TEXAS TROPHY LEASE
SOUTH TEXAS HUNTING RANCHES FOR LEASE
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AVAILABLE FOR THE 2012-13 SEASON
La Parrita Ranch
200 acres in northern Jim Wells county. All weather access. Thick, native, virgin brush. Long term year round lease available. This ranch has been in the same family since 1939. Good roads, senderos, & shooting lanes. No deer were taken last year; only young bucks and does were sighted. Had been vacated and not leased for the two years prior. No structure, but water & electricity are available. No cattle operation in place and has not had cattle for 45 years. A dry creek transects the ranch. Great deer habitat. This is not a "Boone & Crockett" lease but with proper management has the potential to be a great, inexpensive family getaway with as good a deer as is possible to raise on 200 acres. Also has abundant dove, quail, javalina, ferral hogs, and varmints
LEASED
THE SAN DIEGO RANCH
This ranch encompasses 360 acres and is located on the Seven Sisters Road, 4 miles west of San Diego, Texas in Duval County. It has been in the family since the 1930's. It is mostly native black brush and guajillo with a dry creek that runs through the length of the property east-west. There is a small structure that is located on the property near the water well and electricity source. The structure needs some improvement but was utilized as late as last deer season. The West neighbor is the Harlan Ranch that is a much larger property. We believe it is being hunted responsibly. Our last tenant had no complaints and we see no evidence to indicate otherwise. In fact, we believe it is a good possibility that it is not even leased for hunting and may be hunted on a limited basis only for periodic family outings. The roads are excellent and have lots of native cover. At one time the ranch was solid buffel grass and much of it remains, especially in the "senderos" (roads & shooting lanes). The ranch is accessible by virtue of the Seven Sisters road which is an all weather County Road. Lots of quail, deer, and javalinas.
This ranch has not had cattle on it for 15 years and there are no plans to do anything different in the future.
LEASED
THE FREER RANCH
This property of 650 acres has been in the same family for 100 years. It is the old Casas homestead and borders over 2,000 acres belonging to the Cuellar Family on the East and South boundaries. Located 8 miles South of Freer on Hwy 16 in Duval county, approximately 40 acres is cut off by the highway but is easily accessible. The ranch supplies Freer with a large portion of its water supply, so water is plentiful and cheap. There is an old stone house on the ranch that would need substantial work to make it habitable. Electricity and water is available for travel trailers or camping needs.
There have not been any cattle on the ranch in at least 20 years except for a brief period of about 8 months. The ranch has abundant quail, dove, javalina, and whitetail deer. The deer habitat is excellent, guajillo, black brush, guayacan, tasajillo, cat-claw, prickly pear, and more. At one time the ranch had a good stand of solid buffell grass, evidence of which is obvious to even the most casual observer. While the ranch is obviously mostly reverted back to its original native virgin brush state, it would take a relatively minor amount of work to make abundant quail habitat to enhance the existing ones. Bobwhite quail are abundant and even an occasional covey of blue quail can be observed.
A good all-weather road traverses the length of the ranch East-West. There are good roads radiating outward from this main road that would require a little work to make them easily accessible. The same applies to the boundary roads.
As mentioned before, this property is bordered by 2,000 acres of land owned by the Cuellar family. This adjoining ranch is owned by my materal Aunt and has been intensively managed for the past 10 years. It has a common low fence with us on the East and South, joining even the 40 acres cut off West of Highway 16. The current tenants of the Cuellar property are dedicated trophy whitetail deer managers and we intend to reciprocate by leasing to the same kind of tenant. The results have been pretty dramatic and plenty of evidence is available as to the quality of the deer in the area by virtue of motion activated night vision camera footage taken by our neighbors. The tenants of the adjoining tract have indicated an eagerness to work with our new tenants to create an even bigger and better "reserve" of 2,650 acres encompassing both ranches to raise trophy bucks.
None of these properties were hunted in any way last year (2010-2011), not even for varmints. The game was left totally unmolested. The previous tenants were not renewed for reasons unrelated to the quality of the hunting.
The ranches will be shown by appointment only and a decision will be made when a suitable tenant is found. A long term tenant is desired on these properties. We feel that a long term tenant will be more conservation-minded and hunt more responsibly. We believe that the security in the knowledge that the lease will be available and the tenant will reap 100% of the future benefits associated with game management, feeding, habitat enhancement, and harvest discipline is more conducive to attracting the kind of tenant we want. This is NOT a bid process. We are much more interested in getting a suitable tenant than getting the most monetary consideration. We have been managing hunting properties since 1979 and have rarely taken the highest offer. The price will be per acre or flat fee and is negotiable. However, no offer of less than $20/acre will be considered for the Freer property and no less than $15/acre will be considered for the San Diego property. The highest bidder will not necessarily be awarded the lease(s). Weighty consideration will be given to any proposed improvements, permanent structures, and range/water improvements.
The intent of the lessor is to find a suitable long-term tenant with an aim to manage the existing game and habitat to the fullest extent that is reasonable. A game management plan will be implemented in detail to preserve and enhance the value of the game on the properties.
A $1,000,000 liability insurance policy will be required of the lessee naming the owners/managers as additionally insured. These properties have not had cattle on them in 10-20 years and there are no plans to change that status in the near future. Thee properties are for sale and will not be for sale anytime soon barring some unforeseen developement.
The lessor, as a matter of family custom, retains hunting rights for his immediate family and guests anytime on all properties with reasonable notice. This right, while enforceable and non-negotiable, has never been exercised in the last 20 years on any of the properties listed herein. The lessor ranches over 40,000 acres statewide in 9 Counties, mostly in South Texas. Included are 7,000 acres of which the hunting has been managed by the lessor in addition to the acreage described on this site.
The same right to hunt is in force on these additional properties as well.
Response is by e-mail only. Interested, qualified parties will be shown the properties by appointment.
