It's one of the better public land spots, definitely need to spot and stalk - you would be wasting your time posting.  The ATV side gets a lot of traffic from both the hog hunters and duck hunters, although, like anything else, if you're willing to walk further than the crowds you can find some "less" pressured hogs.  They move around alot on the property so try to concentrate around the bamboo patches and along the river sleuths.  Use satelitte imagery to plan your hunt and be sure to hunt into the wind, or you will be wasting your time.

Good luck

Caddo National grasslands by permit - deer and turkey. Some of the guys on this site have done pretty well out there

Hagerman National Wildlife Refuge - bowhunting by permit (outstanding non typicals but difficult to get in)

Lake Lavon and Lake Lewisville by permit - duck hunting

Fishing - numerous lakes.  Lake Fork, east of DFW west of Quitman, is one of the premier largemouth bass lakes in Texas.

Thats an Awesome Post!!!

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I grew up just outsode of Corpus in odem and there are some real nice areas around there for country living, then there is Callalen with great schools on hwy 624, but if that was me moving to the area I would recomend the Orange Grove, Sandia area near the lake, there is the best whitewing dove hunting, plentyfull wildlife, deer hogs and better get your fishing gear ready because Corpus has some of the best fishing in Texas, i recomend investing in a boat, i dont mind showing you all the fishing spots also.  The area off hwy 359 outside of Alice TX or Kingsville area is another small country living area with nice ranch property.  i think once you move to the area if your a big sportsmen, take advantage of all the hunting from Dove, Duck, Quail, Turkey, Deer, Hogs, geese, Crane, exotics, it's a sportsmen paradise down here!!!

Any idea what we should expect to pay?

I went hunting the first time when I was 7.  Walked around for a while with my Dad, saw nothing, so he let me shoot some tin cans with the .410 shotgun to give me something to do.  Dad grew up shooting pheasant and rabbit in Iowa (but not big game), and I had heard many stories from him and my Grandpa.  I wanted to go hunting in a big way.  I was ready to go after rabbit and squirrel, but I know that I couldn't have killed a deer then - they were just too pretty! 

I think any age is okay to take a kid, as long as the trip is about them going, and not them tagging along while you kill something.  Too many adults spoil it for the kid when they take them so they can get in some extra hunting during youth season, or just need the kid's deer tags.  I've seen friend's kids ready to hunt at 7, and I've seen them not be ready until 15.  Seems to me that the ones that were ready early had parents that hunted and/or fished regularly, and so it was a party of their normal life.  I'm guessing your kid is going to be chomping at the bit by age 6. :-)

I think what is being hunting is as important as when the kid first goes.  As a child I would have disliked setting in a blind for hours waiting for a trophy buck to show up.  Wouldn't have mattered how many critters I saw, just that I was having to sit quietly doing nothing.  To me, a deer would have been a deer, and I wouldn't have understood that the antlers or age was wrong.  I would want to shoot the first thing that walked out.  I needed action and quantity, not quality.  10 undersized bluegill were better than one large bass.  I wanted to shoot the gun a lot of times, so using a .22 was better than a .30-06.  Shooting multiple times at rabbit was better than shooting once at a deer or hog.  Being cold or wet would ruin the entire experience, so duck hunting would have been a bad idea.

And as an aside, I would never let a kid's first deer be a trophy.  The first couple would only be does or spikes.  Only after they had been hunting multiple times over several years, and made several kills, would I allow a trophy buck to be taken.  I firmly believe that if the first deer is a great buck, you've spoiled them for anything less.  Make the trophy be a trophy, not something they expect to happen every time.  Raise them to appreciate the animal, not the score.

I saw some while I was out duck hunting, I'll tel you where if you want to email me. I ust don't wanna broadcast it on the www.