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Unless you started reading this forecast in the middle, you have heard as much as you will ever care to about “drought,” “no forb production,” “no fawning or nesting cover,” “no rainfall since September,” “below-average antlers” and so on. It’s a grim forecast if you look just at range and habitat conditions. But there’s more to a deer season forecast than the habitat and game conditions. Continue reading
CANADIAN, Texas — In a muddy pile of sand where a pond once flowed in the Texas Panhandle, dead fish, their flesh already decayed and feasted on by maggots, lie with their mouths open. Nearby, deer munch on the equivalent of vegetative junk food and wild turkeys nibble on red harvester ants – certainly not their first choice for lunch. Continue reading
Deer hunting is big business in Texas. Texas landowners hold a unique position. Unlike many other states, Texas has little federally or state-owned land available for public hunting. As a matter of fact, 98% of all lands available to hunting in Texas are privately owned. This position affords the Texas landowner a unique source of income. Continue reading
Access to land is one of the biggest challenges for sport hunters these days, and various forms of fee hunting can allow ranchers and other landowners to capitalize on resources they already have. These arrangements potentially can generate significant supplemental income, but of course a successful – and sustainable – hunting enterprise involves more than setting a fee and watching the money roll in. Continue reading
Follow these tips to avoid turning minor gunsmithing mistakes into expensive problems.
At-home gunsmith projects are great. Working on your own gun creates a deeper familiarity and connection with your firearm. But if you make a mistake, the task can easily turn from a quick fix to an expensive project.
Ask any professional gunsmith, and he or she will tell you countless stories of customers sheepishly walking in with a disassembled gun-in-a-bag. These do-it-yourself projects gone bad end up costing a pretty penny. Most gunsmiths charge around $50 per hour for bench time. Lost springs or pins can be well over $5 a piece. And when the parts are all mixed together, it can end up taking a couple hours for a gunsmith to figure out what springs belong where, resulting in a higher bill.
The U.S. Forest Service has reported 8,000 fires in Texas this year. At least 20 fires remained active last week. Only 2 of the 254 counties in Texas have escaped wildfires so far this year and the state is in serious drought conditions. Experts fear that wildlife has taken a big hit. Even if game animals and game birds escaped the fires, the charred land left behind may not support the game that is left. As with cattle, the rangeland can only support a certain amount of animals. Continue reading
Texas deer hunters have long been using elevated blinds to hunt from. Elevated tower blinds afford the hunter the ability to see 360 degrees. Looking over and down into the thick brush and/or cover is much more effective than trying to look through it from the ground. Where the cover is particularly thick, it can be next to impossible to see past it even 10 yards. An elevated tower makes the hunter much more successful.
When I first started DeerTexas.com back in 1998, there was no online source for hunting leases in Texas statewide. This was back when the Internet was still in its infancy and AOL still charged by the hour for Internet access. The only sources for Texas hunting leases at that time was through Chambers of Commerce listings that were snail mailed out to hunters requesting the list, newspaper classified ads, or word-of-mouth referrals. I was looking for a deer lease myself and thought there should be a better way to find a hunting lease. I saw a niche. Hunters needed a statewide source for up-to-date hunting leases that could be searched in an organized, user-friendly manner and landowners needed a place they could advertise their leases. To help keep lease costs down, I designed the site to allow landowners to advertise for free. I had just bought my first personal computer and began creating a database of Texas hunting leases. It took me two years, from 1996 – 1998, to complete the project and go live with the first Internet site of its kind… DeerTexas.com. Continue reading
The javelina is probably the closest thing to a stalking bowhunter’s dream there is. Although very nearsighted, they have a keen sense of smell and excellent hearing. A bowhunter who stalks his prey from downwind has a very good chance of getting into bow range of one of these critters.
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State officials say the feral hog population in Texas could be as high as 2 million. The hogs cause nearly $400 million in damage a year, tearing up lawns and farmers’ fields as they dig for acorns or grubs to eat. With some old boars reaching close to 400 lbs, they can also cause significant damage and injuries in car accidents when running out in front of vehicles.
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