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January 22, 2019

Podcast: Range Day Finds at SHOT Show 2019 with Guest Dustin Ellermann

On this special edition of the podcast, host Dustin Warncke joins TF&G Shooting editor Dustin Ellermann at SHOT Show Range Day (Industry Day at the Range). Both Dustins gained a lot of insight and knowledge from […]
January 17, 2019

SIG Optics BDX Rifle Scope and Range Finder System Review

SIG Sauer’s impressive BDX System brings hi-tech to hunting big game, but here’s the catch—you still must have the skill to deliver the shot. Let me explain. The SIG system is unique because your SIG BDX […]
January 17, 2019

Why Hunt Ducks and Geese? Are We Crazy?

In California, I have walked through three feet of snow, half a mile across a field near the base of Mount Shasta to hunt Canada geese in seven-degree temperatures. In New York, I have faced chilling […]
January 15, 2019

5 Late Season Duck Strategies

Duck season is winding down and the ducks have been hunted since September.  They start getting shot at in Canada, and through every other state along the central flyway.  If you are still using the same […]
January 14, 2019

38 Point Buck Could Be World Record

Just when you start to think the all-time benchmarks for white-tailed deer can’t get any taller, a remarkable buck with a really bizarre set of antlers comes along that blows away all the other whoppers before […]
January 11, 2019

Will Exotics Wipe Out Whitetails?

White-tailed Deer vs. Exotics Exotic deer were brought into the Texas Hill County in the 1930s. Exotic numbers began to increase rapidly in the 1950’s, with the birth of the hunting industry. Exotic surveys by Texas […]
January 10, 2019

Hogs, Hogs And More Hogs

It doesn’t take an astro physicist to figure out we have a huge population of feral hogs here in Texas.  No matter whether you live in the hill country or the piney woods there are plenty […]
January 2, 2019

Wild TX Deer Found With CWD

AUSTIN – Chronic wasting disease (CWD) has been detected in a free-ranging, 5 ½ year-old white-tailed doe between Del Rio and Amistad Reservoir, making it the first confirmed case of the disease in Val Verde County. […]
January 2, 2019

Texas Wetlands Saved By Congressional Act

In December 1989, President George H.W. Bush signed into law the North American Wetland Conservation Act (NAWCA), which was a new continental conservation funding mechanism.  Designed to assist the North American Waterfowl Management Plan when waterfowl populations were […]
December 28, 2018

Consider Late Season Muzzleloader Hunts

The general whitetail only season will be over before you can say “Christmas”. But hunters should note there are late season options available in Texas and so this week I thought I would give a few of these […]