Had I thought I would find something like this last year, I would have planned accordingly. The biggest issue is for that kind of lease price i would need to be able to bring my wife, daughter and dad on rare occasions, not to shoot anything but to enjoy the outdoors with.

I'm really surprised this is still open! If I will pass your number along to a couple of guys.

So. Texas accident kills hunter

Associated Press

AUSTIN - A Central Texas businessman helping to guide a deer hunter on a weekend trip was killed when his partner's rifle accidentally discharged, authorities say.

Jeffrey O. Pollock died after the bullet passed through his hip, damaging two arteries, family members said.

Another weekend hunting mishap claimed the life of a Central Texas teen-ager.

Pollock, 39, was closing in on a buck at a South Texas ranch near the Mexican border over the weekend when a hunting partner accidentally fired his rifle on Saturday.

"His love for hunting - you couldn't compare it to anything except maybe how much he loved his wife and his only child," Nina Gutierrez, Pollock's business partner, told the Austin American-Statesman.

Funeral services were scheduled for 2 p.m. Tuesday at Manchaca Baptist Church in Austin.

Pollock was shot as he was guiding a San Francisco man, Greg Fowler, toward a whitetail buck on the Dimmit County hunting ranch. Fowler's gun discharged as they crouched in the brush, authorities said.

Because Fowler had no idea of his location on the ranch, emergency crews were delayed in responding, said Mike Bradshaw, a game warden based in Carrizo Springs in Dimmit County.

Pollock was president of Cold Inc. and a sister company, Capital Ice Machines, which deal in wholesale refrigeration systems.

On the same day Pollock died, a 14-year-old Boerne boy was shot and killed in Medina County near dusk when a man he was hunting with mistook him for a hog.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission said six people were killed statewide last year in hunting accidents, down from eight in 1998.