Welcome, Big Hext Finnigan!
I know what you mean about that dangblasted hot weather down here. It just doesn't seem right having to suffer heat stroke clearing shooting lanes through the brush and getting eaten up by mosquitoes practicing with my bow. Just goes with the South Texas territory, I guess! Sure wouldn't trade one of our December northers for one of the upstate variety, though. Things get a might too frosty for my bones when its cold enough to snow.
I'm getting myself tuned up on the old bow for the opening of archery deer season on Sept. 27th. Haven't hunted with a bow for a handful of years, but it is the only way to legally kill does out of our herd, since we have no chance for MLD due to our landowner not wanting to mess with TPWD (not that I blame them). If they don't wake up and smell the roses over at TPWD pretty soon, there's going to be some messed-up deer herds around the state. Seems like all they want to cater to are the big ranches anymore. Anyway, I'm going to try to do my part to keep the buck/doe ratio close to where it should be.
After that there's our Nov.1-Jan.4 general gun season. This year my 12-year-old daughter will be toting her first deer rifle into the woods with me. If it was half as fun as last year (lots of deer, both does and bucks), we'll have a jolly good time.
Maybe they can invent some expanding-collared shirts for the likes of us whitetail-crazed Texas hunters, you think?
