Texas Hunting Outfitters & Ranches
As population expands, areas where hunting is allowed shrinks. Many landowners and farmers also want to make extra money off their land, so they have come up with a solution. Many of them set up areas for hunting and offer guided or unguided hunts on their property. Many outfitters in Texas offer meals and lodging along with hunts.
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Schmidt Double T Ranches
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Schmidt's Double T Ranches are in the Texas Hill Country, in Mason and Menard counties. The operation specializes in Texas whitetail deer hunts, spring turkey hunts and quail hunting.
The deer hunting packages offer one-on-one guide service and are either two- or three-day hunts. You are not guaranteed a kill, but every effort is made to find a trophy buck. For quail, there are half-day hunts and whole-day hunts with one-on-one guides. Turkey hunts are semi-guided, and there are multiday packages.
Meals and lodging are included in the package
Schmidt Double T Ranches
1926 W. Ranch Road 1222
Mason, TX 76856
325-258-4477
schmidttexashunting.com/
Covert Ranch
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The Covert Ranch in Cotulla, Texas, takes a lot of pride in its hunting. The owners also like food. This ranch offers culinary services that include cooking schools and demonstrations or special events with gourmet food provided.
Deer hunting is the ranch's main business, and it offers hunting for trophy bucks. The ranch is in south Texas, in the Golden Triangle area. Multiday packages are available, and you can choose what size of buck you want to hunt, and prices are based on that choice.
Covert Ranch also offers spring turkey hunts and quail hunting trips. You may choose whether you want an individual guide or a semi-guided trip.
Covert Ranch
800 Bering Drive, Suite 202
Houston, TX 77057
713-975-1975
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JJJ Outfitters
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JJJ Outfitters offers deer hunts, turkey and quail hunts, but what sets it apart is hunting for other kinds of animals. The ranch is in southwest Texas, in Crockett County, and it is on the Chihuahua trail, which linked Mexico and Sante Fe, New Mexico.
On the ranch you may hunt for deer as well as antelope, buffalo, elk, wild hogs, oryx, ram and bobcat. There is a lot of nature to explore as well on the large ranch.
There are many options for hunting packages. You may select a one-day hunt or a multiday hunt. You may also choose whether or not you want meals and lodging included.
JJJ Outfitters
13350 Hwy. 163 S.
Ozone, TX 76943
325-206-1800
jjjoutfitters.com
C.R. Outfitters
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C.R. Outfitters is near Gause, Texas., which is in the southeast part of the state, north of Houston. This small company specializes in exotics such as wild hogs and rams. It raises some of them on the ranch, and most of the animals there are stocked.
It still does the usual deer and turkey hunts, but this group tries to offer a wide variety of animals to hunt. They also offer fishing-guide services to the Gulf of Mexico coast.
This company has three camps where you may stay while hunting, and meals are provided. It has several locations in southeast Texas where it takes hunters.
C.R. Outfitters
693 County Road 358
Gause, TX 77857
979-820-4358
croutfitterstexas.com
All American Outfitter
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All American Outfitters in Clarendon, which is in north Texas near Amarillo, promises to make the hunt a fair one. It does not stock animals, and there are no high fences, so it adds more sport to the hunting adventure.
This company does the standard trophy deer hunts that have made Texas famous for hunting. It also has turkey hunts in spring as well as quail and dove. This group also does some exotics such as wild hogs and prairie dogs.
The Greenbelt Reservoir is near the ranch, and fishing is available there.
All American Outfitters
5111 Hwy. 70
Clarendon, TX 79226
800-693-2253
worldclassoutdoors.com/allamericanoutfitter.htm
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