Nineteen New Texas Leases Just Hit the List — Big-Acre Annuals and a Wall of Dove Fields
Week of August 10, 2026
If you've been waiting on the right lease to shake loose before fall, this is the week to pay attention. Nineteen new listings landed on Texas Hunting Lease Listings in the last few days — a handful of serious annual and season leases across deer country, plus the biggest single-week wave of dove hunts we've seen all summer. With the September 1 dove opener now inside three weeks, the day-hunt spots below will not sit long.
The Flagship: 1,750 Acres in Stephens County
Every so often a lease comes through that makes you stop scrolling. This is that one: 1,750 acres outside Breckenridge with a lake on the property, RV hookups, and a year-round term. The landowner is looking for one group to take the whole place — no neighbors on the property, no shared pastures, nobody else's truck at the gate. It carries whitetail, turkey, hogs, and dove, so the same lease that gets you through deer season covers your September dove hunts and your summer hog trips too. Places like this don't come around often, and they don't stay available.
Annual and Season Leases in Deer Country
Menard County — 850 acres. A private, family-run working cattle ranch in the western Hill Country running a real hunting lease program: trophy whitetail, axis and other exotics, turkey, and hogs — six-plus huntable species. Hunt it per-gun from September through the end of February, or take the full ranch on a 12-month term. A two-trophy-buck harvest allowance keeps the age class where it should be.
Bandera County — 168 acres. Eight miles north of Utopia and about as rugged as low-fence Hill Country gets: three ridges, two canyons, and a live creek in the canyon bottom that's a solid hike from the nearest road. Whitetail, aoudad, and hogs — and here's the kicker: the place hasn't been hunted in seven years. Family-owned since the 1920s, blinds already in place, camping allowed on the property. Four-wheel drive is mandatory on the access road, and honestly, that's part of the charm.
Runnels County — 500 acres. A two-gun lease, period — you and one partner get the whole 500 acres year-round. Dove, turkey, and whitetail over a mix of wheat, cotton, and milo fields with brush and cover threaded through, a camp with electricity, and direct access to a local lake.
Jack County — 480 acres, one spot. Two hunters on a 480-acre place 15 miles north of Jacksboro are looking for one responsible gun to round out the group. Deer, turkey, and hogs over creek bottom and real elevation changes — good country for a hunter who wants in on an established lease without building one from scratch.
Trinity County — 40 acres on the river. Small footprint, big neighbors. This East Texas tract fronts a Trinity River creek and has a reputation for heavy-horned whitetail, plus hogs, ducks, and fishing. Stands and feeders are already in place, it hunts well with both bow and rifle, and the term runs year-round.
Mills County — season lease near Mullin. A Managed Lands Deer (MLD) program property, which means extended season flexibility and a landowner who takes deer management seriously. Gun season on the property opens October 3.
Dove Season Is Three Weeks Out — And the Fields Just Showed Up
A dozen new dove listings hit the board this week, stretching from the South Plains to the Rio Grande. If your group doesn't have an opening-weekend plan yet, it's on this list:
San Antonio area. Two Bexar County day hunts — a 600-acre spread of milo fields a mile outside Loop 410 that can put a big corporate or family group on a half field, and an 80-acre Southside field sitting in a proven white-winged flyway with tree lines and a water tank. Just west in Medina County, a LaCoste field 30 minutes from downtown is planted 80 percent black-oil sunflower and capped at eight hunters per hunt — small-group hunting over serious groceries.
Hill Country and Central Texas. San Saba County has a day hunt reporting strong early bird numbers with limited spots. A Central Texas ranch operation has a handful of cancellation openings for early September with lodging, a skeet range, and more amenities than most hunting camps have any right to.
North and West Texas. Throckmorton County brings multiple big sunflower fields near Woodson with camper hookups and group lodging. Wichita County offers day hunts over large cut-corn fields near Electra with bird-cleaning stations and rides into the field. Lubbock County has an opener-weekend hunt with a field cookout and a group atmosphere. And in Stephens County, a three-day, do-it-yourself package combines dove with unlimited hogs and predators, lodging included.
South Texas and the Brush Country. Zapata County fields sit in natural flyways bordered by crops and the Rio Grande. Kleberg County day hunts near Riviera are booking the opener and the first two weekends off three straight years of good shoots. And a Duval County outfit west of San Diego runs a full white-winged package around a lodge with an outdoor kitchen, eight-foot barbecue pit, skeet, and catering — the kind of place you take the whole crew.
Don't Wait on the Good Ones
Nineteen listings is a big week, and history says the standouts — the Stephens County flagship, the two-gun Runnels lease, the small-cap dove fields — will be spoken for first. Head to the listings page for full details on every property above, and if you're a landowner sitting on open acres, there has never been a better week to see what your ground could be doing for you.
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