Archery Talk

Congrats, buddy!!
Nicely done!!

 

We would never

on that topic, have I mentioned the standing resentment that I have about being forced to pay for nonresident tags ($310) for my own goddamn land that I’ve owned (and family owned for nearly 100 years) and pay taxes on?

 

Ouch. Does that state do a lifetime hunting license?

 

Doesnt matter, still have to pay for tags

 

My state is going to raise my property taxes from $130 a year to $4000 a year unless I put it into a forestry management plan. They call it a recreational land tax, I’m going to do it again for the second time, the plan lasts 10 years…Fucking Bastards!!

 

My state includes tags for everything except bear in the lifetime.

 

I havent bowhunted my state in over 20 years.

 

I’ve never had a tag out of my own state

 

this is a lie

I had a WY trapping license a couple a years ago

 

The ones ive lived in, had lifetime license but still had to pay out of state tag prices

 

Nope.. not after the fact for sure and pretty sure even if I had one it wouldnt matter.

My taxes are over 10k per year if I don’t keep cattle on my land. With cattle it’s around 2k-2500. Cattle suck in case anyone is wondering

 

Gotcha. We see people from Texas that own land here meet minimum resident requirements long enough to purchase a lifetime and once you have it the state of Oklahoma honors it for life wether you’re a resident or not. Could possibly be an option for him.

 

Opening morning of gun season here in Texas. So far have seen two bucks from this stand, one a shooter 8-point just outside the ears. Wife hasn't got up, so I couldn't shoot it out of my kitchen window yet.

 

Bah...id shoot

 

Just don’t shoot the window frame

 

She's up. It's on. I'm spritzing on my coon urine now...

 

A friend told me a story bout one nice buck he shot. He had some errands to run and his wife stayed home and was talking to friends or family on the phone, wife says "thats a nice buck, too bad Roy isnt here to...BOOOM!" Wife drops the phone. Roy hadnt left yet and shot it out his bathroom window!

 

Friggin awesome…..

 

I'm shooting a 50cal Hawken, round ball in front of FFG. She ain't gonna' like it...

Except for the National Preserve this is all hunting leases around here for miles, except for this 2200 acre neighborhood between two creeks, here all creek bottom. One lease starts in front of the house, right across the street, archery only lease. It has been conspicuously quiet today, in 360 degrees of the compass. Lots of acorns this year. I don't think they are coming to corn right now. They sure aren't coming to our corn. Haven't been for about a month. There is a bunch of large red oaks across the way behind the house, about 130 yards. From the kitchen window we can see deer browsing acorns underneath them almost any time of the day. We don't have many red oak acorns left under ours, but the massive white oak in the corner is full with those big inch and a half acorns, and they turn their noses up at them. They wait until later in the season to eat them, and many of them are rotten by then. Unless your lease rules allow you to get down out of the stand and still hunt them up (and most don't), you are not seeing the deer you were at the start of archery season. That's why I like public land: you can hunt where you want, how you want. Except in this kitchen lease. Her rules go.

Regarding resident license...Back in the early 80's I had a friend buy a cemetery plot to get around property owner requirements of the Devil's Pocket hunting club. They changed the club rules the next year to read "resident", not "property owner". You might give that a try. Does a funeral plot qualify you as a "property owner" in the state you desire to hunt or fish in? If so, buy it long enough to get your lifetime license, then sell it.

 

Was off last week and now just checking in...

Congrats!!! What a beautiful buck!