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Gamekeeper Podcast

EP:390 | History of the King Ranch with Tio Kleberg

Gamekeeper Podcast

Mossy Oak

Land Management, Sports, Wilderness, Mossy Oak, Bottomland, Hunting, Mossy Oak Gamekeepers, Wild Turkey, Food Plot, Whitetail Deer, Gamekeeper

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 November 2025

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

This week we are joined by Mr. Tio Kleberg and hear about the history of the legendary King Ranch in South Texas. We learn about how it was acquired and assembled to the over 825,000 acres today, and that it is actually larger than the state of Rhode Island. We also learn about all the wildlife that abounds, and how through visionary management that was occurring before anyone else was thinking about managing wildlife assets, the King Ranch was actually leading the way. We also learn ab...

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0:00.0

I have Jeff Foxworthy and welcome to Gamekeeper Podcast.

0:03.9

If you want to learn more about farming for wildlife and habitat management, then buddy,

0:08.5

you are in the right place.

0:10.4

Join the gamekeeper crew direct from Mosey Oakland Enhancement Studio as they discuss the latest

0:15.7

wildlife and habitat management practices, news, and of course hunting.

0:20.6

There's no telling what you'll learn,

0:22.3

but I'm going to tell you, I bet it's interesting. Enjoy. We're live in three, two, one.

0:29.0

All right, everybody. Welcome to West Point, Mississippi, and it has rained recently, guys. That

0:33.5

kind of changed everybody's attitude a little bit it's when you see rain on the horizon mac

0:39.4

it's so exciting when you know you've got seed in the ground or you're trying to get seed in the

0:43.6

ground oh yeah i mean and everybody around here is running around yeah planned you get everything

0:49.4

planted no i never get everything planted there's always more yeah there's always more to do, that's for sure.

0:55.2

Taxi, what about you? At least the bulk. Yeah, I'm like past the disaster stage at least, yeah. And we got good rains like a week apart. Timing was pretty good. For as dire as it looked about two weeks ago, we're in pretty good shape. Yeah, that's good to hear. There's been some, guys, there's been some blood on the biologic.

1:13.2

We've got, do you all know Travis Sumner? We all know. Oh, yeah. Yeah, absolutely. His 81-year-old dad killed a 200-pound 8-point in South Carolina. That's a giant deer in South Carolina. Sure is. It's a giant deer here. Yeah.

1:27.7

And you know there's a biologist over in Alabama that's a friend of ours that's been in here a time or two, Matt Brock.

1:32.5

He killed a really big deer with his bow a few days ago.

1:36.3

And it's cool to see he had a dough with it too.

1:38.5

He did.

1:39.0

Oh, really?

1:39.6

Yeah, he did.

1:40.1

Interesting.

1:40.7

Yeah.

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