havent seen my big buck since October 5. no daylight pics of him or any other deer since then as well. So, I got an alert on my phone from my cell camera Monday the 6th at 0130, hogs in the feed. I gather up my hog killing shotgun and head out. hogs bout ran over me and I could see some idiot shining a light to the E of me.

well, my SIL messed up yesterday and asked me If i had seen the big buck Savell posted on here for me lately. which I had not seen since October 5. well the chick that does her eye lashes, my wifes eyelashes and the wife of the jackarse that lives across from me eyelashes screwed up and told my SIL that her husband found a huge buck in the creek outside of the 340 acre high fence they sell hunts in. These idiots have bucks over 300 inches in that high fence. he and his brother go all over to country killing deer and elk in these small high fences like they have done something.

The eyelash twits husband has recently started doing taxidermy work and my neighbors big mouth wife confided that her husband got this big buck outside of the high fence.

So I have been working with TPWD game warden that I am super close to. He pulled it up today and this moron doesnt even have a hunting license but yet he wants this fella to mount the deer for him. we know pretty much what he is going to do, wait until late November and get his hunting license and then illegally tag this buck. My cell camera has every picture of this deer since the first of July in chronological order and the last night time picture of him on the 5th of October. the very last daytime photo of this brute was on August the 3rd.

So our game wardens are securing search warrants and subpoenas for cell phone records and facebook DM's to pin down when he contacted this dude to mount this buck. I have them on video looking around in that creek at 0134 on th 6th of October.

If I wanted to kill this buck I could have done the same thing this idiot did. yet, I couldnt live with myself sober or drunk. However. they will lose their high fence permits according to Austin high ranking TPWD folks.

It never ceases to amaze me at how sorry folks can be over a DEER. Good thing the wife and I are going to head to Branson tomorrow and my son will be staying here. typical holier than thou turds with money

While I agree in principle it's you that's worked up over a DEER.

Keep us posted on how it plays out.

If it weren't for vanity necessitating eyelash jobs , the caper might not have been uncovered.

Did you buy your big buck from the high fence operation, or somewhere else?

How did your buck get loose, so that the neighbor was able to kill it?

Did you have ears tags, a collar or any other mark of ownership on your buck?

Keith

I believe he's saying it was poached, you know killed illegally. I think that is the beef with it, not that he thinks it belonged to him. If I remember right he was hoping for a kid to get a chance at it. If this is correct, he has every right to be ticked off about it.

It sounds like the neighbor owns the high fence pen of deer and just shot one of the domestic deer that belongs to him right outside of the fence it was supposed to be in. The deer may have been trying to get back in. I don't think you can poach your own deer.

Domestic deer escape frequently. It doesn't mean they are no longer private property, when they do.

If Sheepdog1's only claim to owning the escaped buck is that he got some pictures of it on trail camera, that makes no sense, that he would be so upset about it.

Keith

Aren't those deer ear tagged?

I had 3 sets of friends who raised deer, before newer regulations created more work and made it less profitable. At least in Ohio, at the time, tagging wasn't necessary. Most of the bucks were sold to game farms and high fence operations in Texas. The people who pay to kill the domestic deer, probably wouldn't be happy with an ear tag on their "trophy".

Bucks sold for really good money, up to $10,000.00. Does were worth hardly anything, $80.00 to $120.00.

My friend Marvin got the most for two albino bucks he had. They would eat from your hands. If you held an apple in one hand and a knife in the other, and held the apple behind the knife, they would have likely impaled themselves to get it. During the rut, it was not safe to go in the pens, but the rest of the time they were as friendly as bottle fed goats, probably because most of the deer were bottle fed. They got better growth that way. Two year old bucks on were massive. They had great genetics.

I would guess that a better quality buck in Texas, right outside of a pen, was an escaped domestic deer.

Keith

You could be right. Savell lives near there. Are there ever any big wild deer near the pens Savell?

…. I live amongst the government woods … I heard there’s been a group buying up timber company land across the river where sheepdog lives and fencing it … that high fence for yanks to play is more of a south Texas thing though

…. That ol buck hanging around sheepdog was likely native

…. And I think Kieth might be a closet homosexual

.. but I have no proof to back up either

… carry on

... I guess that clears that up then.

I'm sure glad I don't live or hunt anywhere near whitetails. The entire deer industry concept is ridiculous imo.

I live in some of the best whitetail hunting in the country and I agree with you 100%.

….. agreed .. it’s ridiculous

.. are we overusing the word ridiculous?

.. I’d say it’s become fanatical

It’s been fun men… but it’s time to get my 4 hours and then wake up for work

well now I think Keith had it correct its not in any way shape or form sheepdogs deer. I also found it ironic he is so worked up "over just a deer" as he put it when saying he can't believe people get worked up over just a deer.

Yep buddy guess what. You are all worked up over a deer someone else killed. Now I can give the benefit of doubt he is mad it was killed ILLIEGAL. And that part I understand 100% and agree with. I dont think sheep dog is one to get mad or jealous over someone killing a deer he was planing on hunting as so many people seem to do. I believe sheep dog is well past that point in his hunting journey.

But now Savell Your behavior and mouthing off coments about Keith show your lack of intelligence. Generally low intellect individuals attempt character insults when they can't come up with any valid points or arguments. Its typical of those on the left but as you show here not limited to them.

I having meet Keith in person you would bet you would be taking off your hat and addressing him stammering yes sir while shivering like a small dog with its tail between its legs worried that soft spoken mountain of a Man Yankee would roll your rebel hind end all the way back south to the Gulf of America. I'm sure some southerners had been learned up how to act proper. Maybe you could find some and learn from them ?

There's been deer hunters killed for killing a wild deer that another hunter believes is theirs.

To me deer are mostly a nuisance, that I do enjoy eating and shooting.

The deer, amount of deer sign and amount of deer damage on my farm went from way to much this Spring, to almost none right now. I could see deer in my hayfields every night and any time I walked down my hill. I haven't seen a deer in probably 2 months now. I think Epizootic Hemorrhagic Disease has killed most of them. I'm planting a whole lot of trees, vines and bushes later this Fall, so this is probably a good thing for me. I still don't like the idea of them dying like that though.

Keith

Thanks for sticking up for me Matt, but Savell and I don't take any offense from the ribbing we sometimes give each other.

Keith

I would trade you for my poor pos neighbors. They trespass and poach anything that moves. Called the law more than once on them. Law knows they don't have money and they can't fleece them so they don't do anything but warn them.

Sheepdog,
There's a chance that the buck has shifted his core area. And the buck the neighbor poached is a different buck.

Ive seen bucks up and leave for weeks and then they return later during late fall/winter.

If he was poached...I hope TX G&F smacks the guy.

Hope the poachers get what they deserve

well, he DID refer to it as "my big buck".

man, what a RANT!

everyone (except the OP, of course) is a "POS", "jackarse", "idiot", "twit", " moron", "big mouth"...

Where can you buy a doe for 80 bucks? 35 pounds of boned out meat sounds like a bargain.

Don't be ridiculous

ADC native deer will hang around the high fences. Most of my damage business is predator control for the high fence places in my area. I've seen native bucks fighting with high fence bucks through the fence several times. Usually ends up with some broken tines or one will get hung up in the fence. One place the native deer have a well worn trail along the fence. Looks like a cow trail.

Not sure sheepdog thought it was his buck, It’s the state of Texas’s deer and should be harvested by any legal means by a sportsman. Not shot in a creek in the middle of the night. I don’t consider myself an antler hunter but if there is a big buck in the area I would like a chance to get it. I hope they nail this guy good.

Least they're not asking for G2 eyelash pics.
Dang deer.

This post just confirms most people are ........ unsupportive, yeah that's the word I was looking for.

All I got from this is that every gal in that community must wear fake eyelashes. Texas.....

50 years ago the deer in south TX were no bigger than great danes. If you like antler hunting the pens have increased deer size there.

PS. I said that a few years ago and Mark June liked to choke. Still true though. Went to San Antonio for basic. Was suprized how small they were.

I saw some deer in Florida. I thought they were all fawns, Untill a fawn came out. Southern deer are definitely smaller than Indiana deer. Must be the same feeling guys from up north and Canada would have looking at our Indiana deer.

I heard the native Texas white tail referred to as dog deer, because of their size, quite a lot. I'm sure that's why so many bucks from Ohio were shipped there.

The people who raised deer, that I knew, all have stopped. Ohio had Chronic Wasting Disease show up in Holmes County in a domestic buck and EHD showed up in state too. Mandatory blood testing on all the deer, whenever a deer died, even if the cause was known, made to much work and to much expense, for most small breeders. The supplements fed for maximum antler growth weren't cheap.

Keith

I have no personal experience with southern deer but I do know the “corn fed giants” is a relatively good description for some of our bucks in this area. May not have the antlers that everyone ooohs and aahhhs over, but the bodies are generally big and solid. You hit one with a smallish car you risk your life not just your vehicle.
I’ve watched plenty of those TV deer hunters and geez how proud they are of their head mounts and big racks. The outdoor stores are stocked to the ceilings with all kinds of gimmicks and stuff for hunters to tip the odds in their favor, or so the marketing on those labels claim. Big money in deer hunting. Seen a few guides around here get slapped hard by wardens for bending the rules to make a client happy and get paid. But here the animals don’t really belong to anyone it’s the state managed herd just the land they may be walking through is generally private so permissions matter. We don’t have many high fence arrangements here and if a nice buck won’t cross the low fence to the side where a guy has permission, and the buck gets killed on that other side of fence, well that’s just hunting.
Heard comments from local hunters here too about passing on a buck to let it grow a little. Only to find out a day or two later that same deer is getting ride in another hunters truck to his place. That same deer could also get hit by a vehicle or succumb to some disease too. It’s not like they stay in one spot and get regular vet checkups. It’s life of a deer and stuff happens. Big bucks are neat, they are special. But hey stuff happens and there is always a new crop of deer growing up in future seasons. That’s part of hunting too.
Now whether your neighbor is rich or poor, that’s evidently your view of others and not sure what their economic position has anything to do with hunting or this buck you are upset over. And whether they are good people or a “POS” that’s your view too. Hope this all works out properly if any rules were broken. If no rules were broken, well, sometimes deer get killed by someone or something else. Go find another one.
Jim

And please, not trying to be preachy or sound uncaring here. Buddy I get your frustration. If anyone understands, it’s trappers. We deal with all kinds of stuff, don’t we?
Hope this all works out and you go find another good deer.
Jim

Its his because he fed him 17 yds out his bathroom window. Doubt anyone else had that claim

I'd never shoot someone else's deer

Rich or poor has nothing to do with any of this. He may have more money than you. There are others that probably have more money than him. Does that make them rich and him poor ??

Hunting in texas is weird. Good luck finding YOUR deer. Lol. Maybe a collar and leash would work better?

…. lol you’re buddy PF is a little slow to catch on

Iam not sure how sheepdog meant it.the horn hunters have ruined it for most people around here they buy up 100's of acres in land trying g to grow harvest the next world record deer.if that's your thing and it's done legal more power to ya.as far as poaching goes it makes me sick to my stomach when they go out and night shining deer and killing them ive lost track of how many deer ive seen the head/horns cut off and the rest of the deer is laying in a ditch going to waste.hope they catch them and prosecute them to max

more like that worked up over a jerk that disobeys the law and thinks he is special and causes problems in the area.

also not from there and wants everyone to cater to him and he can't even follow the rules.

probably more the general attitude and arrogance than the single deer.

As it should be !!

But I did spit my coffee out....

I got lost two paragraphs in. Have no idea who did what with whose eyelashes. You southern folks sure do complicate killing your venison.

Near as I can tell, I think Sheepdog is assuming the deer was poached, and is getting the law involved to investigate.

And Savell thinks Keith is a closet homosexual.

Thanks for the cliff notes!!
Neighbors suck….

… and providence farm might be his romantic interest lol

Savell just said the quiet part out loud.

Sorry to disappoint you gays, but this straight, "soft spoken mountain of a Man Yankee" has been off the market for over 17 years.

I've been described as looking like a professional power lifter a lot, a brick wall, a freight train, the greatest obstacle, one scary mother ..., Hitler's poster child, but never a "mountain of a Man Yankee" before.

Keith

Lol
Sometimes its better if the cat stays in the bag

Don't be shy you are amongst friends you can brag on yourself all u want, it won't change how we feel about u

Thanks, hopefully you guys don't take me very seriously all the time. Trapperman is my playground. I come here to have fun.

Keith

Pirates aren’t queer! Right Captain Hook!?

Well he sure seems to have a thing for the boys that never grow up. Michael Jackson was jealous

I just know that a bucaneer is to much to pay for sweet corn.

Keith

Only when u talk ancestry Keith. I doubt anyone would make up being related to Savell

Lol!!!!!

lol

Paul Dobbins, Actor, Swamp Wolf and Warrior are all cousins of mine too. I suspect a lot of you guys are. Most of us here are probably not very distantly related and related many times.

Keith

You can pick your friends, but you can't pick your relatives.

Trending Now deer are cousins

You've heard of kissing cousins. Deer are clearly your cousins to be consumed. We had venison curry a couple of nights ago.

It's getting cool enough here, that I am getting the urge to slip down my hill and see if EHD left me any deer to shoot.

Keith