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December 25, 2023

TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn

Managed Lands Deer Permits LISTEN: (3 Min, 42 Sec) IN RECENT YEARS, more and more landowners and hunters have started taking advantage of our Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s “Managed Lands Deer Permit”, or MLDP. After the […]
August 24, 2023

TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn

At the Water Hole LISTEN: (3 Min, 30 Sec)   TEXAS IS A THIRSTY STATE! Rainfall at the right times and amounts will make anyone a fabulous wildlife manager!   This year, in spite of extremely hot […]
January 12, 2021

Can Science Save Deer From CWD?

What’s in a name? Chronic wasting disease sounds ominous, too descriptive for comfort, almost impolite in its directness. It is, in fact, a truthful name for a disease and a real threat to North America’s cervids. Cervids, such […]
September 11, 2020

Go Organic for Whitetail

Texas has a Cornucopia of Natural Alternatives to Corn and Other Artificial Deer Enticements. Let’s face it, Texas deer hunters pursue the wary whitetail in two basic ways―baiting and playing on the sexual urges of rutting whitetail bucks Deer […]
September 11, 2020

Are These 7 Days Your Best Chance for a Big Texas Buck?

If you could schedule a hunt during a 7 day cycle that produces more big bucks than any other time in most of Texas, would you? Well, there is still time. Since the advent of the […]
May 22, 2019

Podcast: Harvesting, Cleaning and Cooking Wild Game with Guest Jeremy Beaston

On this episode, Dustin sits down with Jeremy Beaston from the Cast, Blast, Grill, Chill podcast to talk about eating the harvests from your wild game pursuits including field care, cleaning, prepping and cooking wild game […]
October 30, 2018

Using Game Cameras for Hunting Success {Video}

Hunting season is upon us and many of us out in the woods rely on trail cameras (AKA game cameras) to be our eyes when we are not in the woods hunting at our stand or […]
September 13, 2018

Whitetail Eating Quail Eggs?

Of all game animals in the world, whitetail deer are the most unique and multi-faceted, spawning tons of debate around the campfire. That is why this week in our fourth installment of this six-part series; we […]
November 11, 2017

Has Your Early Deer Season Been a Bust?

Opening day came into East Texas and it was a scorcher.  Most areas of Texas saw record high temps in the upper 80’s.  These record high temps pretty much put a damper on opening day of […]
April 6, 2017

Automated Online Managed Lands Deer Program Rollout Coming Soon

New system simplifies harvest recommendations, offers print at home tag issuance Landowners participating in the highly-popular Managed Lands Deer Program (MLDP) will be able to complete the enrollment process and print their tags online beginning this […]