Hunting & Land Update - Book NOW!

By Ryan Gardner
Friday, March 11, 2022

 

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Hope this email finds you doing well. This email provides you a few updates on upcoming hunts and land for hunting:

  • Spring turkey season (April and ½ of May):
    • Starts April 2 and runs through May 15 (best time is early April);
    • Seeing around 30 or more turkeys on the property;
    • Working with other landowners for additional property;
      • See below for more landowners coming on board;
    • Starting to book up for early hunts (i.e., CALL ME NOW);
  • Dove season (September and October):
    • Normally starts September 1 and runs through the end of October;
    • Thank God last year’s dove season is over (horrible bird numbers);
      • Dove numbers appear to be rebounding from February 2021 freeze;
      • To help combat a repeat of 2021, we are now pursuing land 116 miles north and 70 miles south of Winters;
        • See below for more landowners coming on board;
    • September 1, 2 and 3 morning hunt (house taken, cabin open);
    • September 3 afternoon, 4 and 5 hunt (open);
    • Rest of the Friday, Saturday and Sundays in September / October currently open;
      • Currently only one party of twelve is booked;
      • All bookings (for turkey, dove, and/or sandhill crane) require contacting us, sending deposit and reserving;
      • Some people believe I go every year on xyz date, so I am booked (that is an incorrect assumption);
      • If you know when you want to go (specifically in early September, CALL ME NOW);
  • Sandhill crane season (November, December and January):
    • Normally starts November 1 and runs through January 31 (on west side of 83);
    • 100 SX sandhill crane decoys, 16 top quality chairs, 4 Lucky Duck A frame blinds, and new 18 foot trailer;
    • Guides being added;
    • We will be doing full package hunts and day hunts;
    • 4 landowners around Winters on board now;
    • See below for more landowners coming on board;
  • Rifle Range:
    • Powerlines being moved up;
    • Should be shooting at 1,000 and 1,200 in the next month;
    • Berms and targets at 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 800, 1,000 and 1,200;
    • When power lines are moved up, we will analyze the 1,500 and 1,800 potential;
  • Fishing:
    • Cedar trees going in tank and pig paneling by spillway in April;
    • Pending a few variables:
      • 3 fish feeders in April / May;
      • Grass carp in May;
      • Bait fish in Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023 and Spring 2024;
      • Florida bass in Spring 2024;
  • More landowners coming on board:
    • Calling landowners daily in target area in West Texas;
    • I expect many more properties this year, and I expect more below par farmland to be left open:
      • Why?
        • Diesel prices are going out of sight and fertilizer prices are up 143% over last year prices and will probably double from today’s prices in the near future;
        • Think about that: Food prices WILL GO UP SIGNIFICANTLY.
        • “Somebody” decided to shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline;
        • “Somebody” decided to “punish” Russia with oil ban (672,000 barrels a day gone, from last year’s imports);
        • China (37m metric tons, largest in world) and Russia (10m metric tons, 4th largest in world) are massive fertilizer producers, and I believe they both think it is time to “get” the USA because of “somebody”;
        • Green new deal being shoved down our throat, hook, line and sinker by “somebody”;
    • Currently sending out letters, then calling up to 1,601 farmers from a list generated from the following counties:
      • 300 in Haskell County (Munday, 116 miles north of Winters);
      • 300 in Jones County (just south of Haskell County);
      • 160 in Taylor County (just south of Jones County and includes Abilene);
      • 300 in Runnels County (where the primary property is located and includes Winters);
      • 140 in Concho County (Melvin, 70 miles south east of Winters);
      • 61 in Callahan County (Putnam, east of Taylor County and 70 miles north east of Winters)
      • 40 in Coke County (just west of Runnels County, includes Robert Lee);
      • 300 in Tom Green County (just south of Coke County, includes San Angelo).