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December 25, 2023

TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn

Managed Lands Deer Permits LISTEN: (3 Min, 42 Sec) IN RECENT YEARS, more and more landowners and hunters have started taking advantage of our Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s “Managed Lands Deer Permit”, or MLDP. After the […]
August 24, 2023

TEXAS WHITETAILS by Larry Weishuhn

At the Water Hole LISTEN: (3 Min, 30 Sec)   TEXAS IS A THIRSTY STATE! Rainfall at the right times and amounts will make anyone a fabulous wildlife manager!   This year, in spite of extremely hot […]
September 11, 2020

Go Organic for Whitetail

Texas has a Cornucopia of Natural Alternatives to Corn and Other Artificial Deer Enticements. Let’s face it, Texas deer hunters pursue the wary whitetail in two basic ways―baiting and playing on the sexual urges of rutting whitetail bucks Deer […]
September 11, 2020

Are These 7 Days Your Best Chance for a Big Texas Buck?

If you could schedule a hunt during a 7 day cycle that produces more big bucks than any other time in most of Texas, would you? Well, there is still time. Since the advent of the […]
October 19, 2016

Rutting Buck Breaks into House

According to KJAS, Jasper Police were quite startled when they located a burglary suspect early Sunday afternoon. “According to Chief Gerald Hall, Officers Jimmy Neel and Gary Pullen were sent to the Myrtis Village Apartments when a […]
June 8, 2016

What Does that Buck Score?

How Record Scoring Systems Work Kill a good whitetail buck these days and sooner or later someone is going to pop the question: What does it score? The same could be said for mule deer, elk […]
May 13, 2016

Old Moss Back

No matter where you go there are tales of unhuntable and unkillable bucks. Names like “The Ghost” or “Old Moss Back” abound. Whether in the north or South it matters little. This is one tale of […]
April 29, 2016

Razor Dobbs bags buck with 10mm auto (video)

Using his Dan Wesson Silverback 10mm auto using DoubleTap 155 grain TAC-XP ammo, Razor comes across “an old battle-ax buck.” It’s a mystic morning here at the Sandstone Mountain Range, and from the facade of these innocent […]
August 5, 2013

Stagzilla, the Fallow Buck

More and more lately, we must all admit that the whole world sucks, and though, tragically, we are catching up quickly, America still sucks less. But most importantly, deerhunting in Texas don’t suck at all. Sure, […]
June 10, 2013

The Buck Never Stops at Obama’s Desk

Recognizing he was ultimately in charge and responsible as the accountable leader of the Free World, President Truman had a sign on his desk that simply said:  The buck stops here.   I’ve got one too. […]