Predator Call

My Great Grandfather, Erskine Outlaw was one of founders of the South Texas Wolf Hunters Association back in 1920.  The association was a group of hunters that ran coyotes down with hounds rather than call them with predator calls as we do today.  The association would host an annual hunt or meet on a large ranch.  Men, women and children would camp, cast their hounds and fellowship for most of a week, casting their hounds three different mornings.

This event had grown so large that in 1936, LIFE and TIME magazines sent reporters to cover the event.  I recently purchased a copy of the LIFE magazine covering the event.  It is reported that there were 150 men horseback and over 1,000 in vehicles trying to keep up with the 257 hounds that were cast that first morning.