Profile: Charlie “Chuck” Bowers
Charlie “Chuck” Bowers is a contract wielder, cowboy, hunting guide and cook. The Knickbocker resident is the epitome of a West Texas oil patch wrangler, tough, resourceful, dependable and always ready...
View ArticleOutdoors-Hunting: Fear the fangs
I was hunting quail in Mexico a few years ago with Dean Putegnat, the manager of Rancho Caracol, when his golden retriever had a run-in with a rattlesnake. Both died as a result of the encounter, the...
View ArticleOutdoors-Hunting: Where have the quail gone?
Biologists, hunters, landowners and naturalist have been asking the same question for the past several years, where have the quail gone? Texas Parks and Wildlife Department biologists along with Dr....
View ArticleOutdoors-Hunting: A rattlesnake story
Rattlesnakes are labeled rattlesnakes because they are presumed to shake their tails and make a rattling sound when its space is encroached upon, but a recent incident near Graham has hunters,...
View ArticleHunters getting ready for Spring Turkey hunt
It’s estimated that Texas has from 400,000 to 600,000 Rio Grande turkeys statewide, but raw numbers don’t always mean that everyone who hunts during the spring season will get a shot at one when the...
View ArticleTexas Hunter Safety Program: Driving Down Gun Accidents
Hunting accidents and fatalities in Texas continued their long-term decline in 2012, still below three accidents per 100,000 hunters in recent years.
View ArticleSan Angelo-area news in brief, 7/4
Junction man charged after chase; Chick-fil-A Cow to visit Story Time; KOA running route to be closed briefly; Landscaping amid drought addressed; Time to apply for hunting permit; Small business...
View ArticleOUTDOORS: Game Warden Field Notes
The following items are compiled from recent Texas Parks and Wildlife Department law enforcement reports.
View ArticleJOHN GILL: Purchase your shotgun shells for dove season now
An annual ritual shared by many hunters across Texas may be in for some changes this year. Sept. 1 is the unofficial opening of the state’s annual hunting season. It also marks the first day of dove...
View ArticleJOHN GILL: Least wanted
Zebra mussels and chronic wasting disease continue to be found in a wider range of territory in Texas, clogging waterways and killing deer.
View ArticleRUSSELL SMITH: Texas is hog wild
CONCHO VALLEY — The sound of feral hogs scurrying through the rocky hillside drew me to the deer carcass. It was a recent kill of a mature doe, most probably pregnant but I couldn’t tell because her...
View ArticleJOHN INGLE: Say hello zebra mussels and goodbye Texas lakes
Veligers — sounds like a word out of a Star Trek movie, but it’s not. In fact, it’s spreading throughout the waters of Texas and may be headed here soon. You as a fisherman or boater may be asking...
View ArticleTexas hunting areas offer plenty of options this year
Texas has more than 1.1 million acres of controlled hunting areas that are open to the public though a permit system and some that are available on a walk-in basis.
View ArticleHUNTING GUIDE: Doves call for extra permit
Predictions for this year’s dove season, which generally opens Sept. 1, are pointing to a good hunt of new birds.
View ArticleHUNTING GUIDE: Recent rainfall gives boost to bucks in area
Allan Cain of the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department is in charge of looking after the state’s white-tailed deer population, a herd typically numbering about 3.5 million.
View ArticleHUNTING GUIDE: Don't turn this hunt into a turkey shoot
There’s some good news and bad news about the turkey population in the Edwards Plateau and across West Texas.
View ArticleHUNTING GUIDE: Bagging buck ends family saga
In November 2012, Sonora hunter Jay Immel killed a trophy buck on a ranch in southern Tom Green County. The tall, heavy-horned buck had a Boone and Crockett score of 142, and it ended the saga of a...
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