Brushy Hill Bowhunting Ranch, in an effort to provide high quality whitetail deer hunting year after year, employs a whitetail management program. Hunters are required to abide by a few simple & easy-to-follow management guidelines when hunting whitetails:

• Hunters must observe ALL Brushy Hill Ranch rules and ethical hunting practices, as well as ALL Texas Parks & Wildlife Rules & Regulations.
• All bucks harvested MUST have 14” MINIMUM INSIDE SPREAD! Violation of this rule will result in a $750 replacement fee! Bucks that are harvested with a 12″ or less inside spread will be assessed a $1000 replacement fee and may result in removal from the ranch!
• Mature Does MAY be harvested! 1 doe per hunt. If you are hunting 5 days or longer you may shoot 2 does.
• Hunters may trade in their trophy buck allocation for a Mature Doe at owners discretion.
• Nubbin bucks that are mistakenly harvested will result in a $1000 replacement fee and will count as the hunter’s buck.
• Long-horn spikes MAY be harvested if they have 2 unbranched antlers that are a MINIMUM of 7″ long, each! Violation of this rule will result in a $750 replacement fee. Long-horn spikes DO NOT COUNT as the “buck(s)” included with your hunt price; but they must be properly tagged with one of your TPWD “buck” tags. Please remember that we are a 3-buck county. So, you can shoot a long-horn spike and help us manage our whitetail herd and STILL have the tags to two harvest 2 trophy bucks!
• All Bucks harvested on the ranch must be reported to and shown to the owner of the Ranch.
• Sitting in, encroaching on or moving a blind/stand that the ranch has set for semi-guided client will result in a $250 fine. If you do not own, and did not set, a stand- DO NOT SIT IN IT!
• Does ALL season long! – During the current whitetail season
  does may be harvested, and hunters are encouraged to harvest does. We are
  hoping to reduce the number of does in our herd to improve the overall health
  of our whitetail population. If a hunter mistakenly harvests a nubbin’ buck, a
  $1000 replacement fee will be due immediately. In addition, a nubbin’ buck will
  count as a hunter’s buck. So, when shooting at a doe, hunters are expected to
  check for nubs before pulling the trigger – we strongly encourage hunters to
  bring and USE binoculars for just this reason! It can be difficult to see the
  bumps on a nubbin buck in those last few minutes of legal shooting light. So,
  PLEASE use binoculars to ensure you are shooting at a doe and not a nubbin’
  buck!
• NO hunting within 75 yards of a deer feeder and no tampering with deer feeders. Tampering with feeders will result in a $100 fee or removal from the ranch.
• NO fishing allowed on the ranch. Violation of this rule will result in an additional $150 fee!
• DO NOT shoot and endangered “Jaguarundi” while you are hunting at Brushy Hill Ranch! This is an ENDANGERED SPECIES of cat and we are actively working to preserve them. It is a federal crime to shoot an animal that is on the endangered species list and killing one carries an EXTREMELY heavy fine from the US Dept. of Fish & Wildlife as well as from the Texas Dept. Parks & Wildlife! If in doubt, DON’T SHOOT!
• Calling of predators is STRICTLY forbidden! Hunters are permitted to shoot predators that happen past their stand but using mouth calls or electronic calls is strictly forbidden! We have a predator control program and do NOT want the predators “call wise” or ‘educated!’
• Exotics, predators & varmints may be taken, without limit, at no additional charge.
• Make SURE not to shoot an endangered Jaguarundi- a species of cat that looks like a cross between a mountain lion and a weasel. Click here for more information on the Jaguarundi, including photos of this beautiful and endangered cat!
• Hunting hours are:

Morning Hunt – 30 Minutes Before Sunrise to 10:00AM
Evening Hunt – 3PM to 30 Minutes After Sunset

*Hunters are permitted to hunt all day long, during legal (Texas Parks & Wildlife) hunting hours, if they wish. However, hunters who want to hunt all day need to be aware that driving is permitted between the “Official Hunting Hours” listed above- to give other hunters a chance to scout and setup.

• Harvested game – All harvested game must be promptly reported to ranch staff
• Wounded game – Hunters must make every possible effort to recover any game they wound; and all wounded game must be reported to ranch staff promptly.
  If blood is drawn on a deer, IT COUNTS AS YOUR ANIMAL! Hunters who are found to be wounding deer and continuing to hunt for more deer will be removed from the ranch! No exceptions.
• Party hunting is NOT allowed! Party hunting is the practice of shooting other hunter’s allotment of animals. In other words, you may not shoot your buddy’s buck or your child’s buck. If you have harvested your trophy animal, you may NOT shoot another trophy animal just because someone in your group has failed to do so. Same thing applies to does and turkey.
• Hunters may not, under any circumstances, cross out of their assigned hunting area or into grounds prohibited to hunting! Trespassing onto other hunters’ grounds during hunting hours may result in a busted hunt and the guilty party will be expected to pay for the disturbed hunt(s). Trespassing onto neighboring properties may result in removal from the ranch.
• Hunters may not, under any circumstances, use or disturb other hunters’ setups!
• Field dress all game at designated racks or in the pasture at least 200 yards from the camp house. Dispose of all animal remains in designated areas at least 200 yards from camp.
• Walking or driving through pastures, during hunting hours, is strictly forbidden. See “Driving Rules” section for more details.
• Night hog hunting is prohibited during deer season (Sept-Jan).
• Corn Route is run at ranch staff’s discretion during wet weather. The corn route is a part of our management program and is a routine- not a ‘service.’ Hunters should not expect or depend on the corn route and should put out their own corn. A sack of corn is inexpensive ($8-$10) and is more than enough to last for a week-long hunt. Corn is available at several stores in Sabinal including the “One-Stop” gas station at the intersection of Hwy. 90 and Hwy. 187. We make every effort, when we are able to run the route, to place corn where it favors our hunters; but if you want corn placed in a particular place, please put out your own corn as a marker/target and we’ll TRY to splash some right where you want it!
• No killing non-poisonous snakes, especially Blue Indigo snakes. Blue Indigo snakes feed on rattlesnake and are a big part of controlling the rattlesnake population. 
• No excessive tree trimming or brush cutting. However, you are free to cut whatever is necessary to brush in your blinds well.
• DO NOT leave trash (i.e. beer cans, cigarette butts, etc.) in the pastures! You must take your trash when you leave your stand and when you leave the ranch.
• No artifacts (i.e. arrowheads, antlers, horns, etc.) may be removed from the ranch.
• Brushy Hill Ranch and its camps are frequently monitored by Texas game wardens, Brushy Hill Ranch staff and the “friendly, ethical hunter program.”