With another round of fall hunting seasons rolling to a close soon, Kara Starr and the rest of the folks at the Texas Wildlife Association in New Braunfels are sounding the bell to Texas big game hunters in hopes of drumming up a solid list of entries for the 2022-23 version of the Texas Big Game Awards Program.
Starr is the coordinator for TBGA, a non-profit program run jointly by the TWA and Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. The hunter/ landowner recognition program has been around since 1991, but there are quite a few hunters who know very little about it or how it works. I strike up conversations with hunters every year who have no idea the program even exists.
That’s sad, because TBGA is a really cool deal that is founded on some really good causes. To wit: TBGA isn’t some sort of pay-to-enter contest with cool prizes on the line for those bring down the biggest bucks over the course of hunting season.
