On Point With Larry Weishuhn

Knowing my desire to take a big boar, a match equal to my Taurus Raging Hunter 454 Casull, Jeff called the day before. “Larry, if you can get up to my Buck & Bass Ranch tomorrow there’s a good chance you can take a boar like you’ve been looking for.” Fast forward to the next [...]

I love the fall months.  But, there is something to be said about spring and the opportunities it brings those of us who love hunting and the outdoors. “It’s starting to green up here on the ranch. Got time to help do some spring cleaning? Whitetail does will start having fawns starting late May and [...]

  “I’m going to have to replace the red dot sights on my .454 Casull and .44 Mag Raging Hunters with my older Simmons or T/C long-eye relief scopes that I took off of one my vintage T/C Encore or T/C Contender handguns, if I want to increase my chances of hitting the 500-yard target.” [...]

It’s HOT where I live in Texas about an hour west-northwest of Houston.  Daytime temperatures and humidity levels are essentially the same numbers, in the high 90’s.  This past spring and early summer we have fortunately receive a goodly amount of rainfall.  Much of Texas has recently been blessed with rain, but we are a [...]

“You are aware we can’t bait bears in New Mexico.” Commented Bridger Petrini. I nodded. “But oak trees’ acorns and water are not considered bait.” Again I nodded. “Let me guess. You want to hunt that water hole just below Johnson Mesa, that one in the back of the oak tree covered canyon.” “Bridger you [...]

Fall hunting seasons are a few short weeks away. I can hardly wait and am quickly getting prepared. My Mossberg 6.5 PRC and 7mm PRC rifles are topped with Stealth Vision scopes sighted-in shooting 1 MOA and less groups at 100 yards with Hornady Precision Hunter. My Rossi lever-action, Model 95 .30-30 Win is finely [...]

Lessons learned are not always pleasant nor “easy”. In a reasonably long career of hunting I have my share of some of those “lernts”! One of my first happened when I was a mere youngster hunting deer only a short distance behind our rural Texas home. I had the year before finally taken my first [...]

By Larry Weishuhn “Daddy…can I borrow your .30-30…if you’re not hunting this afternoon?” I had practiced that line no less than thirty or forty times before I finally got up the courage to ask my dad about letting me use his Model 94 lever-action deer rifle. My personal deer rifle at the time was my [...]

Looking for a bit of a challenge? Might I suggest hunting wild hogs with a handgun and more specifically doing so with a Taurus Raging Hunter revolver! Why a pistol and why a revolver over some of the other handgun actions? With me it goes back to a time when I used to play “cowboys”, [...]

Recently while scanning some “social media”, which I only do very occasionally, I found a photo of an older hunter with a really nice whitetail buck. The caption read, “Granddad, even at 69 is still getting it done!” That statement made it sound like he had escaped from his death bed or the “Old Folks [...]

My friend and hunt host, David Cotton, had just gotten his Mossberg Patriot Predator chambered in 6.5 PRC which he topped with a Trijicon 3-18x50 AccuPoint scope. That accomplished he headed to their ranch’s rifle range to sight-in with Hornady Precision Hunter 143-grain ELD-X at 100-yards.  He had just finished doing so when I arrived. Well [...]

I was glassing thirteen bucks gathered around the “deer feeder”. A buck with extremely darkly stained hocks from his tarsal glands to his ankles, indicating maturity, had already shed his antlers. The other twelve were 8 to 10 points, likely two to four year olds. Yes…I was hunting from a raised deer blind watching a [...]

“Making a silk purse out of a sow’s ear.” I have heard that old saw for many years when someone referred to making something out of basically nothing! But there is certainly merit in what it means! Recently while visiting with Greg Simons, fellow wildlife biologist and wildlife entrepreneur with Wildlife Systems we talked about [...]

What started as a dust storm, turned into misty rain followed by another red dust storm which resulted in a light mud coating on just about everything! The ride “home” of a “high-rack” added another layer of red western Texas dust. Back at camp, I grabbed a towel, removed the five 240-grain XTP Hornady rounds [...]

Looking back, I could not help but laugh at myself. I had read several magazine articles about two fellow Texans, Murry and Winston Burnham and their ability to have “critters come when called” using mouth-blown “predator calls”. I was enthralled with being able to do the same. After saving some of the money earned that [...]

“The deer census is completed and we’ve received our harvest recommendations for this coming hunting season from the local Texas Parks and Wildlife Department wildlife biologist.”  Read the text.  It continued, “Each of the lease holders is responsible for taking 8 does.” A few minutes later I called our lease leader/coordinator and told him I [...]

Was a time with the arrival of June, July and early August I had my bags packed and was headed to or preparing to head to southern Africa where they were into their fall and winter.  Day times may have been warm, but night times often cool to downright, freezing standing water cold!  I loved [...]

“What are you doing this coming weekend?” asked a friend at our 2022 DSC Foundation Gala. “Going to depend upon whether or not I get the bid on a particular hunt I'm interested here in the auction.” I replied being a bit coy about what hunt I planned to bid on, even though I would [...]