Tech Tip: De-cocking a crossbow
De-cocking a crossbow can be intimidating if you have never seen it done properly. Check out this important tech tip from Excalibur to see it done right.
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Early season snacks: Where to find whitetails in crossbow season
If you want to be successful hunting whitetails with a crossbow during the archery-only season gaining a broad knowledge of their natural food habitats is important and the time to start thinking about it is now. It is easy to
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Crossbow hunting legalities and practicalities
Hunting in Texas is an interesting place. While deer and hog populations are sky high, waterfowl habitat in much of the state has decline causing smaller numbers of snow geese and other birds to winter here. In addition, lease prices
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Why Should I Consider Crossbows?
Benefits of Adding a Crossbow to Your Repertoire Since their invention, crossbows have been a powerful, accurate, lethal and sometimes even controversial piece of archery equipment. Crossbows became legal to hunt with during archery season in Texas since the 2009
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Crossbow Essentials for Bowhunting Success
When I was first introduced to the realm of crossbows in 2009, it broadened my perspective of bowhunting in many new ways. To this day, I am fired up about educating new and old archers alike to the art of
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Flash of the Blade: Selecting the Right Bolts and Broadheads
I simply love crossbows and the accessories that come with shooting them. The questions of picking out the right bolts and broadheads for your particular crossbow are questions I get frequently on my YouTube channel and this article will dive
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The Ideal Concealed Carry Pistol (3)
I have mentioned previously that I don’t trust mechanical devices to operate properly 100 percent of the time—forever. That’s one of the reasons I prefer an outside hammer pistol to one that is striker-fired. Let me explain. Proponents of striker-fired
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The Ideal Concealed Carry Pistol (2)
Last week, we explored how weather (or more precisely, climate) impacts your choice of what sidearm you’ll carry concealed and how you’ll carry it. Now, let’s talk about the features I think an ideal carry piece should have. Up front,
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Alligator garfish found in Asia!?
In one of the strangest wildlife stories to come along in a long time, an alligator garfish has been caught in Myanmar (Burma) in Southeast Asia. From Myanmar Eleven news service…. The alligator gar, a freshwater species native to North
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Is a ban on lead shot for dove coming?
Is a ban on lead shot for dove hunting on the horizon? And if they do how does steel shot and other nontoxic shot compare in the performance department? Ammunition makers have since made some serious performance tweaks to nontoxic
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Tx game animal smarter than a whitetail?
There is an animal roaming freely in the wilds of Texas than is harder to hunt than a mature whitetail deer. In fact, this animal may very well be the hardest game animal to hunt in North America. Whitetail
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In the Calculus of Dove Hunting, Dead Trees = Dead Birds
Glen was dangling his legs from his tailgate, plucking a dove pulled from his swollen game bag as I approached. Six empty Diet Dr. Pepper cans littered the bed of his truck, casualties of the sweltering September heat. A sizeable
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Podcast: The Running of the Bulls (Redfish) and Other Summer Fishing Fun at the Buras Marsh Media Bash
On this episode, Dustin rides solo again and talks about the recent annual Buras Marsh Media Bash event he attended in deep south Louisiana. Dustin mentioned all of the companies that were at this event and how their products led
Team WOA: Tournament Fishing Like You Have Never Seen
I recently spent a day riding along with the new WOA fishing team, and believe me, you’ve never seen a tournament fishing team like this before – WOA stands for Woman’s Offshore Alliance, and this team is 100-percent female. How
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Does knocking or stopping power exist?
We have all heard the terms stopping power or knockdown power. These terms are normally used when people are debating 9mm Vs .40 Vs .45 Acp. If you have not heard these debates, they can and will get quite heated.
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TFG blogger rescuing flood victims as part of “Texas Navy”
TFG blogger Jeff Stewart is on the scene to help with rescues as part of the “Texas Navy”, a group of concerned citizens using aluminum boats to aid with search and rescue in the catastrophic flooding resulting from Hurricane Harvey.
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Rockport’s Tackle Town survives-loses “T”
At the moment its officially “Ackle Town” after losing a T to category 4 hurricane force winds. But Rockport’s popular Tackle Town survived Hurricane Harvey in spite of early rumors it was among the casualties in the fishing community of
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Harvey: More than 350 alligators could escape facility as floodwaters near breaching fences
Gator Country, located between Beaumont and Winnie, TX is facing a serious situation. As of Monday a.m. water was near breaching their fences in a park that houses more than 350 alligators. “We’re less than a foot a foot from
Aggravated robbery caught on video…what would you do?
The attached video shows a local man getting absolutely pummeled inside Lucky’s Convenience store in Lufkin on August 5, 2017. After reading several ignorant comments online about this attack, I thought it would be informative if we used this incident
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Major damage to boating, fishing infrastructure at Rockport, Port Aransas, Aransas Pass, Port Lavaca
Due to the continued rain and flooding full details of damage sustained by the initial impact of Hurricane Harvey are sketchy but we have learned major damage was done to fishing and boating infrastructure form Port Lavaca to Port Aransas.