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Whitetail Video: Locked Trophy Bucks Tangled in Fence

Thanks to a land manager’s quick thinking and sharp saw, a trophy Texas buck escapes a certain and slow death by coyotes.
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Facebook Live Video: Weighing a 16.39-Pound Texas Bass!

The largemouth bass shown in this video — caught April 2nd — now ranks as the 20th largest bass ever weighed on a certified scale in Texas. Crazy!
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Video: Deion “Coach Prime” Sanders Catching Bass

NFL Hall of Famer Deion Sanders loves bass fishing, and so does his Heisman Trophy winning player Travis Hunter.
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Video: 9-Year-Old Catches and Releases Ancient Alligator Gar

Alligator gar are a rare, special game fish that can live up to 90 years — and they can be huge!
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Video: Bass Breaks Line but Angler Gets Redemption

Bassmaster Elite angler Trey McKinney gets redemption on a 5-pound bass that broke his line and stole his lure an hour earlier.
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Southwest Texas Oryx: Countdown to Success

With the clock ticking down on a southwest Texas scimitar-horned oryx hunt, it was do or die on the final morning.
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West Texas Black Bears Slowly Returning

Researchers are trapping black bears and affixing GPS tracking collars to study the bruins in West Texas, where numbers are small but growing.
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Video: 7-Foot Alligator Gar Tows the Boat — Then Jumps!

Small rivers in southeast Texas are home to massive alligator gar, and landing one requires skill, the right gear and a healthy dose of courage.
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5 More Crazy-Cool Cakes From Sugarbelle Sweets

Dusty Sinclair of Sugarbelle Sweets in Corpus Christi, Texas, creates the absolute best in outdoor-themed custom cakes.
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Texans Upset About Feral Pigs in Cemetery

Wild pigs defile final resting place in the Lone Star State.
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Must-See Cake for Duck Hunters

Believe it or not, what you see here isn’t a taxidermy mount of two ducks. It’s a birthday cake!
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South Texas Field Test: Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey Shotgun

A South Texas hunt for Rio Grande gobblers provides the perfect proving ground for the new Mossberg 940 Pro Turkey shotgun.
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Video: Young Girl Kills Mature 4x4 Whitetail With Her Crossbow

A father and daughter share a ground blind in Texas, and they have several close calls before she finally pulls the trigger on a big whitetail buck.
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Breaking News (Facebook Live Video): 17-Plus Pound Bass Just Caught on O.H. Ivie Reservoir

A new lake record largemouth bass was caught today from O.H. Ivie Reservoir in central Texas, and this Facebook Live video shows the fish being weighed at a nearby tackle shop/convenience store.
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Video: Texas Angler Catches 14.48-Pound Largemouth Bass

YouTuber Tyler Anderson visits famed O.H. Ivie Reservoir in central Texas and battles one of the biggest bass ever captured on video.
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Deer Hunters: Do You Believe in Whitetail Culling?

A massive study in southwest Texas indicates that culling “inferior” whitetail bucks isn’t the best way to build a better buck herd.
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Setting Sights on a Texas Trifecta

A trip to the Texas Panhandle puts three models of EOTech sights through a series of dawn-to-dusk field tests for predators, turkeys and aoudad.
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Hunting Hogs Day and Night

In most places it’s legal to hunt wild hogs 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Why not take advantage?
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Replica Whitetail Buck — Crafted in a Cake!

When it comes to making specialty cakes with an outdoor theme, Dusty Sinclair of Sugarbelle Sweets is second to none.
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Championship Day Video: Lee Livesay Catches 9-Pounder on Topwater Lure

It’s every competitive bass anglers dream to have a mega bag on the final day of an event to cruise to victory, and recently that dream became a reality for Texan Lee Livesay.
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Video: Battling an 8-Foot Alligator Gar

No. 1 on the author’s bucket list is a visit to the Trinity River in southeast Texas to fish with alligator gar guru Henry Martin, who recently landed an 8-footer on hook and line.
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3.4-Pound White Bass Caught in O.H. Ivie Reservoir in Texas

We recently published a story about the numerous double-digit largemouth bass coming from O.H. Ivie Reservoir in Texas, and now it has produced a possible new lake record white bass.
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O.H. Ivie Reservoir in Texas Is on Fire With Trophy Largemouth Bass

During the past 10 days, no lake on the planet has been hotter for trophy largemouth bass than O.H. Ivie Reservoir in Texas.
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Bowhunting Southwest Javelina

Javelina provide year-round fun in temperate climates.
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Game Warden Chronicles: Mistakes on Waterfowl, and Spear-Throwing Salmon Poachers Get the Point

In the latest installment of our game warden chronicles series, game wardens in New York got right to the point with a group of men using spears on salmon.
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Wild Hogs: A Must-Hunt Species

Whether you’re looking for an action-packed bowhunt on a budget or are trying to learn to control buck fever, hunting wild hogs is the perfect solution.
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Deadly Hemorrhagic Disease Confirmed in Wild Rabbits

A potentially devastating situation has been confirmed in multiple states with the discovery of viral Rabbit hemorrhagic disease, and a variant of the virus that causes it. The ramifications on wild populations of rabbits, along with predators that feed on them, could be huge.
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The Truth About High-Fence Hunting

The author bowhunts exotics behind a high fence in Texas for the first time and comes away with a new appreciation for the challenge.
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Where to Hunt Alligators

Want to hunt an alligator? Here are nine states where pursuing your dream of killing an alligator can become a reality.
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Targeted CRP Practices Can Boost Bobwhite Populations: Study

New research indicates that the nation’s largest private lands conservation program, the USDA Conservation Reserve Program can magnify its impacts on bobwhite quail, grassland birds and other wildlife if applied to the landscape at scale in locations already targeted by complementary management activities.