Zaiglan's Top 6 Bucks of 2010 -02/18/2010
The Ultimate Rendezvous for Hunters
On Thursday, January 21, my wife Jan and I flew to Reno, Nevada where we attended the 37th annual Safari Club International convention. Every year hunter ...
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Zaiglin's Top 6 Bucks of 2009 -01/12/2010
Throughout the fall and winter I spend a substantial amount of time in a helicopter cruising the vast brush country of South Texas critiquing deer herds on the various ranches I help manage. While ...
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Coyota Calling - The Ultimate Rush -12/30/2009
Clad in camouflage head to toe and situated underneath a leafed-out Huisache tree on the Texas Mexico border, I cranked up the volume of my electronic game caller. As the sound of a distressed ...
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High Country Hunting in South Africa -08/12/2009
My heart rate escalated upon each and every calorie-burning step up the steep rocky slope. If I did not know better, I would have thought I was hunting sheep in Wyoming, but I was now over 10,0 ...
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A Midsummer Nights Dream -08/12/2009
As the seasons click by; anyone who bowhunts can relate to the building anticipation of the quickly approaching hunting season. The trail cameras are set, food plots are planted or getting plan ...
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Cruising For Bruins -06/15/2009
Ocala, Florida resident David Shashy and I have been friends and hunting companions for a long time. We met in 1987 when he hunted with me ...
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Specs Reds and Friends -06/10/2009
Just a short drive north of Corpus Christi is the small town of Berclair . What makes this town, described as a wide spot in the road, so special is the fact that it is the home of whit ...
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Hunting For Rainbows in Texas -04/02/2009
As a large number of bass fishermen with elaborate boats in tow headed west to fish the bass-rich environment of Amistad Lake, only an hour’s ride west of my home town of Uvalde, my wife, Jan, and I w ...
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Coyotes on the Rio Grande -02/28/2009
As Pecos belted out his best imitation of an injured rabbit, I laid on my side prepared for action. Not five minutes later, a coyote exploded from the thorny brush only steps from us. With the crossha ...
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Friends and Blue Quail Hunting -02/02/2009
With the Texas deer season over, quail hunting represents an excellent excuse to spend time in the brush, and that’s just what I did on the third weekend in January. The hunt actually started on Frida ...
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Brush Country Monarchs -12/24/2008
The brush land paralleling both sides of the Rio Grande River, south of Del Rio, Texas, is considered a harsh environment with a plethora of brush species characterized by sha ...
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Manipulating Optimal Antler Traits -12/12/2008
As I walked over the sparsely-vegetated, windswept grain field towards my vehicle, my mind was in a quandary as to which part of the ranch I would search first. My objective was to ...
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The October Rush -10/14/2008
October represents the advent of another deer season with thousands of sportsmen gravitating to local grain fields and water holes to initiate the new hunting season in pursui ...
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August Big Buck Activities -08/18/2008
The 10th annual Texas Deer Association convention will take place on August 21 to August 23rd in San Antonio, Texas. One of the highlights of this convention is the antler con ...
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Fishing the Eye of the Storm -07/30/2008
As Hurricane Dolly developed strength in the Gulf of Mexico, my fishing companion, son-in-law Paul Ede, and I traveled south 200 miles to fish the bays around Padre Island. Up ...
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Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza -07/25/2008
One of the most highly anticipated summer events for Texas deer hunting advocates is the Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza, which took place in San Antonio during the second weekend in July. My ...
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