Texas Deer · Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit
Texas Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit covers 5,596 acres and lies 50 miles south-west of Tyler and 61 miles south-east of Mesquite. 100% of it is public land, mostly state land (100%). In 2024, 58 people hunted white-tailed deer here and took 18, a 31% success rate (sum of published weapon rows). Its most applied-for hunt, ADE-RN, put up 15 tags (all residencies) in the 2025 draw.
3 licenses
first choice, NR
2024, all licenses
100% State
5,596 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 2024. Nonresident, first choice, 2025 draw; licenses with at least 10 tags that anyone can buy.
Every License in Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit
| What | Season | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ADE-RN | Archery Deer - Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit | 2% | — | |
| GDA-RN | Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike - Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit | 2% | — | |
| YDE-RN · youth | Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex - Richland Creek WMA - Carl Frentress Unit | 14% | — |
First-choice nonresident odds at your points, 2025 draw. Cut = points the last tag went at; ▲ = points added since the earliest draw on file. Not in the table, with no 2025 result: EAD-RN, GDE-RN.
Draw results: TPWD 2026-2027 Drawn Hunt Catalog, retrieved Sep 1, 2026.
If you draw (2026 nonresident fees): $318 ($3 to apply). Deadlines: Aug 15, 2027 (expected) for Archery Deer (ADE) · Sep 1, 2027 (expected) for Youth Only Gun Deer - Either Sex (YDE), E-Postcard Archery Deer (EAD) · Sep 15, 2027 (expected) for Gun Deer - Antlerless/Spike (GDA), Gun Deer - Either Sex (GDE). Full fee breakdown.
Harvest
| Year | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 (summed) | 58 | 18 | 31% |
| 2023 (summed) | 55 | 21 | 38% |
| 2022 (summed) | 49 | 20 | 41% |
| 2021 (summed) | 39 | 8 | 21% |
| 2020 (summed) | 70 | 23 | 33% |
| 2024 by License | Hunters | Deer | Success |
|---|---|---|---|
| White-tailed deer · archery (hunt 2 of 2) | 17 | 2 | 6% |
| White-tailed deer · archery (hunt 1 of 2) | 22 | 5 | 14% |
| White-tailed deer · firearm (hunt 1 of 2) | 10 | 9 | 90% |
| White-tailed deer · firearm (hunt 2 of 2) | 9 | 2 | 22% |
2024 split: archery 7 (39%) from 39 hunters, 18%, firearm 11 (61%) from 19 hunters, 58%
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 2024; a year's total is the sum of published weapon rows, added only where the lines do not overlap. Source: TPWD 2024-25 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2023-24 Hunts Harvest Summary, season; TPWD 2022-23 Hunts Harvest Summary, season.
The Ground
| State land | 5,596 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: Wildlife Management Area Unit; 3,300 acres published as available for TPWD drawn hunts
▸ Sources 11
- 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 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 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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