IT can't come soon enough!  Been laying trails but just isnt the same.  Don't know how yall feel about it.  The other day Benelli got to trail a pig after i shot it found it 400 or 500 yards away was real nice to do something more real

Six weeks and counting.  My girls go crazy even if I put on camouflage shorts.

We would be happy if it was ANYTHING season!  Or cooler.  I saw a nice buck in the horse pasture near our house.  Hope I can shoot him before he gets hit by a car!  If he lasts until archery season.

Kathy

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A tired dog is a GOOD dog.

Got my garmin astro 320 in really got an itch to go tracking now!!!

12 days and a wake up til deer season

Patiently waiting..... In the meantime I just keep on laying trails! If anybody is in the Dallas Metroplex and wants to get together and run some mock trails let me know. I've got half gallon of deer blood left over I need to use before season starts back up. I'll be out with a few hounds tomorrow running some mock trails in the morning and evening. 

If I could get some days off I would love to run some trails in a different area

 

It seems like every year I have to re-learn an all too familiar lesson.  I shot a buck late Friday evening and watched him go in the apparent direction of the woods and believed with my own eyes he had ran into the woods.  I am getting a little older, it was late, and the shot was around 200 yards but I swear he ran in the woods.  I was hunting over a peanut field so it wasn't overgrown and a deer shouldn't have been that hard to see running after a shot.  I had been able to see 20+ deer and a coyote that evening so a buck hauling behind from the field should have been pretty simple. Well I headed back to the truck picked up my hunting partner and Bella and back to the area of the shot.  She immediately heads out into the field farther than where he had been standing acting really fired up.  Me being smarter than a dog and seeing the buck with my own eyes run into the woods I corrected her and directed her on the main trail going into the thicket although there was not sign it was close to where I had shot and was thinking he hadn't had time to open up.  She gave no indication I was right but it was like she looked at me and said ok lets hunt hard and humor him until he comes to his senses.  Well we went up and down the creek bed and by this time I was thinking I had missed.  Back out in the field she again took off into the field and down the edge so I said what have I got to lose I need to make sure so I followed and wouldn't you know it after about 100 yards there he lay piled up about fifty yards into the field.  I still don't know how he got to where he was without me seeing him and by the looks of the trail he had never even went toward the woods.  Talk about a look Bella decided the look of I told you so would be appropriate.  I hate it when they are smarter than me----not really it was great!!!!!

Gotta trust you dog. So glad she found the buck for you. 

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Brenda Sturman
Alvin, TX
blsturman@live.com 281-824-5133

LOL!!!  We need a game show, instead of "Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader" it should be "Are You Smarter Than Your Tracking Dog"

Kathy

congrats!  

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A tired dog is a GOOD dog.

Sounds like your hunting in a great area, I'm looking forward to our season archery opener on Oct 1.

Congrats on your shot and recovery. I did the same thing last year. I didn't trust my dog... your only a pup what do you know !

It was a night time recovery and the tracks didn't go in the direction my dog wanted to go. So I reset her and when we got to the same spot she wanted to take off in the oppisite direction.

She cheated she was air scenting  and took the short cut. The deer had circled.

It's sometimes a hard lesson learned, but always trust your dog.  Truth be known, I bet a lot of us have made that same mistake before. I have.

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Kenny Wall
vice president of TLGDA
forum co-modewrator
kennyw0969@yahoo.com
281-844-0969

I tend to not trust mine when she wants to drag me through some place I don't want to go:  over a barb wire fence, through a briar thicket, down a ravine... Noooooo!  And that is when I know I have to go!

Kathy

It is funny reading other peoples' posts about deer season.  I think in Georgia we have the best of both worlds.  Our archery season starts Sept 8, gun season in mid October with muzzleloader thrown in there a couple weeks before.  In Northern zone gun season ends Jan 1, in southern zone Jan 10th.  In metro Atlanta counties, extended archery Jan 1 thru Jan 31.  So you have from Sept to end of January to harvest some deer. 

Our native whitetails were shot out by market hunters in the 1900s and the state restocked with deer from Wisconsin, Texas, Pennsylvania...bigger bodied than the native ones which are still around the coastal areas.  The rut hits different times in different areas due to the deer coming from other areas.

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A tired dog is a GOOD dog.