Written: 10/23/2009 23:15 by: treece4 View

Most autumns, 44-year old Texas Parks and Wildlife Department game warden Eric Minter is stopping other hunters to look at the bucks in the back of their pick-up trucks.  Not this week – other hunters in the headbone rich Lone Star State have been stopping Minter to take a look at the bruiser buck riding shotgun in his truck.

Written: 09/29/2008 15:49 by: treece4 View

Hunting and target shooting are among the safest of all sports. This booklet is intended to make them even safer by emphasizing the basics of safe gun handling and storage and by reminding you that you are the key to firearms safety.

Written: 09/29/2008 15:36 by: treece4 View

Wildlife management associations, or co-ops, play an important role in conserving wildlife habitat and reversing the adverse effects of habitat fragmentation.  These landowner-driven cooperatives also play an increasingly important role in providing youth hunting opportunities and in passing on the heritage of hunting and wildlife management to the next generation.

Written: 09/17/2008 19:30 by: treece4 View

The "choke" of a shotgun is a small constriction applied near the muzzle of the barrel that effectively changes the patterning characteristics of the shot as it passes through. The constriction is the difference between the tightest inside diameter measurement of the area of choke, and the actual bore diameter. For example a typical 12 gauge barrel has an inside diameter of .729" the chokes for this bore size would run from cylinder at .729" to Full at .689".