Originally Posted By: Carcassman
Stam, that reminds me of a comment made by a WDG wildlife bio when there was a discussion about allowing fee-for-hunting for deer in WA. He noted that he had lived in Texas where almost all the deer hunting pay to play. He didn't like that, much preferred WA. He also noted that deer hunting was much better in Texas....


I spent six years in Texas. If you hunted deer you did it on your "deer lease" The reason for all this goes back to when Texas won their independence from Mexico. The new republic was broke and used land as currency. There is very little public land, but Big Bend is one place. However, most of the populace live closer to New Mexico and Colorado than Big Bend park, (which is a desert).

Ranchers discovered long ago that taking care of their deer herds and leasing out hunting was big bucks! Pardon the pun.

I also remember in some areas you could take up to 8 deer per season. In essence you were issued a punch card.
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