Our first lease was just south of San Marcos off of McCarty lane. This was before the outlet malls. We took some quality bucks and does as well as a couple of turkeys in the 3 years we were on it. We moved our hunting south after that with a friend of ours that was guide in Asherton. I drove by the old place recently and it is nothing but homes and pavement now.

Yes it was in Gillespie County near Fredericksburg 500 acres of nothing but deer the way I remember it but you know how that goes. I was 13 then and 45 now sooo.... It was a good place though and still have a lot of memories and pics. Like some have already stated we had one feeder and one actual box blind on the whole place which was at the feeder location. Most of the deer cam from sittin on a bucket next to a tree near the trails. Good times.

Yup my dad had a lease in DelRio for a long time i finaly started going when i was 7. Shot my first deer and turkey there and miss going to that country. Seen some giant WT and also blackbuck too

yeah i think a couple of the other guys on the Llano lease where i first went to had feeders, but my dad and grandpa didnt just blinds..lots of deer it seemed back then.....to me anyway

You bet. First was close to Vineyard. 480 acres. Paid $100 per year. Lots of fond memories, lots of rattlesnakes.

Yep. My first season lease was in Llano county at Valley Springs. 3 of us on 350 acres and we paid $300 a gun for the season. That was in 1979 so it's been a while!!!

Yes I remember it very well my first time there I was 5 or 6 yr's old and still there. My brother was 9 yr's old when our dad first took him there and he's 52 now so our family's been on the place for over 40 yr's. Alot of our foot print's there and we've cleaned alot of game there, it's home away from home !!! My mom's last deer off of that lease she never got to see the mount she passed in 1999 while it was at the taxidermy. It's just my brother and me there now, but his son is gonna try to get back on with us next year and I hope he doe's.

Vividly! Loved the sun rise there, and the extremely high deer population!!

Yep...... still on it. Finishing up my 13th season, dont know if I will be on it next year or not.

my first and second lease was in Post Oak tx. lots of deer there just mostly small though

It was 1985 when I found my first lease in Telegraph---just outside of Junction. It was the old Coke Stephenson Ranch. Paid $700 to hunt there. We had a place to stay, blinds, feeders & food included in that price. Spent a couple of years there and then stopped hunting for nearly 25 years. Realized while I was there the last year, why blinds & feeders were provided, the place was day leased behind the lease hunters back. I shot my very first buck there, a Javelina or two and several Turkey. The place had hogs but I never got a shot at one.

First "real" lease was in Mason cty, 1980, I think. Spaeth ranch on the Llano river. Turkey were everywhere, deer were small but abundant. The backside of the property butted up to the Krueger ranch, high fenced with MONSTER bucks. We got tired of seeing small deer on our side. We paid $500 a gun for 600 acres, 6 of us. Owner wanted us to fill our tags opening weekend and then be gone, after he got our money. He was kind of a jerk about it. I miss the fishing in the river during Summer. Looking back, that was a heckuva deal. Cabin too.

My first memory of hunting wasnt a lease but was on my grandparents place in Kerrville, it was only 15 acres, but it was overrun with deer. I was 6 or so and remember sitting with my dad in the back yard and he shot a big six point in the field behind the house. Twenty years later I've been on some bad leases and some really good leases, but after we lost our last lease I've been bowhunting that same 15 acres with good success

Dad ,my self and 3 others day hunted on 700 hundred acres in 1958 owned by T.C.Frambo called Bear creek ranch east of Ranger and south of I- 20 on hiway 16 for $5 a day The following year we paid $80.00 per person for the season. Dad built a 2 room cabin with dirt floor,great to get out of the weather next to a live creek. We hunted that place for 7-8 years and I think T.C. went up to a $100.00 a person the last couple of years we had it. A lot of memories of that place every time I go down Ranger hill.The first year when day leasing it he would give a free day if we killed a red fox,bobcat or yote since he had goats.

Awesome stories so far

I hunted a place behind Garden Ridge growing up for a couple of years. It was Raymond Dierks place. Some really goo deer on that place.

I grew up on hunting or sleeping on the floor of the blind on one of Dolph Briscoe's places in Duval the Driscoll ranch. I just wish I could of connected with something down there. My dad started dragging me down there in 1974 when I was an infant and we slept in an old haybarn with bunk beds and rats during the winter and rattle snakes during the summer to wake us up. There was a pet bobcat(i use the term pet loosely) that we used to feed jack rabbits to. The bobcat was in a chicken coop and probably could of got out if he wanted to and tore up one of us kids. I also heard "Don't tell your mom" a lot.

500 acres in carrizo springs. Deer, hogs and turkey everywhere. We shot a lot of animals. Now its all about managing and it kind of takes some of the fun out of it but I was not worried about shooting giant deer back then

Never had a real deer LEASE...

I can remember everything about my first lease. I started hunting on it when I was 6 and we had it until I was 20. My grandpa had been hunting the same property for 40+ years when we finally lost it. Somewhere around 2000 acres in Llano county outside of Valley Springs. We had a good sized mountain and a handful of ponds. Tons of deer every time you went out. It was the ideal place to hunt and I sure do miss it. I would give anything to be able to go back and hunt on it again.

I remember it well...wish I was on it now. The lease was in between Trinity and Groveton, and the only reason I got on the lease to begin with, is because my brother in law wasn't gonna be able to hunt once season rolled around, and spoke with the manager about me hunting in his spot. I got back on it the next year, and spent quite a few days watching an absolutely beautiful 2 1/2 year old buck with a perfect basket 8 chase off everything that dared come around! I was excited about what he would become...but it wasn't to be. Thanksgiving weekend rolled around, along with the news that the lease would be tripling in cost from $400 to $1200. I wasn't in the place to be able to pay those kind of prices...now the lease is around $3000, but they're taking some beauties off of it. My son now lives across 94 from the lease, and he and his mom see a ton of nice deer pass through their yard...I'm hoping to find something close to that area this year, so that he and I can spend every possible moment together that we can he says he's ready to get him a buck and that I need to take him. And you know, I totally agree!

Still on it. 30+ years. Dues went up t0 $380 last year. We were bummed. Everyone on the lease has bought 5-15 surrounding acres everytime it comes up for sale so I hope it'll be there another 30+ years.

1974 Mason Co Walker White Ranch, Cress Springs pasture. We had that lease till the late 90's and moved to the 41 pasture.
Ahhh the memories!