Texas Deer — Powderhorn WMA

Powderhorn WMA

Texas Powderhorn WMA covers 15,059 acres and lies 65 miles north-east of Corpus Christi and 93 miles south-west of Sugar Land. 100% of it is public land, mostly state land (100%). In 2025, 43 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 21 — 49% of them killed something. The 2025 draw put up 32 tags here.

Tags (2025):48 Hunter success (2025):49% Public land:100% Size:15,059 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Every deer license type on offer in Powderhorn WMA, with the prior-draw chance for a first-choice nonresident applicant. Type your points in to see your own number.

Chances are from the 2025 draw (the most recent) for a first-choice nonresident. "Points needed" = the cut in the last draw.

Simple view Odds at every point level

GDE-PE Gun Deer - Either Sex - Powderhorn WMA 16 tags

<1% Point builder
YDE-PE Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Powderhorn WMA 32 tags

4% Point builder

Hunt	Your odds (0 pts)	Points needed	Tags / applicants	Season
GDE-PE ↗ Gun Deer - Either Sex - Powderhorn WMA	<1% Point builder	—	16 / —	Dec 7–10, 2026
YDE-PE ↗ Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Powderhorn WMA	4% Point builder	—	32 / —	Nov 21 – Jan 3, 2027

What these columns mean

Your odds: the share of applicants at your point level who drew this tag in the 2025 draw. Not a forecast: quotas and demand move every year.
The badge: plain language for that number. Likely draw 75% or better · Real chance 40%+ · Long shot 15%+ · Point builder below that, so you are applying mainly to bank a point · Undersubscribed means fewer first-choice applicants than tags, so everyone who applied drew.
Points needed: the lowest point total that still got a tag in the 2025 draw, and how that cut has moved since the earliest draw we hold.
Tags / applicants: tags on offer and first-choice applicants for them, as the agency published them. Under five tags we print counts instead of a percentage, because one applicant either way swings it.

What it costs to apply (2026 nonresident fees)

License	Up front	Gone if you miss	If you draw
Per application	$3	$3	$318

Application deadlines: Sep 15, 2026 for GDE · Sep 1, 2027 (expected) for YDE. Full fee breakdown.

The country

Powderhorn WMA within Texas

Powderhorn WMA and its neighbours

Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

Who owns the ground

State land 15,059 ac · 100%

Source: PAD-US 4.0 State Downloads - Texas file geodatabase (PADUS4_0Fee_State_TX)

Nearby areas

How the hunting has gone

What Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Texas Parks & Wildlife Department publishes these per hunt rather than per unit; the rows below add its own figures together, since a hunter holds one tag for the species in a season.