Texas Sporting Journal - The Magazine

It's no surprise that the Texas Big Game Awards program's top three typical whitetails in 2007-2008 were taken in South Texas. The next three typicals came from further north. South Texas led the non-typical pack with five deer netting 200 inches or better. Up north, Cooke and Grayson counties produced four B&C qualifiers over 200 inches

By Lynn Burkhead

Craig Fellin stares into a fly box the size of his open palms, sorts through the rows of feather and fur, perusing each lure until he finds the perfect fit of angled legs, wings and antennae.

By Michael Pearce

It starts with a faint, distant "pop" at 30 minutes before official sunrise Sept. 1 but quickly evolves into a din of gunfire as dove season breaks out in most of Texas, releasing in nearly 400,000 hunters a pent-up frustration held in check since the late winter hunting seasons closed months earlier.

By Ray Sasser

The 3- to 5-foot seas projected a day earlier are turning into 5-to-7s as Captain Randle Hall revs the twin 230-horsepower Yanmar diesels as we clear the Port Mansfield jetties. "It's going to take us about an hour to reach my red snapper fishing grounds," he announces.

By Kenny Redin

I am one of the statistics you read about in the news. A man with a .38-caliber revolver shot me twice on a street in Los Angeles and left for me dead. Almost immediately after I was released from the hospital, while I was still recuperating, I received a letter from an anti-gun organization asking me if I would now renounce both my support of, and my life membership in, the National Rifle Association. The focus of the letter was solely on the presence and use of a handgun during my assault. The anti-gun organization did not offer me any support, or express any interest in the criminal prosecution of my assailant.

By Jameson Parker

If you think this impressive shotgun is unaffordable, think again.

By Jameson Parker

For nonstop wing-shooting action, South America can't be beat.

By Jon Wongrey

How to control exotic aquatic vegetation.

By Cheri Johnson

How Austin Cowan turned his ranch into a deer haven on the Oklahoma border.

By Bob Hood

Specialized spinning gear lets target-conscious saltwater light-tackle enthusiasts literally go the distance.

By Larry Bozka

When doves become skittish, motion decoys do the trick.

By Jerry Thoms