Texas Fish & Game

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July 25, 2016

BIRDS OF A DIFFERENT FEATHER by John N. Felsher

Alternative Game Birds Add to the Diversity of Texas Hunting Ever get tired of competing with a thousand other hunters for game? Want to hunt abundant species with long seasons, liberal bag limits and little pressure— […]
July 25, 2016

BARE BONES HUNTING by Lou Marullo

Have Fun, Hunt Safe hitetail season is right around the corner and that means most deer hunters will soon be perched 15 to 20 feet above ground in their favorite deer stand. The percentage of hunters who […]
July 25, 2016

SILVER AT THE JETTIES by Chester Moore

“What is that?” My fishing partner and (now former) Texas Fish & Game sales rep Nicole Becka asked me and our boat captain Robert Scherer. As she pointed toward the tip of the Port Aransas Jetties, […]
July 25, 2016

TEXAS SALTWATER by Calixto Gonzales

Bench Depth am an unapologetic piscavore. I love eating fish, often to the chagrin of some of my more “enlightened” fellow anglers who think keeping, filleting, and eating fish like trout, snook, and redfish is some sort […]
July 25, 2016

ENCOUNTER WITH THE WHITE BUFFALO by Chester Moore

A beautiful herd of longhorn cattle made their way across a bluebonnet covered meadow. Walking down a trail from an oak thicket, one particularly massive bull stopped and glared at us, so I felt obliged to […]
July 25, 2016

TEXAS FRESHWATER by Matt Williams

Catching Kermit ongview Bass Pro Jim Tutt has been sharing entertaining stories with me about his nephew, Andrew, for several years now. To hear Tutt tell it, the Johnson-McQueen Elementary fourth grader is waay mature for his […]
July 25, 2016

ADVANCED HAND LOADING by Steve LaMascus

For this article we are going to assume that you are an experienced reloader who has all the usual equipment and appurtenances. This said, we are going to look at how to make better ammo and […]
July 25, 2016

THE TF&G REPORT

Feral Hogs Threatening Texas Eastern Turkey? Despite the intensive efforts that saw turkey hunting opened throughout most of the East Texas region over the last 20 years, more recently numerous counties lost turkey hunting opportunities because […]
July 25, 2016

TEXAS HOT SHOTS

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July 25, 2016

THE DEPT. OF DEFENSE

Rattles: Fact and Fiction Did you know rattlesnakes roam the southeastern corner of the state? When thinking of the venomous snakes in the region, the cottonmouth, copperhead and to a lesser extent, the coral snake come […]