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bowjunkie · 10-21-2006, 09:05 AM

Ditto again.

Maybe those of us that hunt public land and draw hunts should compile a brag book on one of the online photo site (photobucket...etc) at the end of each year on all the archery sites to encourage more people to participate in them. I know the biggest complaint I hear from folks who either wont hunt them, or quit hunting them is that 'there is no game', you can't bait or that they are too crowded. I know opening weekend at the SHNF there were hardly any vehicles again this year and it seems like there has been a steady decline the last 5. The area I hunted the road I drove was over a mile long and not one vehicle and total land area back there between creeks and fire breaks had to be roughly 5000 acres. For a total 162,000 acre (253 square miles) chunk of land I have one of the biggest leases in Texas at only $48 per year!

The last 2 trips on Draw hunts (with Sp!ke at Coletto Creek and then as a guest with Beleg last year at a place near Livingston) I shot a doe then a spike last year. Both of these on just one day scouting and no baiting.

10-21-2006, 09:05 AM	#7
bowjunkie Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Spring Posts: 555 Points: 0.00	Ditto again. Maybe those of us that hunt public land and draw hunts should compile a brag book on one of the online photo site (photobucket...etc) at the end of each year on all the archery sites to encourage more people to participate in them. I know the biggest complaint I hear from folks who either wont hunt them, or quit hunting them is that 'there is no game', you can't bait or that they are too crowded. I know opening weekend at the SHNF there were hardly any vehicles again this year and it seems like there has been a steady decline the last 5. The area I hunted the road I drove was over a mile long and not one vehicle and total land area back there between creeks and fire breaks had to be roughly 5000 acres. For a total 162,000 acre (253 square miles) chunk of land I have one of the biggest leases in Texas at only $48 per year! The last 2 trips on Draw hunts (with Sp!ke at Coletto Creek and then as a guest with Beleg last year at a place near Livingston) I shot a doe then a spike last year. Both of these on just one day scouting and no baiting. __________________ "Our tools for the pursuit of wildlife improve faster than we do, and sportsmanship is the voluntary limitation in the use of these armaments." Aldo Leopold, 1949.