Hunter’s Paradise
The quail season across Texas will run Oct. 30, 2021 to Feb. 27, 2022. Information on bag limits, license requirements and other general information is available from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department’s Outdoor Annual or at tpwd.texas.gov/regulations/ outdoor-annual/.
Gillespie County draws hunters year-round to harvest animals. Gillespie County is big game country. Hunters of all types make their way to Gillespie County during the fall. The 2021-2022 big game seasons for white-tailed deer and other wild game such as turkey, quail and dove bring hunters from all over to this particular part of the Texas Hill Country for its famously successful yields. The archery-only season in the designated North Zone (to which Gillespie County belongs) for turkey and deer runs from Oct. 2-Nov. 5. General rifle season for turkey and deer starts Saturday, Nov. 6,
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The Texas Hill Country also has an abundant amount of non-game wildlife such as armadillos, raccoons, hawks, opossums, coyotes and numerous other birds, not to mention an occasional porcupine and skunk. Among the factors accounting for the large populations of deer and other forms of wildlife in the Fredericksburg area is the rugged, hilly terrain, which affords plenty of cover, vegetation and water to sustain the animals year-round.
Youth-only hunting weekends, for those licensed hunters 16 years of age or younger, are planned on In other parts of Texas, the Oct. 30-31, 2021, and Jan. 3-16, 2022. terrain is flatter and less wooded, perhaps even converted to A special late season during farmland. Also, the increasing which harvests are restricted to development of housing and antlerless deer and spikes, runs expanding city limits in other simultaneously to the late youthplaces has forced wildlife out only season, from Jan. 3-16, 2022. of its natural habitat. Aside from whitetails, Gillespie Gillespie County values wildlife. County is also considered to be in Farmers, ranchers and residents the Central Zone for dove hunting. hold animals in high regard not Dove season will run from Sept. 1 only because of their presence, but through Oct. 31, and then again also because of their contributions from Dec. 17 through Jan. 14, 2022. to the area’s economy.
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