LETTERS to the Editor Women Hunting I JUST WANTED TO SAY I REALLY appreciate the article on the Women Hunt program in the September/October Issue. It was interesting to see the industry stepping up to get real women hunting initiatives out there. And I salute Texas Fish & Game for having the boldness to not only do a story on this, but put it on the cover. Double kudos!
Mary Hansen THANKS FOR THE ARTICLE ABOUT women hunting. I grew up in a family where all of us women hunted so it’s nice to see a program to help coach women who never had that chance.
Kaycee Smith
Smoke-Colored Turkey I READ YOUR ARTICLE ONLINE about turkey color phases. Five years ago, I saw a smoke hen and the following year I saw a jake.
Karson Lester with his albino-ish Lavaca County hog.
I watched him until last spring. My neighbor stated he was hunting him. So I decided I’d go for him as well. He eluded us both until I was able to get him at 37 yards with my bow! Well people are telling me it’s just a wild turkey fornicatiing with a domestic turkey. It’s no big deal. I thought it would reach out to you and see what your thoughts are.
Corey Anderson Wright County, MN
Albino Hog NOTE: In the TF&G newsletter we posted an article looking for photos of white or albino feral hogs. THIS IS PROBABLY NOT ALBINO, but pretty white. It was killed by my son Karson Lester in Lavaca County in 2019. It was his first rifle kill.
Ken Lester Editor: Congrats! What an amazing story and bird! Smoke-colored turkeys are probably the most abundant of the color phases, but they are still super rare. You got the trophy of a lifetime! That is not the result of mating with a domestic turkey, but a color phase, rarely found in wild birds.
Corey Anderson’s smoke-colored gobbler.
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Editor: What a cool hog! Tell Karson we said congrats! That’s as white a hog as I have ever seen.
Email your comments to: editor@fishgame.com PHOTOS: KEN LESTER; COREY ANDERSON
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