Texas Hunt Planner

Circle size is the number of hunts at that area. Click one to filter the table. Shaded outlines are TPWD’s published boundaries, simplified for the map — indicative, not survey lines. Plain circles are areas with a point but no published outline; check the TPWD map before you hunt any of them.

Unit boundaries are as published by each state agency, simplified for the map — indicative, not survey lines or GPS-accurate hunt-area edges. Click a unit on the map or in the list for details. “Public land” is BLM’s own nationwide Surface Management Agency layer — shaded by which federal or state agency actually manages the surface (BLM, Forest Service, Park Service, Fish & Wildlife, state land, etc.), so you can zoom into a unit and see for yourself how much of it is actually huntable public ground versus private — a real draw-odds percentage says nothing about that. Not the same thing as this app’s own unit boundaries, and drawn at whatever detail BLM itself publishes. “Elk density” shades every unit by its own DAU/herd’s published elk-per-square-mile estimate, on one fixed color scale so Colorado, Montana and New Mexico — the states with this data so far — are directly comparable; every unit a herd spans shares its color, since the estimate is herd-wide, never unit-specific. “Trophy units” is a different kind of layer — a repeating-star overlay marking units hunting media and outfitters (not the state agencies) call out as producing trophy bulls. It is opinion, not a published statistic, so it is drawn deliberately differently (a transparent star pattern, not a solid fill) from every other layer here, which is state-sourced. It also always shows every starred unit, regardless of the state/species/weapon filters or search above — this is a fixed, curated list, not something that should disappear because a filter narrowed it out. Click a starred unit for the specific claim and its source.