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).
