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High Plains Outdoors: Big Axis Buck And Cats?

Luke Clayton

Just this past week, Luke traveled up to Red River County, situated in the northeast corner of Texas, a few miles south of the Red River to the Rio Rojo Rancho www.riorojorancho.com, owned by his friends, Mike and Lori Ford.

Football fans might remember Mike's career as a star quarterback with SMU back in the 80s, and later, the NFL with Tampa Bay.

Luke was using his Gearhead bow, hunting for a big axis buck in hopes of getting some meat for upcoming hunting camps, but with temperatures reaching 100 degrees in the afternoon, game movement was minimal during daylight hours.

Luke also related a very funny story concerning his wife’s cats and an old Nikon camera he has used for years! 

Outdoors writer, radio host and book author Luke Clayton has been addicted to everything outdoors related since his childhood when he grew up hunting and fishing in rural northeast Texas. Luke pens a weekly newspaper column that appears in over thirty newspapers.