Hunting Buffalo, Tx Area

[jhy]

For all of you hunters on here that are privileged enough to hunt this country you need to count your blessings.  I was down here 2 weeks ago and caught 2 nice boars with decent teeth, and a barr with about 4" teeth.  Got all my dogs wacked pretty good, but I am back this weekend and I really enjoy this terrain.  No pine trees, wildcat thickets, bayous with gators, moccasins, mosquitos, gnats, kudzu, honeysuckle, etc. etc.  It has been easy riding, small patches of hardwoods and just a pleasure to hunt so far.  Not to mention I dont have to fool with corn fields!  Louisiana is a nightmare compared to this place!

Joey

[Noah]

PICTURES MAN!!! That's just not cool to talk about the promised land without one darn photo!!

[jhy]

Noah,

I agree, but I have a disease that makes me lose every camera that I buy!  If there was a walmart here I would go buy one for sure!!!  The boys I hunt with are not concerned with cameras either.  I wanted pics of the hogs last week, but we had to go over to a ranch that the dogs had gotten over onto.  The rancher had some strange fellas down from Pennsylvania bow hunting and they felt that we molested their hunt with our dogs running pigs from the south side of a 4000 acre ranch to the north end and onto his ranch.  So to satisfy them they asked if they could shot the hogs in the stock trailer and the boys I was hunting with let them.  I was to worried about getting my bulldog to the vet because that barr hog put a cut in the joint of his left leg that was too deep for staples and severed the artery.  I may pick up a disposable one tonight and have it transfered over to disc for tomorrows hunt.  I believe you would like the heck out of these guys.  They have some nice yella dogs and some fine roping horses.  I believe that the horses are all Hancock blood.  All of them are Red and Blue Roans.

Last nights hunt my pride and joy mt. cur with a 1/8 of bluetick didnt get out over 400 yds.  This boys puppies ranged out 800 yds avg, and 1 saddleback hunted out .8 miles and circled a pond.  Made me a little frustrated to say the least!  The guys brother had hunted it that morning and got on pigs and may have moved them out of there.  We didnt get on anything but still a nice hunt.

Joey

[Noah]

10-4, I used to be the same way   I finally got me one of those watertight contraptions they call a "zip-lock-bag", stuffed my $99 walsmart digital in it, then in a "fanny pack" with my vet wrap and water bottle and I've had "picture capability" ever since

Never heard of a Hanrooster, but the roan part sounds like there's some Hancock in the mix...Wait a minute... must be the darn profanity filter again....   Hancawk... I got ya        If the "rooster" has anything to do with Gallo Del Cielllo let me know.... I'd like to talk to those boys

Tell me those goofy bow hunters didn't actually shoot the hogs in the trailer....

[kevin]

There's some ol boys down the road from me that have a whole mess of them Hancok horses.  I think their having a big sale next year.  They are pretty horses.
 
  Buffalo isn't far from me.  It is some nice country.

[jhy]

Kevin,

Thank you, it is Hancock.  I dont know how that got misspelled.  It is nice down here and I look forward to coming back soon.  Where are you located?

Noah,

Yep, I did it that way with my camera but I always lose my camera when I go to the protection trials and conformation shows.  These Hancock horses have huge butts and small heads and the coloring if phenomenal!  These are true Cattle Ranches over here that are huge!  4000 acres is the smallest I have hunted and 13,000 the biggest.  Nothing like back home.  Tonight we had a shrimp boil and cooked some brisket and the last visit the we boiled up some bugs.  The only difference between here and home is the terrain, bugs, humidity, and hog population, just to mention a few.  They really have some nice saddle back curs and yella dogs that work both cattle and hogs.  Hopefully I will take a yella female back with me.  I already have a nice reverse bmc out of their blood that is still on the bench from the last visit.

And yes they shot the hogs in the trailer, but with a pistol instead of their bows.  I can just see them now back in Pennsylvania with that barr hog mounted telling how " Scary it was to kill him"lol

Joey

[kevin]

West of Fairfield.

[matt_aggie04]

That is some awesome country there Joey, I drive that road between Buffalo and Oakwood and on up to your neck of the woods when I go and see hogs and hog sign regularly.  A few months ago I must have seen 20 right outside of Buffalo on the side of 79 just traveling and eating at 2 in the afternoon.  Some real nice country around there.  I am like you and starting to really count my blessing when hunting those places compared to a pine plantation or deep woods thicket with vines everywhere....hope catch heals up soon for you.
MG

[smwilson]

Left the farm outside of New Iberia in 1974, never looked back. Got tired of duck hunting with 2#8 and a load of buck shot. The 8's to shoot the ducks and the buckshot to shot the gators before they ate my duck. Lots of good times and people, alway a cajun when your moma was Hebert. The farm is still in the family but katrina took its toll. Never saw FEMA, or trailers or free anything in our neck of the woods. About twenty of us kin folk went down three weeks later and worked for a week to clean everything up. Had a bunch of lazy A-S people of a more sun tan color sitting on there butts watching us work on clearing roads, repair levies and community activities. Central texas is great!!

[TexasJ]

I'm from Alvin TX and I sometimes drive the 3 hrs to my family's place in Buffalo.  It really is nice country to dog hunt.  Ive had some pretty good hunts in Oakwood too... I hunted for the TDHA tournament hunt up there.

[jhy]

Matt,

I had a blast this a.m. we bayed a small group and caught two small boars out of the bunch and didnt even get dirty, but I did get 1 briar scratch.lol  AJ rolled out with the last one and ran her 3 miles and about 10:30 he quit.  He still has a cut from that 4" tusk in left back leg from 2 weeks ago over here. That may have cost him a couple of steps.  Both ranches that I have hunted were on 79.  Got to start Catch's replacement, which is his aunt and she did good for her first time.  The smaller boar was about 50lbs and bayed up in a pond on a steep bank.  She followed me right in, leashed her up and dropped her down on the hog, which is bigger than her, she clamped down and I pulled them both up with not even getting close to getting wet!  Second boar was 150 or so and she was late getting to the bay and there wasnt an ear for her to hit so she really didnt know what to do.

We hunted mostly puppies and they all got some good expierence.  These boys have some nice yella and saddle back curs.  I am loading a female of theirs up in the a.m. and taking her back home with me.  She is a great looking dog, but still real green.  The only problem is that she is bred to a dog named Joe (Justin Bounds Saddle Back Dog) which is from the same line as she is.  I dont know much about that dog, but he is out of this boys original dog Joe( A Fatty Brother).  At least that is how I have understood it.  So, I may have to raise some pups out of her, but the ole boy said I could keep a couple and that they should make great dogs.  Have you heard of any of these dogs, besides Fatty?  If so I would appreciate some feed back on them.

I appreciate you thinking of Catch.  I havent been that worried about him in 5 yrs.  The Vet and I got off to a bad start, but he ended up being a pretty nice guy considering I paid him over $400.00 to sew up his leg.  He started off telling me that my dog might not make it and I cut that conversation off and told him what needed to be done instead of talking about it then thats when he started talking price first.(Which I understand where he is coming from in hindsight, but still got me hot because I wasnt there to negotiate prices.  I was there to save my dog no matter what the cost)


SmWilson,

You are preaching to the choir!lol  No offense, but I have learned to steer clear of any woman with the last name of Hebert.  All of them seem to be real Fire Crackers!haha  I noticed that there isnt any bridge fishing sportsman going on over here in this part of the country as well.  I may get back home and decide to work a little harder so I can retire over here sooner than later.  I am from and currently reside in Shreveport, but I went to grade school, high school, and college on the Gulf Coast and Mighty Miss.

Joey