Larry’s Blog: Calling Moose

I remember the first time I saw a moose, actually, the shoulder mount of a bull moose. It hung in a building which belonged to the Massey family in Columbus, Texas, the town closest to the rural Zimmerscheidt Community where I grew up.  I was 8 at the time. I stared and marveled at the […]

Larry’s Blog: Whitetail Summer Scouting

It’s HOT where I live in Texas about an hour west-northwest of Houston.  Daytime temperatures and humidity levels are essentially the same numbers, in the high 90’s.  This past spring and early summer we have fortunately receive a goodly amount of rainfall.  Much of Texas has recently been blessed with rain, but we are a […]

Larry’s Blog: Did You Say Javelina?

It was February 1984. Judd Cooney, former Colorado Game Warden, outdoor writer, outfitter, photographer extraordinaire, and I were headed to attempt to call and photograph coyotes on the Chaparral Wildlife Management Area southwest of Cotulla, Texas.  On our way Judd and I had talked about many topics including calling black bear when he asked, “You […]

Larry’s Blog: Back on the Choctaw

“You’ve got to see the bear that just showed up on one of our trail cameras.” Said Dusty Vickrey, manager on the expansive Choctaw Hunting Lodge, owned by the Choctaw Nation. Dusty knew my interest in bears, particularly since I would be returning to the Choctaw come October for the black bear archery season.  “He’s […]

Larry’s Blog: Warmer Weather Calling

I had been sitting partially hidden, back against a gnarly mesquite, my open-sight R95 .30-30 Win rested in the crux of my crossed shooting sticks for a good five or more minutes with great anticipation.  Thirty steps in front of me my Burnham Brothers Freq electronic call broadcast its unique ultra-sonic sounds of a direly […]

Larry’s Blog: A Boaring Life

Having grown up in a German speaking family, in the Zimmerscheidt Community in the northern part of Colorado County, Texas I caught enough of my Austrian guides whispered words to comprehend I had best watch where I stepped. In the cold pre-dawn, with barely enough natural moonlight to see logs and large rocks, we had […]

Larry’s Blog: The Guns of Winter

With the closing of deer and other big game species seasons, it’s time to switch to wintertime pursuits. Where I live in Texas that means wild hogs, coyotes, possibly bobcats and hopefully before too very long javelina.  Should you live farther north winter hunting likely means taking a serious look at pursuing cougar, lynx, coyotes […]

Larry’s Blog: Late Season Buck

For the past three years I have been a member of a hunting lease in western Texas, Sterling County to be exact, an hour west of San Angelo. The property is in excess of 8,000 acres and is is under Texas’ Managed Land Deer Permit, which allows deer hunting from the first of October until […]

Larry’s Blog: Finnish Whitetail

“I tried rattling for whitetails a few years ago…no response!” said Erkki Vahakallio when I dragged out a couple of shed fallow deer antlers our outfitter Stefan Bengtsson with Scandinavian ProHunter had procured for me. “But it will be fun for you to try!” Erkki, a friend of Stefan is the Finnish authority regarding anything […]

Larry’s Blog: Yonderings

Like many of my era, those of us who were born in the middle 1900s and even after, we were ardent readers of Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, Sports Afield, Petersen’s Hunting, and later Deer & Deer Hunting, North American Whitetail reading articles by Jack O’Connor, Russell Annabel, Robert Ruark, Texas’s own John Wootters and […]