Lincoln Ranch is a 2340 acre ranch located 25 miles NE of Laredo, Texas. Established in 1987 for bowhunting only, it caters to groups of up to 11 Hunters. Accommodations include a large lodge-style building with a central living room and four bedrooms (4 beds in each room), each air conditioned with its own bathroom. Adjacent to the lodge is a kitchen and dining facility where you prepare your own meals. A lighted target range

 and walk-in cooler are also located on the grounds.

→ We assign you a pasture and you hunt that area any way you prefer. We have no preset

stands or feeders. Pop-up blinds work very well as long as they are brushed in well. (click to see

 examples.  Go to 'Other Photos'> Brushed in blind examples) We rent them. fees. You may also

set up multiple areas and set a game cameras up as long as there is room in the pasture.

License info. WIFI is available at lodge.

What' Included:

1. Use of tripod stands

2. Use of lodge

3. Use of practice range with targets

4. Use of walk-in cooler and skinning facility

5. We have a computer set up in the lodge to view memory cards

What to Bring:

1. Food

2. Bed linens (single-sized sheet for cots), pillows and towels, soap

2.5. Box fan for drowning out snorers, ear plugs

3. Transportation to and from pasture. 4WD, sealer and tire plugs advised.

4. Bring corn or buy at ranch.

5. Vehicle & buggy gas (no station within 32 miles) If coming from IH35, fill up in Encinal. If coming from Hwy 59, fill up in Freer.

6. Use of washer/dryer $20/load

7. Ice: $5 per 20# bag

8. corn $20

9. 'Lucky's -type' pop up $15/day

Suggestions on things to bring:

Reminder: Gerry cans of gas if you’re staying a while and for your buggy.

1. Machete, gloves, drag rope, clothing to hack your way through thorns to find your animal

2. tweezers

3. good flashlight and a backup for blood tracking

4. GPS so you won't get lost tracking

5. Rubber boots in case of mud & snake boots

6. Garbage bags to put your meat in

7. Chair for sitting and stalking

8. Thermocell, mesh face net

9. shovel for burying toilet paper

What you can take:

Two bucks per visit. Either one trophy 130", 4-1/2 or older and one management buck or 2 management. If you shoot 2 trophies, there is a kill fee for the 2nd*. If you wound the first buck and it's not recovered, that's considered a trophy buck.

Does: only harvested in October and November until we get our numbers back on track.
 
*A second trophy buck: 4-1/2 and older, 130" and up will be $1000. 

Penalty Bucks not making 130" P&Y are: Bucks 10 pts or more, 3-1/2 years or younger: $1000. 3-1/2 years and younger, 8s and 9s: $500.
Aging: We only use the "Tooth Replacement and Wear Method" in South Texas

3. Little does. Any does brought in under 75# is a $150 penalty. Please try and shoot the oldest and largest.

4. You're allowed one hog. No hogs that are still being nursed or piglets that are nursing.

5. You're allowed one javelina but must gut and skin and take home per TX P&W regs.

- Four-wheelers are acceptable as long as they are kept on the roads. Please be sure there is a quiet muffler in place. Polaris Rangers, Mules and the like are allowed anytime.

- Release of Liability on file needs to be signed upon arrival. If you want to be on our mailing list please write your email on this form
- Crossbows allowed only for upper-limb physically disabled individuals. This is a ranch rule.
- no drones.

2023-2024 Deer herd management requirements 

• Trophies must score 130" unless he is 5-1/2 or older (5-1/2 or older bucks are considered a mgmt)
• All 8s and 9s need to be 4-1/2 or older
• 'No brow tines' or one brow tine need to be 3-1/2 or older (must not be broken off)
• Freak horned deer need to be 3-1/2 or older
• 5,6 or 7 point need to be 3-1/2
• no spikes killed unless its 3-1/2 or older. 'cowhorn' spikes must go
• in other words nothing killed 2-1/2 or younger

Assignment of pastures:

In most cases the pastures are assigned before check-in due to the complexity of people coming and going. If there are pastures open they may have am opportunity to choose. All of the areas have excellent hunting and when we are booked each hunter has an abundance of acreage to themselves. We place hunters in a pasture according to group size and the placement is controlled by the hunting manager. We have several pastures and they range in size from 250-800 acres. Once you are assigned a location you cannot jump to a different location without permission from the hunting manager.

RULES

Please plan to arrive no earlier than 9:30AM the morning of your hunt

Rooms: 

Hunters are responsible for their own sheets, pillows, towels, cookware, and food. There are bathrooms in the rooms, "do not go" outside. No smoking in lodge rooms or kitchen. In case of rain, no muddy boots in lodge or rooms. Please be considerate and keep kitchen clean and keep food and coolers out of rooms due to spills and ants. Also, please do not take out my folding metal chairs in the pasture.

Kitchen:

A kitchen complete with four refrigerators, two stoves and microwave are there for you to use, as well as BBQ pits. Please put your food in the refer according to your room number. We ask that on your last day, clear your room and kitchen out by 10:00AM and depart by 11:00 am so that I may clean it for the next group.

Grounds:

Butt cans are furnished. Please do not throw cigarette butts on ground. The hose at the skinning shed is for washing down cooler, skinning area and game. In case of rain you may wash off your windshield only. No total vehicle washes, please. Any game killed must be tagged and if placed into walk-in cooler, must be recorded into cold storage book because the game warden does come by.

In the Field: (see "Latest Rules" above)

Hunters are responsible for their own transportation to and from the pasture. 4WD is advisable along with tire sealer and plugs. Please stay in your area and do not shoot over or cross any fences and by all means don't corn the property lines. Also, don't move into another pasture without asking even if it's empty. Please take a picture of any corn on fence lines if noticed on other side of fence. Please respect artifacts and leave them on the ranch i.e. skulls, arrowheads, shed horns, etc. Hunters wounding animals after dark MUST come back to ranch to get one of us. Location should be flagged and not disturbed. Please do not use toilet paper. When you use plastic flagging, please remove from brush before you vacate. Hunters should return to HQ promptly after dark and no one is allowed into the pastures at night during whitetail season unless cleared by ranch rep. The game warden may give you a ticket if 4-wheelers are operating on the county dirt road that bisects the ranch. This is would be a rare event, but noteworthy. Polaris Rangers, Mules are OK, however there's grey area in the law with these.

Drones: No drones are to be used on the ranch without my permission.
Pasture assignments: (copy from INFO)
All of the pastures are assigned before check-in and in most cases hunters are given the choice of open pastures. All of the areas have excellent hunting and when we are booked (10 hunters) each hunter has a bunch of acres to themselves. We place hunters in a pasture according to group size and the placement is controlled by the hunting manager.

Once you are assigned a location you cannot jump to a different location without permission from the hunting manager.

YOU MAY BE ASKED TO LEAVE IF ANY OF THESE RULES ARE NOT FOLLOWED AND WILL FORFEIT ALL HUNT MONEY.