Recent content by pilar

Sig 100 in a what ever caliber is manageable 6.5, 270, .308 Topped with a Burris or something, tikka would be my 2nd favorite I was just given a savage 11 in 6.5cm it’s pretty dang accurate and deadly with 127 LRX , I would say a 6.5 cm is a good choice for a starter for ladies and children...

I just skipped it , till next Friday, when we can hunt Friday-Sunday and maybe get a few

I wear Jim green, my brother wears his moc toe redwing or thoughgood work boots

Yes in the 1970’s the encino division had pronghorn “”The historical range of pronghorn included the western two-thirds of Texas, extending as far east as the lower Rio Grande Valley and Kenedy County, which borders Brooks County. At the time, they were the second most numerous large land...

Yeah ticks , lice and flies are a scourge in the industry Best thing I know to do is soak old towels and sheets and mix used motor oil and pyrethrum or other oil based insecticides and wrap and wire them to a pole set in the ground as a cattle and hog rubbing pole Pink eye really messes with...

Yes on deer , nilgai, other animals carrying tick fever. Way back in the 1990’s I worked for the agriculture department doing my master’s thesis , I was assigned to a German culling company who harvested nilgai for foreign export of the meat , I harvested ticks from nilgai, deer , wild hogs...

Dang I love a good Cachaça fueled post ;) And I truly hope you post some pics of these Brazilian hybrid swamp bulls, I have have killed some pretty rank Mexican river Cain bulls down in the tick barrier zone , seems like the cows are more likely to come for you then the bulls But a stout...

Only on university, GLO , TP&W property, private property they are considered livestock Example poachers where killing nilgia and got caught and were charged with basically cattle rustling or stealing livestock by harvest

I’m with you there on the zero aoudad where BHS are the focal point But TP&W is majorly full of crap , the Chinati Mountains State Natural Area was area that they have had for 30+ years and every year excluded any type of public hunting on the drawing, first it was we are studying the subject...

I would agree with your assessment generally that 375 is bare minimum and possibly even inadequate for buffalo, then I see buffalo dead as yesterday, by a few other caliber Like 9.3 , 45-70 , 35whelen, I even have a pansy ass bow hunting buddy who killed one with his bow and arrow. I lean...

“ It’s interesting that the two non “game animals” and un protected animals - the Aoudad and Elk, are thriving with herds increasing rapidly in west Texas While the Pronghorn, mule deer, and Big Horn are Texas game animals and are protected. Yet, they are dwindling and going in the opposite...

I’m in the middle, I worked In the fort Davis area and Valentine, van horn areas for years And they were all considered shoot on sight, we had a very good management program and large numbers of muledeer and pronghorns, now the aoudad have spread a respiratory disease and are in direct...

Yeah WTH no .264 win mag or 6.5-284 Norma vs the 6.5prc ,308 Norma mag vs 300wm , and the nerve 280 ackly improved over a 28 nosler and 7-08 over 7x57 the nerve of those western USA hunters! We Africanhunting.com should flood the comments section of backfire in protest;) The USA should renounce...

7x64 is the European equivalent of a .280 Remington/ 7mm express Which imo is an underrated cartridge ( .280 Remington) I don’t know why more people don’t use it for plains game ?

I pay my employee guides $150 per day + food and living quarters here in the USA I kinda expect our clients to tip about $100 per day and accommodate the camp staff 3 of us left $4500 total for a 12 day hunt + the ladies left a huge cache of school supplies and clothing at the camp All tips...