Rock springs, south going north and west will be more expensive.

The land south has a lot more cedar.

Six hours west of Houston you could do Sonora or Ozona. You can find for about $1000 acre there. You will have O&G stuff on it, but its land to hunt. I sometimes hunt on my buddies place that is south of Ozona. 300 acres that they got for $287k. Had a few improvements on it at purchase: a water well with electric pump (it was converted from a windmill) and electricity and a decent size shed and a pole barn on it. Also has a 30,000 gallon concrete reservoir that is fed by the pump and it in turn gravity feeds some livestock/wildlife troughs on part of the property. Lots of turkey and deer. Javelina and hogs too.

At that price I would look at South Texas costal area.

Maybe not as much deer but you could replace that with Nilgai. Then you have duck hunting and fishing added.

ursusguy said:

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Long way from Houston, but the Throckmorton area is growing on me.

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Shut up and stay away.

My first general thought is when you do find multiple places to consider, go with the closer option to your home. If you have two similar places but one is 2.5 hours away and the other is 5.5, you won't go the farther away place nearly as often. You'll talk yourself out of going out there some weekends just because of the hassle of it being at the far end of your acceptable range.

That being said, I guess I'm about to contradict myself as I hunt family land in eastern Burleson county and when I think deer and turkey hunting, I certainly don't think Brazos or Burleson County. Sure we have deer if you are looking to just fill a freezer with meat, but don't expect many 150+ type if you are trophy hunting. And I don't think either counties even have a legal turkey season. So even though Brazos bottom land is relatively close for y'all in houston, I'd look somewhere else.

Not to mention, if it's good river bottom land that could be farmed or ranched, nobody would be selling it. These Italians are super protective of good land around here so if anything close to the river is being sold, it's probably not great land, otherwise it wouldn't be on the market.

I would look in south Texas, Freer/San Diego/George West... and it's only 3.5-4 hrs

If you look hard enough you can find undeveloped for $2000-3000k/acre

Great deer country and there are some turkeys as well

agneck said:

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You will never be happy with 300 acres in a ranch subdivision unless you just like camping out and drinking beer Rock springs Tx is the worst

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I'm happy with 30 acres in a ranch subdivision near Rocksprings. Granted, I have realistic expectations and know I'm not shooting a 130 every year. But I have no problem with getting a deer and pig or three in my freezer. That axis on my wall with 32.5"/34.5" main beams came off our postage stamp sized lot.

And, the place is mine.

What do you base your assessment on?