bullets13

[quote name="BMTSoulja1" post="1354095" timestamp="1355348143"] Ummm we're 9-4 with a win last night. I do see Bullet's point, though. [/quote] yeah, at the time of voting.  HJ won another game as well since then.

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1354047" timestamp="1355342885"] [quote author=BMTSoulja1 link=topic=107319.msg1352850#msg1352850 date=1355146958] Congrats to the young guns at Central for holding on to that # 1 spot for the second consecutive week! 8) [/quote] Nobody is a bigger HJ supporter than me, but it is very hard for me to understand how HJ could be tied with Central for the #1 local spot only a couple of weeks after Central manhandled the Hawks.  That top spot ought to be the exclusive property of Central at this point in time. [/quote] it's one of those things... what's more impressive, Central's 8-4, or HJ's 16-1 and 14 game winning streak? (at the time of voting).  I'd say both are impressive.  but i tend to factor in the fact that 3A is grouped with 4A and 5A on this poll.  so i'm not going to subtract from HJ based on the fact that they're playing a weaker schedule than Central.  Central is 4A, and should be playing 4A and 5A schools.  HJ is 3A, but still plays their fair share of opponents in higher classifications.  HJ has one blip on the radar, and Central has  4 in half as many games.  Yes Central soundly beat HJ a couple of weeks ago... but the game before that, WB beat Central.  Should WB be #1 then?  but wait, then Nederland beat WB.  So should Nederland be #1?  Oh, but HJ beat Nederland early on in the year... I guess the point being that this many games into the season, i can't keep using HJ's 3rd game of the season (Central's 4th) as the primary factor in my rankings.  It's a judgement call. 

i'm not a lamar fan... but i remember last year when everyone was worried that Knight would get hired on to another school... is anyone still worried?  would anyone even care?  this team is abysmal.

[quote name="Stevenash" post="1352574" timestamp="1355086143"] Two problems that I see.  1.  You are NEVER going to stop pushing my buttons.  2.  [b]I enjoy having my "buttons pushed" as it prepares me to be more effective at pushing the buttons of others.[/b] [/quote] ehh... you're playing to weak of a schedule... no way you'll be ready for playoffs :)

unless i'm shooting at a deer or hog ;)

[quote name="tvc" post="1352758" timestamp="1355104013"] [quote author=bullets13 link=topic=103777.msg1352752#msg1352752 date=1355103730] got in the stand 4 times this weekend and didn't see anything bigger than a rabbit. [/quote] Rabbit gravy, stew or smoked rabbit is good. [/quote] yeah, but i hate to unleash a rifle in a spot where deer and hogs come through :)

got in the stand 4 times this weekend and didn't see anything bigger than a rabbit.

I get so tired of these constant drop offs and rebuilding years from HJ ;)

Sweet!

I shot a doe last year broadside double lunged and left an exit wound the size of my fist.  But this year I lungshot a hog (a little too far for me to feel comfortable headshooting) and didn't get an exit wound.  Then the big bodied buck I shot last week was quartering towards me.  I took out the front lung and into the guts (either that or let him walk, and I knew I'd get the lung).  He dropped, kicked for a few seconds, then stood back up and walked down the road and around a corner.  I shoot a TC encore single shot 25-06, and he only had to walk about 10 yards to make the corner, so I couldn't put another shot in him.  I got down after a few minutes and found good dark blood, a little frothy, and knew I'd gotten lung, but just a few drops here, a few there.  Waited for my dad to come from across the lease, and we started trailing.  Followed blood for 35-40 yards, and the trail just stopped, but we heard him try to get up and then fall down and start kicking, so we left him, went back to the cabin, and let him die.  Went back an hour later, went in the woods where we had heard him, found him after a couple of minutes.  But he went 50 yards, and only bled for 30.  No exit wound, and then entry had plugged with a piece of fat.  Our lease is all shooting lanes surrounded by thick brush because the trees burned last year, and tracking a weak blood trail is extremely difficult.  I want an exit wound on the occasion that I have to shoot at an angle that takes a longer path thru the body when the angle necessitates it.  I just wanted to hear some other hunters' thoughts.  Sorry for the novel :)

I've been using Winchester silver tips, but I'm thinking about making a change.  Your thoughts?

Heading back this weekend to try and find a spike or pig. 

DDP has been full of flounder

12 trout in 3 hours this evening, 3 over 20 inches

Wooooow

losing by 40 every game is pretty bad. 

I don't like using live bait, but you can ask TVC... if they won't take an artificial, i'll dang sure throw a live shrimp or mullet at them if we can catch some.  we fish together a decent amount during the summer, and while we never go straight to catch live bait, if our arties aren't working, we'll go to what is.

i wonder how bad he's missing all those "quitters" this year... this year's team is BAD. 

sweet!

so get your pictures put up!  i enjoy looking at your pictures ALMOST as much as i enjoy making my own!!!

and of course my "two-year-old cull buck" from this year :) (thanks, westend!) [img][Hidden Content]] [img][Hidden Content]] [img][Hidden Content]]

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that was last year.

figured i'd bring this back for westend1 :) [img][Hidden Content]]

[quote name="Buccaneer#3" post="1343569" timestamp="1354054632"] I would but doe's don't count? Haha [/quote] sure they do!  if i shoot a spike later in the season or a hog, i'll throw another pic on here...  keeps the thread interesting.  we had a "bragging post" thread that died a couple of years ago.  i would revive it, but don't want to annoy westend with any more pics :)