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Fri, 07 Mar 2025 17:04:21 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9917By Horace Gore Most Texans know the story about Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, emperor of Mexico, and his role at The Battle of the Alamo. But there is…
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Santa Anna surrenders after the battle of San Jacinto.
By Horace Gore
Most Texans know the story about Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, emperor of Mexico, and his role at The Battle of the Alamo. But there is a lot more to the general and president of Mexico than meets the eye. He was the creator of one of our favorite pastimes—chewing gum! Had it not been for Santa Anna living in exile on Staten Island, America probably never would have had chewing gum.
Chewing gum origin
Santa Anna had been a politician, and president of Mexico, more than once. In his late years he lost favor, retired from Mexican politics, and lived in exile on Staten Island, New York. During his days on Staten Island, Santa Anna asked his friends in Mexico to send him his favorite chewy rubber substance from Mexico’s sapodilla tree—chicle. Santa Anna’s secretary and interpreter gave some of the chewy material to amateur inventor Thomas Adams. The thought of making rubber from the tree sap intrigued Adams.
Santa Anna and Adams formed a company with $30,000 financed with the help of the Mexican general. But the company had no success in vulcanizing rubber from the chicle material. However, he and Adams succeeded in adding flavor and sweetness to the chicle to create a rubber-like chewing gum.
America was ready for chewing gum, and soon the chicle chewing gum was the rage. People just couldn’t get enough chewing gum, which came in several flavors and styles.
The company financed by Santa Anna, and started by him and Adams, would be the largest chewing gum company in America. However, William Wrigley, Jr. bought them out, and developed Wrigley’s “Chiclets.” They’re still sold today, along with several other forms of chewing gum.
It’s not a well known story to Americans, but may be one of the greatest contributions to our frivolous society.
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Thu, 27 Feb 2025 16:26:06 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9882Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is taking public comment until March 26 on changes to digital licensing and tagging requirements. The proposed amendments would expand digital license and tag options…
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is taking public comment until March 26 on changes to digital licensing and tagging requirements.
The proposed amendments would expand digital license and tag options to all recreational hunting, fishing, combo license and tag types.
TPWD introduced digital licensing and tagging in 2022 for harvested deer, turkey and oversized red drum.
Options have since expanded to allow resident hunters and anglers to purchase a fully digital license for the super combo (Items 111, 117), youth hunting (Item 169) or lifetime combo (Item 990), Hunting (Item 991), or Fishing tags (Item 992). Customers can also purchase other products such as the exempt angler tag (Item 257), bonus red drum (Item 599) and spotted seatrout tags (Item 596).
Additional details on the proposed regulation changes can be found on the public comment page and in the Texas Register.
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commissioners will consider public input before taking action at its March 27 public hearing. Comments on each of the changes can be provided on the TPWD public comment page through 5 p.m. March 26, or contact Chris Cerny at (512) 389-4594, Chris.Cerny@tpwd.texas.gov.
TPW Commission will take public comment on the proposed changes at its March 27 meeting in Austin. Those wishing to provide public testimony must pre-register to speak. Public testimony is normally limited to three minutes per person. —courtesy TPWD
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Wed, 26 Feb 2025 21:24:44 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9862Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is accepting public comment until March 27 for the following proposed changes to the 2025-26 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird proclamations: Migratory Game Bird…
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Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is accepting public comment until March 27 for the following proposed changes to the 2025-26 Statewide Hunting and Migratory Game Bird proclamations:
Migratory Game Bird Regulations
Increase the daily bag limit of pintails from one to three in all duck zones.
Reduce the early teal season from 16 to nine days in all duck zones.
Extend the regular season length in the High Plains Mallard Management Unit by seven days.
Reduce special white-winged dove days from six to five days.
Reduce rail and gallinule season to nine days in September to match early teal and move seven days to the end of the season.
Extend the falconry seasons by six days for select migratory game birds.
Allow for calendar progression for all other migratory game bird hunting season dates.
Upland Game Bird Regulations
Clarify Hill County zone boundaries for wild turkey hunting seasons.
Open Lubbock County to wild turkey hunting season consistent with the North Zone.
Extend statewide quail hunting season to the last day in February.
Make conforming changes regarding the issuance of recreational hunting licenses, stamp endorsements, and selected permits as digital products.
Big Game Regulations
Expand the archery season for mule deer from the Saturday closest to Sept. 30 to the day prior to the opening of general mule deer seasons.
Modify Managed Lands Deer Program rules to allow the harvest of mule deer with any legal means from the Saturday closest to Sept. 30 through the last Sunday in January.
Make conforming changes regarding the issuance of recreational hunting licenses, stamp endorsements, and selected permits as digital products.
Additional details on the proposed regulation changes can be found on the public comment page and in the Texas Register.
Public comment
Texas Parks and Wildlife Commissioners will consider public input before taking action at its March 27 public hearing. Comments on each of the changes can be provided on the TPWD public comment page through 5 p.m. March 26.
For comments regarding the Migratory Game Bird Proclamation, wild turkey or quail, contact Shaun Oldenburger, shaun.oldenburger@tpwd.texas.gov .
For comments regarding big game hunting, contact Shawn Gray, shawn.gray@tpwd.texas.gov .
Those wishing to provide public testimony must pre-register to speak. Public testimony is normally limited to three minutes per person.
—courtesy TPWD
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Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:47:32 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9800By Horace Gore The deer season of 2023 had opened, and Jonathan (Johnny) Amador, Jr. was settled in the deer blind with Grandpa Frank Montoya on the Hodge Keller Ranch…
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Johnny Amador Jr. and Grandpa Frank
By Horace Gore
The deer season of 2023 had opened, and Jonathan (Johnny) Amador, Jr. was settled in the deer blind with Grandpa Frank Montoya on the Hodge Keller Ranch in Northeast Val Verde County. Frank is a seasoned deer hunter who has leased the 500-acre spread for deer and aoudad for years.
This hunt was different from all the others because Johnny was holding his Grandpa’s Thompson Center Encore .300 Win. Mag. single shot with a 150-grain Hornaday SST in the barrel. The normal kick of the big rifle was tempered with a muzzle brake, and the variable scope was set on low-power for deer.
Johnny was after his first whitetail buck and Grandpa Frank had made sure that his 10-year-old grandson was ready. In between Johnny’s fourth grade classes at Katie Reed Elementary, they had practiced with the rifle, and Johnny and his younger brother, Asher, had sat in the blind with Frank for several seasons. Asher had decided to stay home on this early morning hunt, and Johnny was looking for his first buck. As usual, Frank and Johnny said a prayer for safety during the hunt.
Frank had come over from home he shares with Grandma Dixie in Helotes in northwest Bexar County. He spends a lot of time on the ranch, usually escorted in his chores by one or more of their 15 grandchildren, five of which are the Amador kids: Leana, 15; Kira, 13; Johnny, 11; Asher, 9; and Anaiya, 5. Ashley, Johnny’s mother, and her father, Frank, are busy running the family business—Northwest Automotive Warehouse, while Jonathan Sr. works for the U.S. Attorney’s office in San Antonio.
The hunt begins
The high deer blind was about 100 yards from a corn feeder, and Frank had the use of a couple of trail cameras. The lease had a good deer population and some good bucks, but Johnny was after a respectable buck, not anything gigantic. Several does and young bucks were quick to come to the feeder when it went off just after daylight. The hunters sat tight, hoping for something respectable for Johnny’s first.
Johnny was comfortable with the scoped rifle that he had shot many times. All he wanted was a good shot at a buck—and that would come, pronto. The does became nervous and moved away from the feeder as a buck emerged from the brush. Frank recognized the buck as an eight-point that was a regular to the feeder. Johnny looked at Grandpa for the OK, and Frank gave him the nod for the 100-yard shot.
Johnny got the buck in the scope and cocked the hammer. He took a deep breath and slowly squeezed the trigger of the .300 Win. Mag., as the roar echoed through the canyons of the Hodge Keller Ranch. The 150-grain SST bullet at over 3,000 fps caught the buck behind the shoulder for a deadly lung-shot. Johnny Amador had taken his first buck with eight points, and would go to the Hunters Extravaganza Annual Deer Competition in San Antonio.
Johnny’s buck scored 114 4/8 and got him a pat on the back from Grandpa Frank, and third place in the Open Range Male Youth category at the San Antonio show. The Amador family relished the venison, and the story of Johnny’s buck hunt spread all over the fourth grade class at Katie Reed Elementary.
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Thu, 30 Jan 2025 20:32:04 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9781By Horace Gore I have long enjoyed shooting a Winchester Model 70 .270 on North American game, but it hasn’t always been that way. When I was young and money…
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The author’s custom Winchester Model 70 with engraving, chambered in .270 Winchester.
I have long enjoyed shooting a Winchester Model 70 .270 on North American game, but it hasn’t always been that way. When I was young and money was scarce, I shot any rifle I could beg or borrow. In my days at Texas A&M, I had a $40 war relic Enfield .30-06 that I “sporterized” with a Weaver J2.5 scope on a side mount. My Enfield “deer” rifle was accurate, and I took 15 deer with it, including my first yearling buck in Brazos County in 1958.
I eventually traded the old Enfield .30-06 for a Remington 721 .270 that I used on deer and pronghorns. As I traded up, I got a “tack-driving” Winchester standard Model 70 in .270 from Ernie Davis that I used on big game from the Rockies to Mexico. My good friend, Dean Davis of Gonzales, has the rifle now, and I’m satisfied that it’s in good hands.
Enter Jack O’Connor
Jack O’Connor’s promotion of the .270 sparked my interest about 65 years ago. I looked to Jack for shooting advice, and his regular column in Outdoor Life hooked me on the .270, which has enough hydrostatic shock and bone-busting power to bring down any animal I ever shot at. Handloaded with 60 grains of H4831 in Winchester cases, and a 130-grain Hornady Spire Point, the 24-inch barrel shot the bullet at 3,140 fps, and was deadly from 50 to 300 yards.
The Winchester .270 cartridge will be 100 years old in 2025, and is still a favorite of Texas hunters in both factory and custom rifles. The Remington model 721 was an economical version in .270 I liked very much. I recall a new Model 721 being $87 in 1964, and a used one will bring $500 today. A clean, used Winchester Model 70 in .270 will sell for three times that much.
Jack O’Connor grew up hunting with his grandfather in Arizona Territory and used a .30-06 and 7mm Mauser for wild sheep, Coues whitetails, mule deer, and other game. When Winchester developed the .270 in 1925, and brought out in their Model 54, Jack bought one and liked it. Eleven years later, Winchester brought out the .270 in their Model 70 with a completely revamped stock, action, and trigger, and Jack liked it even better.
The Rifleman’s Rifle
In 1936, the new Model 70 in .270 really caught the journalism professor/outdoor writer’s interest, and Jack used the .270 exclusively after moving to Idaho. He ended up working for Winchester and promoting the rifle and caliber as “The Rifleman’s Rifle” for the next 30 years. Jack was responsible for Winchester developing the Model 70 Featherweight in .270 and the new .308 and .243 cartridges, with 22-inch barrel light enough for the mountains.
Many of us whitetail, mule deer, and pronghorn aficionados have enjoyed the .270 in a variety of rifles, and this probably comes from successful hunts with no regrets. My personal preference for the Winchester Model 70 in .270 came from its killing power, mild recoil, crisp trigger, and good design.
My hunting exploits with the .270 go from Wyoming to Mexico, and several places in between. I have used a standard Winchester Model 70 to take whitetails, mule deer, pronghorn, elk, aoudad, and several deer-size exotics such as the Japanese sika and India’s spotted axis.
Gore’s custom Model 70
In 1990, I traded for a fine custom Model 70 .270 from Joe McBride in Austin that turned out to be one of my favorite rifles. The rifle had good walnut wood and checkering, and was even finer after Robert Bueltel cut the barrel to 22 inches and Tommy Kaye graced it with whitetail motif engraving on the floor plate and trigger guard. Later, Tommy added a nice pronghorn and “pineapple” engraved the bolt knob.
For 20 years, I used this custom Model 70 .270 on whitetails, mule deer, pronghorns and hogs. The lightweight barrel wasn’t too accurate, but I killed everything I shot at, which proved to me that a hunting rifle does not have to be a tack driver. The .270 with hand loads would hit a golf ball-size target with every shot at a hundred yards, and that was good enough for me.
Shooting nilgai
Even though I never used the .270 on nilgai, I wouldn’t hesitate to shoot one with a 150-grain Nosler bullet if the distance was no more than 250 yards. Unless the shooter is close enough to shoot a nilgai where the neck joins the shoulder, most nilgai get taken with a bullet directly through the shoulder blade and into the lungs. This requires a heavy, deep penetrating bullet.
I’ve never seen a bull nilgai fall in his tracks, so don’t fret if he throws up his tail and runs 150 yards before collapsing. For long-range shooting at nilgai, I would leave the .270 and other similar rifles at home and depend on a heavier .30 caliber bullet to penetrate the shoulder bone and destroy the lungs—a little much for a .270 at 300 yards.
Shooting elk
Bull elk can be taken with a .270 and good, deep penetrating bullets. A young bull taken with my .270 while mule deer hunting in Wyoming took two 130-grain Sierra bullets—the first to stop him, and the second to put him down. My other bull and several cow elk were taken with a .300 Weatherby and a .264 Win. Mag.—both very good Magnums. Of course, the bottom line is to put the bullet in a vital spot, and the rest comes with a good skinning knife.
So, I was drawn to the .270 at an early age by a persuasive and articulate gun writer. I say this with respect, because Jack O’Connor was my idol during my formative years of hunting, shooting, and writing. I never met him, but I owe a lot to the world’s greatest gun editor.
I have read nearly everything Jack wrote about guns and hunting, and I’m confident in his early days, he liked his Springfield .30-06 as well as he liked the Winchester .270. The difference was he eventually became an employee of Winchester, and his rifle preferences were driven by the monthly check and paid hunting trips. On eight African safaris, Jack still relied on his Winchester Model 70 .30-06 for bigger horned game, but on the North American continent, Jack relied exclusively on his custom Model 70 in .270.
Final trophy
After hunting big game with a .270 for a half-century, I would recommend it to anyone. The key to success with the .277 caliber is to use proper bullets for the game you are after. In my case, all the deer, elk, exotics, pronghorns and hogs I’ve taken with the Winchester .270 would feed a small army, and each hunt always ended with a smile.
I took my final trophy whitetail buck in 2016 with my new Jack O’Connor Commemorative Super Grade Winchester .270. I went hunting with Marty Berry and Jason Shipman in Live Oak County. The heavy eight-point that grossed close to 160 B&C fell to a handloaded 130-grain Hornady SST bullet and 60 grains of H4831 in Winchester cases, my favorite .270 handload recipe for many years.
Today, hunters have many good rifle cartridges to choose from, but if you select the .270 in a good rifle, you won’t go wrong. The venerable cartridge has proven itself for 100 years, and I expect it’ll be a caliber of choice for another 100 years.
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Tue, 03 Dec 2024 21:29:44 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9471By Horace Gore Tate and Tanner Miles are Trophy Hunters of Tomorrow. The brothers are the sons of Trace Miles of Poolville, located in Parker County, Texas. Tate is 10…
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By Horace Gore
Tate and Tanner Miles are Trophy Hunters of Tomorrow. The brothers are the sons of Trace Miles of Poolville, located in Parker County, Texas. Tate is 10 and Tanner is 7, and they attend Poolville Elementary. An interesting aspect of both young brothers is that they are outstanding bowhunters, and each has taken deer and hogs with compound bows. This story will relate the bowhunting success of each brother.
Tate has about 30 successful bow hunts on deer, hogs, and one turkey gobbler. He started using a compound bow at age 6. The poundage rule for compound bows was relaxed from 40 pounds by Texas Parks and Wildlife several years ago, so younger bow hunters could pull a bow with enough poundage to take a deer or hog. Trace took advantage of the rule, and Tate began hunting deer with a compound bow when he was in the first grade.
During the last five seasons, Tate has taken 10 bucks on the family hunting lease in Shackelford County. Three of these bucks netted Pope & Young Book scores, and Tate entered bucks in the Fort Worth Hunters Extravaganza Deer Competition for seasons 2021-22; 2022-23; and the past 2023-24 competition.
Tate hunts from a blind with his father, and besides the deer, he has a lot of hogs to his bowhunting credit. You can be assured that Tate will be in a deer blind when deer season opens.
Tanner has about 11 successful bow hunts to his credit since he started shooting a crossbow when he was 5 years old. During his three years of bowhunting, he has taken three bucks and several hogs with the crossbow. During the 2023-24 season, Tanner switched from the crossbow to a compound bow and took two does and some hogs.
Tanner’s buck from 2022-23 season won first place for Youth, Open Range at the Fort Worth Extravaganza Deer Competition. He’s anxious to get into the blind with dad this season, and woe is the deer or hog that gets within shooting distance of Tanner and his compound bow.
Tate and Tanner are lucky to have a father who makes sure that the boys get every opportunity to bow hunt each season. The Clear Fork of the Brazos in Shackelford County is a great place for deer, turkey and hogs, so I guess we will hear much more about the bow hunts of Tate and Tanner.
Did we mention when the Miles brothers are not bowhunting or practicing with their bows, they like to fish and play baseball? Sounds like Tate and Tanner are busy in the outdoors of Parker and Shackelford Counties.
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Tue, 19 Nov 2024 18:04:22 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=9303By Horace Gore It’s a fact: More Americans play golf than hunt. In Texas, we often laugh at the notion of golf being more popular than hunting. After all, Texas…
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By Horace Gore
It’s a fact: More Americans play golf than hunt. In Texas, we often laugh at the notion of golf being more popular than hunting. After all, Texas is known as a hunting state. But a recent review of the two sports, and the fact that 90% of Texans live inside city limits, shows golf dominates over hunting by a wide margin.
On a national level, there are 11.4 million hunters and 25.6 million golfers. In 2022, 40 million golfers were worth $102 billion to the economy. At the same time, deer hunters were worth $21 billion, but all activities using firearms accounted for $149 billion.
Golf, deer hunting aren’t cheap
The national average for a harvested deer is $1,250, while the Texas average is $3,900 per deer. However, the high Texas price tag comes for the best deer hunting in America. Private ownership of Texas deer habitat makes for the best in hunt quality, safety, equipment security, and enjoyment. By the way—have you priced a round of golf lately?
In many ways, hunters and golfers experience the same thing—the challenge. Golfers want to break par, and hunters want the bag limit. The challenge takes both back to tee off or go to the field with rifle or shotgun. If the golfer has a good score for 18 holes, or the hunter gets a buck or a limit of doves, the challenge has been met.
Hunting license purchases in Texas
Dove and deer comprise the majority of license-buying Texans, adding up to 1.2 million hunting license sold to 800,000 deer hunters. This sounds like a lot of hunters, but Texas has some 22 million license-age residents. When you check the figures, only 6% of Texans buy a license, and only 4% deer hunt. Dove hunters add up to some 400,000 (2%), followed by small game, waterfowl, and varmint hunting.
With 27 million Texans living in town, and 3 million living rurally, it’s no wonder city-folks look more to golf as an outdoor sport as opposed to hunting. Most city dwellers have little contact with rural people, where hunting takes place. And, there’s usually a golf course nearby, making it much easier to play golf than to find a place to hunt—especially to deer hunt.
If Texas follows the national trend, we have about twice as many golfers as hunters, and the game of golf is gaining every year. As a rule, young people follow their parents or close friends in choosing outdoor sports. Since fewer adults hunt, it follows that their children will choose some other outdoor sport—and golf waits a short distance away.
Don’t get me wrong—there is nothing wrong with golf. I’ve tried to be a golfer myself. But for some reason, I have always preferred the smell of gun powder to hitting a little ball with a big club, and wondering where the ball went.
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Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:31:00 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=8862The post TDHA Gears Up for Season and the Texas Banded Bird Challenge appeared first on Texas Trophy Hunters Association.
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TDHA Gears Up for Season and the Texas Banded Bird Challenge
Whether you hunt upland birds, ducks, crane, deer, pigs, exotics, or any other wildlife,
September 1st is the day all hunters anxiously await. The opening day of dove season is also the opening day of hunting season in Texas and the first chance to pull the trigger on wild game.
It is also the most exciting time of the year for Texas Dove Hunters Association (TDHA). This month, in preparation for September 1st and the rest of dove season, we’re busy mailing out hundreds of new memberships and renewals, attending trade shows across the state, and releasing birds for the Texas Banded Bird Challenge.
TDHA has been a true hunter’s organization since it began in 2012 and promotes strong family unity through hunting and the outdoors. A membership organization committed to research, education, and habitat conservation, THDA developed an extensive field study on the Eurasian Collared Dove, an invasive species in Texas. We have built a database centered on where these birds are trapped, banded, and released, compared to where they are found or harvested. We study the habitat in all three locations, looking at directional travel, age, and distance over time.
This year even more wing shooters are entering the Texas BB Challenge in hopes that they will
harvest a Eurasian Collared dove with an orange TDHA band on its leg. The top prize is a new truck provided by Hoffpauir Auto Group. If a Texas BB Challenge entrant reports a band that matches a pre-determined number, they win the new truck. All entrants who report a band will win—and we take pride in offering some of the best hunting contest prizes around, thanks to our Banded Bird sponsors and supporters. This year’s sponsors include Hoffpauir Outdoor Superstore, Recordbuck Ranch, G2 Ranch, Baffin Bay Rod and Gun Club, Bird Down Brand, Aluminum Outfitters, Blake Jones Designs, Los Cazadores, Negrini Gun Cases, David Denies Bird Hunting, Poncho Outdoors, Forager Outdoor Products, the Dove Wrangler, Cowboys Wild Game Washer and Dove Cord.
This year’s winners will receive a wide variety of prizes – ranging from a Polaris Ranger, exotic hunts, trophy trout fishing trip, Argentina dove hunt, leather products, a lifetime TDHA membership, gun accessories and targets, feeders, Poncho shirts, and more. Needless to say, your $20 TBBC entry could pay off big!
For a full list of prizes, past winner photos, information on the TBBC and contest rules, visit: www.bandedbirdchallenge.com.
The TDHA release team has already started banding and releasing some of the 800 Eurasian
Collared doves for the 2024 Texas Banded Bird Challenge. As the contest continues to
gain momentum and popularity for the prizes being won, it also continues to generate some
exciting insight into the habits and migratory instincts of these invasive birds to Texas. This year will mark the seventh year of the study and some 5,400 birds having been banded and released.
We hope to see some of you at the TTHA Hunters Extravaganza this weekend in San Antonio! Come find us at our booth to join/renew, enter the TBBC, grab a new TDHA hat, or just say hello to our team.
Join or renew TDHA today and enter the Texas Banded Bird Challenge at www.texasdovehunters.com.
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Tue, 13 Aug 2024 19:37:31 +0000https://ttha.com/?p=8868The post Chas-mac Hunting Products Has All Your Hunting Blind and Feeder Needs appeared first on Texas Trophy Hunters Association.
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Chas-mac Hunting Products Has All Your Hunting Blind and Feeder Needs
Chas-Mac Hunting Products has been in business since 1983 and has become an industry leader in stands, blinds, and feeders. We manufacture our hunting products in Houston, TX at our shop on Ted Street.
Brother and Sister duo Kevin & Shawnna Duke, born and raised manufacturing in Houston, Texas, purchased Chas-Mac Hunting Products in 2020. The Duke Family saw an opportunity to incorporate two small family-owned businesses into a hunting brand that would stand the test of time, resulting in the creation of O.M.D. Hunting Products. Raised hunting in Texas, the duo set out to create a line of products that solved their personal hunting needs, as well as other hunters’ needs for generations to come. Kevin and Shawnna took their knowledge of metal manufacturing to the next level with O.M.D. Blinds, Feeders and more and joined forces with Texas Trophy Hunters Extravaganza to bring the O.M.D. Brand to the masses. Today, Chas-Mac Hunting Products is proud to havea long list of dealers around Texas that continues to grow.
Texas Trophy Hunters Association (TTHA) will host the 48th annual San Antonio Hunters Extravaganzas this weekend, August 16 – 18th at the Freeman Coliseum Expo Hall. The TTHA Hunters Extravaganzas are the largest hunting shows in Texas and the premier place to find anything you may need for your next trip out to the field. Stop by Chas-Mac Hunting Products’ booth in the lobby of the San Antonio show to visit with the team and learn more about the O.M.D Hunting Products line.
O.M.D Hunting Products, sold by Chas-Mac Hunting Products, stand up to Mother Nature and provide the hunters with the confidence and comfort to have a successful and efficient outdoor experience. We have 50+ years of design manufacturing and metal fabrication experience behind all of our products.
For more information on Chas-Mac & O.M.D. Hunting Products, visit their website (http://www.chas-mac.com) and find them on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/ChasMacTX).
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