Texas Hunters Shelling Out Big Bucks
from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal
 Hunting has turned big business over the past few decades and hunters spend more today than ever - especially in Texas, where just finding a spot to hunt can mean thousands of dollars a year. The average Texas deer hunter spent $141 per hunting day or about $1,500 in the 2006 season, according to a report compiled for the Texas Department of Parks & Wildlife in 2007 by Southwick Associates. Altogether, Texas hunters made $2.3 billion in hunting-related expenditures in 2006, the study found. More
Saving Some Bucks
from the Houston Chronicle
Just a few days into the 2008-09 general white-tailed deer hunting season, state wildlife managers unwrapped a bulging package of potential changes in regulations that would impact a majority of Texas’ half-million-plus deer hunters. The potential changes would place deer hunters in almost half of Texas’ 254 counties under restrictions defining legal bucks by the configuration and dimensions of their antlers; expand the bag limit on antlerless deer in dozens of counties; lengthen the late muzzleloader-only season and expand it to an additional three-dozen counties; add more than 60 counties to the list offering a late-season antlerless deer/spike buck; and increase the youth-only deer season from two days to the entire month of October. More
Deer Data: A Few More Things Hunters Probably Don't Need to Know
from the Tyler Morning Telegraph
There is probably more information available to deer hunters as there was political information this fall for voters. And that was an overload. But is there anything missing? Columnist Steve Knight recently went to a trio of white-tailed deer experts to ask them what has been left off. The three, Clayton Wolf, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department's big game program leader; Mitch Lockwood, the department's white-tailed deer program leader; and Dr. Billy Higginbotham, wildlife specialist with Texas AgriLife Extension Service; thought about it and came up with a few nuggets of wisdom. More
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Nothing Like Hunting Turkeys
from the San Marcos Record
The eastern third of Texas is perfect eastern turkey habitat. But, until a few years ago, there were no wild turkeys in East Texas. But the re-introduction of the eastern bird into East Texas counties has been extremely successful. Birds trapped in Missouri were traded to Texas for bass fingerlings. Today, most East Texas counties have a hunting season for eastern gobblers. More
City Man Takes Kids Hunting
from the Stillwater NewsPress
Some kids never get the chance to experience hunting or the outdoors. But Andy Keim, director of the Oklahoma Youth Hunting and Shooting Program, is offering kids a chance to do just that. The program was inspired by the Texas Youth Hunting Program, which takes Texas kids on deer and turkey hunting trips across the state on land donated by farmers and ranchers. Organizers sent a representative to an outdoor expo Keim was hosting at the Payne County Expo Center, and the Texan’s presentation planted a seed in Keim’s head. More
Inventor Assists Disabled Hunters
from The Grand Rapids Press
Pete Odland has an affinity for helping others with physical limitations. The 50-year-old Belding, Mich., man and owner of White's Bridge Tooling in Lowell also enjoys designing one-of-a-kind robotics machines. So when Odland got a call in May from rocker and hunting activist Ted Nugent asking if he could build a device to help four wheelchair-bound brothers hunt again, Odland, a deeply spiritual man, said yes. His new device is called the Liberator. More
An Un(bear)able Task
from the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
It took Dan Buric about 18 years to kill his first black bear. There were times when it seemed it was going to take just as long to get it out of the woods. The Greensburg, Pa.-area man was hunting with Greg King of West Newton last year along Derry Ridge in Westmoreland County. It was King's first bear trip, but Buric had hunted the area before. His optimism seemed well founded when hunters there took four bears during the first two hours of opening day. More
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Timing is Everything
from Field & Stream
When big game hunting, there are situations when you have to shoot right now and situations when you can take can take your sweet time. Beginners never seem to get it right. They will panic, throw the rifle to their shoulder, and fill the air with lead. Or they will fuss and fidget and aim, and aim, and aim, and in the meanwhile, the critter will get bored and leave. A veteran hunter will know from years of watching animals and studying their body language, just how much time he has. More
Racking Up a Big Prize
from the KJ/Morning Sentinel
Things just seem bigger in real life, don't they? You certainly don't have to tell Roy Norton that. The Fairfield, Maine, man got all the confirmation he needed when he lugged his moose to a registration station last month. He was holding onto was a set of antlers of near-record proportions. Norton's bull moose, shot on the final day of Maine's 2008 moose hunt, clocked in at a rather pedestrian 790 pounds. Big, but certainly nothing to whip a crowd of onlookers into a frenzy. More
Hunting a Brighter Future
from ESPN
When Tim Young watched his son bag his first deer, he knew he was witnessing a monumental moment in the child's life. It took three shots for the young hunter to finally hit his mark, and in those seconds Young watched as the boy's expression ranged from nervous anticipation to devastation to elation. Laughter, tears, shouts of joy — the human experience bottled into a few short minutes. Young is part of a hunting movement to impart passion for the sport to the next generation. It's a task he and others say goes beyond hunting for the fun of it, and may decide the sport's very survival. More
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