Pinzgauer in Texas

Andy78837 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:14 pm Post subject: Pinzgauer in Texas

Not sure where to post pics so I'll play it safe. These are some pictures of mostly my 710 at work and play here in southwest Texas.

One of our rare solid precipitation events.

Feeding deer

Lake Amistad, Del Rio, Tx in the distance

A track on one of the ranches I feed.

Pinz coming up the hill in previous picture

Andy

Andy78837 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

Some more pictures of a recent trip to Big Bend National Park. BBNP is in part of the Chihuahuan Desert.

Going into the mountains

One of the vistas from the mountains

RAIN!

Going through a dry wash

Follow the leader

Rough road

Pre trip gathering

Lunch in the desert

It is starting to get hot, let's speed things up

Did I say it was getting warm? About 41 degrees C and climbing.

710K modified for hunting
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pit stop to top off drinking water supply befroe trip
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Andy

Anthony · Off-Road Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Odometer: 1640

Andy they are great pictures. The first one could so easily be here on a lane or a track on someone's farm. It is strange, I always think of over their as being wide open spaces or great big cannons with huge cliffs.

Andy78837 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject:

I guess I tried to squeeze in too many pics. Here are the last two.
710K modified for hunting

Pre trip pit stop to top off drinkning water supply

weather fairies reply to a request for cool weather?

Andy

Andy78837 · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:03 pm Post subject:

Anthony, the first pic is a ranch road on one of the ranches we feed. The hill in the following pics is on another ranch. We do have canyons and such but I know you are a non hunter and the pictures I have of a canyon involve harvested animals. I will take some more without the game and post them eventually.

Andy

Anthony · Off-Road Guru Joined: 05 Mar 2007 Odometer: 1640

That last image Andy could be even be Scotland. that is a tidy 710 DoKa.

I very much appreciate your sensitivity Andy.

Bryn Pinzgauer · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

They are great pictures. I like the "rough road" one with the 710 working its way up that track. Do you really have bears there too as the Big Bend sign suggests? For some reason I had always assumed that they all lived further west and north.

Nathaniel · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 9:24 pm Post subject:

Very cool, You guys don't know how lucky you are to have so much space!

We're just not allowed off the roads here!

Andy78837 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:52 am Post subject:

Yes, most of us do realize how lucky we are and as stated previously the guys who live in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, etc where there is public land are even luckier. Bib Bend is huge, over 800,000 acres and just down the road from it to the west is Big Bend State Park that is almost that big.

There are bears in Texas. Mostly in the eastern part of the state, but out here we also have them. There is a colony(?) of them in the county I live in and within the last 4-5 weeks they caught one in Del Rio. The one out here move in from Mexico. Bears in Texas are strictly protected. If you injure one you had better have some very serious teeth and claw marks on you.

Mountain lions are here in numbers also. They are rather reclusive and their home territories can be as much as 10 square miles. They are regarded as predators and are subject to being shot any time of the day or night or at any time of the year. Mountain lions take about one deer a week. What really puts them on the black list is the fact that occasionally they develop a taste for mutton or beef and then they are in trouble.

Sheep, even without a wool subsidy from the government are still fairly big out here as are goats. There are cows, but one ranch I feed has 12,500 acres and yet can only support about 80 cows.

Most ranchers lease out hunting rights and derive a healthy income from hunters who are after whitetail deer. We have a rather large population of them in the state and in some cases they are a traffic nuisance. We also have a large number of native turkeys and quail.

Then there are the exotics, Barbado sheep, mouflon sheep, Axis and sika deer, blackbuck antelope, you name it, someone is making money off of them.

Mostly it is ethical and "fair chase" but there are some who aren't. Big ball of wax.

Andy

Andy78837 · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 12:55 am Post subject:

Anthony, that 710K started life as a 710K. The fellow that purchased it had it cut and redone so he and his dad could hunt out of it. That's what the small gantry in back is for.

Andy