Yearling black buck antelope were bedded down in the knee-high pasture grass as others stood staring from a distance. The red stag were bunched up in the groves of pine trees. The axis deer were ...

Turkeys draw top billing in the hills and brush during April and early May, but one other hunting option is available. Spring is a fine time for exotics. Various imported or "exotic" big-game species ...

Texas has quietly overhauled how visiting hunters buy licenses, trimming a confusing menu of options into a smaller set...

Such is the curious state of modern Texas ranching, that a giraffe among the oak and the mesquite is an everyday sort of thing. “That’s Buttercup,” said the guide, Buck Watson, 54. In a place of rare ...

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department staff Jeff Forman (left) and Ryan Reitz (center) drag the scimitar shot by Harold Lee (not pictured) onto a trailer alongside Kelton Mote (right) during an exotic ...

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