Anyone have information on the hunting in this area.I have seen alot of negative comments about the areas around San Diego.

mostly not a good area....lots of smaller tracts with heavy hunting pressure and low deer numbers.


find somewhere else

It depends. You can take just about any area in Texas. One place may have good hunting because they manage. The next place over may be totally shot out. Duval county has some great places and some that are totally shot out. If the place is 1000 acres or less and the landowner wants to lease it for 4-10 spots you know the place is shot out. If he tells you the place hasn't been hunted in years you can bet the place is shot out. At a minimum most South Texas ranches should have one gun per 400 acres. Ask the landowner who leased it last and give them a call.

san diego area sucks
had a friend that had land and all we ever saw was a hog or two and we hunted hard

depends how far towards the northern part it is.....now around san diego its hit or miss on the deer, but you get to northern part closer to mcmullen, live oak or la salle theres some good hunting......around northern 59, 16 and along 624 are the best places... closer you get to those the better your chances...

Years ago when the "Duke of Duval" and Clinton Manges owned or controlled almost all of the land in that county it was extremely good hunting. They lost all their holdings in Duval and the large tracts got chopped up and divided. HIGH hunting pressure and an extremely LONG drought about 20 years ago in that area devastated the deer populations. Even higher hunting pressure and zero management on smaller tracts and poaching have never allowed the animals to fully recover.......Their are a FEW pockets of low fence land that are good hunting with A FEW being the key word. Myself, I would stay away from Duval unless it were a H/F ranch......JMO