Written: 08/04/2010 11:10 by: FCONKLE View

Sometimes, getting a new lease on life means moving on. We were on a lease in west Texas that was getting worse, not better. We decided to leave it, even with all the improvements we had made, and find something else. After hours of searching, a ton of emails and phone calls, we found one that look...

Written: 04/27/2010 12:28 by: FCONKLE View

Back in 2002, my oldest son was hired to remodel some living quarters on a south Texas ranch. The owner wanted to be able to offer trophy deer hunts and needed the facilities to be upgraded. I went down there to help him, and we worked every day until about 4 o'clock. After that, we were free to u...

Written: 04/12/2010 21:01 by: FCONKLE View

In 1995, I joined a group of friends in their annual Thanksgiving weekend hunting trip to a 700 acre ranch in Mills County. The area is not known for big deer, but the trip was more about fellowship than trophy bucks. Each year, we would get together on Friday morning and decide who would cook, wh...