A cute squirrel nest brought my offroad electric cart to an immediate stop.

Shooting one hog at a time, or trapping, just doesn't seem to get the job done. I am not sure if I would get tired of this job.

First time flats fishing in Florida for family vacation. Say that 10x real fast.

A Yellow Garden Spider preparing to consume a Green Caterpillar at our house in East Texas. Although it looks like the film is on fast forward, it is real time. The spider moves that fast!

I don't know the facts behind this video clip. I have been told it was a "canned" hunt in Africa. It went wrong. Lucky no one was seriously injured and the Guide saved the day.

You don't want to make this mistake. More details to follow.

I met Atascosa Wildlife Supply at the Annual Texas Wildlife Association Meeting, then at all three Texas Trophy Hunter's Extravaganzas, and then finally at the Texas Deer Association Annual Meeting. Each time they tried to sell me a deer stand. I wanted a deer stand since Hurricane Rita knocked down our old tower blind in East Texas.

I tried to not buy the most expensive deer stand in Texas, but every time I talked to a welder or another supplier of deer stands and explained that I wanted a tower blind with a staircase that would hold me and my three kids, that would be safe enough for my little kids to walk up and down in the dark, and would have a floor height of at least 14", they said they could do it but highly recommended that I didn't. They all told me 10' is all I needed. Finally I started asking who they would recommend if this is what I had to have and they all said "Atascosa".

In the end, the stand worked out great!

However, this video of their install is a different story. I will let you be the judge.

640 kids between the ages of 8 and 18, with families and friends watching, competed in several sports, including International Skeet, American Skeet and Trap. Biased by my 6th generation connection to Houston County, I was also there to cheer for my cousins, Katelyn and John Lenderman.

There are for divisions:
Junior (ages 8-11)
Intermediate (ages 12-13)
Seniors 1 (ages 14-15)
Seniors 2 (ages 16-18)

The day we arrived, my cousin Katelynn won 1st Place, International Skeet, Seniors 2 Division. Last year she came home with 5 2nd Place trophies and this year she had one goal - win 1st Place in something. Mission accomplished.

For those that do not know, (including me) I was told that International Skeet is an Olympic Sport. It differs from American Skeet in several ways:

The clay targets (called pigeons or birds) travel much faster than American Skeet (I don't know how fast but it was hard to see them fly by).

The clay targets are launched at random angles and at random elevation, where as American is not random. (Anyone who knows better should feel free to comment!)

My understanding of American Skeet is that they shoot 25 shots from the "high house" and "low house" from 8 different positions called stations.

Seniors 1 and 2 shoot a total of 100 shots and highest score wins. The other divisions shoot 75 shots. Ties are broke by a "sudden death" shoot off where the first person to miss looses.

We also welcome people to comment, ask questions, and to all the people who attended, feel free to upload your own photos of kids shooting on this thread.

We hope the kids enjoy the TexasHuntfish.com Shooting Towels we handed out. They disappeared quickly.

Jason

Father's Day in the Parrish Family we were enjoying the outdoors, clearing dead branches, when we stumbled upon this newborn whitetail fawn.