TEXAS TAYLOR TRAVELS: November 2016

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Nov 18-Nov 29 Deer Lease Thanksgiving

We have had a slow deer season so far. The deer have been in night mode. All my pictures of deer are at night. I did hit a lucky streak and killed a doe and two bucks. The first buck I killed I shot for a doe but it ended up a 1 pt. It was an ugly head and needed to be culled. My second buck was a nice 8 pt. He had heavy horns and weighed 163 lbs. Adam checked his teeth and said he thought he was 6 yrs old. His inside spread was only 13 !/8. Kevin shot a little spike the same day. David Bird killed a great 10 pt which is the best so far this year. My buck has been the heaviest so far. Its really been warm weather and dry and dusty. We did get a cool front right before Thanksgiving. We did Thanksgiving at the deer lease and turned out well. So much food. December is almost here and I m out of tags so I will have to just piddle around the deer lease. Susan has been doing lots of sewing getting ready for Christmas.

John Lovett, Kenneth Taylor, David Bird, Judy Lovett

Lavonna, Susan, Slyvia

Recording a CD David Bird Eddie Bird John Callahan

Getting the food ready

Luke is ready to ride

Kevin and Peyton

Luke and Kevin

My Trophy 1 pt Buck

David Bird 10 pt

Eddie Bird 8 pt

My 8 pt

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Nov 1-17 2016 Finally Deer Season is here

Youth weekend is before the opening day of deer season. We only had three youth hunting. Mackenna hunted with me but we didn't see anything. On Sunday Alyssa Grubbs hunting with David Bird killed a longhorn spike. It was a rather warm weekend. We had a nice crowd at camp. Jennifer and I took all the kids and let them play in the creek. They had a blast. we did get a few cool evenings where we could have a little fire. It has been slow hunting but we have killed a few deer.. We had to use Kevins dogs 3 times and they found the deer each time. On one chase they had to catch , they don't bark so you have to try to keep up with them. So far I have killed a doe and a cull buck. I am not really seeing many deer or hogs. We are stuck on 17 hogs for the year which have been mostly trapped.