Hunting photos
Here are some pictures of our hunting experiences that we thought you might enjoy
| Kandice & her 4th Grade teacher, Milt Barnum and I went turkey hunting, spring of 2003. She does a very good hen call without any tools. |
| No, he's not my brother. We are just hunting and fishing buddies. |
| Spring turkey season can be a beautiful experience even without harvesting a bird. |
| It can also be dangerous as this 5' long diamond back rattlesnake that I encountered walking out of the woods shows. Be prepared for the these kind of situations and having good reflexes doesn't hurt either. I was a little more than 3 ft. away when he started rattling. |
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| Hooded Merganser harvested by Omar Cotter during Duck season in the Paris Texas area on Public Hunting Land and the mount was done at Alpine Taxidermy after sitting in my freezer for 4 years.. |
Jim Schaefer harvested this nice Pin Tail on
the Waterfowl Adventure Hunt guided by Bay
Prairie Outfitters in the salt marshes for the
Gulf. This bird was almost one of the ones that
got away, thanks to steel shot. It was about a
200 yrd retrieve. Mount was also done at
Alpine Taxidermy.
the Waterfowl Adventure Hunt guided by Bay
Prairie Outfitters in the salt marshes for the
Gulf. This bird was almost one of the ones that
got away, thanks to steel shot. It was about a
200 yrd retrieve. Mount was also done at
Alpine Taxidermy.
| Being a friend of a Texas Parks & Wildlife "Big Time Texas Hunt" winner is a great experience. Click on this picture for more. |
Spring
Gobbler:
Rio Grande
20 lb, 10"
beard
Public
Hunting
Land (April
2001)
Gobbler:
Rio Grande
20 lb, 10"
beard
Public
Hunting
Land (April
2001)
| Pan Handle Ringnecks: 2 birds by 9:30 am on Public Hunting Land. (Dec. 2000) |
The first Texas deer that I harvested was a
management doe at "The Big Woods" near
Palestine. I had to stalk this one and shot it from
250 yards.
management doe at "The Big Woods" near
Palestine. I had to stalk this one and shot it from
250 yards.
| North Texas Hunting Academy |
On left: I would like to introduce you to my new
hunting partner! Felicity is my nine years old grand
daughter. This past July she told me she would like
to "shoot a buckskin".
We didn't have an opportunity to go deer hunting
until the last week-end of the January Youth Only
Deer season. One day was all it took to get her
hooked on hunting. And that was before she
harvested this "spike" on one side.
hunting partner! Felicity is my nine years old grand
daughter. This past July she told me she would like
to "shoot a buckskin".
We didn't have an opportunity to go deer hunting
until the last week-end of the January Youth Only
Deer season. One day was all it took to get her
hooked on hunting. And that was before she
harvested this "spike" on one side.
| Two weeks later this 190 pound feral hog and her brood ran off the doe I was watching, hoping to bring in a buck. So I figured ham, bacon and pork sausage was better than nothing. |
| Opening weekend of the General Season I had to work on Saturday but I did get out for an evening hunt on Sunday. This young 8-pointer came through on the run chasing a doe that ran through just seconds before. |
| An hour and a half after the buck, some feral hogs showed up at about 5 pm. This one weighed in at 75 pounds. Forty five minutes later I harvested this "cull buck" that had a spike on one side. This was the second year that he was a spike on one side with the only difference from last year was that the antlers were longer this year. |