Anyone Have A Map Of The Golden Triangle?

[Randy]

Im trying to figure out exactly what is considered the "Golden Triangle" of South Texas.

[Pablo Honey]

isn't it sabine, newton and jasper?

[Randy]

Yeah I know, thats why I threw that south part in there.

[Rsatt]

Randy, I was told it is an imaginary triangle from Laredo to San Antonio to Del Rio.

[crittergitter]

isn't it sabine, newton and jasper?

jefferson and orange counties for southEAST texas

[Pablo Honey]

opps!
i think it's maverick, zavala and dimmit.

The "Golden Triangle" of South Texas
Written on: 09/19/2007 11:37 by: Zaiglin's Wildlife

The hotbed of big buck production in Texas is situated within an irregular triangular-shaped area referred to as the golden triangle. The triangle encompasses all land within a region defined by Eagle Pass east to Cotulla, south to Laredo, with the Rio Grande River representing its western border. Counties within this area, including Dimmit, LaSalle, Maverick, Zavala, and Webb, are nationally recognized for their trophy buck-producing potential. Actually, Webb and Dimmit Counties are recognized as the all-time number one and two record book buck producing counties throughout the United States according to the Boone and Crockett Club

[Randy]

Thanks Ronnie thats what Ive alway heard.

[Breezy]

might be a little small

[Randy]

Thats it!! I knew someone had a map of it. Might have been back in the pre crash days.

[poisonedbrew]

for some reason, i thinking a blonde.

[Encinal]

I've always thought of it as something like this...



Genetics and habitat vary over that entire area... and go outside of it as well... but historically before feed, before fences, before people started introducing genetics... that was where the best deer were.

I hesitated to include Maverick because typically... Lasalle, Webb and Dimmit had the largest deer... but it is hard to include the majority of Dimmit and make it a triangle... if you don't include part of Maverick...

[Encinal]

Unless you want to believe this...

Courtesy of Covert Ranch Website...(http://www.covertranch.com/buck_story.html)


"The Covert Ranch is located within the 1.5 million acres which was first named the Golden Triangle in 1990. It is an area of the South Texas Plains lying within a triangle drawn from Laredo north to Cotulla, and west to Eagle Pass and back to Laredo. In fact, the Covert Ranch is located in an area within the Golden Triangle and is part of what I would now call “The Platinum Quadrangle”, which is 200,000 acres of native brush land bounded by Farm to Market Road 133 to the north, US Interstate Highway 35 to the east, Texas State Highway 44 to the south and US Highway 83 to the west. Among most knowledgeable people, this red sandy loam stretch of land is considered to be “the best of the best” for whitetail deer. And on top of that, the Covert Ranch is blessed with abundant subsurface water resources which have been developed to create a virtual oasis in this semi-arid environment."

[Tx625]

Unless you want to believe this...

Courtesy of Covert Ranch Website...(http://www.covertranch.com/buck_story.html)


"The Covert Ranch is located within the 1.5 million acres which was first named the Golden Triangle in 1990. It is an area of the South Texas Plains lying within a triangle drawn from Laredo north to Cotulla, and west to Eagle Pass and back to Laredo. In fact, the Covert Ranch is located in an area within the Golden Triangle and is part of what I would now call “The Platinum Quadrangle”, which is 200,000 acres of native brush land bounded by Farm to Market Road 133 to the north, US Interstate Highway 35 to the east, Texas State Highway 44 to the south and US Highway 83 to the west. Among most knowledgeable people, this red sandy loam stretch of land is considered to be “the best of the best” for whitetail deer. And on top of that, the Covert Ranch is blessed with abundant subsurface water resources which have been developed to create a virtual oasis in this semi-arid environment."

That is some great country they are in, but the Platinum Quadrangle???

[Encinal]

The Las Raices Ranch is located within the roughly 1.5 million acre "Golden Triangle", the 200,000 acre "Platinum Quadrangle" and entirely consists of what I now like to call the ~4200 acre "Rhodium Asymmetrical Decagon"

It's all semantics... you can grow big deer anywhere if you put your mind to it...

[refugioco]

Deer are unable to leave the Bermu ... I mean Golden Triangle once they enter. That is what I have heard.