Mule Deer Buck- This picture was taken up in the Texas panhandle on my first mule deer hunt. I used a .270 since the deer are much larger than their cousin the whitetail. Mule deer have a kingliness to them in my opinion. When you spot one
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Texas Longhorn – Texas longhorns speak for themselves. They don’t need explanation. But, they’re just cows. They don’t know they are an icon from the past that humans love to look at and imagine the old Texas. They can grow huge horns with the proper nutrition. No matter
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Perch – You can call them perch or bluegill or sunfish. I don’t know how to tell them apart. They are the little fish that stay in the shallows and you can catch all day long or worms, hotdogs, corn, salmon eggs, grasshoppers, or sometimes even a shiny bare
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Raccoons – Raccoons are often referred to as masked bandits. While naming a pet raccoon “bandit” is kind of cliché, there is no better word to describe them. Raccoons are mainly known for their distinctive black mask. Most of the time when raccoons are seen they are eating, playing, or stealing
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Grasshoppers – There is one month of the summer that the grasshoppers in West Texas take over. They jump from every blade of grass and fly around like popping popcorn. Grasshoppers provide a great source of nutrients to birds, badgers, and skunks. Fish eat them too, their
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Badger – Badgers are the tough guys of the prairie. Though they mostly eat small critters like snakes, prairie dogs, and gophers, they have also been known to steal the food of other animals. Sometimes, badgers will scare off a pack of coyotes from their kill and
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