Report Date: January 4, 2016
Duck hunting in South Texas is on fire! The Wide Open Outdoor Adventures crew loaded up and headed to Seadrift, the cozy little town near Rockport, Texas.
We had light drizzle, cold weather – – just what the ducks like. The only challenge is that it's hard to film with high-definition TV video cameras in the rain. My new camera-man Fred Kirby and I know that very well. It seems like in every hunt we've done over the last four months, we've had to deal with "Mother Nature." That's part of the challenge of making outdoor programming -- we have to have high definition electronics in salt water and in freshwater environments. We got it done though!
The ducks were flying over in big numbers, and almost all were redheads. It was awesome. Shane Horton and his dogs, Bullet and Jack, were on fire.
The airboats were revved up, and we had a camera airboat provided by Greg Johnston of Tilden to help us fly the drone and get the aerial photographs and video. It doesn't get hotter than the smokin' gun blazing action on this future episode of Wide Open Outdoor Adventures.
If you want some help shooting birds with a shotgun, contact my friend Foard Houston of Sandy Oaks Ranch at 210-394-4857. He can help you with the basics and also move you to the advanced level. Knowledge is power in the Wide Open Outdoors! -- Dave
***Special note***
We're identifying our television networks now for the 2016 season. We're looking hard at Fox Sports Southwest and the CW 35 Networks. This will be one of the best TV seasons ever. We already have 9 shows created, more are being made every week. We got a deer hunt scheduled again for McMullen county with the bow in the next few days. Buckle your seatbelt because the 2016 season will be hot and heavy! I'll see you on TV soon!
Hunt Date: December 20, 2015 - Sandy Oaks Ranch (Devine, Texas)
Whitetail hunting in South Texas doesn't get much better than this...
I met up with my good friend Foard Houston at the Sandy Oaks Ranch in Divine, Texas. The plan was to rattle in some big bucks.
When I got there, the Mercury was 32°, and we started out on our morning hunt. It turned out to be a beautiful crisp morning with blue skies and some scattered clouds.
The first location didn't disappoint us – three bucks came running in aggressively. We were looking for a good deer to shoot with the Mathews Monster Chill blacked-out compound bow.
I had Fred Kirby, my main camera-man, on deck. We moved from one location to the next riding in a quiet electric four-wheeler. We were selective in what we wanted to shoot; Foard had some really nice deer on the range. We’d drive to an area, tuck the four-wheeler into the brush and get out on foot to move through the ranch and find a place to set up and hunt. We quietly settled in. I set up on a small chair, and Foard would get right behind me with the big rattling horns. Fred would set up somewhere in the vicinity so he could capture on HD-video everything that came out in front of us.
It did come together – – we made an awesome TV show! Foard rattled in an awesome whitetail buck, and the Matthews bow didn't disappoint.
We harvested an awesome white tail on the Sandy Oaks Ranch. Foard doesn't offer Whitetail Hunts on the ranch; he only offers that to friends and family - what he does offer however is totally amazing! He's an expert with a shotgun and earlier in the year we made an awesome quail hunt with Pointer Dogs and a Flushing dog.
Contact Foard & Debbie Houston at 210-394-4857 if you want to improve your abilities with a shotgun…
And if you haven't been on a quail hunt you got to check it out!
This time of year, whitetail deer are in the rut. They'll come in aggressively to the horns, and they were awesome on this trip – thanks to Foard for an awesome hunt!
I’d like to also put in a special thanks to Fred at The Bow Shop in San Antonio, Texas -- 210-342-4269 -- for helping me “Fine-Tune” this awesome Mathews bow to make this hunt come together.
Just get out there! -- Dave
