Well the duck and goose season has been one of the better ones this year. To some part that is due to the fact that I have been hunting at two of the best duck and goose clubs on the Texas Gulf Coast, Halls Bayou Ranch and The Bucksnag. Both have are equally great in their own right.
Bucksnag is a really nice lodge set up for gentleman's hunting. The 'Snag feeds you all meals, has nice accommodations and a wonderful staff. The food is awesome, really stunning South Texas German / bohemian fare. These folks have the hospitality side of things down to an art. I am accustomed to being well cared for, hell catered to and pampered and these folks do not miss a lick. That is saying something, because I am hard to please, demanding and perfectionist. Mind you it is not the Four Seasons, it is a duck lodge but I really like the place.
Beyond that the goose hunting is awesome, stunning, and not the ball breaker that goose hunting normally is. It is a seasonal thing so come end of duck season they shut down until the opener of teal season the next year.
Halls Bayou Ranch is a great place, just 40 minutes from downtown is 13,000 acres of prime duck hunting, fishing, hog hunting, and general outdoorsmanship. It is a very special place, an endangered species that looks back 50 years to what everyone used to be excited about here on the 3rd coast. It is not the service organization that Bucksnag is, but they do a great job of providing guides, building habitat, and managing the resource. There is a lodge and they cook a breakfast to feed Lee's Army, but most of the cooking and goings on are put on by the members entertaining and just passing a good time.
I have some great friends there and that is much of the fun. Now we solved the problem of not having accommodations up to standard by moving in a 5 bedroom 3 bath house, referred to as "The Palace" by our hunting buddies. Not that what they have is bad, but it frees me up to just be able to show up and not have to take lodge space out of play for other folks. And the dog can sit on the couch, hell sleep in bed for that matter.
Owning NFA Items
-
“Silencers are illegal!” Well no, they really aren’t. While there are many
states that restrict the ownership of things like machine guns and
suppressors (...
17 years ago
Posts
2 comments:
I have been looking for some nice duck and goose hunting clubs along the Texas coast line. Thank you for the post. Atleast now i know two of them.
Like most hunters I enjoy sharing the experience. Both are awesome. Halls Bayou has great duck hunting and Bucksnag is better for goose. Halls ends up costing less as you do not have to take a guide, so depends on the experience you are looking for.
Post a Comment