tvc184

I let this one walk last year and am still kicking myself. I was about 12 yards away from him when I took this picture.

Was 20 yards the shot distance or how far she ran.

Always great to get that first kill. My first bow kill was a doe and then a javelina. The 25 yard shot on the javi was a lot harder.

I thought the article was going to say that the answer was knee deep mud.

But if your criteria is that "all' students have to benefit from something, then they might as not build anything. When they build a new science lab, are all students going to use it? The obvious answer is "no". That shouldn't stop it from being built. Being from Nederland and not caring one way or the other what BISD does, I think this is one of their good moves. Sure you can build it about three miles closer to the city but then it will have the problem of many high school stadiums of being in the middle of the city. They generally have no parking and patrons end up in neighborhood streets and walking for half a mile or more to get to the stadium. For the extra three minute drive it will take to get there on IH-10, more time than that will be saved just on parking spaces close to the stadium. I don't care if it is used for playoffs or just the BISD teams, it will be a great facility that the citizens of Beaumnt and the students and faculty of BISD can be proud of.

LCM breaks a long run but is tackled at the Nederland 25 to end the game. 36-14

LCM just recovered a fumble. 1:10 to go in the game.

Although the game still isn't over.

End of the 3rd. Nederland's ball and up 30-14.

Got a lease, going to a trophy ranch or what?

You are correct but I am a slow learner and it took about 15 years to figure that one out. So now I know.

Kids almost always like it better than deer hunting. You actually get to pull the trigger a few times. When I was a teenager and a young adult I used to like squirrel hunting and a lot of duck hunting. Especially duck hunting back when you could kill 10 birds and actually get them most of the time. Now I don't want anything to do with duck hunting and love to deer hunt. I like the peace and quiet of the woods and the less stressful hunting situation. Old age setting in maybe? I don't squirrel hunt anymore but I would prefer the woods to the marsh. You still get the mostly peace and quiet and get to here the gun go bang every once in a while.

The squirrels were out but even they and the coons weren't coming to the corn. The squirrels need to hurry up and grab those acorns for the winter and keep them away from the deer.

Not one deer seen. I almost always see does and I would have gladly taken one or two but they were not seen either. Too many acorns. I sat in a ladder stand 17 feet off of the ground for 7 hours this afternoon until dark. I saw several fresh scrapes made last night or early this morning since the rains stopped. Lots of activity in the woods but they just aren't coming to feeders....yet.

The Quad 400 has some serious string issues with several of them exploding. I wish you luck with it. It seems that many of them are coming apart very early afar few shots or even on the first shot. Maybe you got one of the good strings if you haven't had any issues for a couple of months. The Barnett Predator seems like a good package but a bit more expensive.

There are really only a couple of crossbows that I would like to try and they are very expensive. One is the BowTech Stryker and the other is the PSE Tac 15. The Tac 15 shoots off of an AR15 platform and you have to have an AR15 lower. PSE only sells the crossbow AR15 upper. Both run around $1,300. [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content]

Just curious. There have been some heated debates on the bowhunting forums on crossbows. There is the group that doesn't care as long as they retain the archery only season no matter which kind of bow and then there is the group that believes that crossbows should be banned and are "cheating". To that extent, they believe the woods this year will be filled with buffoons that know nothing about hunting and think that they can simply buy a crossbow and sling an arrow 100 yards and drop a deer at their feeder like they would rifle hunting. Many are outraged that they "have to practice" in order to be able to bowhunt and an xbow can buy one off the shelf, sight it in and go hunting all in one day. I fell on the side of not caring. I think it falls more in the line of jealousy. If I practiced long and hard, you should also. All the while, about half of them gun hunt also so in November, the take out the rifle that they haven't practiced with and will take the same deer that they don't want xbow hunters shooting. As long as the woods are silent from gun shots. I could care less if someone was 400 yards away from me and killing a deer with a recurve, compound or xbow. I won't hear them no matter which bow they are shooting and that is all I care about.

Did you hunt with a traditional bow or compound before this season?

I am not sure that I see them winning another game.

hey tvc, what do i have to do to set up a ride-along with you? ;D See if you qualify under one of our allowances.

I work every weekend so I will check and see how many vacation days I have left this year. I might have a couple left over. I actually have more than three weeks but some of them I have plans on deer hunting.

From a player on the field, Tyler Smith probably broke a finger. I don't know which hand.

I guess it then depends on how you define "most".

A bucket of raisins my friend? ;D

Like Slam said, school districts, city limits and even US Postal Service routes have nothing to do with each other. I live in Jefferson County outside of any city, live in the Nederland school district and have a Beaumont mailing address. Inside the city limits of Port Arthur for example, there are four school districts. Cities do their thing and school districts do theirs.