To say the least, this past year has been hard for many people and one that most of us would like to forget. With the Covid pandemic, elections, and freezeout of February, thank the good Lord that summer is here, and fall is just around the corner. And with fall, we can hopefully look forward to an untroubled and uninterrupted hunting season.
A 127-acre ranch minutes from Main Street Boerne is now on the market, and it has potential for commercial and residential development.
The Winsbrook Ranch features a Hill Country terrain with 1,460-square-feet of I-10 frontage as well as thousands of square feet along a creek that runs through the property. Also on site are a three-bedroom [...]
Most Texas hunters and landowners want to produce and/or harvest the best bucks they can. For landowners, the better the bucks, the better the economic return. For hunters, the ultimate goal of harvesting a record-book white-tailed deer is [...]
While reading a Texas hunting magazine recently, I couldn’t help but notice how many Ranches and Outfitters advertised deer management programs while peddling their trophy white-tailed deer hunts. Unfortunately, some of the “trophy management” applications that many hunting operations, as [...]
The feral hog, Russian boar, Razorback, Rooter, or whatever you prefer to call it, is a topic of campfire banter and heated debate throughout Texas and much of the U.S. From the boardroom to the bunkroom, no other creature stirs the emotions of so many people. Sportsmen, ranchers, biologists, ecologists, and even developers have wide and [...]
Hunting season has passed. The leaves have erupted, the grass is growing fast, the lawnmower is tuned, and as usual, the weed eater does not work; a sure sign that spring has arrived. In the back of my house, in the sunroom of a converted carport, I sit each morning with the rising sun watching the deer at the feeder and the newly arrived [...]
If the white-tailed deer is considered the king of the pasture, surely the bobwhite quail can be labeled the prince. The mottled brown quail, with its distinctive black and white striped head, can be found throughout most of Texas. Yet, many sportsmen and landowners throughout the state have been asking what’s happening to this popular [...]
BY: RICHARD B. “RICK” TAYLOR- BROKER ASSOCIATE/WILDLIFE BIOLOGIST
Many times, an overly excited hunter has bagged what he considered a trophy, only to be sorely disappointed when he walks upon his beloved buck. “I thought he was bigger than that,” he laments. The problem was he looked at the antlers and not the deer’s body or compared the [...]
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