Posts Tagged ‘hunting stories’
Face to face...the winner was Chase!
Hog Showdown
by Chase Lambin
Here in Texas, hogs have completely exploded to the point that they are a costly nuisance to land owners. They multiply like rats and root up the land like a tiller, causing millions of dollars in damages. Extreme tactics have been employed to control the hog epidemic. Trapping, snaring, shooting, darting, and even killing them by the dozens out of helicopters! (Which I have done, and let me tell you, it is the more fun then you could ever imagine. But that’s a different story.)
The good news is, this environment leads to a great opportunity for hunters to have a year round target that is both ample and exciting to hunt. However, with the slightest amount of pressure, hogs tend to become nocturnal, making it extremely difficult to harvest these animals in the daylight hours. Unless you have a helicopter, the best way to get at these pigs is with dogs.
I’ve had the opportunity to do this type of hunting with one of my closest friends, Steven Wilson. I call him “Sty-ven”, because that’s how he pronounces his name. He is stone cold country. He was raised with a gun in one hand and a
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Thanks to Gina Hewitt and her 11-year old son, Jackson for submitting the story of Jackson’s recent fallow deer hunt at Porter’s Exotics near Flynn, Texas, filmed for the Rusty Baker Outdoors TV Show. This is Jackson’ account of the a great weekend of hunting with new-found friends…
Jackson's 22-pt Fallow Buck
When we arrived at Porter’s Exotics on Dec 17th, we were met by CP Wade and Mr & Mrs Porter. CP showed us where we’d be staying and we unloaded our things. He took me & my mom for a quick tour of the ranch. We kinda got to know each other as we stopped by the bait tank to pickup a little bait, then off to do some cat fishing. I caught a nice big catfish. After fishing, we went back to the bunkhouse and waited for Rusty & “Robdawg”. Once they got there we all talked and got ready for dinner.
Mr. & Mrs. Porter took us all out for an amazing steak dinner. I got to ride with all the guys and my mom drove Mrs. Porter there and back. Once our dinner settled we went varmint hunting. That was so much fun. I shot a raccoon and a skunk. When we got back, my mom let me hang out with all the guys while she read a book. I had so much fun as we told jokes and talked about hunting.
We got up early Saturday morning and drove into town and had breakfast at the store. Rusty really had us laughing there. Afterwards, we went back to the ranch. We were going to hunt the afternoon, but the plan changed and we went ahead and hunted right then…
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submitted by: W. S. Allen
An addax was near the top of W.S. Allen's "buck-et list"
If asked, I’d tell everyone to make a list to hunt with. I do. The list insures I don’t forget anything. The list makes everything easier when finding what you need and a host of other reasons, all true. However, the real reason is so that I can day dream about the things on the list. Every hunter has a “list,” either in his head, written down on a scrap piece of paper, as wall paper on his computer, or in any one of a hundred other places of animals they would like to harvest and mount. The “list” that we day dream about every time we see it. The animals on the “list” we cherish and covet above all others.
The “list” includes any animal that produces that primal need deep within our souls and is usually prefaced by Pope and Young or Muy Grande. Whatever the animal might be, we need to see it, hunt it, harvest it, admire it, smile at it, and hang it in a place of honor.
Another wonderful thing about the “list” is that we get to cross off animals as we place them, with admiration and satisfaction, on the walls of our dens, living rooms, and offices.
I’d ventured to south Texas to scratch the Addax, an antelope from Saharan Africa, off my “list.” I was hunting on Mike Kissle’s, a good friend’s 3,000 acre ranch. The majestic Addax is very close to the top of my “list”. In its native land, there are only (more…)
Terry Richey, of New Haven, Connecticut, recounts and shares a successful hunting trip to Mark Luce’s Hindsite Hunting Preserve.
“Hindsite is More Than 20/20“
Terry Richey and brother Travis w/ Terry's mgmt red stag from Hindsite Hunting Preserve
by Terry Richey
It was before sun up on Sunday morning, while almost everyone else was snuggled up in their nice warm beds dreaming of monster bucks. My brother Travis and I were finishing loading up the truck to head up North to Newport, Maine for a 3 day hunt at Hindsite Hunting Preserve with outfitter Mark Rocky Luce. We learned a few important lessons on this trip. First off, when a moose and a police cruiser meet on Route 95 there is no winner. The cow moose had expired on the side of the road and the cruiser…well, lets just say it was NOT gonna be chasing anymore early morning speeders on that day. The officer walked away without so much as a coffee stain on his uniform, so that was a good thing. We also learned that (more…)
