My property my house is on backs up to the Sam Houston and I have hunted it in the past, as you guys have said before these properties are pressured pretty hard. There are some real good opportunities on the draw hunts, however I have never tried it and don't really know how hard it is to get drawn. About three years ago I leased a ranch from a biologist that works for TPWD, he told me it wasn't that difficult to get drawn and the wildlife reserve he worked with produced deer in the 160's, That place is up there north of Georgetown......Of course you also have Kerr county wildlife ranch that is a state run deal that i have heard good things about and they have exotics too!!!!!

This texas public land stuff is so confusing. Its hard to find which places you can hunt and what you can hunt there. Im not sure i would go deer hunting on texas public land. Can you do any predator and hog hunting on texas public land?

yes, you can do both. HOWEVER, you have to do the research to know when and where its legal. dfferent areas have different rules.

txjourneyman... how did the turkey scouting go in the NF? I live in lufkin and have been looking for a place to hunt em. I have been told that on the south end of Sam Rayburn and the Alabama Creek WMA they have been spotted.

Thats what I heard as well but I never saw any. TPWD reports a total of 125 eastern turkeys killed last year. I'm sure there were a few more that never saw a check station but those are still some very low harvest numbers.

That aint no lie. You would think this would be a good area for them to multiply, but I guess they need more farmland with bean fields and stuff.