Big Drop Ranch Hondo, Texas · Est. 1995 (830) 741-8906

Whitetail · Axis · Dove

Hunting the ranch

A managed whitetail program going back to 2001, estate and free range axis alongside it, and dove in the September fields. Every hunt is booked through Kyle Crouch.

Managed since 2001

Whitetail is the program here, and it has been run the same way for more than twenty years: strict harvest discipline, introduced genetics, and continuous water and habitat work on the same ground. What comes off the place is the result of decisions made several seasons earlier.

Axis runs estate and free range with no closed season, and is the best eating deer in Texas. Dove fills the managed fields in September. That is the whole card, and it is deliberately short.

Whitetail

The program the ranch is known for

Two decades of management on the same ground, guided from blinds and stands set for the wind. Seasons run October through January. Harvest is by arrangement with your guide, and nothing is taken that the program has not produced.

Axis

Estate and free range

Both estate and free range axis hunting are available. Axis can be taken year round, with the best of it from spring into early autumn, by rifle or by bow. Widely held to be the best eating deer in Texas.

Dove

September, over managed fields

Fields managed for the season, with room for a group and lodging on the place the same night. Mourning and white wing. Arranged in advance through Kyle.

Facilities

Handled on the place

A skinning shed and a cleaning station on site, so nothing has to travel before it is cared for. The signposts at the gate point to the hunting lodge, guest parking, the skinning shed, the main house and the barn.

Oct — JanWhitetail season
Year roundAxis
SeptemberDove
2001Managed since

Off this place

Guest harvests, taken with a guide

Guest harvest.
Guest harvest.
First light.
Typical.
Guest harvest.
Heavy mass.
End of the day.
A white doe on the place.
The cleaning station.
Axis
Turkey Time.
Heavy buck.
Group Harvest.

Hunt bookings

Kyle Crouch · Signature Hunting Co.

210-501-7797kyle@signaturehuntingco.com

Lodging with a hunt

The ranch office

(830) 741-8906info@bigdropranch.com

Come see the place

Cattle, lodging and general questions come to the ranch. Hunts are booked through Kyle Crouch at Signature Hunting Co.