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Camping in style over Turkey Weekend

Turk10mm

Turk10mm

Just smokin
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Houston, Tx
My girlfriend and I went out to the family cabin to spend the weekend away from wireless devices, wifi hotspots, laptops, aircards, cell phones, pagers, and any other electronic leash that I tend to be tied to 24x7x365. We left on Thanksgiving after spending a brief dinner with the inlaws (my fam got together the weekend before). Its a 5 hour drive out there and we got in about 11pm. We're West of Kerrville on I-10 out in the texas hillcountry. Of course, I forgot about deer season being in full swing so the dirt road to our cabin was a little more populated than normal. I was pissed that 6 trucks came down the road on Saturday. That's how remote it is. Usually there's no one out there.

Anyways, I spent time with Wendy, drank booze, smoked cigars, did manly shit like shoot stuff and built fires. I did a few chores around the place like clearing some trees and brush and just got back in tune with nature for a bit before being forced to come home.

We saw plenty of animals, although, I don't shoot them anymore. We prefer to watch them and they love the land because they're safe there and they're kept in by game fences. There's a few pictures of highlight animals I got to get some snapshots of, including an albino elk, elk cow, whitetail buck. We have exotics on the property. Elk aren't supposed to be here either.

Hope you enjoy. I did. Its nice for a city boy who's stuck behind a desk 60 hours a week to get back out in the woods were my fondest memories of childhood are. I get to feel like a boy again, just kickin rocks and not having a care in the world.

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Turk10mm said:
Hope you enjoy. I did. Its nice for a city boy who's stuck behind a desk 60 hours a week to get back out in the woods were my fondest memories of childhood are. I get to feel like a boy again, just kickin rocks and not having a care in the world.
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Amen to that!
 
Nice photos.

That one of the animal in the chair scared me! :D
 
Man! That looks awesome. I've always wanted to spend some time in a setting like that in Texas. Is that considered South Texas?
 
What??? no cell phone, no internet, that's prison...LOL
Nice pics but I have to say that your dog is the happiest looking fellow in those pics.

Brian
 
Very nice pics.

How common are abline elks ? I hve never seen one before, but living in the southeast I have little to no familiarity with elk.

Cparker
 
Cute dog. Cute lady friend. Spectacular location (for remoteness). BUT WAIT, what's that dish I see mounted on the side of the cabin??? That's cheating man. :)
 
While I wouldn't consider it camping, I'd consider it "roughing" it. I usually go camping a couple of times over the winter, I love being out of the reach of technology for a couple of nights. What kind of cigar are you smoking in that pic?
 
Haha.. Thanks for the great replies. Funny thing about my dog, is he HATES the country. He's a tenderfoot weeny so he hates walking on the rocks. He gets cold easy, shivers, and grunts until you either pick him up or put him back in the cabin..

The dish is for when there's nothing else to do, or watching the weather. I think it was on a total of an hour for the weekend. Its nice to have tv at night when its 30 degrees and raining.

The cigar was a Kinky Freidman, I thought it was the perfect smoke as it would definitely be something Kinky would enjoy.

The neat thing about the animals on the property is that many of them are not native to West Texas. South Texas would be farther south of San Antonio. Texans have been introducing exotic (anything not native to Texas) animals for years. I believe there's about 8 species on our land currently including fallow, black buck, antelope, wild goats, curly deer, mules, white tails, elk, moose, etc.

The picture of the female elk was a GREAT picture for my family. She's probably three years old and was probably the first generation born on the property. What I didn't get a picture of was the other two large females and a VERY VERY large male along with two yearlings. So the elk are breeding like crazy.

We'll probably have to harvest some animals from the land this year to keep the population at a manageable level, but it'll be purely for conservation sake, not hunting. Hunting on the land is a joke, as you can see. The men in the family have joked about making spears and seeing who the first is to truley take down an animal physically, instead of shooting to harvest. It will probably turn from a joke to reality this or next year. Shooting these guys is like stepping on a roach, its so easy.
 
Cparker said:
Very nice pics.

How common are abline elks ? I hve never seen one before, but living in the southeast I have little to no familiarity with elk.

Cparker
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They're very rare, actually. Obviously they don't survive in the wild very well. I'm sure they're easy game when they are calves. Then hunters probably take them if they do get to be adult size. here's a website on em. http://www.silvertine.ca/whiteelk.html The one I saw appears to be colouroid, i don't think it had pink eyes.
 
Nice pic's Turk, thanks for sharing mate.
I am stuck in the middle of Sydney city so I know what it is like to get away from the fast life once and a while.
 
Turk10mm said:
We'll probably have to harvest some animals from the land this year to keep the population at a manageable level, but it'll be purely for conservation sake, not hunting. Hunting on the land is a joke, as you can see. The men in the family have joked about making spears and seeing who the first is to truley take down an animal physically, instead of shooting to harvest. It will probably turn from a joke to reality this or next year. Shooting these guys is like stepping on a roach, its so easy.
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That reminds me of the guys who go 'hunting' in Africa (hope this doesn't offend anyone). Shooting a zebra requires the same skill level as walking over to your neighbor's hobby farm and shooting one of his horses.
 
Man, thats a hard sell to call that camping :p

Between the beautiful cabin and being surrounded by nature I imagine it was hard to come home.
 
hoshnasi said:
Between the beautiful cabin and being surrounded by nature I imagine it was hard to come home.
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We're going back after xmas. I'm off the entire week and early following week so we'll be spending 4 or 5 more days up there. I hope it snows! But it was very hard to come back to the big city. Slowing down makes you realize how good life really is.
 
Great pictures. I'm trying to put together a camping weekend with the wife here in the next couple months, however she isn't fond of the cold much less "roughing it" so we'll see how that goes.
 
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