Texas Rubs and Scrape Lines

3rd week in October 17, 2026

2026-01-25T10:46:00.000-06:00

On 10.17.25 i went down to the lease to later meet Charlie after he gets out of court. I unloaded my car, I had a brand new folding Velotric folding plus bike. Set up a table and went out to stencil some green leaves on my pop up. So I went to my blind got out and started to paint and I could not stand up without a pain shooting up and down in my right leg. I packed up by painting stuff and went back to the camp called my doctor and got an appointment for Monday morning and laid down with ice on my back and dozed. Charlie came in close to 4, we chilled and went out to hunt around 4:30, after the hunt I told Charlie I was hurting too much to stay and needed help loading up, which he did and was happy to load up and go.

Turns out after a week of pain a mri showed a herniated disk at L5/s1 pushing on sciatica nerve in right leg. Hunting season was over. Grandson Corbin shot an eight point out of the Sigman blind.

2nd weekend October 2025

2025-10-03T17:12:00.001-05:00

Got here yesterday and went to the tripod at sigmans. It needed oiling and it is very loud. The feeder and cottonseed feeders were empty. So I left about 530, went to camp and just chilled. Charlie stopped at Buccee's and picked up 20 bags and we put corn in the feeders when he got here. We went to town and got another 25 bags and put it out then went to Jacksboro and got 20 bags of cotton seed

1st week of 1st grade

2025-08-18T07:57:00.001-05:00

I took off 8.11.25 thru 8.17.25 in order to ride my bike to school with the boys. After I dropped them off I would go on a 5 mile ride.

October 25, 26,27

2024-10-26T16:54:00.001-05:00

Got down last night in time for a 45 minute sit down, wind was perfect. Did not see anything. Charlie got in around 1030.

I hunted the pop up this morning and seen a doe but but did not have a good shot, Charlie hunted the tripod at the bow stand and didn't see anything.

We put chum out at the field stand and the camp stand and we got in the stands around 430.

We need new wind ribbons.

October 19 & 20

2024-10-19T21:00:00.003-05:00

Me, Morgan, the boys and Charlie made it to the lease. We all seen deer, I hunted sigman and seen 5 bucks but they were all too small, Charlie was at the field and he seen 4 or 5 and Morgan hunted camp with the boys and seen a big spike.

24-25 deer season

2024-09-28T17:53:00.000-05:00

Me an charlie came down for the hunt. Beutiful Saturday afternoon sunny skies, 88 degrees, 7 mph n breeze. He is at bow stand and I am at the camp stand. It is 552 been here about an hour

12.1.23 Deer lease

2024-01-06T16:28:00.001-06:00

Came down on Friday night, I drove my car and Morgan, Kaitlyn and boys came down in truck. It is 38 degrees, little to no non wind with overcast skies.

Nothing was seen Saturday morning. Saturday afternoon we moved the maverick blind so we could utilize it.

Saturday evening i seen 4 does at dusk. Morgan shot a doe.

Sunday morning it is crisp.

12/31/23

2024-01-06T16:23:00.000-06:00

What a beautiful morning 3 mph west wind, clear skies and 31 degrees. Here I am sitting in the pop up at camp stand. I have a bog pod death grip that my crossbow is sitting in, I practiced with it at the house and it really is a game changer for me. Nothing seen in morning. Got to pop up around 330. Wind is non existence coming from west maybe 3 mph. Feeder goes off at 430 which attracts the doves, cardinals and red shouldered blackbirds.

Amtrak California Zephyr

2023-12-02T06:56:00.001-06:00

I took some time off from hunting to ride a train. The wife and I were gone from 11/15/2023 to 11/22/2023. This was our first Amtrak ride and it was great. Lots of beautiful scenery and nice people. We went from Dallas to Springfield Illinois, got a bus to Galesburg Illinois where we got on the California Zephyr to Emeryville California. We stayed in the Hyatt House, we went out to eat with her California cousins at the Left Bank in Jack London Square then Sunday we were back on the train.

November 11, 23

2023-11-24T08:15:00.000-06:00

We came up at lunchtime, each driving from different locations. I am hunting in a ladder stand. The wind is nwn 6-12 mph, some clouds. I bet the sunset will be pretty.

Texas 23-24 gun season

2023-11-03T16:51:00.000-05:00

Last weekend of the 23-24 archery only season in Texas, tomorrow 11/4/23, the general gun season opens up. The last time I was here I had 3 does come in right at last shooting light and opted not to shoot. I moved my pop up to the other side of the feeder, it has rained about 6 inches her in kast 2 weeks.

Texas 23-24 archery season

2023-10-21T17:12:00.000-05:00

Sitting here in my pop up as the dawn is breaking. I got here about 40 minutes prior to shooting light, wind was from north now from the south which is good for me if any deer show up at feeder

2nd Saturday 23-24

2023-10-10T19:00:00.001-05:00

We just came down for the Saturday hunt. Saturday morning I had 3 shooters come in on my right, the leader was the crab claw buck. He sensed something wasn't good as he just stood and watched me and the other 2 came walking up. They never presented a shot.

Opening bow season weekend 23-24

2023-10-01T07:42:00.002-05:00

Sunday 10/1/23. 64 degrees, 3 mph se winds, a few high clouds in the sky. I have not seen anything except for doves and cardinals, lots of morning sounds

Bow Season 23-24

2023-09-30T18:22:00.003-05:00

Opening weekend we are doing the evening hunt, charlie is at the field stand and i am here at the other feeder. We dropped a 16' tripod in some trees last week. We spooked a nice buck on the way to the stands and seen tails of at least 3 more. It is in mid 90 se wind at 10 mph and sunny

Sad Day in March

2023-04-02T04:51:00.000-05:00

3/27/22

Today we had a celebration of life service for my mother, Ann Greenlee. She passed on 3/7/22 after a 5 week stay in the hospital that started out because of a broken pelvis. She was 85. She will be missed by many.

https://youtu.be/SPoIqWvgMJA

England March 25 2023

2023-04-02T02:36:00.000-05:00

My sister and myself came to England in March of 2023 to put my mother's ashes in mine brothers grave, who has been deceased since 1965. Her wish was to have her ashes put in the grave and the North Sea, so this is what we did. Two days later I put them in the North Sea behind the Pakefield church

my crossbow

2023-01-14T16:29:00.001-06:00

I have a Barnett Whitetail Hunter STR with a Hawke XB1 scope, the scope has a speed dial so after the 20 yd pin is good you step back to 30 and when that has been sighted in you are good up to 100 yds if you can see that good.

does and spikes special season

2023-01-14T16:15:00.001-06:00

So we are here again at charlies lease hoping to bag a doe or a spike. Feeder went off at 4 pm. Here the next day, hunted this morning it was 33 with 3mph south wind and at 4 it is 63 with 17 south wind. I am hunting in a pop up, 30 yds from feed pen.

last 2022 weekend

2022-12-31T07:39:00.001-06:00

Last weekend of 2022 season, in fact it is new years eve. We got here yesterday in mid afternoon and hunted til dark, seen nothing which is unusual for this stand. After the hunt we corned out at 3 places and have one more to do after this morning hunt.

12.31.22 it is 41 degrees, 3 mph se wind with high clouds. First light was at 708 with sunrise 735. Feeder is set to go off at 800 am and 4 pm

38 yds to feeder from blind.

Crossbow

2022-11-04T14:48:00.000-05:00

I got to go hunting with my friend Charlie the last couple of weeks, we would take off after lunch. His lease is about 85 miles northwest of Dallas. There are pigs and deer and since i am a guest i can only hunt pigs. Got a few pigs on camera but i have not seen any.

My son and his coworker went diwn to Crockett to hunt this weeked and iiint

I am Back

2022-03-23T23:59:00.003-05:00

It has been some time since I last posted and lots of stuff has happened.

1/26/18 - I fractured my right femur with my right tibia. This I did at work, I was standing on one of two electric transformer box and turned to my right and stepped off into a 1 foot space between the two and my leg went down and the upper torso kept going and my weight fractured the femur at the top of the bone, I was by my self in a room in the basement and Ben Milam ES. Off work for 12 weeks, couldn't walk for 5 weeks, I was more or less confined to my recliner with a cooler of sandwich fixins and Diet Dr. Peppers. but i did survive.

10/8/18 We went to Crockett to do some bowhunting, we got down there and i step out of truck into a hole and jarred the healed leg to where i had a limp and needed a cane so I didn't hunt and just hung out at camp.

3/1/19 Covid hit and pretty much put the year on hold.

11/1/20 caught covid and that pretty much sucked and i got off my Whitesboro deer lease

9/1/21 had left knee issues and covid breathing issues os i did not hunt

Last time bow hunting at Crockett

2020-08-11T19:48:00.001-05:00

It has been such a long time since I have been on. 2020 has been the the worst year, but I am sure most folks know that. I skipped hunting in 2019, we went down to Crockett to hunt and got down there stepped in a hole and twisted my knee so I decided that I could wait and still camp and share the fellowship and great food.

2018-2019 Crockett archery hunt

2018-10-30T18:35:00.001-05:00

Here we are hunting in DCNF in October the weekend before gun season. We brought down Randy, a coworker of Morgan's who has never been hunting before.
It has been raining down here so much that there is standing water where none should be, this is youth weekend and i have not heard one gunshot all day nor have i seen any trucks with kids in them.
Joe, Dale, Randy, Morgan and myself are here at this camp. Great food, fellowship and times.

Bow hunting Crockett National Forest

2018-10-27T18:39:00.001-05:00