Mule Deer Realities

For the most part I am truly pleased to have been born when I was, but with one small caveat; I wish I could have started hunting mule deer earlier than I was able to.  I shot my first mule deer shortly after graduating from Texas A&M University. Growing up in rural Texas in the […]

Narrowing the Gap

My Mossberg Patriot Predator 7mm PRC, mounted with a Trijicon AccuPoint 4-16×50 scope, and sighted-in “dead on” at 50 yards with Hornady’s Precision Hunter 175-grain ELD-X was now ready my upcoming Alberta, Canada black bear hunt.  I shot it several times at ranges out to 200 yards, just in case we spotted that color phase […]

Aoudad Are Not Easy

“Stowe your gear and change into whatever clothing you want to hunt in. Brandon and Chris are down at the rifle range making certain his 7mm PRC Mossberg rifle is properly sighted in. Soon as they get back, we’ll head to the canyons.” Said Craig Archer when I arrived at his Double A Outfitting camp. […]

Calling Adventures and Misadventures

“Southeastern Oklahoma should expect five to seven inches of wet snow over the next twenty-four hours,” spoke the TV weatherman. Outside, the January winter’s night wind foretold of the coming “white stuff”!  Inside the Choctaw Hunting Lodge’s headquarters, we enjoyed a most delicious supper, fried blue quail, then later planned the next day’s hunt in […]