A Brush Country Adventure Part II -01/03/2012
I remained in the same pasture during the morning of the 18th. With deer continually tending scrapes along the ranch roads, the rut was about to escalate. The weather was ideal as cloudy, co ...
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A Brush Country Adventure Part 1 -01/02/2012
On the 10th of December, I parted Uvalde in the rain, traveling south to a 40,000-acre spread on the Rio Grande to do some deer hunting. As I parted the pavement, it was not long before the rain- dr ...
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Top 6 Bucks in 2011 -11/29/2011
While assisting a substantial
number of landowners in managing their deer herds, I enjoy the privilege of
viewing a large number of deer from a helicopter each fall, and as in years
past, I classi ...
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Filming Panhandle Whitetails -08/09/2011
On the third of August, I was a guest speaker at the Austin Woods and Waters Club’s monthly meeting. Following my presentation on intensive deer management practices in Texas, I headed northwest to ...
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Leopards of Lemco Days Five and Six -07/20/2011
We came upon the tracks of a large
herd of buffalo on our fifth morning and spent over two hours tracking the group
of 80-odd animals. Tracking the herd was
easy as they left a wide swath ...
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Lemco Leopards Days Three and Four -07/19/2011
On our third cold, crystal clear
morning, we tracked a single dagga boy right on the silica-laden river bed,
then into the hip-high panicum grass that inundated much of the riparian zone. Fo ...
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Leopards of Lemco Days One and Two -07/18/2011
The deafening silence within my
brush-covered blind was shattered by the words 'shoot him,' 'shoot him,' shoot
the cat,' expelled in a commanding whisper by my professional hunter Brent Hein.   ...
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Big Game Scoring -05/20/2011
As an official scorer for the Boone and Crockett Club, I am often called upon to measure uniquely large-antlered animals taken by both avid and lucky hunters and this past year has been nothing less t ...
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An Adult Easter Egg Hunt -05/09/2011
Most families enjoy the traditional Easter egg hunt, but my granddaughters McKenzie and Madison get to enjoy what I refer to as an adult Easter egg hunt along with my wife and I as we spend our annual ...
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Hunts for Heroes -01/25/2011
On the chilly, damp morning of January 15th, I traveled south to the Willmon Ranch located in Zavala County. Normally, my trips to this portion of the golden triangle are to provide wildlife con ...
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A Dallas Safari Club Rendezvous -01/14/2011
My wife Jan and I flew to Dallas on Friday, the seventh of January, to meet up with my daughter Nan and husband Paul along with my long-time hunting companion and best of friends, David and Angie Shas ...
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Quail and Coyote Late Season Events -01/10/2011
One of the most abundant inhabitants of the brush country is the coyote, acknowledging its predominance over the thorn scrub with incessant howls at dawn and dark. Calling in coyotes, like bugling in ...
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