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Hitting the 500 Yard Target
March 18, 2024
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 act...
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Meanwhile Back in West Texas
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 a...
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From a Sow's Ear
From A Sow’s Ear
Larry Weishuhn
“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 bas...
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Camp Vittles
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...
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Picking a bullet for hunting
The day had been a good one. All in camp had seen elk. A few bulls were still bugling. One six by six was down, and would be packed out of the mountains in the morrow, after bei...
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Calling Time
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 ...
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Taking Does...
“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 wildli...
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Facing Summer Doldrums
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 win...
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Planning the Fall Hunt
“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 h...