I have a friend that is from Texas. Her family owns a big ranch in central Texas, hill country. I have been there to visit with her folks for many years now. During our visit her dad always invites me to go hunting with him on their land. The best hunting is across the highway on the other ranch, where Grandpa lived. I was impressed with the big feeders and large stands for hunting deer, hogs, and turkey. Grandpa owned two ranches. Well her grandpa died last year so his kids inherated the ranches. The son took one and my friends mother took the other one, where she had been living. Well her uncle decided to sell out and take the money and leave the area. The Grandfather had been leasing the hunting rights to the same family for over 20 years, on that land across the highway. The seller told the leasing family that they would have to deal with the new owner, some rich doctor from Dallas. The new owner refused to renew the lease. The Doctor hired my friends father (Neighbor across the road) as caretaker for his new ranch since he (the Doctor) only gets out there once or twice a month. The caretaker asked if he could continue hunting there and if he could bring his daughters friend over to hunt there since he had been hunting there with him for many years. The new owner said yes, but no one else.
My brother lives in Greenville, and his son is engaged to a girl living in Dallas. Her father is a Doctor, she is a very sweet person, and her father is a very likable person also. My brother discribes his future daughter-in-law as coming from a rich family. They have invited me down this year to hunt deer on his new Hill Country ranch. They said it will be a great place since a caretaker will be filling the feeders, and keeping the game close, and there is real nice stands to sit in. With the excpetion of the caretaker, no one else is allowed to hunt that ranch now except by the owners invitation. The caretaker has been given the right hunt there, and to bring his daughters friend who has been hunting there for several years.
A newly arrived friend here in alaska, is from Texas. He is a very nice person, and is making a real good hunting partner. The last time we were out he told me about how he is inviting his brother up here to hunt with him this year because they lost their hunting lease. He told me how the ranch they had leased for over twenty years had been sold out from under them. How it was a good place, lots of deer, hogs, and turkey, with big feeders that the owner had kept full before hunting season. The new owner (some rich doctor from Dallas) refused to renew their lease. The men in his family are real upset. I got real uncomfortable about the way he was talking about the new owners and the sellers. I don't think it would be a good idea to tell him that I'm going to Texas to hunt deer, hogs and turkey, this year.
My friend and I are going to her families place to spend some time this winter, and so I can do a little hunting with her father. I'm not saying one word to my new hunting partner where I'm going this winter
