Cruising For Bruins -06/15/2009
Ocala, Florida resident David Shashy and I have been friends and hunting companions for a long time. We met in 1987 when he hunted with me ...
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Specs Reds and Friends -06/10/2009
Just a short drive north of Corpus Christi is the small town of Berclair . What makes this town, described as a wide spot in the road, so special is the fact that it is the home of whit ...
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Hunting For Rainbows in Texas -04/02/2009
As a large number of bass fishermen with elaborate boats in tow headed west to fish the bass-rich environment of Amistad Lake, only an hour’s ride west of my home town of Uvalde, my wife, Jan, and I w ...
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Coyotes on the Rio Grande -02/28/2009
As Pecos belted out his best imitation of an injured rabbit, I laid on my side prepared for action. Not five minutes later, a coyote exploded from the thorny brush only steps from us. With the crossha ...
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Friends and Blue Quail Hunting -02/02/2009
With the Texas deer season over, quail hunting represents an excellent excuse to spend time in the brush, and that’s just what I did on the third weekend in January. The hunt actually started on Frida ...
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Brush Country Monarchs -12/24/2008
The brush land paralleling both sides of the Rio Grande River, south of Del Rio, Texas, is considered a harsh environment with a plethora of brush species characterized by sha ...
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Manipulating Optimal Antler Traits -12/12/2008
As I walked over the sparsely-vegetated, windswept grain field towards my vehicle, my mind was in a quandary as to which part of the ranch I would search first. My objective was to ...
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The October Rush -10/14/2008
October represents the advent of another deer season with thousands of sportsmen gravitating to local grain fields and water holes to initiate the new hunting season in pursui ...
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August Big Buck Activities -08/18/2008
The 10th annual Texas Deer Association convention will take place on August 21 to August 23rd in San Antonio, Texas. One of the highlights of this convention is the antler con ...
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Fishing the Eye of the Storm -07/30/2008
As Hurricane Dolly developed strength in the Gulf of Mexico, my fishing companion, son-in-law Paul Ede, and I traveled south 200 miles to fish the bays around Padre Island. Up ...
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Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza -07/25/2008
One of the most highly anticipated summer events for Texas deer hunting advocates is the Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza, which took place in San Antonio during the second weekend in July. My ...
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Padre Fishing -07/11/2008
Since the theme of my wildlife
consulting business is to work with, not for, people, I have a rather
large number of friends associated with my business. One of my good fr ...
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Spring Break -04/03/2008
Spring Break was spent traveling. It started on Saturday, March 15 when my wife Jan and I traveled south to the Broken Bow Ranch where we attended the wedding of my friend, ranch owner Bow Carpenter. ...
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Texas Fires and Deer Surveys -02/27/2008
On February 8 and 9 I attended the Texas Deer Association’s third annual deer auction at the San Antonio Livestock Show and Rodeo. Obviously, things are changing when deer enter the auction ring and ...
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Fishing For Trout -02/11/2008
For a change of scenery during the hunting season and my college teaching schedule, my daughter Nan’s husband Paul and I spent a couple of days in early January fishing for trout, in all places, Texa ...
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South Texas December -01/03/2008
My December started out in Mexico where I conducted an aerial deer survey on several ranches entailing some 40,000 acres. As I entered the brush lands on the other side of the Rio Grande, it was obvi ...
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Texas Deer Hunting, A Family Tradition -09/06/2007
Deer hunting has always been a big part of our family’s activities. The pursuit of those elusive whitetails allowed us to spend many hours together enjoying quality family time that is often overloo ...
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