Davenport Ranch - Wildlife Management

Wildlife

The ranch has many different species of wildlife. There are both Mule Deer and Whitetail Deer, Quail, Dove, Turkey, Feral Hogs, Coyotes, Bob Cats and even Mountain Lions. The biggest Mule Deer Buck to be harvested off of this ranch scored 178 7/8 Gross B&C Points and made the Top Ten Non-Typical in Region 2 of the Texas Big Game Awards. 180 plus Mule Deer have been spotted each and every year but none have been harvested to date. We have good Whitetails but none of the ones that have been harvested have been scored. There is a very tight Buck to Doe ratio (almost 1 to 1) in our Whitetail herd. We support 4 Turkey flocks and have 200 plus birds on the ranch. Our Quail numbers are on an increase with lots of Bob Whites but no Blues as yet. We have quite a few native Dove that stay on the ranch year around with some migrating through during Dove Season but not in huge numbers. We support a very large population of Feral Hogs and also have plenty of Coyotes and Bob Cats. Mountain Lions have occasionally been seen.

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Picture captured with my Game Camera November, 2008. This is the same deer that had the busted horn below in 2007.

Nice 8 point photographed November 29th of 2008

Video of One Horned Buck (2.05 MB - 55 Sec) This Whitetail Buck busted off one of his horns probably in a fight. It has been estimated that he will probably go around 165 next year