Just wondering. I haven't bought the Public Land Permit yet, but I was wondering if anyone has and if they got the map book yet. And if so, are there any major changes from last year?

I think they send you that book after you buy the AHP, not based on last year.

Or are you talking about the drawn hunts?

Not drawn hunts, the $48 Public Hunting Permit. I know they will send it to me after I buy the permit. It might be a little closer to the first before have the cash for all of the licenses. Since my permit does not expire untill 8/31, I was hoping to do some scouting soon I wanted to check if anyone had the new maps and if anything had changed on the lake I hunt. I don't want to go scout area and then find out my entrance is closed or my spot is now considered a refuge, etc.

The new Permits go on sell the 15th.

Thanks for the info. For some reason I was thinking it was 8/1.

I would bet the 2012 2013 APH maps and book can be found on TPWD web site as pdf? The dove lands change a lot but most lands stay pretty well the same yr 2 yr

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/public/annual_public_hunting/

last years
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/huntwild/hunt/public/lands/table_contents/

what happened to all the spots that used to be in Krum around Denton. Haven't been out there in a few years but i remember a lot more fields other than the one on the interactive map

Ask Rick Perry and the TX Legislature where the money went. Also ask about the federal VAP HIP funds that could have leased more lands for dove, etc, hunting.

I got a map book last month. I've bought the AHP 4 or 5 years in a row and I always turn in my survey postcard so I guess they were acting preemptively

I've been looking online and waiting for it in the mail and haven't found it. I buy every year

Nope it called diversion of funds
http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3234838/No_money_to_open_State_park_at



more diversion
http://www.texashuntingforum.com/forum/ubbthreads.php/topics/3217490/TPWD_Wants_to_Lease_Your_Land

All I could find

http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_br_w7000_0112d.pdf

I got my book a week or so ago...

I hunted the fields in the Krum/Sanger area for 8 years, Here is what happened in a nut shell. The state got pissed off at the land owner of the majority of the fields because he was NOT planting crops and left the fields idle and un-maintained for like 3 years in a row. 2 years ago the land owner planted ALL the fields in milo and we had a fantastic public hunt! then last year the owner backed out of the deal. I am sure the economy and the drought played into why the land owner backed out. The fields are now under the management of a local dove lease manager and if you call the Krum city hall they can give you his name. I think it is STUPID that TPWD has a slew of field NE of Dallas and NOTHING around FW.....

Hmmm -

Getting landowners to lease their land for public hunting is quite a bit more difficult than doing so for a group or controlled hunt - no one can make a private landowner lease their land regardless of what city, area or region it is within.

The new APH Map booklet is green with 6 species on the front and is the 25th Anniversay edition.

And the APH map booklet will not be available until then

Kyotee sure doesn't sound that way, a few people have them