Land in Texas

A sorta-recent change by the legislature now allows the same evaluation for wildlife land as for livestock land. You don't have to run cows to get the agricultural exemption for land value.

Not many deer around here, but quail and varmints are worthwhile. Javelina have been halfway-plentiful in some areas.

The Terlingua Ranch deal is kinda interesting. One aspect is that large areas of 20- and 40-acre tracts are owned by people who bought back around 1970 to 1975, mas o menos, and have never been to their land. Oh, maybe back when they first bought it, but not since then. So, adjoining owners trespass at will, since it seems obvious that the actual owner doesn't care. Hey, how else do you think I've been meddling around across some 25,000 acres, these last 38 years?

Out of around a thousand landowners in my playground area, there are at most twenty to thirty who ever come out and hunt. They're only here during the sixteen-day deer season. That leaves 349 days for me. :D

Call it "code of the west". We don't trespass anywhere near where folks actually live, or around an area with a hunt camp. The "regulars" have come to know one another, so we can avoid conflict. So far, so good, for a bunch of years.
 
And a point to Art...

I had forgotten about the changes in the tax law to allow exemptions for wildlife. You also make a good point about land access in your area. I've been there once, years ago, and it did seem like there might be a few absentee landowners:D

Of course, a point that we're not addressing, If the OP wants lots of hogs, and the associated unlimited hunting, the western third of Texas is probably not the place to be. There are hogs here, but 2-300 acres in SE Texas will carry a lot more wildlife and support more hunters than 1000 in far west Texas. Remember that in lots of places out here, you can stand in the middle of 1000 acres and see the property boundaries, and the neighbor's boundaries, and sometimes the neighbor beyond them. It's just pretty bare.
 
This is some of my playground country:

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3554&d=1021342883

The white triangle off in the distance is about five miles away--airline.

An aerial view of the eastern side of the Solitario formation:

http://www.thefiringline.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=3606&d=1021565164

The vegetation doesn't show from several thousand feet above it. The first picture was taken from near the top of this one.

Fun country, if you enjoy walking-hunting a dozen miles a day...
 
Laredo

My family lived in Laredo a short time when I was 9. I liked it down there. My dad brought me a desert box turtle from the mine where he worked. I was thinking about land around there.
 
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