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Can't see the brow tines there, but they were solid as well.

TVC is about to post a picture of the buck I watched for an hour tonight at 60 yds. It was painful not being able to shoot him, but there was no way I could pass the one I already got considering there was no guarantee I'd see another deer at all, much less a shooter. That being said, I've seen 9 bucks, 7 of which were legal shooters, 4 of which were wallhangers, and one of which was by far the biggest buck I've ever seen from a stand. the buck tonight was a gorgeous 10-point. Not super wide, maybe 16-17 inches (the one I killed was 18.5), but he was very, very tall with good mass. I'd estimate him between 145-150 inches. Phenomenal deer. This week a 159-inch 12-point, a 140-inch 12-point, a 135-inch 8-point, my 130-inch 10-point, a 122-inch 9-point, a 118-inch 8-point, and a 123-inch 9-point have been taken. My buddy Dan missed a deer he swears would be between 150-160, and he's not prone to exaggeration. This place is amazing.

I was 7 1/2 years old, but I was there and heard him say this. :)

They're right on track for the mythical national championship he predicted for 2018!

An hour and 15 minutes into my 5-day draw hunt I killed a nice buck. 130 4/8 gross 10-point with an 18.5 inch spread. They've got some absolute giants out here, but I couldn't pass up a deer of that quality on the off-chance of seeing something better. I actually saw one that may have been bigger about 30 minutes into the hunt, but couldn't get a shot. I'll see if I can get TVC to post a picture

I'll say this... I'm glad to see them not overly punished for playing a very tough schedule to this point. The LCM loss is a bad one. Other than that, you've got losses to 2A #1 Big Sandy (and i believe Big Sandy would be ranked #1 if they were in 3A as well), 4A #23 Hudson twice, 4A #21 HJ, and a good 5A playoff team in Nederland. But still, 8-6 doesn't look very good on paper, and i'm surprised they haven't dropped at least a little bit.

Also, how is Kountze still #2?

HJ getting a little love! I wonder if my creating a maxpreps account and updating their scores and record had anything to do with it. I hear that's one of the main tools used to create the rankings.

Woah!

looks like there's some quality in the freshman and jv teams as well.

Not true. I'm providing a perfect example of how to keep your wife happy. because if mama ain't happy, nobody's happy!

Never mind. I've been informed by my wife that i'd much rather attend a retirement and then her company Christmas party. Crap.

Thursday night i believe i'll have to head over after work. Brock/Kountze, Big Sandy/Nederland, and then getting to watch my hawks play to wrap up the night. that's tough to beat!

After leading much of the game HJ fell 60-46 to 6A New Braunfels in the championship game of the Best of the Bay. New Braunfels moves to 8-1 on the year, and HJ drops to 7-3.

Central lost to silsbee, central beat ozen, and silsbee dropped a couple of games. Gonna be some interesting polls this week

Big Sandy could move up a classification and still compete for a state championship. Not too often you can say that about a team.

I think he had decided that he was trying to stay healthy for college football. Believe I heard last year he would not be playing this year for that reason.

nailed it.

Not surprised that Nederland won, but I'm a bit surprised that they did it so comfortably.

It was a joke... But seriously, it's hard to imagine some big, tough 300-lb lineman playing football for the unicorns, when that is generally a mascot reserved for girls' youth sports teams.

not true. My neice's U-6 soccer team had that mascot a couple of seasons back

New Braunfels is 7-1 on the season, and a good team, but their mascot is a unicorn, meaning I can't decide if there is shame in losing to them or not if the Hawks don't prevail.

HJ defeated a solid Abilene team 84-81 to advance to the finals. They'll face New Braunfels in the finals. A really nice win over a big, athletic team.

1st down stops the clock and gives them a chance to run up and spike the ball once the ball is set and the clock starts

Texas blew it and then maybe won it on the same play!