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Re: South Texas/Rio Grande Valley hunting/trapping
[Re: trapperrev]
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05/22/21 01:01 PM
05/22/21 01:01 PM
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I think RGV is little bit west of any gators. Nilgai probably on the ranches in the hill county. Hmmmm? Just did a quick search, there ARE gators in the RGV about a hundred and ten! Right along the coast. Nilgai are considered exotic big game. I’m sure you can find a ranch doing a cull hunt $$$. Public land? Doubt it.
Last edited by cmcf; 05/22/21 01:14 PM.
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Re: South Texas/Rio Grande Valley hunting/trapping
[Re: trapperrev]
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05/22/21 01:34 PM
05/22/21 01:34 PM
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Thanks. cmcf, it sounds like there are some gators by Brownsville but I don't think the locals want them touched much because there aren't many. That's understandable. From what I've read, they're all along the cost until about Corpus, then not so much south after that, except for a few by Brownsville.
Nilgai - there is a draw permit for deer at the Atascosa national refuge that's in the valley and nilgai and hogs can be taken as well. It's possible, but I doubt nilgai are only on the refuge. For that draw permit - for the last season over 3000 people put in for 140 permits. That's firearm. Archery has better odds. However, the dates for those are specific dates in November, December and January - not when I can get away easily.
A big part of the reason I'd like to hunt is supposedly hogs and sometimes nilgai can be hard on farming and ranching. If it helps someone out, I'd like to help. If they get big business out of it, then they can enjoy their business and marketing and best of luck to them.
jtg, I think I would still need a permit to hunt exotics. I'm not certain, but I think hogs are the only thing I wouldn't need a permit for as long as it's private land. I completely understand the concern of liability and trust. However, I'm hoping that I can make connections with someone there to build on in the future. I know it's unlikely but a guy can hope.
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Re: South Texas/Rio Grande Valley hunting/trapping
[Re: trapperrev]
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05/22/21 02:58 PM
05/22/21 02:58 PM
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Right on. You sound like the kind of guy that will be successful in making acquaintance/ relationships that will bear fruit in the future. I currently live in Wyoming but my roots are in Texas. Was at a rifle range near Houston testing loads to be used on an upcoming elk hunt with my nephew. A fellow came up to us when we were finishing up and said he had been watching us shoot. Said he had several thousand acres and the feral hogs were giving him fits. He invited us right there on the spot to come to his ranch and kill as many hogs as possible. So you never know you may find someone that is more concerned with ADC than trying to soak a “tourist “ out of a couple hundred bucks for killing a stinking old hog that he needed gone anyway! This may rub some ADC guys the wrong way, and I definitely comprende. Educating the pigs and all, making them harder to trap ect.. but hogs are like coyote, once they get established you will never exterminate them. Not with anything legal anyway.
“The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined” B. Disraeli
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