The almost constant rain this year has just provided an incredible food source. Fawn crop was amazing, survival rate was very high. Antler development is almost unbelievable. It IS a great year for Texas whitetails. Of course, when the next drought starts, the population is sure going to crash...

Great bucks! Awesome pics....keep'em com'en!

Those are some monster bucks!!!!! That site had some monsters on it also. Thanks!!

Speaking of good rains, my neck of the woods is coming off of the wettest summer on record. It sure was nice ot see the tanks fill up and the Brazos get out of bank.

My buddy shot a 180" buck yesterday evening, I'll post the pictures when I get the chance.

Nice bucks! Gives me a warm feeling seeing that knowing I'm moving to the great state of Texas in a year or so, however it's a little sobering knowing you gotta pay a bunch of money to have a high probability of getting a deer like that. How's the deer harvest for the average Joe that can only spend a couple hundred bucks on a 3 or 4 day trip to public lands?

Metro...

You dont have to spend a months paycheck to get a good deer in Texas, although it dosent hurt . You just have to do alittle research, your bound to find a good place to hunt. As far as the public land hunting goes, to tell the truth I know nothing about public hunting lands in Texas. There are several areas that over hunting, but I'm not the person to be asking. You might want to go to Texasbowhunter.com and look/post on those forums, I'm sure those guys could help you.

Are you on a lease? I know theres a lot of that goin on there. Sorry for the dumb questions, I'm from California so please excuse the ignorance but from what I have found out so far there are situations where 4 or 6 friends will go in for like 2-4 thousand a peice for a season, but can someone pay one of those guys to go as a guest? Just curious right now, my wife is from NE Texas and her entire family is there but her brothers are all bass fishermen.

Metro...

No I dont have a deer lease. I normally hunt on my ranch, on a friends ranch, and/or I buy package deer hunts on various ranches in the area.

There are some guys who will sell deer hunts on their lease as a way of recouping some of the money that it cost to get on the lease in the first place, but it really varies from lease to lease and depends on the landowner/wildlife manager more then anything. But they normally will only allow you to kill cull/management bucks because most of the time each lease member is only allowed one trophy buck each year and their not about to give that right to somebody else.

If your wanting to get on a lease the price various quite a bit depending on what part of the state the lease is in. For example your most expensive leases are going to be in south Texas along the mexico border and/or along the gulf coast. In this area paying $5,000 for a single spot during deer season is very normal and most of the time your only allowed to kill 1 buck. On the other hand leases in east Texas are probably the cheapest in the state, in that area they generally are only a couple hundred $bucks$.

There are also a ton of ranches in the state that sell day hunts. Which means you pay a flat daily fee with no additional fees. So for $500 you can hunt for 5 days on a ranch that offers you a good chance at a nice buck.

There are really alot of options, you just have to do alittle research. You can spend anywhere from $50 a year to hunt public land all the way up to $20,000 for a 7 day trophy buck hunt on one of the large private ranches in the area. Theres alot of good hunting out there, and not all of it cost an arm & a leg. Good luck to you this season.

Those are some nice bucks