Hunting - Fishing - Lone Star Outdoor News

After several days spread across the state, the crew from Lone Star Outdoor News returned to the office with varying degrees of weekend success.

LSON Founder David J. Sams and Executive Editor Craig Nyhus reported a good hunt at the Highpoint Ranch near London. Craig concluded a week of harvesting does on a ranch near Pearsall with a ten point management buck on the ranch near London.

They reported solid deer movement, although not a lot of action around the feeders, and had a lot of fun with guide and friend Sawyer Wright.

Editor Bill Miller was after feral hogs on family property in DeWitt County, but he saw only one late Saturday afternoon.

The black, shaggy mid-sized boar snuck out of a sendero above a wide area baited with corn that Bill mixed with a new hog attractant that he was testing.

The rangefinder measured the hog at 109 yards away, but Bill wanted to see if it would come to a bait pile that was heavily laced with the attractant. Then, for some unknown reason, the hog turned and trotted up the sendero at a pretty good clip.

Not wanting to take a running shot at the hog’s curly tail, Bill let him go, unsure why it took off, because the wind was in Bill’s favor.

Other than that, it was a great weekend with bright, sunny days following about an inch of rain that fell earlier in the week.

Probably the highlight, Bill said, was, while driving to town, he raced three bucks along a fence line.

“They were charging and bounding over fallen limbs and brush,” Bill said, “and they kept pace with my car for what seemed like a hundred yards or so — just flying!”

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