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It’s a good year for antlers, judging by bucks that were harvested the first two weeks of October on ranches in the Managed Lands Deer Permit Program. Unrelenting hot, dry weather had caused some land managers and biologists to question if range conditions this year would crimp antler quality. But some of the deer killed on several mldp-enrolled ranches tell a different story. Take, for example, the buck that gross scored 247 after it was downed at the Bang Whitetail Ranch in Gillespie County. Click to continue »
No Fences Land Company agent Kelly Hurt give advice on selecting land based on the location of your main residence, wildlife and population of nearby cities.
SNAP, NOT CRACK: Coleman gun maker Brent Hemphill demonstrates a .308-caliber rifle with a suppressor that runs the full length of the 20-inch barrel. Its report is no louder than a BB gun, and recoil is unnoticeable. Photo by Bill Miller, Lone Star Outdoor News.
Thwack.
It was the only sound heard by a sounder of feral hogs as something slammed into one of them, toppling it.
Then another went down. And another.
Gun maker Brent Hemphill was systematically dropping hogs with a high-powered rifle fitted with a sound suppressor, also called a “silencer.”
“The most I ever got was six,” Hemphill said.
The growing feral hog populations of Texas, and their depredations on property, have spurred new markets for sound-suppressed firearms. Click to continue »
Until recently, if anyone tried to tell you how many feral hogs there are in Texas, they were just blowing smoke, according to a Texas AgriLife Extension Service wildlife biologist.
“When it comes to feral hogs in Texas, separating fact from fiction is becoming a little easier as research reveals more about the pesky porcines,” said Dr. Billy Higginbotham, AgriLife Extension wildli fe specialist. “There remains much we don’t know about this exotic that has inhabited our state for the past 450 years.”
Highest ranking among the myths are estimates of the actual number of feral hogs in Texas, Higginbotham said. A common number that has been bantered about for years is 1 to 4 million.
Many producers have questions about the cattle prices we are seeing in early 2011. Specifically, they want to know if these prices can be maintained and where prices are headed. They wonder how much higher feeder prices can go, if consumers can afford high retail prices and whether or not current prices are a true reflection of the marketplace. This article will examine some facts about cattle market supply and demand, and how current price levels came about. Click to continue »
Editor’s note: This is the second installment in a 6-part series on prescribed burning, which is also referred to as controlled burning. Although fire is an important tool in a range manager’s toolbox, its role is sometimes misunderstood by the general public, who see only its potential for destruction.
In dry times, particularly when burn bans are in effect, county Click to continue »
