chris hughes
We try to harvest year round. It’s kind of feast or famine sometimes. If we get too much rain, it really
broken arrow ranch, tx
prevents us from going out, because the ground is
Broken Arrow Ranch was founded by Chris’s father, Mike, who had previously traveled the world as a salvage diver. Between pulling up the remains of the Lusitania and the Challenger, it dawned on Mike that people in other parts of the world loved to eat the wild game, like deer, that were considered pests back home on Texas ranches. Broken Arrow culls the nonnative species from ranches to save more grass and feed for livestock. A few nights a week, the mobile processing unit goes out to a ranch that has requested their service. The rancher guides the shooter as they stalk through the darkness.
up the roads. When there’s drought conditions, then
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too muddy, and the ranchers don’t want us tearing we start getting a lot of calls, because there’s not enough feed for both the cattle and the deer. It’s not about putting a bullet into an animal and killing an animal. It’s about putting a bullet in that animal in the right spot so that its death is instantaneous and humane. We’ll take up to 300-yard shots, but when you start getting out that far, the risk of not making a clean shot increases, so it kind of depends a little bit on the conditions. Heck, if you practice, you can train on the target pretty quickly. Whether or not the animals scatter depends on how recently