Hunting

Learning the Good News and the Bad News about Hunting Exotics in Texas

There's good news and bad news about hunting exotics in Texas. The population is tremendous. The words, free-ranging, mean these animals don’t live behind fences, but most if not all of the ranches where you find exotics are privately owned. You must have permission to hunt there, and/or on leased lands or hunting operations. Also, Texas homes numbers of enclosures used to raise trophy whitetails. So, I define free-ranging as those animals that are able

Big Game, Turkey, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

Les Motheral Hunts Exotics and Monster Whitetails

Most of the exotic animals were brought into the central Hill Country of Texas years ago - many in the early 1930s. Kerrville is more or less the central area where you'll find most of the exotics and also around Junction and south of Austin. In this section of Texas, there’s just about every kind of exotic animal, including fallow deer, axis deer, sika deer, blackbuck antelope and Barbary sheep (aoudad).

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak

Two Most Important Tools for Harvesting Mature Bucks On Small Properties

I had about 50 pictures of the buck I took that scored 142. From the trail-camera pictures I’d learned what day, what time of day and what direction a big buck came from, used to cross our property and then left. Probably, the most-useful information I get from my trail cameras is the pictures I get after the season. They tell me which bucks have survived the hunting season, and the bucks I should have

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

How to Set Up Your Property to Take Nonresident Bucks

We are absolutely trail camera crazy. My mother says that I have a trail camera or a tree stand on every tree on the farm, and we have pictures of bucks for several consecutive years. That’s how we know that these three properties we hunt in Missouri are travel corridors, and bucks aren’t setting up residence on these three properties.

Big Game, Deer, Land Management, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, How-To, Mossy Oak

How to Set Up Little Properties to Take Big Bucks

One of the things I've learned about hunting small properties is that when you arrow a buck on a small property, you don’t want him to travel off the land where you’ve shot him. Most of the time, if I don’t see a deer fall after the shot, I’ll back out and give the deer time to lie down. I might not go look for him until that night or the next morning, to keep

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, How-To, Mossy Oak, Bow

Norton’s Kansas Whitetail That Scored 156

Once the buck hit my scent trail, he stopped but wasn’t spooked. He turned away from it, walked back south, jumped the fence and walked out into the Brushy 40, coming toward me on the upwind side of my stand. When he was at about 15 yards, I grunted and stopped him. I came to full draw, released the arrow and heard that crack you often hear when a broadhead enters a buck.

Big Game, Deer, Mossy Oak Break-Up Country, Mossy Oak

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