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Offline herb haines

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #60 on: February 17, 2004, 08:27:00 AM »
Charlie ,
was surprised the name lasted through one pass through .do what you wish sure enjoyed the ride so far  :D   ,love the flight of the arrow  ;)   .

thanks for sending my message to "the beasts" relatives ,sure hope to meet them and you in person next year . going to be a long wait , but have lots to do before then arrows to make broadheads to sharpen .

took the garbage to the road this morning a couple of trips was so cold my cheeks were getting hard it was so frosty .hope Texas has the New Brunswick weather out of its system for a couple of years .sure would be nice to see 60 to 65F and sunshine for the hunt , find me some place to curlup in the sun LOL. eyes getting heavy just thinking about it .--- herb
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #61 on: February 17, 2004, 09:29:00 PM »
Glad you boys had a good time. I regret not getting to go. I gotta do that some time.Congrats to all!  :thumbsup:  

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #62 on: February 18, 2004, 07:07:00 AM »
Charlie,
Since the BH had "Herb" on it does that mean HH did "Become the Arrow".
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #63 on: February 18, 2004, 07:16:00 AM »
Man the double thread on this subject is driving me plumb nuts..not sure which one I'm reading or which one has the story and pics.

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #64 on: February 18, 2004, 07:27:00 AM »
Ferret ,
Charlie should be home today !! now we will learn patients as he is in charge of spinning it out (er telling the story) .i am going to pretend i am on stand hunting and stay quiet and look and watch .-- herb
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #65 on: February 18, 2004, 07:43:00 AM »
Micky/Gang, The story will unfold on this thread as soon as Charlie gets home. He spent the night North of Dallas last night and will be home tonight. He should start the stories tomorrow. Sorry for the wait. CK

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #66 on: February 18, 2004, 08:10:00 AM »
Curtis, Will we see a change of your avatar?New bobcat picture,or maybe your hog,or maybe your bunnies? What a weekend  :thumbsup:    :thumbsup:  !How many critters were killed altogether(by everyone)? Can you answer that without messing up Charlies story?Awsome hunt Bro  :thumbsup:
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #67 on: February 18, 2004, 10:24:00 AM »
Dang Curt, You know us Suthern Bozy are under-edumicated. I kant count past ten. Thats what I killed were ten! Sum bunnies, a pig, a kitty.. The other fellas gonna have ta sypher the count on their killin. I can tell you that size does matter though. See the size of that bunny I killed.  

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #68 on: February 18, 2004, 10:11:00 PM »
after the pic i recieved today i think there is something fuzzy about the big bunny   :D  -- herb
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #69 on: February 18, 2004, 10:40:00 PM »
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm,suspicious  :saywhat:
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #70 on: February 19, 2004, 08:01:00 AM »
Well, I won't rub it in, but for those of you who backed out this year...you screwed up!!!   :D   So how was that for letting you down easy?

It really was a shame that only the four of us (Curtis Kellar, Eric Zuniga, Chris Kinslow and I ) made it to the "Texas Sweat". Next year will be bigger, better, with more laugh packed action than ever before. Over 20% more!!

Enough of that... on with the nut cuttin!

As I said earlier, I arrived in Texas to anything but warm temperatures. It's a real good thing I brought warm clothes or I'd have had to have huddled in Curtis' house, a quivering lump of frostbitten Missouri bowhunter, for the first three days of my planned hunting time. I'd about rendered down on my last trip in October so this was definetatly a shock to my system. I'd left near 0 degree temps in Missouri and had been looking forward to some heat!
There was rain early on, but it cleared out quickly. Temperatures dropped correspondingly and we were greeted by stiff north winds carrying colder temperatures. The second morning of the hunt there was a hard frost on the truck windows.
What a difference a couple of months makes...even in south Texas!
I spent the first couple of days hunting Javelina on Curtis' lease. Every plan I could devise went for naught with the little collared buggars. I never saw a hair... ok, there was the hair that Curtis picked up to show me, but that doesn't count.
Javies aren't exactly thick in Curtis' part of Texas. When you do find them, it'll be a little family group comprised of 5 or 6 animals.
CK and I had talked it over and I'd decided to take a small one from the group and not shoot the patriarch or matriarch. That would be better for the herd.
It turned out that I didn't have to make that choice at all as it turns out.
As it turns out, I spent a midday stand at the ambush spot and a late day stand and had narrowed it down to thinking the Javies were coming through early in the morning.
The last day of Javie hunting I went out early (9 a.m)and stayed until noon. Sign in the area indicated that they had made a VERY early visit that morning. Dammit, dammit, dammit!!

I was trying to maximize everything I did while out in the brush, so at each stand I'd sit real still for a couple of hours and then open up with my varmint call a little bit before I was ready to leave.
Well, I've never been what you would call a great varmint caller. Oh sure, I make all the noises, make them pretty convincingly too, but as with almost all my past calling adventures these drew a blank also.
I guess I was pretty sure that anybody could call droves of varmints in Texas. Hell, last time down there I'd squeaked in a coyote. Curtis had a bobcat AND a coyote respond to rattling antlers the last time. Must be something else I'm doing.
So in between running around DeWitt County doing errands, and hunting Javelina, I was also sitting a prime spot at Curtis' ranch for hogs in the evening.
He'd told me repeatedly by email and again in person when I arrived, that hogs often visited his place at last light. Of course the rub was that it hadn't happened since a week earlier.
Curtis is one of those wired characters who's constantly moving and doing something. I think he sleeps that way too. He's often up in the middle of the night and will hear the hogs carrying on when they come on his property. He hadn't heard them in days.

I looked at it like an opportunity waiting to happen. Every evening they didn't show up increased the likelyhood that they would!
I kept that attitude for the first two evenings there, but except for a couple of rabbits and four racoons, not a squeak was heard from the piggies.
Curtis had assured me that when they came, they'd come with gusto and I'd hear them for hundreds of yards, squealing, oinking, grunting and otherwise being pigs on their way to dinner.
I had in my hearing aids (fairly new to me) and could hear a mouse sneeze at 50 yards. Still didn't hear pigs coming.
The rabbits would have been easy to get shots on if I'd wanted to. So would the coons. Wish I'd have know Curtis' wishes on the coons.
After the first evening with them crunchin and munchin around the stand he issued the edict that the coons must die. Wish I'd have known that before!
As soon as I had the go ahead, the little masked varmints quit coming.

Chris Kinslow arrived around noon on my third day and it was good to see him again. It was good to see that he brought the sunshine with him and warming temp. The weather looked like it was gonna give us a break so I'll give Cris credit for bringing it. Chris and I live at opposite ends of the state back home and go back a ways as deer hunting buddies.
Chris' is fairly new at this trad bowhunting thing and even newer at doing "away" games. I was looking forward to breaking him in right on this trip. What Curtis and I couldn't teach him about hunting the "brush", Texas would!
We spent the afternoon getting gear ready and visiting different spots I knew of while Curtis was at work.
CK would show up early in the afternoon and get a little BBQ going...south Texas, pig hunter style. We'd all chow down on the great meal and then Curtis and I would put Chris on stand for the evening pig parade.
I guess it's some kind of unwritten rule about taking new guys hunting. Ya just gotta mess with their heads a little bit. Know what I mean? We didn't go as far as the whole snipe hunt thing or regail Chris with stories of the hook man or fleeting glimpses of big hairy two legged things that skulk through the night. That wouldn't have been right!
We might have mentioned that the occasional rattler might slither up the ladder on the stand and snuggle around a still bowhunters feet. If I remember rightly, we might have alluded to giant angry hogs hiding trailside in the tall grass as a hunter walked home in the dark. You know? Just little hints of things to give him something to occupy his waiting time.

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #71 on: February 19, 2004, 08:16:00 AM »
Thanks Charlie ,
just emailed Curtis (he feels lost without at least one from me a day   :D  )to see if you got home safely  ,glad to see you did .
i am being good not begging for more info and stories .
thanks for putting "herb" to good use was great to be along for the ride .
Curtis says i can't use arrows got to carry a switch because i am so big , guees it wouldn't be fair to the pigs   ;)  asked him if i could maybe borrow "sweet spot" if they have big "puddy tats" down that way ------ herb
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #72 on: February 19, 2004, 08:43:00 AM »
Herb... I'll get this rollin pretty soon and it won't take as long as last time. Gonna try to get the others to fill in their parts at the proper time. Should make a better story that way.
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #73 on: February 19, 2004, 09:37:00 AM »
I guess thats my cue!

Like Charlie said, Chris made the trip fine. The last few days leading up to the trip I was thinking Chris would POP with anticipation. I was no help to him as I constantly bombarded him with tales of the Big Boy Hog that visits nightly even when the other piggys play elsewhere. Im sure everything I was telling him was "just the facts" and no fish story, so to speak. LOL!

Well, as Chris headed out for his first night on stand we watched him ease into the darkness with a stiff North wind, misting rain and temps approaching the freezing mark. Charlie and I sat in the warmth of my home and laughed at Chris's excitment and determination. We were both really excited at the possibilities Chris faced one his first night in Texas. I had made clear to Chris in his departing that coons were on the hit list and any bunny he could hit was his to take. The night grew long and the misting rain turned to sleet. Chris stayed on stand like a seasoned hunter. I was proud of his efforts and wished Id not filled him with tales of the Big one that always waited by the trail waiting for the hunters exit.
I was sure he had believed ever word I spoke.

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #74 on: February 19, 2004, 06:17:00 PM »
Yeah, what I was wanting to do was get Chris out hunting as soon as possible. We set him up with the same blind I'd sat for two evenings.
Curtis had gotten these two little walkie talkie handsets and we gave one to Chris and Curtis kept the other one handy.
Just to make sure things were going ok, we'd have Chris check in on the half hour and give us an update.
CK and I headed into the house for some refreshment and couch time as Chris bounced off down the trail to the blind.
It was kinda nice taking a break from the hunt. I'd been going pretty strong for a couple of days and this would be a breather before we headed out tomorrow.
The second show on the hunting channel was just starting when Chris came over the radio. He'd just nailed a couple of rabbits and had missed a coon. We stepped out on the back porch and starred off in the direction of the Chris' hiding place.
Curtis told him spooky stuff and I howled into the air in my most wolfish tone.
Chris ended up staying for another hour. He did much better than I would have in the cold and the mist. No doubt.

The following morning Chris and I got off onto Curtis' lease looking for the javies, but had little luck.
As a parting shot we set up and called for a coyote or bobcat before heading back to the Kellar rancherita.
Not much luck at that. That's about par for me and varmint calling. Once in a great while something comes in and that's enough to keep me trying.

(cont)
Hunt Sharp

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #75 on: February 19, 2004, 07:39:00 PM »
As Charlie said, he and Chris eased on to the lease to chase javi’s in the AM.  I stayed behind to tie up a few loose ends.

 It is always nice to have company but like Charlie said, I stay wired and never seem to have enough time to get everything done. This was my opportunity to finalize the checklist of all the gear making the trip, while they were away hunting.

Lets see, coffee, sugar, salt, pepper, blankets, jerky, sausage, matches, lighter fluid, paper towels, toilet paper....... What am I forgetting??? Ever get that feeling? You know you have left out some unseen item that if not found will ruin the trip.
I spend hours looking for that one item. LOL! I never did find it.
      
As the much appreciated sun rose higher in the morning sky, I began to wonder if the guys had taken a critter. It was almost 10:00am and that was the time we had spoken of leaving.  It was but a few more minutes and Chris and Charlie arrived up the drive. No animals seen were worthy of an arrow so they had departed.

Only minutes were taken to hastily cram all our gear into the back of Charlie’s new Toyota pick-up. One final run through  the checklist, a stop at the nearest town for fuel, and we pointed the Missouri front plate South to the adventures that surely awaited us.

Cont.

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #76 on: February 19, 2004, 09:21:00 PM »
Charlie and Littlefeather,

I've been following this thread from the start. Sure sounds like alot of fun. I come home from work everyday and check for the progress and story that goes along with it. Make me want to come be apart of it next year. Makes me feel like I'm there with you. Looking foward to the rest of the story.  :thumbsup:  

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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #77 on: February 19, 2004, 09:35:00 PM »
Cool  :thumbsup:  ,and we haven't even gotten to the good parts.
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #78 on: February 19, 2004, 10:06:00 PM »
Dang I must read faster than you boys type..where's the rest of the story?   :D
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Re: Texas Radio and the Big Beast 2
« Reply #79 on: February 19, 2004, 10:32:00 PM »
wished i didn't work at home check 20 to 30 times a day   :(  . anyone else think curtis and Charlie have been together to much? both now only write 2 paragraphs and then leave us hanging . now i am not complaining just pointing out a couple of points  :D  .jsut 80 miles to the hunt property , wonder if tomorrow is about the drive there   ;)  --- night all  ---- herb
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