Trainham Meat

As 2007's Season Comes to an End

2008-01-09T08:04:00.000-08:00

J-Ron!

2007-12-31T14:07:00.000-08:00

Awesome job, Jaron!

Nice one, Wally!

2007-12-31T14:02:00.000-08:00

Wally Aguilar of Goree, Texas

You go girl!

2007-12-28T17:09:00.000-08:00

~Laura Burnett bags one~

William Shoemake got a beaut!

2007-12-28T12:18:00.000-08:00

Congratulations!

I think this is one from Ledesma Oil guys...?

2007-12-24T10:36:00.000-08:00

Yesterday~

2007-12-18T05:24:00.000-08:00

Anthony is a 9 years old with buck fever! Way to go!

uh oh...

2007-12-11T16:41:00.000-08:00

Lots of character~

2007-12-06T19:26:00.000-08:00

This deer was taken at Miller Creek Ranch by Richard Dixon of Cedar Hill. This deer was huge and the rack had tons of character with an eight inch drop tine. Congratulations Richard!

Deer Country~

2007-12-03T19:18:00.000-08:00

Don Roberts of O'brien had a good day! He had caught this beauty with a field camera, but hadn't seen him while hunting. And, low and behold, while meeting with someone on business they decided to drive through the lease and there the same deer was waiting on him. Congratulations on this great kill, Don! And thanks for giving us a shot.

Check this out!

2007-12-03T11:39:00.001-08:00

Bobby Sherrard of Knox City got this big buck on the left and his daughter, Kaily, bagged the other beauty.
Way to go, ya'll!

TGIF~

2007-11-30T20:54:00.000-08:00

Believe it or not this is the smaller of the two whitetail brought in today.

This was a monster buck. And, against their druthers, our employees stood in for the shot because of my coaxing, "Ya'll no one will be able to see the 'size' of this guy without someone in the picture as a measuring stick'. They love me, I just know it! You're doin' a great job Michael and Jeanne~we appreciate you.

Made in the shade~

2007-11-28T12:40:00.000-08:00

Nice buck brought down by Jerry Wilde!

Great going Jerry and thanks so much for the business.

A good Thanksgiving hunt~

2007-11-26T10:49:00.000-08:00

Congratulations Mr. Adams!

I missed it...

2007-11-19T07:17:00.000-08:00

Well, we had a big one come in the weekend before last...brought in by Rick Meinzer. And yes, I and my camera missed it! Big Jim took this pic on his phone and I took a pic of his phone. That, unfortunately, is as good as it gets. Congrats Rick and thank you for the business...nice, big buck!

It's in his blood...

2007-11-19T06:47:00.001-08:00

I think the reason Kent loves this side of the business is because he is an outdoorsman at heart. He also loves to watch while others get enjoyment from their hunting experience. Dawg and I tagged along with Kent last week and these shots were taken. I took several shots with the camera while Kent took several shots at a white-tail buck. When 'the one' shot presented itself to take a picture of Kent holding up the kill...my camera blinked at me, "insert a new battery pack". Shucks...we had two dead objects on our hands and no way to preserve it. Yet, Kent's intentions are to process the meat and serve as samples to customers. The deer was a nine-point and seemed to be an older fella...he didn't have any teeth. In the end, the guesture seemed to imply, "Hey, let me die with a little dignity."

A Day Just For...

2007-11-11T19:57:00.000-08:00

...Young Guns by Ray Sasser of Dallas Morning News
Free hunt turns into fun outing for dads, too.
Copied and pasted from Dallas Morning News
02:29 PM CST on Sunday, November 11, 2007

GOREE, Texas – In the first gray, murky light of opening day, a whitetail doe slipped under the barbed wire fence and strolled into the wheat field in northern Throckmorton County. At about 10 yards, the doe stopped and stared at the mobile ground blind that Stony Trainham had placed in a clump of oak trees.

The doe watched for a minute, then twitched her tail and walked into the field, stopping to munch tender, green shoots as she walked. A slightly smaller deer strolled out behind the doe and never even looked at the blind. It took 10-power binoculars to see the bumps that identified the second deer as a nubbin buck, a buck fawn. The bumps are where antlers will eventually break through the skin.

Trainham had warned Jeff Patton and his son, Troy, to watch out for button bucks, which are sometimes misidentified as does. He needn't have worried. Troy, 8, wasn't quite ready to shoot a deer. His dad, an Oregon native who grew up hunting with his family, was playing it perfectly. "I can smell those backstraps and gravy," joked Jeff Patton, trying to gently urge his son into taking the shot. Troy got the joke and he even looked at the doe a couple of times through the scope of his new .243 but opted against shooting.

Trainham is a Rolling Plains hunting outfitter who guides for deer, ducks, doves, hogs, quail, geese, sandhill cranes, turkeys and predators. You name it, Trainham will take you hunting for it on Miller Creek Ranch (www.MillerCreekRanch.com). He was hosting a free deer and hog hunt for kids.

"Our bookings have been pretty good this year, and I felt like I needed to give something back," said Trainham, a lanky native of West Texas. "I posted the free youth hunt for kids accompanied by their dads on an Internet hunting forum. I figured I could handle six kids, so I offered six hunts and filled them up in 45 minutes. I had to post another request asking dads to stop e-mailing – they were shutting down my computer."

Of the six dads who signed up for the hunt, only three showed up. One called in with a sick youth hunter but the other two never even bothered to call or e-mail.

"They didn't have anything invested in a free hunt, so I guess they figured they had nothing to lose," reasoned Trainham.

They did have something to lose, however. They lost a fun weekend with their kids. Worse yet, by signing up for a hunt and then backing out, they kept the hunting experience from other kids who might never have the chance.

The Pattons live in Forney. James Hatfield brought his 8-year-old daughter, Taylor, from Haslet, near Fort Worth. Hatfield grew up hunting in East Texas and has two daughters. Dallas Sullivent and his 9-year-old daughter, Delaney, live in Graham, near Possum Kingdom Lake. Delaney was the only experienced deer hunter in camp. She and her dad rolled in after noon on opening day because Dallas Sullivent had taken Delaney's 12-year-old sister hunting on his deer lease that morning. Delaney was wearing a pink t-shirt with the logo "Blame My Sister." It was obvious from the way she handled her .243 that any fat doe that strolled out in front of Delaney's blind would be making a mistake.

With a light turnout, Trainham decided to include his eldest daughter, Madison, into the mix. Madison is 6 and was wearing a pink sequined shirt with the prophetic logo "I Was Born To Be Daddy's Girl." On Saturday afternoon, I sat with the Trainhams and soon dubbed Madison as the "Wiggle Queen."

Jeff Patton helps his son Troy, 8, get sighted for a West Texas deer hunt. Her mouth was red from the stain of a strawberry drink. The sugar content of that drink may have been working its magic on Madison. She draped herself upside down in her chair, she talked, she looked through the binoculars backwards and her dad finally resorted to thumb wars and games of rock, paper, scissors to sort of keep her quiet.

"I think she's two years away from being a deer hunter," Trainham admitted. No deer came to the blind in the pasture we named "Madisonville."

The next morning, Delaney Sullivent made a perfect shot on the only doe taken by the youth hunters. Trainham was disappointed because all the kids were not successful. They were successful, however. They succeeded in getting their father's undivided attention for an entire weekend. Troy Patton probably said it best when I asked him what he likes about hunting with his father.

"What I like most about hunting with my dad is that he's always by my side," said Troy.

Way to go girl!

2007-11-04T16:40:00.000-08:00

Delaney is a third grader from Graham, Texas and she had a big time on a youth hunt out at Miller Creek Ranch. She brought in a doe this morning. Congratulations Delaney!

Congratulations Zach...

2007-11-03T19:49:00.000-07:00

White-tail deer: 136 lbs.

Zach Peace of Weinert, Tx

Townhouse Smoker

2007-11-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

The smoker is finally in the 'house'!

All in the family, again (sort of)...

2007-10-26T07:14:00.000-07:00

Hey Trainham family,
Leroy and his friend Ed went hunting yesterday (in Idaho) and Ed got the prize. It took them 5 hours to get the buck back to the truck. The terrain was really challenging!!

Today everytime Leroy moves he groans like an "ole man"!! He said he used muscles he hasn't used in a long time... Hopefully Leroy can get back out there next week and get his own buck.
Love to all,
Aunt Donna

First Customer~

2007-10-24T16:38:00.000-07:00

Wild Hog~126lbs

Boots (our cat) is in big trouble...

2007-10-22T09:20:00.000-07:00

Runs in the family~

2007-10-18T07:03:00.000-07:00

Tammie's relative took this antelope in Idaho. Too bad he lives way up in northern country, sure would like to process this baby! Congratulations Leroy!

Lovin' every minute of it...

2007-09-25T08:20:00.000-07:00

Kent took this mule deer a few years back while on an elk hunt in Colorado.