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[Big Blzn]

3000 acres in Woods County? Be sure to keep on grandads good side. Not to sound horible but hopefully when God comes calling him you will get a little slice of that 3000 acre pie. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO, when are we going hunting??????

 

[sooner]

3000 acres in Woods County? Be sure to keep on grandads good side. Not to sound horible but hopefully when God comes calling him you will get a little slice of that 3000 acre pie. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO, when are we going hunting??????

Doubt i will get any of it. He is so tight his a** squeaks when he writes a check. Im the only family member that doesnt kiss his a** and always ask him for money. Never have and never will. He is a very very smart man and if anybody can figure out how to take it with them when they go he will.
As far as the hunting goes i have too many cousins and my wife and kids and nephew that deer hunt all the ground so we dont take anybody with us besides family.
But any of the brotherhood has an open invitation to come up and let me guide them on one hell of a quail hunt anytime. Season started last Saturday. The quail population looks really good this year as well as the pheasant too. As soon as rifle season for deer is over it will be game on for the birds

 

[sooner]

Forgot to add that i did at least shoot something the other night. Took out a squirrel with a stump thumper tip at about 30 yds. Aparently i put my tree stand in his tree and he didnt like it. He would go from my tree to the others and everytime he passed over me he would drop bark on me. It got annoying after about 4 hours so he got the ax. Took a pic and will post later when im at home.

 

[Big Blzn]

Sooner: Here are the pics from last season in Eastern OK, Cherokee County) Dressed at 140lbs and 8 points.

That's my pops sitting and FIL standing in the camo. Also, the deer camp my FIL has. About 12 miles from the nearest town. Awsome place.

 

[sooner]

Looks like a nice buck as well as the one on the wood pile. Looks like you guys got a pretty good spot to hunt over east. I have never hunted east of I-35 but i did put an alternator on a guys expedition that was over here hunting a couple of years ago from Tulsa. Talked to him about hunting the entire time i was working and after i finished he told me to right down my name and address so he could send me something. I was a little worried until a week later when a brand new set of Cobra Sidewinder fiber optic bow sights arrived in the mail with a note attached. He was the manager for Cobra Archery Products but failed to mention that before.

Hope yalls luck is as good this year. It is about 50 outside right now and has been alot cooler the last month than it has in a few years and that always gets the deer moving.

 

[sooner]

This 8pt was standing about 100yds from the road when i went hunting Sunday afternoon. If that damn doe in front of him would of been on the other side of the hill i would have put the sneak on him. As long as she wouldnt have seen me he would have just stood there and watched me get closer. Gotta love the rut. He stood around for about 10 minutes and then laid down right where he was standing. The doe finally got up and took off and he went with her.

 

[sooner]

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Hey Big Blzn,
How about you load up a couple trucks full of that blackjack firewood already split and haul it up here and i might let you have your pick of the 4 monster bucks i saw Sunday evening while i was bow hunting.

 

[Big Blzn]

Hey Big Blzn,
How about you load up a couple trucks full of that blackjack firewood already split and haul it up here and i might let you have your pick of the 4 monster bucks i saw Sunday evening while i was bow hunting.

That wood is like gold to my FIL. He has pretty much as much as he needs every season because of al the blowdowns and ice storms that make the dead trees fall. He'll split wood for days on end for the deer camp and his house in Sapulpa. If he saw me loading up split oak into a truck he'd shoot me faster than he'd shoot a 12 point 160 class deer on his land.

BTW, that is a nice looking buck in the pics. Do you have a lot of bucks that nice on your land???

 

[sooner]

BTW, that is a nice looking buck in the pics. Do you have a lot of bucks that nice on your land???

Those pics were taken on Sunday. I saw 15 bucks that day and this was number 6 on the big scale.

 

[babyburb]

Hey Big Blzn,
How about you load up a couple trucks full of that blackjack firewood already split and haul it up here and i might let you have your pick of the 4 monster bucks i saw Sunday evening while i was bow hunting.

I don't know what the heck blackjack wood is but I might try to find some if the offer is still on the table! In 10 years of hunting I have never laid eyes on a buck even half that size!

 

[Big Blzn]

I don't know what the heck blackjack wood is but I might try to find some if the offer is still on the table! In 10 years of hunting I have never laid eyes on a buck even half that size!

The deer in Western Oklahoma tend to be much bigger than the deer in the far Eastern portion of OK. Believe it has a lot to do with the genetics and especially the food/diets available to deer out East. Well, at least the deer we hunt in the hills of my FIL's camp. No real ag crops for the deer to browse on and have to forage in the woods for mostly acorns and food plots that hunters cultivate. Being from Dallas area I can't believe you haven't seen bucks at least that nice? Maybe you need to head South young man.

Leaving for Tulsa tomorrow for a 5 day hunt at the camp. Wish me luck fellas. I'll post pics of my kill, knock on wood, after Thanksgiving. Good luck to you guys too.

Duh! To answer your question about Blackjack: It is a species of Oak that grows in and amongst all the red and white oak in Eastern OK, probably other places too. Doesn't get as big around and as tall as the red and white and I don't believe produces acorns, could be wrong though. Kinda like a crappy little cousin to the red and white species but burns real nice and hot and is all over the place on the hills we hunt.

 

[sooner]

Yeah the deer get large around here. Even the does get pretty hefty. I shot a doe 2 yrs ago with my bow in the middle of December that weighed 142lbs dressed. The picture of the mounted buck at the top of this thread weighed 165lbs dressed but had been chasing does hard for a couple of weeks. Had he been shot a month earlier he would have probally weighed between 190 and 200 dressed.

One of these days i will take the camera with me while i am in the stand and get some pics of the country i hunt. It ranges from river bottom to red dirt flats to deep canyons to open native grass that is so tall you cant see a damn thing in it. All of it within a mile or less from wheat, alfalfa, and sweet feed fields(sorgum(sp?))

Went out this morning and saw a buck bedded down in some mesquite trees about 50 yds from the road. I thought it was that big eight point, so i put the sneak on him. Well, about 30 minutes and a **** load of mesquite thorns and sand burrs later and i was within 20 yds of a 6pt that would have scored in the low to mid 120s. He never knew i was there so i backed out and let him live. Taking my 11yr old nephew out for his first buck this weekend. Hope we see this deer again.

 

[sooner]

Leaving for Tulsa tomorrow for a 5 day hunt at the camp. Wish me luck fellas. I'll post pics of my kill, knock on wood, after Thanksgiving. Good luck to you guys too.

Good luck brother and make sure and take lots of pics.

 

[sooner]

I don't know what the heck blackjack wood is but I might try to find some if the offer is still on the table! In 10 years of hunting I have never laid eyes on a buck even half that size!

I think all of the big bucks down where you are hunting are on the ammunition plant at McAlester. I looked at the site the other day and they had picks posted of some of this years harvest from the draw hunts and there are some dandys. One of them is a 200inch plus.

I have decided to get out the old recurve next year and start practicing so i can sign up for one of the hunts down there.

 

[babyburb]

I think all of the big bucks down where you are hunting are on the ammunition plant at McAlester. I looked at the site the other day and they had picks posted of some of this years harvest from the draw hunts and there are some dandys. One of them is a 200inch plus.

I have decided to get out the old recurve next year and start practicing so i can sign up for one of the hunts down there.

Do you know if that hunt is opened to out of staters? I have a recurve that I could start shooting too!