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September 25, 2019

Podcast: Airgun Hunting for Whitetail Deer, Backyard Plinking Fun and More with Guest Rick Ward

Subscribe on your favorite podcast app or listen right here! On this week’s episode, Dustin sits down with Rick Ward, AKA The Urban Airgunner, and they talk about hunting deer and other big game with big […]
September 20, 2019

The Excitment Of Bowhunting Whitetails

When it comes to deer hunting, I almost always prefer to take mine with a bow and arrow. While I am not a bowhunting snob who would juggle someone else for hunting with a gun, I […]
September 20, 2019

Proof In The Performance: Nosler Ballistic Tip Ammunition

You’ve spent countless hours checking cameras, tending food plots and scouting out your fall whitetail hunt. You researched rifles, calibers and optics before purchase and you’ve painstakingly dialed them all in to pinpoint perfection. So why […]
September 12, 2019

No License Needed To Kill Hogs?

Feral hogs are so loathed by landowners in Texas for their habitat destroying behavior that beginning Sept. 1, you won’t even need a hunting license to pursue them on private property. That’s when a new law […]
September 11, 2019

Hunting Acreage Expands By Millions

Kicking off this year’s hunting season and continuing the Trump Administration’s efforts to increase recreational access on public lands, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt announced today new hunting and fishing opportunities on more than […]
September 6, 2019

How Do Coyotes Really Impact Whitetails?

A new study published in The Journal of Wildlife Management gives an interesting look at how coyotes impact whitetail numbers. The expansion or recovery of predators can affect local prey populations. Since the 1940s, coyotes (Canis […]
September 6, 2019

Why You Should Take Does (Early)

The whitetail deer is a truly amazing creature. When does give birth to fawns you never know the potential that fawn has to turn into a huge buck or be a doe that grows the population. […]
September 5, 2019

A Breakdown Of The 2019 Duck Flight

Officials with Delta Waterfowl have broken down prospects of the 2019 fall flight of waterfowl. It’s an interesting take and one that is very hunter-centric in other words it explains how current conditions will impact hunting […]
September 4, 2019

B&C Examines Big Game Populations

As the organization that was founded by Theodore Roosevelt to reverse the decline of big game populations more than a century ago and has tracked their recovery ever since, the Boone and Crockett Club today reflects […]
August 29, 2019

Conditions Ripe for Texas Dove Opener

While most Texans are sweltering under a brutal August heat wave, savvy dove hunters will gladly suffer along providing conditions don’t change before the Sept. 1 dove opener. A hot, dry landscape heading into the season […]