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BLOGGIN'.....
with tess
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what's in my freezer
What’s in my freezer you ask?? OMG! What’s not in my freezer? Lol! Let’s see, I have Giraffe, Kangaroo, Whitetail Deer, Axis Deer, Black...
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time to hit the deer lease...
Time to hit the deer lease! Besides Christmas, it’s my favorite time of year. Time to hit up the deer lease and get things working and...
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pinchin' pennies
Hey, hunting isn’t always cheap. We all know that. Sometimes things need to be replaced, they quit working or when you slacked on hog...
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honey hole, morels & more
Just a couple months away is turkey season. But with it comes morel mushrooms! Hours of walking the hills.. no complaining there! That’s...
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"wide boy" is coming to the freezer
The coffee pot is ready. The camo and gear is laid out. Snacks are packed in Ziplock bags, I might add because it’s a little quieter and...
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why do we taxidermy animals?
If I’ve been asked once, I’ve been asked 1000 times by anti-hunters, why do you taxidermy the animals you kill? The first reason is Art. ...
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THEY DROP EM',I FIND EM'
As young children, we all wait for that time of year to hunt eggs for Easter. Then we get older and grow out of it. A few of us stop...
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AXIS HUNT 1 OF 2
Ok! Everyone calm down! It was my first axis hunt. I was in the Hill Country of Texas, it was low fence and I was beyond excited! The...
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GIRLS GET THE JOB DONE...
Girls get the job done, Velvet it is! I sit here on my second day of the axis hunt looking for the same axis deer. I’m in the blind,...
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why the black giraffe?
A Challenge After successfully hunting various wild game in the U.S., and Plains game animals in South Africa, I decided it was time to...
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new hunters in the making...
Spending another blessed weekend in South Texas, and you guessed it, to hunt! However, this time I’m not the one hunting … It gets a...
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my first,but not my last turkey hunt
Who likes getting up early, especially when you don’t have to? Hearing the dreaded alarm go off because you must go to work isn’t ideal....
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lucky charm
Have you ever heard of someone taking a ‘good luck charm’ hunting with them? It may seem old fashioned, but I have. Maybe it’s a...
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how do you live your life?
How do you live your life? To impress and please others? Bending over to every opinion and naysayer? Nope. You do your best to be the...
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why speak out??
Why speak out now … I had to. Somebody had to. Without meaning to, I have put myself in a position of leadership and act as a...
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document-ary
Lately it seems, with hunting comes public hate; and with that hate comes so much slander, uneducated comments, and worse, death threats....
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jeep life
Okay, y’all - some of us are Ford people, Dodge fans or Chevy crazy. But, then there’s me, a Jeep Freak! Buy it stock and add a lift kit,...
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bait corn
Do you tend to be a skeptic? Well, I’m surrounded by them. And I tend to be to when it comes to “hot new trendy” products on the market....
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interview with vance bishop
Doing what others do not understand -- or choose not to do themselves, has brought my life under an abundance of scrutiny and hate. Every...
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The rut is real
The Rut Is Real.. It’s a whopping 3:30 AM and my alarm is blaring ... Any other day I’d hit snooze, but not today. It’s finally the...
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eyes wide open...
A Hunt With Tess Talley Growing up my family didn’t have guns. It just wasn’t a part of our family make-up. We had golf clubs and other...
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Amanda lay & Tess
Words could never do this story justice. Speaking as a new hunter, you have to experience it for yourself to truly comprehend what this...
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Blake's Story...
Blake is currently receiving chemo treatments due to a cancerous tumor that ruptured causing him to lose a kidney, known as Whelms Tumor....
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