Texas Fish & Game

When it comes to boat hulls, there’s a whole lot of misinformation out there. What’s a deep-V? Ask 10 different people, and you’ll get 10 different answers. What do steps do in a hull bottom? Again, everyone seems to have a different opinion. There’s just one problem: in reality, only one of the answers or opinions you’ll get are correct.

The Griffin Armament Checkmate .22LR suppressor is one of the quietest and has the most features of any rimfire can I’ve seen.

Accidental investigative reporter Jamie Lee Bracey was shopping in the guns section at his local Alabama Wal-Mart last week when he found “Gun Oil,” a water-based solution for topical use only.

The H2O piqued his interest because he’s always known water to be a bad thing to apply to metal. After reading the instructions he learned that “Gun Oil” wasn’t for a literal gun, it was for your … figurative gun.

His Facebook video has since garnered more than 1.6 million views.

Check out the video below:

Source: Guns.com

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The Texas Trappers and Fur Hunters Association’s Fall Rendezvous will be held once again at the Stevenson Center in Junction, Texas on Friday afternoon and all day Saturday, October 16 – 17, 2015. All persons interested in these types of outdoor activities are invited to attend this free event.

Feral hogs are everywhere these days, so deer hunters are bound to run across them during time afield. And putting some of the pigs down is a great way to manage their burgeoning populations, which can cause habitat problems…

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In 2016 the Classic Kick Off Event for The Elite Redfish Series, previously The Redfish Series with Pat Malone, will be in Orange.

AUSTIN — With the recent discovery of Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) in two captive deer breeding facilities in south-central Texas, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department will be stepping up efforts to strategically sample hunter harvested deer at a greater level during the 2015-16 hunting season.

What’s wrong with having a little bit of fun and launching some soda cans? According to a recent determination by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), a popular device used to propel cans and similar items into the air is now considered a federally-regulated short-barreled rifle (SBR) or any other weapon (AOW)…

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UPI) — A tally of selfie-related incidents leading to deaths this year comes with a startling revelation — selfie deaths in 2015 outnumber deaths from shark attacks.

If you don’t own a VW with a diesel engine or just hate the auto manufacturers so much that another recall doesn’t even phase, you may want to stop reading right now.  If you are still reading,  I suspect that you have read or heard about the debacle that VW is now facing for faking emissions information on all of their vehicles with diesel  engines.  It goes like this: the company knowingly put a put in equipment to allow the vehicles to ace EPA testing while belching up to 40-times more junk into the air in normal driving than they admitted to.  This is huge.

It started off as an April Fool’s joke, but the designers behind this “catch enlarging” device say it is now actually a real product—or at least it will be if a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter is successful.

Back in April, employees with the Danish company MOEF “unveiled” a product called FishyHands as a prank

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The excitement over a massive 27-point buck that could have been North Carolina’s newest record non-typical soon soured after wildlife officials questioned where the rack came from.

The deer was reportedly harvested last Wednesday in Surry County by a hunter named Nick Davis, and was measured by Joey Thompson, an official scorer for the NC Bowhunters Association, at a gross score of 223 1/8 inches and a net score of 208 2/8 inches..

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Jaguars are the largest cat in the Americas.

Breeders of white-tailed deer have warned top officials at the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to not destroy any internal communications ahead of possible legal action against the agency.

While you’re enjoying the hunting season in Texas, be sure to spread the word to your family, friends and fellow sportsmen about Proposition 6.

Take 2 minutes out of your day and watch this, it is one of best snake videos we have found! This massive Cotton Mouth just destroys a rattlesnake that is passing by.  The video caption provides a brief description of the cotton mouth:

If you own a fiberglass boat you have a million and one waxes, polishes, and protectants to choose from, but what sort of protectant are you supposed to use on your aluminum boat? Whether you have a hunting skiff or a pontoon boat, finding good cleaners and protectants isn’t nearly as easy. Now, however, we have Meguiar’s Aluminum Protectant specifically made for aluminum boats and pontoons.

Titusville, Florida – Largemouth bass usually aren’t orange, but in rare cases an angler will find something truly incredible on the end of a fishing line.

AUSTIN – Conditions were prime for record harvest of white-winged doves as hunting in the South Zone got under way last week.