Texas Deer · Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP
Texas Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP covers 1,920 acres and lies 30 miles west of Leander and 39 miles west of Georgetown. 100% of it is public land, mostly state land (100%). In 2025, 30 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 30, a 100% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, GDA-IL, put up 14 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
3 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
100% State
1,920 acres
Boundaries are drawn for orientation only. The written boundary description in the regulations governs.
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Ranked by your odds times how often that license type's hunters filled their tag in 2025. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GDA-IL | Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP | <1% | — | |
| GDE-IL | Gun Deer - Either Sex - Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP | <1% | — | |
| YDE-IL · youth | Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Inks Lake/Longhorn Caverns SP | 4% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file.
Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Deadlines: Sep 1, 2027 (expected) for Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex (YDE) · Sep 15, 2027 (expected) for Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike (GDA), Gun Deer - Either Sex (GDE). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 30 | 30 | 100% |
| 2024 (summed) | 27 | 34 | — |
| 2023 (summed) | 27 | 25 | 93% |
| 2022 (summed) | 23 | 26 | — |
| 2019 (summed) | 23 | 11 | 48% |
| 2017 (summed) | 30 | 20 | 67% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer (hunt 1 of 3) | 15 | 20 | 87% |
| White-tailed deer (hunt 2 of 3) | 8 | 5 | 50% |
| White-tailed deer (hunt 3 of 3) | 7 | 5 | 71% |
2025 split: firearm 30 (100%) from 30 hunters, 100%
What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes after each season, for everyone who hunted the area: harvest statistics, not draw odds. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes no whole-unit line for 2025; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.
The Ground
| State land | 1,920 ac | 100% |
Source: U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads.
What the Agency Says About the Area
TPWD hunt area type: State Park Unit; 1,854 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 12
- TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog draw results, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Drawn Hunts fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 Outdoor Annual fees, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2025-26 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2022-23 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2019-20 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2017-18 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 State Parks Boundaries boundary, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- U.S. Geological Survey, Gap Analysis Project 2023 PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads land ownership, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026-27 Public Hunt Drawing System area description, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
About These Numbers
Odds are from the 2025 draw, the latest on file, computed from Texas Parks & Wildlife Department's published results. They are what happened in that draw, not a forecast. Under five tags a percentage carries a *, because one applicant either way swings it. A dash means the agency did not publish the number, and a date marked expected is last cycle's schedule rolled forward. How we compute these.
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