Texas quail hunters should not expect substantive changes for the 2012-13 season after the Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission urged biologists to intensify quail conservation efforts, while minimizing the use of regulations as a means to address declining bobwhite populations.

This week Benelli On Assignment (BOA) host, Joe Coogan and Benelli USA VP of Marketing and Communications, Stephen McKelvain travel to South Texas to take on the challenge of finding big Rio Grande "long beards" in the South Texas brush county of Sarco Creek Ranch, near the historic town of Goliad.

The South Texas coastline offers sportsmen a wide variety of outstanding hunting and fishing opportunities. But the very best is enjoyed the most by waterfowlers hunting along this classic Texas coastline wintering ground, offering shooters a chance at two of wildfowling's most impressive ducks-Northern pintails and redheads.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today that the new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) general sign-up will run Monday, August 2nd through Friday, August 27th. Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever Farm Bill Biologists are prepared to work with landowners through the entire sign-up period.

It's easy for hunters to get spoiled in Texas.  From September through May there is at least one ongoing hunting season for some game animal or bird in every region of the state, which includes the nation's highest number of deer, turkeys and migrating doves.