Shotgun shooting is a great outdoors pursuit all year, with multiple opportunities to slay some clays.
There are always trap and skeet and five stand and sporting clays options at local gun ranges and gun clubs, and if you want to journey out into the Back 40 and hand-throw some...
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Public Hunt Drawing System will be online-only beginning with summer applications for hunts ranging from deer and turkeys to alligators and exotics.
The drawings also include eight specifically for youth only.
Applications will only be accepted online, and in a change from the past, no “Applications...
Texas dove hunting remains the most fulfilling outdoor experience we have in the Lone Star State, and the time spent enjoying the sights and sounds of a September afternoon and evening are among those you can’t assign a true value. And while there is no shortage of “being there”...
The Texas deer hunting forecast typically involves little in the way of new developments, but in a state with the largest whitetail population in the country, that’s nothing to fret about.
However, the 2016-17 hunting frameworks will feature a number of big changes all aimed at improving access and opportunity,...
UPDATE: Texas State Parks to close to public amid COVID-19 pandemic.
Outdoor-related activities remain an encouraged part of life amid the COVID-19 pandemic, provided Texans maintain social distancing rules issued by state and local officials. However, if you are or planned to get outdoors in the Texas State Parks system...
The misidentification occurred years ago by a teenage deer hunter, but the mistake still rings true many more seasons well into adulthood.
Every time I think about the scenario I still get a sinking feeling, and while I broke no law and did nothing illegal, I perpetrated a cardinal sin...
This year's pronghorn antelope season in the Texas Panhandle, which begins Saturday and runs through Oct. 6, will include an experimental framework that allows landowners to control harvest of buck pronghorn on their properties.
The experimental season will be in herd units 8, 17, and 25, which include portions of...
Not only do Labrador retrievers, German shorthaired pointers and many other varieties of hunting dogs enjoy chasing after birds because it’s in their blood, they enjoy doing it with human companions. The sights and sounds of a hunting outing are what we can draw into our memory banks and...
The slow morning turned to afternoon as I flipped a dark spinner bait into the shimmering distance on Lake Meredith in the Texas Panhandle.
Like so many previous retrieves from the bank, I brought my lure back without even a nibble from a hungry largemouth or smallmouth bass and stepped...