RE: Hunting waterfowl and upland birds in East Texas
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May 24, 2007 01:56 PM
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labpointkennels

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Shelby county
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I own LPK. I was raised up in this part of East Texas, my family actually settled here in 1832, and have relatives all over up here. I have about 600 acres that I will have permitted for preserve hunting in this area. I have a working relationship with Top Flight Gamebirds who this year is raising 50,000 quail, 25,000 pheasants and 25,000 chukar, so I have all the birds I want available for my upland hunts. All of my guided hunts are done over pointing labs that I have trained to preserve hunt. My choc male will road, locate the bird, lock up on point and hold that point until I have my hunters where I want them then I give him a release command and he will flush the birds and then retrieve them to me then sit and present me with the bird. My duck hunts are my old haunts from when Toledo Bend and Sam Rayburn were first built. I have a favorite hole on the Angelina River above FM 103 where it turns into Rayburn. You can look at that area with Google Earth. On opening morning the sky will be full of ducks, mostly wood ducks, and as soon as it is light they are all over you. You can get your two wood ducks in no time and then try to shoot something else besides wood ducks. One of my regulars from Nacogdoches calls my preseve hunts "blue collar hunts" because I provide birds, a place to hunt them and will clean them if you want. I also do waterfowl and upland training. Everybody wants to hunt my training fields because they are designed to make the birds fly back and forth down from cover to cover allowing you to get multiple tries at the same bird. And no poachers, that's one problem I don't have up here yet. One more thing. There was a gentleman who hunted with me last year that owns 1400 acres in Winnie. The USFW went in several years ago and made 200 acres of duck ponds. He is a quail hunter and doesn't duck hunt. I asked about leasing those ponds and he said o.k. So it looks like I may wind up with property in Winnie. They had a good time and wanted to book for this next year so it looks probable.
Donnis Adams
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