Submit your applications, before it’s too late, online for drawn hunts in more than 35 hunt categories on 95 areas throughout the state, including special Guided and Youth-Only hunts. This year there are more of these low-cost opportunities than ever before. Hunts for whitetail, mule deer, bighorn sheep, pronghorn, exotics, turkey, alligator and more.
Applications can be submitted up until the Application Deadline for each Hunt Category. The last drawing is Dec. 30, 2015.
You can apply once at each area within a category. For example, you can submit an application for "Gun Deer – Either Sex" at the Chaparral WMA and the James Daughtrey WMA. You can submit applications for "Gun Deer – Either Sex" and "Gun Deer – Management at the Chaparral WMA. You cannot submit two applications for "Gun Deer - Either Sex" at the Chaparral WMA.
Normally, the drawings will be held the next business day after the application deadline.
If your application is not drawn, you earn Loyalty Points which help next year. Points will carry over from the previous year and be counted in the new system.
Application fees range from $3.00 to $10.00 depending on the type of hunt. On Special Permission hunts on 2-3 day hunts Permit fees are $80.00; Extended hunts, 4-5 days are $130.00. Check the Texas Public Hunt System Fees page for a complete information on all the hunts.
Check out the Public Hunt video on drawing for public hunts.