Jerry Johnston Trophy Whitetails

Johnston Whitetails About Us

Johnston Whitetails was founded in 1996. The facility is located in Medina County near Castroville, Texas. We currently have an inventory of more than 300 Whitetail Deer. We have 24 separate pens and a state of the art working facility.

I am fortunate to have a wife (Theresa) with a nursing background and a love for all animals. Through the years, granted sometimes by trial and error and an immense amount of reading, I have come to regard her as a “Deer Vet”. She has been called by vets asking for advice on deer with medical problems. I have seen her save deer that were on their death bed many times.

Theresa is a records keeping freak when it comes to taking care of “her” deer. Theresa has used the GSM records keeping system since they began and has helped them by making suggestions on how to make the system as user friendly as possible for breeders. We highly recommend this company.

She is in our pens several times a day to observe every single deer on a year round basis, she knows her deer! The doe are called “ladies and girls” and are not just a number as most all are named.

Unlike some operations she knows who the mothers are and when delivery time is close she pretty much knows who will fawn next. The does are separated into groups of 8 to 10 per pen so that she can tag the fawns the day they are born to prevent any mistakes as to who the mother is. We only bottle raise our doe fawns and Theresa is a master at bottle raising. We, (she) raises 60 to 80 per year and they are as we say “As gentle as they get”.

Lots of new comers to the deer business think in terms of gross score and don’t stop and remember that any great non-typical deer must have a strong typical main frame to start with. Theresa and I have always bred our genetic lines to produce a pure line of Typical Whitetails. Our foundation buck was called “Blue Duck” a beautiful main frame 6x6 who has thrown many big 6x 6’s and a few 7x7’s thru the years. We have been breeding only 6x6 and 7x7 genetic for 4 or 5 generations now and are proud of our efforts in that area. We also have a non typical line with the foundation buck called “Black Jack” tag # Black 21 who is ½ High Roller crossed by A. I. with a Randy Shipp Texas doe Yellow #43. B & C Official, Horace Gore, scored him at an even 280 gross at 3 ½ and 200 3/8 gross at 2 ½.

Jerry and Theresa Johnston