Letters

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.

Corey Anderson’s smoke-colored gobbler. 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

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! at is not the result of mating with a domestic turkey, but a color phase, rarely found in wild birds.

Albino Hog

NOTE: In the TF&G newsle er we posted an article looking for photos of white or albino feral hogs.

THIS IS PROBABLY NOT ALBINO, but pre y white. It was killed by my son Karson Lester in Lavaca County in 2019. It was his rst ri e kill.

Ken Lester

Editor: What a cool hog! Tell Karson we said congrats! at’s as white a hog as I have ever seen.

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