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.416 Rigby
.416 Rigby

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    Posted: 27 July 2003 at 08:03
Was at the ranch I hunt yesterday, working on feedpens and towers.
My partner and I saw at least 80 bucks, maybe 10 does, and several
fawns. Range looks greener than I have ever seen it, eight inches of rain
in the last two weeks will do that. Body and antler development look good,
with live weight of the bigger bucks looking to be about 150 lbs. All bucks were
still in velvet, of course, but will start to harden off by late August, early September.
At least 5 of the bucks we saw will go 145 to 160, which are damn big antlers
around here.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 July 2003 at 08:40

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   Sounds like texas?  Which ranch you work, and what kind of hunts they run?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 27 July 2003 at 15:14
Texas. Sutton/Edwards county. Kind of a confluence of South Texas,
West Texas, and the hill country. Ranch is 34000 acres, the group I'm in hunts
about 8500 acres. We actually lease hunting rights for the season, runs $2500 per pasture.
Sounds expensive, until you price places that charge $2500 to $3500 per gun for a three day guided hunt.
We get one trophy (whatever you consider a trophy), two eight or nine point managemnet bucks, and basicly all
the cull bucks you and guests can kill. Culls are considered to be a slick horned (no brow tines) six point
or smaller. My contract reads right now that I MUST kill at least eight does from my pasture, and after the fall count
it will probably go up to twelve or so. The most whitetail that can be legally killed in Texas per season is five- it is
understood that you must bring in guests to help with the numbers. Most hunting operations have a price per gun, and will laugh you
off the place if you wanted to bring a guest.
The ranch does offer day hunts, and there is a guided hunting operation on the other end of the ranch that I don't know much about.
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