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Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/07/15 11:50 PM
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Earlier thread asked what the worst county in Texas was for deer hunting - what is the best?
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 12:27 AM
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 12:44 AM
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Pick one in the golden triangle.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 12:52 AM
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Highest numbers are going to be in the Edwards Plateau counties.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 01:01 AM
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Changes every year depending on rain and weather. Drought killed half of our deer 3 years ago
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 02:27 AM
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We talking best county for hunter success? Best counties for mature, trophy whitetails? To keep it on relatively even ground, let's go with low-fenced ranches only. I'll go with the Golden Triangle of south Texas. Honorable mention to Shackleford, Grayson and whichever is the best county bordering the Red River. Plus any of the main river drainages in Texas.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 02:30 AM
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For sheer numbers, hard to beat Llano, Mason and Gillespie counties.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 02:36 AM
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Seems like Grayson county has had a dang good reputation the past several years. Poorest: Eastland county.....too much pressure and nobody likes AR's. Ya'll just keep driving on through.
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12/08/15 02:36 AM
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 03:34 AM
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For sheer numbers and what I've witnessed, anywhere around Bandera.
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12/08/15 03:46 AM
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There are some studs taken in Grayson but most you will never see or hear about.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 12:31 PM
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We talking best county for hunter success? Best counties for mature, trophy whitetails? To keep it on relatively even ground, let's go with low-fenced ranches only. I'll go with the Golden Triangle of south Texas. Honorable mention to Shackleford, Grayson and whichever is the best county bordering the Red River. Plus any of the main river drainages in Texas. sorry - intent was for best county for trophy bucks LF - there are a number of them with high numbers. If you had one county to pick to try to kill a buck of a lifetime ??
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 12:59 PM
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Webb, Maverick or Zavala counties...Those 3 produce studs year after year.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 01:06 PM
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On a trophies per square mile basis, Dimmit.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 01:14 PM
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Webb, Maverick or Zavala counties...Those 3 produce studs year after year. Without a doubt these three , i have taken some good ones in webb and in zavala in my earlier years .The edwards plateau holds some really good ones that usually don't get much said about them because most like to keep it to themselves .
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 02:40 PM
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Webb, Maverick or Zavala counties...Those 3 produce studs year after year. Without a doubt these three , i have taken some good ones in webb and in zavala in my earlier years .The edwards plateau holds some really good ones that usually don't get much said about them because most like to keep it to themselves . Actually Maverick is way smaller than Webb but ranks in Boone and Crockett as the top producer of book deer in all of Texas, both typical and non typical, in the past 30-40 years. Webb if I remember is second. I have the details at our deer camp and will grab it next trip down and post it here. Very interesting data from B&C Club.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/08/15 11:09 PM
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where are you finding on the B&C site the county rankings? I compiled all this a couple of years ago and I used the ten year and thirty year total book deer by county and Maverick ranked highest in both. Maybe we are looking at different data.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 12:43 AM
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There are some studs taken in Grayson but most you will never see or hear about. You are correct sir. I've seen the pics and know the men. Funny thing is most of them hunt for free.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 04:42 AM
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There are some studs taken in Grayson but most you will never see or hear about. You are correct sir. I've seen the pics and know the men. Funny thing is most of them hunt for free. shhhhhhh you old hag
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 05:57 AM
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There are some studs taken in Grayson but most you will never see or hear about. You are correct sir. I've seen the pics and know the men. Funny thing is most of them hunt for free. There are some studs taken in Grayson but most you will never see or hear about. You are correct sir. I've seen the pics and know the men. Funny thing is most of them hunt for free. I have lived in Grayson for over 35 years and there are two things that come to mind. Grayson is a bowhunting county, Grayson has adequate water with Lake Texoma, portion of Ray Roberts and many adequate stock tanks. There are few tracts of land containing over 1000 acres, and many of the small 10-50 acre tracts have feeders set just to attract wildlife.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 04:13 PM
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Grayson of Collin county are producing some low-fence giants.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 04:31 PM
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OK - here is the official Boone and Crockett records for both typical and non typical book deer by county in Texas. This is for the past 30 years - 1985 to 2015
NON TYPICAL # of ENTRIES
1. Maverick 19 2. La Salle 10 3. Dimmit 9 4. Grayson 7 5. Webb 7
TYPICAL
1. Maverick 50 2. Webb 37 3. Dimmit 34 4. La Salle 33 5. Kleberg 19
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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12/09/15 04:42 PM
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I don't know why, but I'm shocked that Grayson is in there with 7. Live and learn I guess.
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Re: Best county in Texas for deer hunting?
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OK - here is the official Boone and Crockett records for both typical and non typical book deer by county in Texas. This is for the past 30 years - 1985 to 2015
TYPICAL # of ENTRIES
1. Maverick 19 2. La Salle 10 3. Dimmit 9 4. Grayson 7 5. Webb 7
NON TYPICAL
1. Maverick 50 2. Webb 37 3. Dimmit 34 4. La Salle 33 5. Kleberg 19 Not everybody that shoots a big deer applies to put it in the record books
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