Written: 04/05/2010 23:15 by: duckwhacker View

I got home just in time for Easter dinner yesterday afternoon. I spent Easter weekend at the ranch chasing turkey with my son, Wingdinger. Let me start out by saying that the weekend was fantastic, and I had one heck of a good time, but in retrospect, things have changed. For those of you that hav...

Written: 09/07/2007 06:21 by: duckwhacker View

My Brush With Death I love to cut up and have fun on here, but something very sobering happened to me yesterday. It will have a profound effect on me as a sportsman for the rest of my life. Around 5:30 -6:00, I had to go to my old house (we have moved, and my old house has not sold), and cut...

Written: 09/05/2007 23:28 by: duckwhacker View

So, August 31 st rolls around after weeks of anticipation. I load up the truck with everything I will need for a long weekend of hunting, eating, and yes, enjoying beverages with Wingdinger, DoubleTHunter, and two of his partners in crime, Will and Bo. I head out from my undisclosed bunker somewhe...

Written: 03/31/2007 11:43 by: duckwhacker View

        March 24 th and 25 th 2007 marked the first Youth Spring Turkey Season in Texas. This was exciting to my son Bobby and I, as we have believed for quite some time that the turkey season in our part of Texas starts a little late in the mating season. Usually the Gobblers are pretty henne...

Written: 02/08/2007 10:09 by: duckwhacker View

Two years ago, I had my leg in a cast for most of hunting season, but I continued to hunt as much as I could. I especially kept duck hunting. I would wrap my cast in plastic garbage bags and duck tape it so that I could walk on the mud. I could not wear waders though, so I had to rely on a partner ...

Written: 02/07/2007 18:59 by: duckwhacker View

I decided to put the link to my season video here in my journals so that I will have the link. This movie maker software is really something, and my buddies and I have decided to ramp up our filming between now and the end of turkey season. It is really funny how adding a new dimension to your hunt...

Written: 02/05/2007 12:31 by: duckwhacker View

I loved to watch hunting and fishing shows as a kid. Back in the 70’s, you had Roland Martin, Babe Winkleman, Bill Jordan, and Bill Dance. I watched the shows as they came on early on Saturday and Sunday mornings. I enjoyed watching them hunt and fish, and dreamed of being able to catch fish like t...

Written: 02/01/2007 09:19 by: duckwhacker View

I have mentioned before that I have two brothers. Mike is a year behind me in age, and David is a year behind him. We all three grew up in the same house and pretty much did the same things growing up, but each one of is grew up to be very different. We all grew up fishing and camping, but my fathe...

Written: 01/31/2007 12:01 by: duckwhacker View

In the fall of '98, I lived in Plano, Texas, and my daughter Patricia was 9, and my son Bobby was 7. I had been reading up on TPWD, and saw where they had a progam with some special draw hunts in a state park in the Paris area. As I remember the program, it was set up to give each child drawn 100 a...

Written: 01/30/2007 01:50 by: duckwhacker View

I grew up in Georgia, and my grandparents lived in Panama City, FL. Every summer from the time I was 2 years old, I went down to Panama City and spent a good portion of the summer with my Grandparents. My grandfather was one hell of a fisherman, and taught me everything he knew about fishing. My gr...

Written: 01/30/2007 00:52 by: duckwhacker View

2001 was my first season on my current lease. I got on the lease right before deer season started, and really did not have time to scout out the property and understand the wildlife or their patterns at that time. I did kill an 8 point during deer season, and Bobby killed a spike during youth seaso...

Written: 01/30/2007 00:28 by: duckwhacker View

Back in '99, I was not on my current deer lease, and spent a lot of time in Houston on business. As a result, I took some customers duck hunting at Garwood Hunting Club down in Garwood, TX. I really hit it off with Barry Mikulin the owner of the club, and wound up getting a membership to the club f...

Written: 01/29/2007 09:04 by: duckwhacker View

This past weekend I went duck hunting Friday through Sunday, and for the first time this season, I had to hunt alone. My normal hunting partners are younger than me, and it just so happens that both of them chose to chase "wimmen" instead of go out and whack some ducks. Although I don't like to hun...

Written: 01/25/2007 17:40 by: duckwhacker View

On Friday, January 19th, as we headed southwest toward the lease, the rain started to pick up, and the temperature started to drop. When we pulled into the gate of the ranch, it was raining pretty good, and it was one of those rains that chills you to the bone. We settled into our camper, had dinne...

Written: 01/22/2007 09:12 by: duckwhacker View

Oliver is a little 9 year old boy that lives two doors down from us. We have know him for five years, and over the last year or so, he has really taken to our family, and follows my 15 year old son Bobby like a puppy. Anytime Bobby is home and not out and about, you can count on Oliver knocking on ...

Written: 01/06/2007 10:07 by: duckwhacker View

Twenty years ago, I lived in Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK when I was in the Air Force. My wife and I were newly married, and lived in a town house off base. Our neighbors were a couple from Australia, and the husband, Herb, was there studying for his career in Mental Health. Herbie and I became fast fri...

Written: 12/31/2006 17:35 by: duckwhacker View

I try and get as many species mounted as I can. I have a redhead in the freezer, and I am still looking for that cinnamon teal. The problem is that I am running out of ideas and places to hang them. Anyone out there have any other poses or ideas for waterfowl mounts?

Written: 12/29/2006 15:22 by: duckwhacker View

I took my friend Cody and my son on our annual December hunting trip. Our goal was to hunt ducks and try and get Cody a managment buck. Unfortunately, the weather this week did not participate with warm weather and high winds. We only saw a few doe on our deer hunts, but we did manage to do pretty ...

Written: 12/21/2006 11:11 by: duckwhacker View

Back in '01, I was living in Kansas due to a job change. A woman that worked for me introduced me to her husband, Bill, because he was bitten by the hunting bug almost as bad as I was. Anyway, Bill and I hunted for Deer, Quail and Pheasants every chance we got, but Bill had never been much of a wa...

Written: 12/19/2006 18:35 by: duckwhacker View

To date, I have only done a shoulder mount on one deer of all the bucks I have taken over the years. Every other buck has been a European mount. Now Bucky hangs in our family room above the fireplace, and he is not a Boone and Crockett buck, and he is in no way the biggest buck I have harvested, bu...

Written: 12/18/2006 11:35 by: duckwhacker View

About two years ago, I broke my ankle (severly) while working my dogs out on my deer lease. In typical fashion, I refused to let that interfere with my hunting season, and rigged up a special boot that I could wear out to the duck blind. The only thing I could not do was wade out into the water and...

Written: 12/14/2006 18:27 by: duckwhacker View

I went duck hunting with two friends, Mike and Matt (father and son, respectively) this morning at my duck lease. My lease is located in Palo Pinto county, and although the water is down significantly due to drought conditions, the water is still bigger than anything around. The lease is strategica...

Written: 12/12/2006 13:35 by: duckwhacker View

My son Bobby has played select baseball since he was nine years old, and every year since he was 11, we have taken one of his teammates to get his first deer during the Texas youth season. This year, we took his friend, and our shortstop, Taylor Carter. Taylor is hispanic, and his nickname on the t...

Written: 12/11/2006 12:35 by: duckwhacker View

I went duck hunting with four buddies yesterday, and we had a fantastic hunt. The weather conditions were perfect, and the ducks really worked our spread. We killed a great mixed bag, and just had a great morning. The great thing about this hunt was the way the wind worked to our advantage out of t...

Written: 12/11/2006 12:24 by: duckwhacker View

I killed this buck on Friday, December 1st at 7:15 a.m.. It was a perfect morning, very cold with light winds out of the NNE. I had hunted for three days at the same stand, braving some very cold and windy conditions. The previous night, I missed a very big buck. He stepped out and the only moveme...