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[quote name="jmoore" post="1107707" timestamp="1320682938"] Which is exactly why there should not be 3 or 4 teams per district allowed into the playoffs. It is ridiculous. But guess that's the society these days, have to make sure that even the person who finishes 17th in a race gets a trophy and a ribbon. [/quote] Bet then you have a team like WOS go 8-2 and miss the playoffs on point spread.

[b]This is my cull. [/b] [IMG][Hidden Content]]

They have all grown up from the opening day war zone.

Put another doe in the box this morning with a 25 yard arrow through the lung shot.

[quote name="bullets13" post="1104265" timestamp="1320429353"] sweet!  i'm headed out this evening and taking a 4-day weekend.  any sign of the rut yet?  i've heard rumors that it's starting already. [/quote] In some (or most) parts of east Texas the ruts is starting to show signs with some bucks getting frisky with does. In the south where Im, not at all. I've seen mature bucks still feeding together and not paying any attention to the others.

I killed an 8 point this morning. I slipped an arrow through both lungs at 20 yards. He ran about 50 yards and piled up dead. He weighed in at 204 on the hoof and 168 gutted. Not a trophy with only 125 inches of horns but a good sized deer.

[quote name="des2011" post="1102910" timestamp="1320282119"] [size=10pt][b][s]Is[/s] [color=blue]Was[/color] [s]that[/s] Dean Colbert the coach over there? [/b][/size] [/quote]

..and your preview says that Nederland wants to win and go 10 and 0. That will only happen if Barbers Hill forfeits.

I am wondering how many people are putting the horse before the cart and assuming that the game will be over by the half.

Maybe it should be played on the jumbotron in the end zone. Both teams could be hooked up Madden 12 and play each position independently. Like each team's quarterback can be the one on screen, each lineman can control his corresponding position, etc. The only thing that they need to be on the field for is the pregame handshake and the flip of the coin. The rest will be on the big screen. It could even be streamed to homes on pay per view so the crowd doesn't even need to show up if they don't want to. It would sure beat standing in line for tickets. Just think of the possibilities.........

[quote name="Mr. Buddy Garrity" post="1019486" timestamp="1308509067"] Jags wouldnt sniff a playoff spot in 21-5A.  ;D [/quote] ..... or 20-4A. The most interesting part of the early predictions was how many people that had Central not only making the playoffs but as the first or second place team. Who could have figured them for last place? I guess that is why we play the games.

[quote name="Ty Cobb" post="1097068" timestamp="1319817247"] [quote author=BrenhamFan link=topic=90559.msg1097036#msg1097036 date=1319815875] [quote author=Ty Cobb link=topic=90559.msg1097002#msg1097002 date=1319814474] 35 INT's in one season?  WOW, that's a record that will not be broken!!! [/quote] Ya, that's probably the hardest one to break.  Some crazy #'s on there. [/quote] The article says the 35 INT's happened in 1956.  [size=10pt][b]I didn't know they threw the ball in the 50's.[/b][/size]  ;D [/quote] That's probably why they didn't.

[quote name="biaplayer" post="1096592" timestamp="1319771713"] hey fellas, got a question i hunted a piece of privately ownec acreage on the lamps program and it sucked, we only got 5 doe tags for six hunters,now im hunting a lease that is 700 acres but actually has one heck of a deer herd. how does one go about getting the biologists to come out and get a program started such as level 1 2 3 ??????? [/quote] Are you talking about LAMPS or MLD? Both you have to apply to TPWD or a local TPWD biologist. It is too late for this year.

Lumberton - When Will This End (Korn)

[quote name="LumRaiderFan" post="1096445" timestamp="1319766346"] [quote author=True Blue link=topic=87540.msg1096420#msg1096420 date=1319765830] Questioning America's minimum wage has somehow become a rite of passage in the Republican presidential primary. Michele Bachmann has said she wouldn’t rule out lowering it. Ron Paul has predictably said it should be eliminated entirely. And Rick Perry, in his book "Fed Up!: Our Fight to Save America from Washington", has rued the role the commerce clause played in "creating national minimum-wage laws" and "establishing national labor laws." But when it comes to battling our $7.25-an-hour wage floor, these contenders have neither the vision nor the resume of current frontrunner Herman Cain. Cain's time in the restaurant business was marked by a long and largely successful battle against minimum-wage increases, and even today, some 15 years later, many of the nation's waiters and waitresses have Cain and the restaurant lobby to thank for a federal minimum wage of $2.13 for tipped workers. And that not the top 1% now is it???? [/quote] So if you want to make minimum wage...vote democrat! [/quote] Kind of I guess. What it really means that if you have a minimum wage job and you are at the peak of your ability and have no hopes for any meaningful job, vote Democrat because that may be the only pay raise you get the rest of your life. On the other hand you could actually finish high school, gets some training or college and do the unthinkable and show up for work on time, be a responsible employee, etc., and not worry about minimum wage as a career.

[quote name="BLUEDOVE3" post="1096282" timestamp="1319761445"] Fox poll says Fox News is failin . Most Americans not scared o Obama's reelection [Hidden Content] [/quote] So you go to a progressive Democratic website to try and convince yourself how good Obama is doing from their viewpoint? If you want a Fox poll, their poll in January 2009 just before Bush left office showed 79% of the people dissatisfied with the direction of the country. That pretty much led to the Obama win. You would have a hard time saying that Fox was slanted in their poll when almost 80% of the country was not happy. That same poll today showed that 73% of the public is not satisfied with the direction of the country. It also shows that only 32% of independents approve of Obama's handling of his job and the direction of the nation. Those are the same independents that got Obama his job. If you want to hang what you believe is reality in a KOS poll, be my guest. The ostriches need some company.

... and if you are talking about gasoline prices, the Democrats repeatedly (and still in this forum) blame Bush for high gas prices but 3 years into Obama's term seem to think that it is just the market that controls it.

[quote name="ABSENT!" post="1096078" timestamp="1319748074"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=87540.msg1096035#msg1096035 date=1319745429] People are out of work and hurting. Even the ones that do work are paying more for essentials like food. [b]Gas prices remain high after promises to get them down. [/b] A few days of good stocks or other gains won't help unless there is a corresponding large drop in unemployment and communities not being on the verge of bankruptcy. The [b]American economy will always turn around no matter who is in office[/b] as long as we keep the free enterprise system. [/quote] Double Speak, anyone? [/quote] It is historical and cultural . Americans like to buy things and always will. It doesn't matter if Ronald Reagan or Barry Obama is the president. What sets Americans apart from the rest of the world is our standard of living and our desire for more. There is no double speak.

[quote name="invictus" post="1095791" timestamp="1319730246"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=90383.msg1095248#msg1095248 date=1319667796] Most districts have to hire off duty officers since most districts do not have their own police departments. [/quote] Really?  I thought all districts had gone to having their own department due to school shootings, etc. [/quote] Not hardly. If they want security it is usually much cheaper to hire city police on contract than to have a police department. The problem is that the school can't have control over those city police like they can school district police. Hard to sweep things under the rug when the city is putting out press releases.  8)

Having a decent gain in some indicator has little effect. People are not  mad at Obama because the business pages are not good. Who many of his supporters even read such news? People are out of work and hurting. Even the ones that do work are paying more for essentials like food. Gas prices remain high after promises to get them down. A few days of good stocks or other gains won't help unless there is a corresponding large drop in unemployment and communities not being on the verge of bankruptcy. The American economy will always turn around no matter who is in office as long as we keep the free enterprise system. The only difference is the policies that dictate how long a recession or depression will last and how big the recovery will be. Americans like to spend money and will hold off when times look bad but eventually some will say to heck with it and start spending that money again when they think things have bottomed out.

For the most part, locker room talk needs to stay in the locker room. In that venue, it should be perfectly acceptable. I can guarantee there are things that I hear in the locker room at work that I would not want to hear in the public but it isn't meant for the public. This was not even worthy of being looked into much less anyone resigning. Not only that, the coach was entirely correct. I know nothing about this "team" but you can tell that the rant was directed at some players and those players chose not to do what was best for the team but to further tear it apart by taping the locker room speech and then posting it. Sometimes a team is saddled with a person or persons that believe they are above the team and it sure appears to have been happening in this instance. The whiner that did this will probably be a loser the rest of his like. Heck, he might later point to this as one of his "accomplishments" in life. Good luck loser.

Most districts have to hire off duty officers since most districts do not have their own police departments.

[quote name="eagleswoodville#1" post="1094480" timestamp="1319600201"] Okay so Woodville beats Anahuac @Anahuac, 36-21. Anahuac beat Buna 42-21. But yet Woodville is unranked and Anahuacs #7 AND Buna is at #5?? Makes perfect sense huh? [/quote] Maybe, but.... 1. Woodville is not even over .500 and the other two teams are. 2. Buna beat unranked Orangefield yet Woodville got beaten by Orangefield 28-7. 3. Corrigan-Camden is ranked at the bottom and they thumped Woodville to the tune of 42-14. Would you propose being ranked above a team that drug you through the woodshed? I could go farther but do you see the point? If you base rankings on a single game and comparative scores, it would be almost impossible to do any rankings short of a team that is undefeated. If Lamar played a ranked Big 12 school next week and pulled off a huge upset (like when they beat the current Southwest Conference champion Baylor back in the 80's), does that vault Lamar into the BCS bowls?

[quote name="rip2506" post="1094348" timestamp="1319591480"] [quote author=tvc184 link=topic=90389.msg1094247#msg1094247 date=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. [/quote] If the lease is holding a healthy population, yes. If not then it would be severely reduced. A lot also depends on the buck to doe ratio which in east Texas (at least in many areas) is way out of whack. I wouldn't be shocked to see some areas at about a 6:1 (or even greater) buck to doe. The antler restrictions should help that also in addition to letting bucks mature. The ratio should be in the vicinity of 1:1. I still know people that don't think that you should kill does and it damages your herd but in truth it is just the opposite. A healthy doe should in many (or most) instances have twin fawns. So a typical east Texas area of 1,000 acres might be holding 80 does and 30 bucks. From that they might drop 140 fawns next year. So theoretically the herd will grow from 110 to 250. Of course predators such as coyotes will take some as will disease and hunters but you can see the problem. I hunted for 7 years near Chester (until last year) and in a three year period on 965 acres we killed about 50 does. Now there are way more and bigger bucks than we have ever seen on that lease going back about 25 years. You talk of taking a dozen deer a year in more land than we have and we were taking more than 15 does a year, much less total deer. That doesn't mean that deer in your area aren't over harvested because you are not only talking about your lease but all the ones in your area since the deer don't exactly respect property lines. You can run a great lease and your neighbors might slaughter everything that moves. That is one reason why I love the 13" buck rule. In the long run in my opinion, it is good to go with the MLD. It opens up a lot of hunting for many people and eventually for all. Most depends on where your deer herd stands at the moment. I would think if you had half of a healthy deer herd on 1,100 acres, you would be killing more than a dozen deer total from an MLD. That is just a guess. I know that it rubs a lot of hunters in our area the wrong way though and it is like swimming upstream.

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.