Texas Deer · Matagorda Island WMA
Texas Matagorda Island WMA covers 46,475 acres and lies 46 miles north-east of Corpus Christi. 100% of it is public land, mostly wildlife refuge (62%) and state land (38%). In 2025, 77 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 64, a 83% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, GDE-MT, put up 40 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
2 licenses
first choice, NR
2025, all licenses
62% Fish & Wildlife Service
46,475 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 Matagorda Island WMA
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GDE-MT | Gun Deer - Either Sex - Matagorda Island WMA | 3% | — | |
| YDE-MT · youth | Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Matagorda Island WMA | 28% | — |
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 - Either Sex (GDE). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 (summed) | 77 | 64 | 83% |
| 2024 (summed) | 82 | 64 | 78% |
| 2023 (summed) | 96 | 97 | — |
| 2022 (summed) | 86 | 64 | 74% |
| 2021 (summed) | 87 | 63 | 72% |
| 2020 (summed) | 77 | 78 | — |
| 2019 (summed) | 67 | 37 | 55% |
| 2018 (summed) | 49 | 40 | 82% |
| 2017 (summed) | 63 | 41 | 65% |
| 2025 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer (hunt 1 of 2) | 48 | 46 | 73% |
| White-tailed deer (hunt 2 of 2) | 29 | 18 | 59% |
2025 split: firearm 64 (100%) from 77 hunters, 83%
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
| National Wildlife Refuge | 28,950 ac | 62% |
| State land | 17,525 ac | 38% |
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: Wildlife Management Area Unit; 25,000 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 15
- 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 2021-22 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2020-21 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2019-20 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2018-19 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2017-18 Hunts Harvest Summary, season harvest, retrieved Sep 1, 2026
- TPWD 2026 WMA Boundaries for Public Distribution 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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