LTR 2025 - The Madness has begun!

Terry Green · February 04, 2025, 11:39:00 AM

Dave is after them again...

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Terry Green · February 04, 2025, 05:59:12 PM

Dave just stalked that same group again and they slipped into the brush so he went on forward and look what came out right behind him.

He never saw it.....

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Terry Green · February 04, 2025, 06:42:46 PM

Dave is after them again!!! Not sure how much longer they are going to be laid back.

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Terry Green · February 04, 2025, 07:03:33 PM

Here Dave goes yet again!!!

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Terry Green · February 05, 2025, 11:08:08 AM

Somebody done tagged out this morning!

lopey15 · February 05, 2025, 12:59:20 PM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vBlzPmdY9yg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHITUr2Aabo

a couple of videos explaining our 15 sec double javelina kill! Congrats Dusty, moment we won't soon forget!

rastaman · February 05, 2025, 01:24:59 PM

Congratulations guys!

Hoosier71 · February 05, 2025, 09:04:03 PM

Congratulations Dusty & Sid!

Terry Green · February 06, 2025, 09:50:26 AM

More stories and videos coming soon from last night's action from Sidney and Dusty.

Just got this from Dusty. ....

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trad_bowhunter1965 · February 06, 2025, 10:43:18 AM

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rastaman · February 06, 2025, 10:55:21 AM

Way to go Blake!

Dusty Rogers · February 06, 2025, 02:28:52 PM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ufLD-2j1-5I

Night hog hunting in South Texas!

Dusty Rogers · February 06, 2025, 02:36:15 PM

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CCSufKlbs7k

Sid's night kill boar!
What a rush!!
Congrats Sid!

Terry Green · February 06, 2025, 04:14:18 PM

52 # Bow - VPA 175

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Terry Green · February 06, 2025, 04:20:46 PM

Great post Blake. Somehow I missed it in all the chaos. I can see the happiness of your revenge in your hero pic

Terry Green · February 06, 2025, 10:29:17 PM

Dusty's LTR Battle Scars....

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Ramjet · February 07, 2025, 11:42:24 AM

Congratulations to all the successful hunters. Looks like a great time

rastaman · February 07, 2025, 11:59:32 AM

Great shot Sid! Thanks for posting up the video Dusty. Congratulations to you guys!

Terry Green · February 07, 2025, 12:32:56 PM

More pics and videos coming....

In 3 weeks we had an over 70° tempatur swing, 21 - 93.

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McDave · February 07, 2025, 04:48:46 PM

To add a little depth to Terry's photos of my "stalk," here is the rest of the story. A group of 4 or so javelinas was approaching from the end of one of the senderos that form the spokes of the wagon wheel that we had corned. My plan was to cut through the underbrush until I reached a spot I knew about where I could be well concealed, but have a shot at one as they were approaching while they were munching corn on the sendero. Most of the time, it would have taken them a half hour or so to munch the distance from where they were to my ambush spot, and I reached the spot in about 15 minutes, accumulating a few new arm punctures from the thorns along the way. I couldn't see them during my approach, and when I got to my window and peeked through, there were no javis on their way to my spot, or so I thought. I said to myself, "oh well, they spooked," which often happens.

Then I turned around and looked toward Terry, and there they were about 25 yards past where I was standing, munching toward him at the incredible speed of maybe 10' per minute. They had gotten in front of me! At this point I didn't see any other alternative than to sneak after them, and try to close the distance. I was upwind of them, and whenever one of them turned around to stare at me, I froze until he or she went back to feeding. If a javi can't smell it and it doesn't move, it doesn't exist for him, I guess. I soon closed to within 20 yards, but all I had to shoot at were javi butts, not an ideal target, or sort of a quartering away shot whenever one of them turned back to stare at me, but no opportunity to draw my bow without spooking them. Well, eventually they tired of that game and faded off into the brush, so I walked back to Terry to wait and see if they would reappear.

As I approached Terry, I could see that he had sort of a peculiar look on his face. I was not real happy with the way things had turned out, but I was sort of proud of myself for making a successful stalk and getting within shooting range of them without spooking them, so I wondered what the peculiar look was all about. What I didn't realize until he told me was that as I was stalking the javis, a javi was stalking me. I was so focused on the 4 in front of me that I hadn't looked back and noticed that a straggler was trying to catch up with the rest of the pack, coming close enough at one point that through Terry's camera it looked to him like the javi was about to goose me with its snout! The javi probably wasn't ever really that close, due to foreshortening of the camera lens, but pretty close nevertheless. He had drifted off into the underbrush when the rest of them did, so I was never aware that he was there.

I'm not sure what I should have done if I had been aware that one was right behind me. I know that if I had turned around and drawn my bow, he would have been gone in a flash. Probably I should have just frozen in place without looking at him and maybe he would have stayed on the sendero and tried to catch up with his group, and I could have shot him when he was focused on them and not me.

Anyway, I had a great time on the trip, and hope to do it again next year, if the good Lord is willing.