Texas Fish & Game

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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 […]
August 11, 2017

Hill Country Awakening

I had hunted my entire life in the Piney woods and river bottoms of East Texas.  I had never hunted anywhere else and the only exposure I had to other places was through a 3 foot […]
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 […]
March 14, 2017

Blue Deer?

For years I have heard about strange whitetail deer that have a blue tint to their coats. My father even reported seeing some of these deer on a hunting lease near San Saba, TX in the […]
February 20, 2017

Bow buck

14pt scoring 191″7/8 Columbus Tx Xpedition bow Gold Tip arrow Trophy Ridge sights 25 yard shot
February 2, 2017

First Case of CWD Detected in Free-Ranging Texas Whitetail

State taking steps and following plan to deploy early detection and containment strategy Chronic wasting disease has been detected in a hunter harvested 1 1/2 –year-old white-tailed buck submitted for sampling within Surveillance Zone 3 in […]
December 22, 2016

Christmas Buck

I guess you never really appreciate blessings until you desperately need one. Many years ago things were not going so well for myself or my family. I had been laid off and out of work for […]
December 15, 2016

148 7/8 San Saba County

Taken in San Saba county. 148 7/8. Biggest deer to be taken off family place since owning it in 1996. Brooke shot this deer on her 25th birthday.
December 1, 2016

East Texas 10 point

Deer was harvested on Boyd Lake Hunting Club in Jasper County @ 10:30 a.m on 11/23/16.