone big hog has to be a boar...just about all around us the land is being cleared due to progress and most of the hogs have been pushed out…this boar chose to live close to all the commotion and probably eating scraps thrown out by the different contractors coming and going.
It took me a bit to figure out how to make a quick hunt and catch the boar…the plan, feed corn in the pipeline about 50 yards from the road making sure it is during the full moon, and waiting until the weather cools off some due to the many rattlesnakes in the area…I would take one strike dog and my catch dog…invite a strong youngster with his catch dog and we would catch us a big boar hog, a good plan if I say so myself…
Today my wife and I were headed to the beach just cruising…on our way out there I was looking down the pipeline and the general area just familiarizing myself with the details…on the way back from the beach I noticed what looked like a dead hog on the opposite side of the road but in the ditch…I turned and went back to inspect and sure enough…it was the big boar…it appears he was hit on the back half of his body…been dead for about a week and that killed the plan…the property does not have fencing and used to be no man's land… won't be long it will house several different companies and the biggest will be Volks Wagon…The marsh is drained and roads are being built all in the name of progress…
I used to run 5 or 6 dogs at one time at the beach, way back when no one went to the beach…now it has a leash law that is enforced and it gets bumper to bumper with vehicles during the summer months weekends…
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Training dogs is not about quantity, it's more about timing, the right situations, and proper guidance...After that it's up to the dog...
A hunting dog is born not made...
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« Reply #2 on: October 24, 2023, 11:02:16 pm » |
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That's just a sad story all around Rueben.
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« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2023, 05:54:58 am » |
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Dang, that’s a tear jerker! Unfortunately it’s the sad reality we are all facing. About 30 miles away in Taylor,TX, Samsung is building an enormous facility. It has everybody all worked up. Some are of the mind set that “oh it’s so good for our town”, I’m not one of them. There is very little good to come of it. A money grubbing developer has already purchased a big chunk of land and started the construction of 600 new homes complete with parks and a school. That’s on the north edge of the city limits. To the south of town where the Alcoa smelter was, a couple of bit mining companies have moved in and the rest of the plant and 30,000 acres was bought by another developer and they are supposed to be going to build a whole new community out there. Again, “oh it’s so good for our town”. It isn’t, not in any way. The only jobs being brought in will be the same jobs that are already here that they can’t fill like fast food and convenience store jobs. Out of 10 good paying jobs created 9 of them were filled before they got here by a Californian, a Chinese National, or an Austinite that they either had in mind when they created the spot or that they created the spot for. So the natives get one out of ten. It will and already has caused our taxes to go up. The land prices have skyrocketed, and properties are being sold right and left to jackasses moving in on their 3-20 acre “ranches”. There are bonds and grants you can get to fix roads and utilities. All these new comers aren’t going to make this better. They left and got away from a train wreck only to come here and try and make it what they left. I live in a small town for a reason. I raised my kids, up until now, in a small town for a reason. Progress isn’t always a good thing and everything that happens isn’t always progress. I’m old school in about every way imaginable. This site is the extent of my social media. I don’t do FB, or Snap chat, or any of those social media things. I think they are HUGE contributors to so many problems in our world today. We are the dumbest smart species in the universe! I love my dogs, but more and more I look at them and wonder what the future holds for them. I’m scared for what my boys are gonna face in their lifetime and I pray I’ve raised them to be strong and independent because they are gonna need the Good Lord and a whole lot of strength and independence to get through it. All these places being developed here are doing the same thing, ruining habitat. And all the little ranches popping up on what use to be sizable properties are ruining the hunting and neighborly mind sets that use to be so common here.
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« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2023, 09:43:35 pm » |
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Enormous does'nt even come close to describing that plant!
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« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2023, 08:25:28 am » |
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Your right, it’s a heck of a visual.
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