marineimaging
LSB Member
Let me start by saying I am not a newcomer so much as a RE-newcomer. As a teen I hunted the Sabine and Neches river areas and northward to Lumberton up to Dam B, over to Newton County so what I am referring to is 40 years later and 100 miles further west.
For the past 4 years I have been hunting in and around the Sam Houston National Forest (SHNF) near Lake Conroe and over to a separate segment near Coldspring. Horse riders have told me stories of sounders that didn't even spook as they rode by on their horses. I have stalked them so closely their piles were still steaming. I have heard them circle me and my grand kids only to disappear across the pipeline or under private fences where I had to stop. I have followed miles of disturbed uprooted earth and trees. Yes, they have outsmarted me and in 4 years I have not so much as seen one. So, what is the difference? The biggest is that the woods I have paid to hunt in do not permit hunting at night. Even if they did I do not own a night scope but If I did find such a place where I could hunt at night a reasonable priced scope might be in the works. Maybe. I have another idea.
I would like to find out if anybody knows where to hunt at night where we can set up a scent drip and set up a low intensity light to softly illuminate a spot we can step off 100 yards and set up with a safe backdrop to pound them with .308 or .30-06 as they gather around trying to find that sweet nectar dripping out of the sky? Somewhere with a few hours of Houston? Somewhere that doesn't charge me to help make the state a better place to live and have a green lawn? Somewhere that farmers and ranchers appreciate our sense of professional safety? Anybody? Because the product of our meeting was to end back at square one being that each individual either has to own 20-300 acres, or has to know someone personally and has promised their first born to sacrifice in exchange for the privilege of giving them $200.00 a night to hunt and guarantee to pick up the dead even if they weren't going to be cleaned and processed..., which mine are.
For the past 4 years I have been hunting in and around the Sam Houston National Forest (SHNF) near Lake Conroe and over to a separate segment near Coldspring. Horse riders have told me stories of sounders that didn't even spook as they rode by on their horses. I have stalked them so closely their piles were still steaming. I have heard them circle me and my grand kids only to disappear across the pipeline or under private fences where I had to stop. I have followed miles of disturbed uprooted earth and trees. Yes, they have outsmarted me and in 4 years I have not so much as seen one. So, what is the difference? The biggest is that the woods I have paid to hunt in do not permit hunting at night. Even if they did I do not own a night scope but If I did find such a place where I could hunt at night a reasonable priced scope might be in the works. Maybe. I have another idea.
I would like to find out if anybody knows where to hunt at night where we can set up a scent drip and set up a low intensity light to softly illuminate a spot we can step off 100 yards and set up with a safe backdrop to pound them with .308 or .30-06 as they gather around trying to find that sweet nectar dripping out of the sky? Somewhere with a few hours of Houston? Somewhere that doesn't charge me to help make the state a better place to live and have a green lawn? Somewhere that farmers and ranchers appreciate our sense of professional safety? Anybody? Because the product of our meeting was to end back at square one being that each individual either has to own 20-300 acres, or has to know someone personally and has promised their first born to sacrifice in exchange for the privilege of giving them $200.00 a night to hunt and guarantee to pick up the dead even if they weren't going to be cleaned and processed..., which mine are.