Thanks and congrats to you as well. My dad hunted there 2 years ago and said he would go back. I think it was muzzleloader and he took a doe on that hunt.

Congrats, there's a lot of info about that place. Should be fun but it will be challenging.

Yeah, time for the research to begin!

Looks like I made another annual donation!

I think that will be a fun one. Congrats!

My son won Mason Mountain WMA antlerless after winning chaparral either sex a couple weeks back.

Very nice. Yeah it says 40 permits and a 37% success rate last year ... and I got the first hunt date. Looks like it's probably 10 hunters per date. Guess I need to buy a muzzleloader LOL

Dang man, gonna be a good year!

My cup runneth over this year. Earlier I got Javelina at Chaparral, today I got Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike at Cooper WMA and General Deer at Balcones Canyonlands NWR.

I just realized that my Roger Fawcett hunt overlaps on my Elephant Mountain javelina hunt. Dang it!

For a man who has only ever hunted with centerfire/rimfire rifles and shotguns .... looks like it's the year to try new things since I've now won an ARCHERY and a MUZZLELOADER hunt LOL... Going to make for an interesting year of hunting I guess...

Hopefully I'll win a hunt for what I normally hunt with...looks like we still got Either Sex to draw... or maybe I'll get lucky and score something like Lake Somerville SP on 2nd draw

Score! Congrats on all those man!

Eeek, sucks to have multiple good wins overlap. Going to try to hunt them both or let one go?

I have to let go of one. I'd rather put meat in the freezer which would mean letting go of the javi. Disappointed though because I was looking forward to visiting Elephant Mountain and checking javi off my bucket list.

Appears that way. Kind of hoping for loyalty point here on out.. kind of running out of weekends and time off.. some of these still pending in areas I have a lot of points like the mule deer category overlap.. that would suck to lose a bunch of points

My group drew Nannie Stringfellow.

Man that sucks for sure. Looks like you "could" get one day of Jav hunting in before the other one starts though if you really wanted to push it. Hard one to give up.

Well looks like donations on all of today’s for me.

Yeah, I'm going to say the cubing system implemented this year just royally screwed a bunch of applicants. I basically won 1 that only 350ish people apply to and has around an 11% chance to win (not counting LPs), and 1 that has 167ish people apply to with around an 11% chance to win (not counting LPs)...maybe I'll take something on 2nd draw... I'm going to guess quite a few people will be spending a lot less on draws next year if they don't reverse course on that cubing nonsense with a quickness :P

Yeah that sucks man... few more main draws and the elusive 2nd draws to look forward to though.

Brother and I drew out Balcones General Deer as well (second adult hunt). Looking forward to it!

Wow, I got drawn for Perdenales State Park Antlerless/Spike Gun Deer for November. And I have online college exams the day before the first day and the day after the last day. Good thing venison is brain food.
I'll try to type out a report with details of the hunt after it happens if y'all are interested. Good luck everybody. I'm stoked!

Congrats My son and I drew that 2 years ago. It is a tough hunt but lots of fun.

That’s why I was more particular on which hunts I applied for this year. Preference points never really mattered. Having 20 points only gave you a pretty marginal chance of winning over someone that had 3 or 4. I didn’t worry about losing points on hunts that may not be great. At least I would get out in the woods. Now I don’t want to waist my preference points on them that’s why I didn’t put in for trinity river in national refuge. Would be a fun hog hunt, but I would love to get Latina atascosa gun deer instead.

WOW!!!! I Cannot believe it. I had 17 points for Gun Deer Either Sex and would you believe it. I'm going to hunt the Chaparral WMA in December. Cubing of points worked!