If you’re a saltwater angler and don’t like the idea of hundreds of abandoned crab traps catching and killing game fish you could have landed, Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is looking for volunteers willing to help get rid of these derelict traps along the coast.

South Texas (very similar to South Africa’s landscape and climate) is one of the very few places in the world that has sustainable breeding and hunting populations of trophy big game species from other continents introduced back in the 1970’s. In fact through recent efforts of SCI and the EWA, several of these species such as the Black Buck Antelope and Scimitar Oryx are being reintroduced from Texas ranches back into their native lands where they are currently extinct.

African and European game species are classified as Texas Exotics due to their non-native status and therefore have no closed season and do not require tags or drawing. Wilson Whitetail Ranch and Lodge offers hunters interested in adding to their trophy game rooms 11 species of Exotics to hunt on our private ranch.

You may book a hunt just for Exotics or they may be added to any other hunting trip. Exotic hunts are primarily hunted by “spot and stalk” methods.

Lodging features a 5300 sq ft lodge which includes six private bedrooms that accommodates 14 guests.  Handicap hunters welcome.

On January 5, 2012, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service published its Final Rule governing the breeding and taking/culling of addax, dama gazelle and scimitar-horned oryx. The exemption from permitting is being eliminated,and the same two permits (Captive Bred and TAKE) that apply to barasingha, Arabian oryx, Eld's deer and red lechwe, will apply to the three species.