Hunting around Ozona??

[mad34b]

Thinking of maybe buying a piece of property outside of Ozona. I've never hunted that far west and was wondering what the green screen thought. My dilemma is that I'm not sure of the caliber of deer is and two do you scarifice buying closer to home let's say within an hour. Or do you go up to twice the distance for more land for the money. For anyone that owns his own place, how far do you travel and what would be the max travel time? Thanks

[bowhuntertex]

There are some really good bucks in the area and if you buy in the right area around Ozona you will have mule deer as well. You won't the amount of deer your used to seeing in the Kerrville area but there are plenty of deer. Just make sure the place has water. That's just a hop, skip, and a jump from Kerrville.

[Mayhem]

Been hunting the area for 10 years. Mule deer are northwest part of Crockett county. There are some nice deer in Crockett county it just depends of where you are at. Water is a really big factor as far as having a lot of deer on a property.

[D buckhunter]

Hunted 30 miles south of Ozona, down 1974 some decent deer and turkey.

[tex4k]

Just depends on what part of the county your in, there are some extreme terrain changes from corner to corner.

[D buckhunter]

Some areas have exotics running loose, I seen several black bucks and fallow but the landowner would not let us shoot them.

[mad34b]

It would be NW of Ozona.

[txwhitetail]

Just be careful if it is one of the subdivisions. Some of those are really slim on any game being left.

[Mayhem]

Just be careful if it is one of the subdivisions. Some of those are really slim on any game being left.

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There are a few of these not far from where I hunt and they don't have near the caliber deer we have.

[tex4k]

Just be careful if it is one of the subdivisions. Some of those are really slim on any game being left.

That and some of those tracts require some degree of mountain climbing skills to get the back of the property.

[welderC3]

I hunt 10 miles NW of Ozona. Here are a few pictures of deer my lease manager sent me yesterday.



Here is the deer I shot two yeats ago.

[mad34b]

Thanks all for the info.

[J_Riley]

I haven't look at what's for sale lately. But a lot of the place are the subdivision. Northwest of Ozona toward Iraan and Rankin you find the Mule deer. But out that way to are a lot of big ranch that ain't for sale and stuff north of Ozona toward big lake and barnheart are University lands. I bought my place 30 miles south of Ozona (not in the subs) but I live here. What's good about south is chance of seeing exotics better, less new oil field activity and general less people out side of deer season.

[D buckhunter]

If you go down cr 1974 at night you better have a ranch hand bumper on front

[DUKFVR]

We own land 5 1/2 hours away. Could have bought closer ,but enjoy the country out there. We moved out one county when we started looking and prices dropped by 1000+ dollars an acre. We didn't look that far out to get more land, just happened this place was what we wanted. As far as the drive you have to make that choice. I can jump in my truck a drive 6 hours without even thinking about it. If you don't mind driving look further out too. If not stay closer so you can enjoy your place more often. We go at least twice a month an 3 times a month is pretty common. I have driven out there the night before & hunted for 1 day and came home.