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[quote name="bullets13" post="1123573" timestamp="1321720953"] jumped a BIG east Texas buck this morning walking from my stand to check our feeders on the pipeline.  i got a good look with my binoculars, and i'd say 18 or 19 inch spread with good mass and tall, too.  i coulda taken a shot, but i wasn't comfortable shooting through 100 yards of burnt out trees freehand at a buck facing me head-on.  now that i'm back to the cabin, i'm starting to wish i had, but it was the right decision not to shoot.  i know some people might be comfortable taking that shot, but i haven't hunted much, and have never shot at a big buck, so i wouldn't feel confident with that. [/quote] What time was that? wait a couple  more hours and your going to wish you did. good decision.

I have had the same three bags of corn in my camper since opening weekend ( Jasper area 96 @ 255) some corn I put out the week before gun season still on the ground beginning to get that old sour look. Saw some big white oak acorns around the same time.. saw none on Sunday but alot of red oak acorns on the ground. My trail cam pics are down to near zero as well.. Had one buck  running across the lane on one camera and a doe and yearling on another high tailing it across another fire lane. Yearling look like it was saying WAIT FOR ME MOM!

Duchesne has always been a tough opponent. pretty good gauge of where the team is thus far... good job Shark!

Update... spoke to Mike Zeto Pres of BYSC and was told the two organizations were working on the details of a merger... it is their goal to get r done! This is great for area soccer and with a indoor facility on their playing grounds gives them a leg up on any competing organizations. The future looks bright... and this is coming from someone who was a strong supporter of them joining Albion... I am glad they did not listen. They have a new young trainer... who can grow with the organization and develop it into something special... gotta go put my soccer clothes on the grand opening is in an hour.. hope to kick a ball around a bit before the kids over run the place at 4. see ya there.

Let a doe walk yesterday at 7:15am due to the fact she kept looking back as if being followed by Mr. Muy Grande... 9:15am still applauding my efforts for not pulling the trigger and possibly blowing an opportunity at a nice buck... 2:15pm pissed I did not smoke that ol gal!!!! 7:15pm Wife is pissed I did not bring home the backstrap! You cannot eat horns she says... no she did not really say that  but it sounded good.. she was pissed about the backstrap though.

Awesome Shark!

[quote name="sharkstooth" post="1108182" timestamp="1320705865"] Thought SFA was going to receive an at Large Bid!  They had a great season and felt like they deserved it!  Great year for Zuri and thanks for keeping us all updated!  Talk to you soon... [/quote] Me too. And I refused to believe what Zuri told me that her coach had told them.. that if they did not win the Championship they would be out. So hoping against hope I went to the web site at the appointed time. And just got Bummed again. Next year they should be favored to win again. They are loosing Texas State and UTSA to the WAC.

SFA beat UTSA 2-0 in a very hard fought match... Zuri played 15 minutes and I was stoked ( to use a surfing term) she played well and got the win. Well since she only played 15 in that game I told my wife not to rush to the final because she would probably not play in the 1st half. Well sure enough due to an injury she started and played roughly 27 minutes per half... and they lost. 1-0 Now what did I learn ( how I matured)  I would now take less time and a victory then more time and a significant loss. SFA dominated the match with 13 corner kicks to 1 and shots were  16 to  6 with 6-2 on goal but their first was the one that counted. it came off of a throw in that was played long in the air.. our usually solid defender had a wiff and the player went to goal and buried it along with our dreams of SLC Championship and our bid to the NCAA tournament.. so to say the least I am bummed. I expect a rebound from SFA next year because they have an excellent 2012 recruiting class. So Zuri better work hard in the off season or prepare to see more bench time. Thanks for letting me post college soccer news on the high school site! Hey it's deer season.. let's go hunting!

I do not know any details.. but I like to give my opinion.  I know that the two boards are trying to work together for a unified effort. What that entails I have no idea but I heard from John Werner that the two organizations were working together cooperatively.  In the past that just would not happen. This is a great thing for area soccer.

It would not surprise me.... The late great Jan Van Beveren once said that we put too much emphasis on winning and not enough on developing good players here in the US... it kindof makes since if you take the score and victory out of the game the coach might be more apt to experiment with his or her roster... in the early years the trend ( I was guilty of the same offense myself in U9 and U10) you put the best athletes up front and generally the worst in goal. My five best players were the two forwards and three midfielders.. we did not let the ball get to the goal in most occasions... I am glad that someone was smart enough to put Bailey Fontenot in the goal at an early age like U10.... not what I would have done since she was a great athlete and field player.. but she became the player she is today because of it

Congrags to Natalie.. saw where the Southland Conference is planning to visit HBU on Nov 9th to court them into the Conference. It would be cool to have Natalie join Kaitlyn, Zuri and Bailey in the conference.

[quote name="Islander" post="1102055" timestamp="1320200640"] Way to go Emily!!!!! It would be nice to see some of the talented girls from the area playing at Lamar.  Why search far and wide for talent when it is right here in your own back yard? [/quote] I guess because it sounds cooler if you say you got a player from California.. that know one has heard of.  I do not know but he is blowing it from a marketing standpoint... the team itself was better than I expected when they played SFA  who dominated most all of their conference opponents with the exception of the Lady Cardinals and Texas State. Those are the only two teams that concern me going into the Conference tournament because they were the only two teams that held SFA to one goal each game.

cool... thanks for the post

When is the first home game? Possibly Thursday?

[Hidden Content] according to the article your rpi ranking is one... if not the most important element to getting an invite to the 64 team event. currently SFA is ranked 45th in RPI!! Axe em Jacks!

[Hidden Content] Go Emm!!!! Has anyone else noticed the coincidence that where ex SSSC93 players are playing .... school records are  dropping like flys.... ;D

[quote name="DoctorDave" post="1098734" timestamp="1319891632"] Not true. Stowe had 7 minutes of playing time. [/quote] Keep the facts straight Dave! since I did not see or hear her enter the game. I assumed she did not play. Yes I checked your research and you are right Kat did enter the game at around the 83rd minute. By then I had lost focus.... i wish I would have seen her.. it would have been great to see the improvement. Dave did you watch the game online? ps  how about a congrags for that SLC reg season Championship :D pss Good luck in the Great West Championships

SFA 3 - Sam Houston State 1 SFA went 9-0 in conference play and only surrendered 1 goal... that one last night. Oddly  Zuri  recorded no playing time. A bitter/ sweet victory.

Have ALL those girls start taking their visits to SFA immediately!!! ;D Congrags on being the new standard to area soccer.

[Hidden Content] Thanks Sharkstooth for bringing this to my attention.

keep going tvc.. I like what your saying... We are on the Lamps program and recieve 11 doe permits per year.. but our doe harvest is only half or less every year.. and we have some REAL Brown it's down hunters on the lease. In hunting the lease for 10 years I have not seen a dozen does on stand.. I harvest a good to decent buck almost every year and have no problem killing does.. but I personally just do not get the opportunity.. matter of fact of all the pictures I have taken since June over 90 percent have been of bucks... now I believe it has a ton to do with stand location due to the fact my nephews camera is just the opposite wayyyyy more does and fewer bucks... so it may be that my stand is in the buck summer range area and they always come home for a visit on opening day. but I like your thinking continue.. we thought about MLD but have not moved forward. my understanding is from a veteran on the lease is that the surrounding neighbors have done a much better job of restricting their harvest demographics than we have... again we have several Brown it's down hunters.. and God bless the thirteen inch rule. it is working., going hunting today!

Today was a blessed day.. I was just given a 1980 Model 94 Trapper (16inch barrel) in 30/30. I am stoked! The gun belong to my wife's uncle and no-one else in the family hunts. did some research and they said that prior to august 81 these 94's were true winchesters.... I am so happy I may change my handle to rip94 or rip94-30/30 I did bow hunt last wed on th 19th saw a young non shooter while on stand...... also saw a bobcat while glassing my gun lane.. the cat was running towards me at about 60yds as if I had some purina or something.  saw another young buck at around 3:15 just after corning up my nephews gun lanes.. I had not been away from the area 20 minutes and a deer was in the lane. startled both of us ( me and the deer)

[quote name="tvc184" post="1094247" timestamp="1319580089"] The ranch that I am going to next weekend near Freer or Tilden in south Texas is managed land. I think it is a 7,000 acre ranch (low fence) and the Parks and Wildlife gave them tags for 90 bucks and 85 does this year. When you hunt on MLD (managed land) they really want you to take of the needed deer and you cannot use your own tags. You must use the state tags so really it is unlimited on how many deer a hunter can take as long as the managed land still has tags. You can do the same in east Texas but many people in this area don't want to be told not to shoot any deer. If the person or lease has 1,000 acres they might be able to take 35 deer off of it but they want to be able to take 200 of deer crossing their property. It is still an "if it's brown it's down" area. [/quote] just curious do you believe the allocation would really be as generous as 35 deer for 1000ac. not being a smart blank just really curious. I hunt a 1100 eastex lease and we never kill that many deer.. closer to a dozen.

[Hidden Content] Zuri had a very good game and played in the area of 60 minutes. Next they take on Sam Houston at Home at 7:00pm