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Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
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11/27/09 08:33 PM
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Braleyoutdoors
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I have a chance to get on a lease between jayton and aspermont. Actually that mean ZERO to me cause i dont know where they are.
What is the hunting like out that way: deer, turkey, quail, hogs, varmits, etc.
Any info appreciated!!!!
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Re: Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
[Re: Braleyoutdoors]
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11/27/09 08:42 PM
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txhunter24
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Re: Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
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11/28/09 04:37 AM
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tkuehn5410
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The game depends and varies quite a bit from lease to lease. I'd be wanting at least 250 acres per gun on a lease if I was after mature deer every year. There are great leases and fair leases. In good years we have great qual, but in the last two years quail has been pretty poor. We have some, but not huntable numbers. Most places have good turkey and dove is spotty depending if you have any/many sunflowers around your place.
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Re: Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
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11/29/09 09:41 PM
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txbobcat
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The game depends and varies quite a bit from lease to lease. I'd be wanting at least 250 acres per gun on a lease if I was after mature deer every year. There are great leases and fair leases. In good years we have great qual, but in the last two years quail has been pretty poor. We have some, but not huntable numbers. Most places have good turkey and dove is spotty depending if you have any/many sunflowers around your place. Most of that country it is recommended to take a buck per 800-1000 acres...Hunted up there on two different large ranches for over 10 years. Low deer population but good mature bucks. Excellent dove, quail, and hog most places. Like a lot of ranches these days this area is getting hunted pretty hard with a lot of hunters stacked on leases. This area is easily overhunted.
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Re: Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
[Re: Braleyoutdoors]
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12/05/09 08:46 PM
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Txguy1972
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I actully own a ranch north of Aspermont. Our ranch was very good about 10 years ago, but has steadily declined each year. Between the poachers and over hunting by surrounding ranches - it has become very hard to harvest a mature buck. I am certainly not saying they are not there, but it is nothing like it was at one time. I would have to venture to say, Stonewall County is one of the most heavily poached counties in Texas. The county road that runs along one side of my place gets corned every other night by poachers. The surrounding ranches are now hunting 6 to 7 people per 200 or 300 acres of land. This has become more common over the past two or three years due to the decline of ranchers running cattle. If you are hunting a pretty large ranch, you shouldn't have much of an issue. If it is less than 1k, good luck and hope they don't jump they fence.
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Re: Need info on aspermont area!?!?!
[Re: Txguy1972]
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12/06/09 03:55 AM
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CTK3
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I don't see how you could say the deer population has gone down around Aspermont. I have over 20 years hunting experience in that area and I see it growing. I remember when it was a pretty neat thing just to see a single deer growing up on our families 2000 acre ranch. Now you have to dodge the damn things all the time around there.
The deer population is still booming in Aspermont, I don't know how much experience you guys have in that area, but if you was hunting there in the 80's and early 90's you could tell a big difference in what you see today.
Is it over hunted? Maybe. And poaching is a problem in that area. I swear it's like a olympic sport in Stonewall county.
There may not be the populations of deer there that you might see in jacksboro or further out west, but I feel confident in saying that the deer are there and the numbers are a hell of a lot bigger than they was 10 years ago.
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