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Cattle Ranches?

Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:49 am

I've heard of marsh techniques, and hill country techniques, tracking...etc. But how many of you hunt cattle ground?


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Unread postby Zap » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:52 am

pic from stand........

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Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:54 am

I've seen many of those myself, even on public. :o
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Unread postby Zap » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:55 am

Thats alot of BULL........ :lol:
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Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 11:58 am

I had one pasture that contained 3 about that size! :o :( :x

Rancher said they won't do what he wants them to do, and they won't leave.
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Unread postby magicman54494 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:02 pm

I would not mess with a bull!!!!!
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Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:05 pm

The best thing about hunting cattle ranches, is the paths the cows plow through the thick cedars. Cows and deer travel the same routes.
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Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:06 pm

The bulls we had, were shy, and would leave if they saw you. They even winded me like a deer would.
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Unread postby Zap » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:09 pm

Zap wrote:pic from stand........

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He was not shy.......

But you can tell that if you look in his eyes..... :lol:
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Unread postby dan » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:10 pm

Spysar wrote:I've heard of marsh techniques, and hill country techniques, tracking...etc. But how many of you hunt cattle ground?

In Wisconsin you don't see many big bucks in with the cows... They like the thicker cover and cattle seem to eat so much so fast that there is not much cover left. Where I have seen some big bucks in with cattle is on steep ridges or other spots that stay thick despite the cattle because they can't get at it as easy... I hunted a big cattle ranch out in Montana and that was different. There was not a ton of cover anywhere in or out of the cattle range. There were very few cattle per acre in comparison to Wisconsin and deer did seem to mingle with the cattle just fine.
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Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:16 pm

Most of the time the cattle are gone for hunting season after being summered out there, where I hunt. Some of the public ground even has cattle run out there in summer. I met one old time rancher that didn't give a crap. He had an isolated block of public in his private that I could boat to. He told me if grass grows out there, he's letting the cattle eat it.
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Re: Cattle Ranches?

Unread postby Stanley » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:32 pm

I have done quite a bit of hunting in and around cattle. Deer are not afraid of cattle. They do however give them some space and keep their distance. Cattle are very noisy when moving in the brush. If you are hunting a bottle neck or a neck down and cattle are in it deer will not go through but rather skirt the area.
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Unread postby Edcyclopedia » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:35 pm

My 40th b-day present from the wife was a Buck hunt in the Panhandle of TX on a cattle ranch...

First morning the guide droped me off at a cattle gate and says "walk down the fence and take a right at the ribbon then go about 60 yards to the big tree - You'll find a ladder stand to sit in."

Of course it's pitch black and he doesn't mention ANYTHING about cattle in that field (in his defense I didn't ask :evil: )
Son Of a Beatch, if I didn't walk up and down that fence line 3 times before I realized the ribbon was 300 yards down the fence and inbetween me and the ribbon was cattle the size of houses.
I couldn't see them at first, just heard them, and alot of them.
Their quite nosey by the way...
So out of fear for my life I loaded my gun and later that day I told the guide - he just laughed. He said that one shot would have coasted me $10k...

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Re: Cattle Ranches?

Unread postby Haus86 » Tue Dec 27, 2011 12:49 pm

Stanley wrote:I have done quite a bit of hunting in and around cattle. Deer are not afraid of cattle. They do however give them some space and keep their distance. Cattle are very noisy when moving in the brush. If you are hunting a bottle neck or a neck down and cattle are in it deer will not go through but rather skirt the area.


I agree with Stanley. I have hunted a lot of pastured ground and the deer tend to keep some distance when the cows are around. It can be good, but cattle definitely do a number on the available cover.
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Re: Cattle Ranches?

Unread postby Spysar » Tue Dec 27, 2011 1:11 pm

The cattle make thickets that you would not be able to walk through, accessable.
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