Texas Whitetail Hunt with Larry Weishuhn – Booked

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I was reading my e-mail a few days ago and saw a 2018 invitation for a Texas Whitetail Hunt with Larry Weishuhn known as “Mr. Whitetail”. I looked forward to meeting Larry sometime, and here comes this hunt, gift wrapped for me. I just have to open my wallet!

Mr. Whitetail's Trailing the Hunter's Moon: An Adventure Journal

Larry has published several books on whitetail deer is a big proponent of using rattling antlers to call in a buck and in fact so am I, especially during the rut.

I have taken NH bucks with rattling antlers and a grunt call with rifle and muzzleloader in years past.   I harvested a New Hampshire Bull Moose with similar tactics. I used 2 inch dry tree limbs to whack together and shook a small oak sapling with dry leaves and my nasal Moose call for that one. Truth is, I haven’t seen many NH bucks of late. I did see only one last year, but he saw me first. Big racked New Hampshire bucks are few in comparison to Texas so I hope to see enough to be selective. This is my first western hunt and hope it won’t be my last.

My research finds that many Texas Hunts charge a trophy fee for SCI scoring bucks above 150 class, not so here. This hunt is a low fence free range deer hunt and I get to take the buck of my choice (no trophy fee) and two does. We eat our venison and share with family. I booked with Wildlife Systems, Inc. of San Angelo Texas with Greg Simons – Owner and a Wildlife Biologist. Greg has known Larry for years…

https://www.wildlifesystems.com/rocky-creek-ranch.html

I will not hunt directly with Larry but he will be in camp with 7 other hunters and talking about whitetail hunting on the 25000 acres before us in camp. Can you imaging just 8 hunters at a time on 25000 acres of prime deer habitat? And talking around a campfire!

I will be hunting with the Weatherby Vanguard Weatherguard in 6.5 Creedmoor I have been testing and my Leupold VX-6 3 -18×44 scope. Of course, I will load my own cartridges for the trip and shoot a 140 grain class bonded bullet like the Nosler AccuBond or solid copper like the Nosler e-Tip.

I am flying American Airlines and round trip was very cost effective We will take meat back both on the aircraft (up to 70 lbs for $100) and ship some from his meat cutter there.

Good Shooting!

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About Ed Hale

I am an avid hunter with rifle and Bow and have been hunting for more than 50 years. I have taken big game such as whitetail deer, red deer, elk, Moose and African Plains game such as Kudu, Gemsbok, Springbok, Blesbok, and Impala and wrote an ebook entitled African Safari -Rifle and Bow and Arrow on how to prepare for a first safari. Ed is a serious cartridge reloader and ballistics student. He has earned two degrees in science and has written hundreds of outdoor article on hunting with both bow and rifle.