Texas History
Battle of the Deer Protein Brands – Double Down vs. West Feeds, round 2
I can remember growing up as a kid in the early 90's, heading out to the deer lease to fill our spin feeders with corn for the coming deer season and taking some shots at dove in the evening hours. Filling feeders was once a year for the most part. We'd only top off...
Feed Bandit Summer 2020 Battle of the Deer Protein Brands
I recall many years ago hunters would simply feed deer corn and nothing more. Opening weekend of the Texas dove season would find Texas hunter’s trucks and trailers loaded to the max with hunting gear, beer and deer corn. The goal was simple, get the deer feeders...
Deer Blocks…Fact or Fiction?
I'll be the first to admit, I am a sucker for hunting gimmicks. I love em! Deer blocks fell into this class and I've bought enough in my time to build a grand pyramid of compressed deer goodness to rival similar structures in Egypt. I always just assumed that if the...
How to keep your Quail Safe and plentiful
Quail at Rancho Bandido-West out in west Texas, a quail mecca, seemed to be all but gone not 15 years ago. You see, the family has been hunting quail out there on that same plot of land for darn near 100 years. So when we started noticing the decline in the quail...
Opening my first Sportsman’s Box
So during our podcast with Adam from Sportsman's Box, ole Corn Bandit gave me hell for not yet having my own subscription. You see he's had one of his own for well over a year and has long been a satisfied customer. Heck, I've even benefited from his membership...
Taking out a young hunter for the first time
I was talking with my son, Jeb, the other day about taking him deer hunting with me this fall. He’s only 3 now but I’ve been pointing out the deer mounts on our walls for some time now and now he finally refers to them as deer instead of dinosaurs so I think he’s...
Hunt Better. Fish Better. Christmas in every box!
Are you a gear junkie like us? We love finding awesome new and innovative hunting gear and services and when we find 'em we'll always introduce 'em to you. Introducing Sportsman's Box, a hunting membership that does just that as well! When you sign up for a...
Game & land management made easy (and fun!)
As is said about a lot of things, there's no better time than now and that goes double for implementing a game and land management program. We've gone through the motions of trying to keep records on how often we filled a feeder and how much to try to remember if we...
An amazing blind built to last
Since we're approaching the end of turkey season in many places the time is coming to do what we can to stay excited and get through the steaming hot months of summer. Now's the time to start focusing on working your hunting land and preparing for the fall birds and...
Getting two for one, a deer and turkey story
Boy I wish I had a picture of this one.... I wanted to following up on the email we sent last week about the hunters who thought their hunt was over without success. That is until a gobbler heading to roost decided to not send them home empty handed by electrocuting...