Jerry Johnston Trophy Whitetails

Johnston Whitetails About Us

Johnston Whitetail was founded in 1996. The facility is located in the county near Castroville, Texas in Medina County . We currently have an inventory of more than 300 Whitetail.

We have 18 separate pens and a state of the art working facility. I am fortunate to have a wife (Theresa Johnston) with a love for all animals and a nursing background. Theresa is records keeping freak when it comes to taking care of “her” deer. The doe are called “ladies and girls” not just a number as most all are named. I have seen her save deer that were on their death bed many times.

Through the years, granted some times by trial and error and an immense amount of reading I have come to regard her as a “Deer Vet” she has many times been called by vets asking for advice on deer with metical problems. Theresa is a master at bottle raising. We only bottle raise our doe side. We, (she) raises 60 to 80 per year and they are as we say “As gentle as they get” Unlike some operations she knows who the mothers are. When time is close to delivery she pretty much knows who will fawn next.

She separates them in groups of 6 to 8 in pens so that she can tag the fawns the day they are born to prevent any mistake as to who the mother was.. She is in our pens every morning and evening to observe every single deer on a year round basis, “she knows her deer” Theresa use’s 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 we breeders. We highly recommend this company.

Theresa and I have always bred our genetic lines to produce a pure line of straight Typical Whitetails. Our foundation buck was called “Blue Duck” a beautiful main frame 6x6. Lots ofnew comers to the deer business think in terms of gross score and don’t stop and remember that any great deer must have a strong typical main frame. We have been breeding only 6x6 and 7x7 genetic for 4 or 5 generations now and are proud of our efforts. We also have a non typical line with the foundation buck being ½ by A.I. “High Roller”. # 21 or “Black Jack”, B and C Official Horace Gore scored him at 2 ½ years old at just over 200.

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Check out his photos so far this year Black Jack 3.5 yrs old!

Jerry and Theresa Johnston