1836_Trading_Co

01/03/2026

As the holidays begin to wind down and your calendar begins to open up, don’t forget to add this event your list of activities! Steak dinner, cold drinks, and great company all included with your table or ticket PLUS a bonus of live acoustic entertainment! Games, raffles, silent auction, and auction will be full of great prizes!

10/03/2025

07/24/2025

Austin County is paying $5 per set of feral hog ears as part of its ongoing bounty program to help combat the damage caused by these destructive pests! Want to learn more about feral hogs? Tune in to Hello Austin County for an eye-opening episode featuring James “Jay” Long and Stacie Villarreal as they share expert insight on the feral hog problem and how you can be part of the solution. Let’s work together to protect our land!


https://austincountynewsonline.com/feral-hog-bounty-program/

07/01/2025

The Tomball / Magnolia Texas Area chapter of Ducks Unlimited welcomes everyone interested in wetlands conservation and waterfowl habitat!

05/09/2025

Posted • Dealers - please do what you can to make your customers aware of this. If you have any friends or family please let them know and help us spread the word. We do not want people getting caught with their pants down and not be aware of the policy change.

05/08/2025

Posted • If you're in Texas, we need you to take action now!

Call the following and tell them to pass the Pro-2A HB 2470:

Gov. Greg Abbott (512) 463-2000
Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (512) 463-0001
Rep. Dustin Burrows (512) 463-0542

03/24/2025

"Shoot it in the shoulder to anchor him" is advice deer hunters have been passing down for generations. In principle, it is reasonable advice when shooting traditional supersonic deer cartridges like 308, 30-06, and others when presented with a broadside shot. The idea is to get the bullet crashing into the hard bones comprising the shoulder, shattering them, and immobilizing the deer. If the bullet remains mostly intact after contacting the bone without having its trajectory diverted too severely it should perforate vitals like lung tissue. A good supersonic projectile can have an explosive effect in soft and hard tissue making this all possible.

Subsonics are different, and because subs don't offer the same terminal effect of traditional supersonics, shot placement needs to be reconsidered. A good subsonic projectile relies on expansion and pe*******on as the primary wounding mechanisms.

Solid copper subsonics like our 188gr 300BLK and 280gr 8.6BLK expanders will have a more difficult time punching through shoulder bone when compared to supers. That's not to say they won't get through - rather the question is what's left of the expansion mechanism once the pill does get through. Oftentimes the projectile's expansion mechanism, the part of the sub that generates the soft tissue trauma, is compromised to the point where insufficient expansion and pe*******on can occur.

So in general with subs avoid shoulder shots on a broad side opportunity. Aim behind the shoulder, and if you're really dialed in, aim low to take out the pump (heart). With our projectiles even if you hit rib, they're still going to pe*****te and expand. And if you're lucky enough to slip it between the ribs, even better!

03/02/2025

Happy birthday, Texas!

The Texas Declaration of Independence is celebrated today: March 2. Remember to fly your flags!

The Declaration of November 7, 1835, passed by the Consultation announced that the Texan war against Mexico principally intended to restore the Mexican Constitution of 1824, abrogated by the actions of President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, and to achieve separate Mexican statehood for Texas. The members of the Consultation had hoped to attract popular support for the Texan cause from the other Mexican states.

By the time the Convention of 1836 met at Washington-on-the-Brazos on March 1, 1836, such temporizing was no longer acceptable. On the first day, Convention President Richard Ellis appointed George C. Childress, James Gaines, Edward Conrad, Collin McKinney, and Bailey Hardeman a committee to draft a Declaration of Independence.

George Childress, the committee chairman, is generally accepted as the author of the Texas Declaration of Independence, with little help from the other committee members. Since the six-page document was submitted for a vote of the whole convention on the following day, Childress probably already had a draft version of the document with him when he arrived. As the delegates worked, they received regular reports on the ongoing siege on the Alamo by the forces of Santa Anna's troops.

A free and independent Republic of Texas was officially declared March 2, 1836, when the 59 delegates -- each representing one of the settlements in Texas -- approved the Texas Declaration of Independence. After the delegates signed the original declaration, 5 copies were made and dispatched to the designated Texas towns of Bexar, Goliad, Nacogdoches, Brazoria, and San Felipe. 1,000 copies were ordered printed in handbill form.

According to the endorsement on the Declaration of Independence, this original copy was deposited by Commissioner to the United States William H. Wharton with the United States Department of State in Washington, D.C. It was not returned to Texas until some time after June 1896.
Texas State Library & Archives Commission

02/09/2025

If you're in the area, take cash & save some guns!

📢VOLUNTARY GUN SURRENDER PROGRAM

No questions asked—no ID required! Turn in your fi****ms safely and anonymously while making a positive impact on our community.

Receive a $100 gift card for your first firearm and a $50 gift card for each additional firearm (up to 5 fi****ms surrendered).

Gift cards are given for commercially manufactured fi****ms. Homemade fi****ms (e.g., zip guns, 3D-printed fi****ms) will be accepted, but no gift cards will be given for those items.

📅 Date: February 15, 2025
🕘 Time: 9 AM – 1 PM
📍 Location: 601 E. Beltline Rd., DeSoto Texas