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Ready for Prime Times O CCASIONALLY, THE POST OFFICE will lose a magazine in its labyrinth of conveyor belts, pneumatic tubes and giant cogwheels. Or, it will drag its feet while making its appointed rounds so that a subscriber doesn’t get

White Turkey Response ABOUT 25 YEARS AGO, on my grandfather’s farm in Wilson Co. along the Cibolo Creek near La Vernia, TX, there was the largest group of gobblers I had ever seen before or since roaming around. There was

Poaching Must End T HE SHELL OF an alligator snapping turtle is unmistakable. Giant ridges rise up giving the species an ancient look. In reality, these creatures are not much different from dinosaurs of the past. Seeing pieces of shell and

Bugging for Bass T HE SHAKESPEARE FIBERGLASS fly rod was my great pride during the summer of 1959. I stood on the bank of Houston’s Hermann Park duck pond and again admired the trim, white blank and the clean red

Let Us Never Forget Our Daily Lessons I THOUGHT FOR SURE I would tumble out of my stand the way my body was trembling and quivering so violently. Without a doubt the biggest buck of my life was standing statuesque not

Why Spinning Rigs Belong in an Angler’s Arsenal SPINNING REELS HAVE BEEN AROUND for decades. I fished with one a lot when I was a kid shagging grasshoppers around farm ponds back in the 1960s. One thing I’ll always remember

What’s Legal to Stick with an Arrow… and How to Do It BOW FISHING IS BY FAR one of my favorite outdoor pursuits. It combines many elements into one relatively simple sport of arrowing non-game fish of many varieties. Two

In the Bag I CAN SAFELY SAY that I am the saltwater angler that I’ve become largely from the mentorship of one fishing guide: Captain Larry Corbett. He taught me to fish with artificial lures at a time when I used

Prepping for the Biggest Dove Hunt in America DID YOU KNOW THAT 30 PERCENT of all of the doves bagged in America are taken in Texas? Annually, close to 400,000 Texas hunters take to the field and bag somewhere in

Summertime Whitetail Pursuits T HANKFULLY IT IS FINALLY MID-SUMMER. Whitetail fawns are on the ground, some starting as early a mid-April continuing on through August—and antlers on bucks are once again interesting. As deer hunters we sometimes tend to forget

Semi-Auto or Revolver? T HE REVOLVER WAS the preeminent handgun for well over a hundred years, but in the late-1980s or early ‘90s, the semi-auto caught up and then passed the revolver as the most likely to succeed. There were many

IN 2017, THE TEXAS PARKS & WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT (TPWD), the Llano River Watershed Alliance and Bass Pro Shops partnered to help celebrate conservation successes in the South Llano River and to recognize the ecological, recreational and economic importance of Guadalupe

Keeping Your Cool in a Dicey Situation R IKI PIKE HAS BEEN DRIVING bass boats longer than he’s been driving pick-up trucks. The 32-year-old angler from Silsbee claims he has bucked some big waves on some of Texas’s largest reservoirs