Pursuit of the Southeastern Ibex Day One
For the third time in three years, my wife Jan and I returned to the beautiful mountains of Spain to hunt ibex with our good friend and owner of Caza Hispanica, Vicente Gil. The nine-hour flight on...
View ArticleIbex hunt in Spain Part 2
Based on the weather forecast, day two was to be sunny and clear, but the mountaintop was pounded by a snow storm overnight, making for some unforgettable scenes of snow-covered pine and partially...
View ArticleEaster Turkey Hunt 2015
As my daughter Beth and granddaughter Madison followed me down a long, mesquite-lined sendero in the dark, I was figuring out where to set up to call in a Rio Grande gobbler at daylight. We hadn’t...
View ArticleVisiting Texas’ Last Frontier
As Dewey Stockbridge, area manager on Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area, negotiated his pickup up the narrow, windy, rocky, road to the mountain top, we constantly scanned the boulder-laden...
View ArticleHunting Hard Antlered Deer In Summer
If you ever wondered what it would be like to pursue deer in hard antler in the summer, hunting roe deer in England in some of the most beautiful farmland that litters the British verdant landscape...
View ArticleHunting hard antlered deer in the summer part 2
With two trophy roe deer down, we were on a roll and now had time to enjoy some of the collateral benefits that the English countryside had to offer. With ringneck pheasants and wood pigeons virtually...
View ArticleFishing The Yellowstone I n August Part 1
Getting up at 4 am is tough, but not when you’re about to escape three-digit South Texas heat to enjoy some fly fishing on the blue ribbon Yellowstone River in Montana. And that’s just what Jan and I...
View ArticleOn the Yellowstone in August, Part II
On the cloudy second morning, we started out dining on delectable cinnamon French toast at the Northern Pacific Beanery. A down-home café exuding a refreshing western atmosphere and the friendliest of...
View ArticleCompletion of the Spanish Ibex Grand Slam
Working our way up the mountainside was agonizingly slow as the force of gravity intensified with every step. zigzagging slowly upward to the crest, I found my guides Alfonso and Vicente Gil, owner of...
View Article15TGtop Bucks of 2015
Since mid-September, I have aerially surveyed 15 South Texas ranches and observed 3,296 deer,1,157 of which were bucks. Forty-nine of the bucks observed gross scored 160 inches or more in 2015 compared...
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