I just woke up after sleeping a good 8 hours. It rained cats and dogs with lots of thunder and lightning for most of the night, but the rain had stopped by 6 a.m. The day was nice, but I didn't get out in it.
This place is not your ordinary hunting camp. It it like a luxury lodge that you see in the magazines where you just wish you could go hunt. When Doug first bought the ranch 29 years ago, it was just a bunch of sand hills with a lush river valley running through it. Deer camp back then was a bunch of tents set up in a hollow area with trees around them and our campfire in the middle. As young men, that was perfect, but over the years we went to trailer houses and finally the big house and barns. Now the place is palatial with fishing ponds, feed plots, barns, dog runs, heating, air conditioning, indoor plumbing, heavy equipment, etc., to make the ranch everything it can be as a hunting playground. The main game animals are deer, turkeys and quail, with destructive hogs being banned from the property. There are also coyotes, bobcats, raccoons, porcupines, rabbits, squirrels, hawks, an occasional mountain lion, and various other species.
We had to go work on the ranch, so I'm just getting this posted from the morning. More in a few minutes.
Allan
Topic: Hunting with Andy Ivy in Oklahoma (Read 1179 times)
