With the lower elevation, around 4,500′-6500’, and typically better weather than in the Rocky Mountains, elk hunting in Texas isn’t quite as strenuous as you would expect on most elk hunts. No hunt in West Texas is easy, but elk hunts in Texas are typically less strenuous than elk hunting in the higher elevations of some of the other Western States. I’m on every Texas Elk Hunt to provide my personal attention/service to your hunt to help ensure your hunt is an experience of a lifetime.Įlk Hunting in Texas – Who is this hunt for: This ranch has several miles of live water, big canyons, large meadows, and big plateaus. The ranch lay out and the number of elk makes for an amazing hunting opportunity! Much like hunting elk in West Texas, we drive around until we locate a big bull elk and it’s a spot and stalk from there. These are big bulls as well, weighing between 900 & 1,300 pounds, providing plenty of organic protein to fill your freezer. I’ve probably got 200-300 elk on this ranch and all of these elk are born and raised on this ranch. That’s very unique for high fence ranches in Texas with elk because most will buy elk from another ranch and release them every year. The demand is so high for my free-range elk hunting in Texas that I’m typically booked at least a year out, if not 2, but I also have elk available on a high fence ranch in the Hill Country. This ranch is 11-1/2 square miles, so it’s not a small ranch, and these elk have a lot of country to roam. Since there’s no closed season for elk hunting in Texas, they can be hunted year-round, but the best time to hunt elk in Texas is during the rut in September and October. One of the biggest advantages of elk hunting in Texas is that we are able to rifle hunt during the peak of the rut, while the bulls are bugling.

Licenses are easily obtained over the counter, no closed season or state drawing for elk tags in Texas, and hunters can hunt with firearms or archery equipment. With access to over 500,000 acres I’ve got some great high desert elk hunting in Texas.

Most people don’t realize there are free-ranging elk in Texas, but West Texas has a very healthy population of Rocky Mountain Elk and some of the best elk hunting in the country! There are several mountain ranges out in West Texas that have populations of elk.

Diamond elk the hunter call of the wild