CJ8 Turkey Creek Ranch

The ranch is located on the north side of FM 140 and about 6 air miles from Charlotte, TX. Drive time from San Antonio is about 1 hour; from Houston is just over 3.5 hours and from Austin is a little over 2 hours.

The ranch includes areas of heavy diverse brush, bull mesquites and some limited pasture with predominantly sandy loam “red dirt” soils all providing high quality habitat for the wildlife that thrives on the ranch. While there are some elevation changes, Turkey Creek and 7 other drainages really add to the diversity.

Wildlife includes an intensively managed white-tailed deer herd, turkey, dove, waterfowl, some quail and a herd of axis deer. The ranch has been managed for trophy white-tailed deer for many years. Predator control is actively in place. The ranch’s wildlife management program includes supplemental feeding, water distribution, census, selective harvest and predator control to achieve its management goals. The ranch works to maintain a deer to 6 acres with good age structure to produce mature trophy bucks. The ranch is currently equipped with 7 high quality elevated deer stands, 7 protein feeders and 9 timed corn feeders.

A limited number of cattle have been maintained on the ranch’s pastures and both blackbuck antelope (past) and axis deer (past and current) herds are raised on the ranch.

The main lodge is a spectacular custom home overlooking a small lake and the Turkey Creek wildlife corridor. The home includes 5 bedrooms (and 5-1/2 baths), an spacious kitchen, custom built bar, living and/or dining areas located in the expansive high ceiling great room providing a fantastic location for trophy mount displays. The home is equipped with smart technology for ease of operation. A two sided fireplace is centrally located in the living area. In addition, there is a custom gun and tackle room plus a walk-in cooler for interior needs. Well-appointed covered parking is just out the bar door. Covered porches with sitting and relaxing areas are found on the south and west sides along with an outdoor kitchen (complete with a drop down television). Nearby are also a firepit and a concrete cowboy hot/cold tub fed with naturally hot water from the deep Carrizo well or cooler water from the domestic well, and a small garden. Across the drive from the lodge are 3 custom built stucco 2 bedroom casitas with living rooms and kitchenettes. A short distance away are the foreman’s house, the game cleaning facility (including a walk-in cooler), equipment shed, feed silo, shop, former deer pens and the guest overflow/guide quarters. The ranch is perimeter high fenced (great shape and maintained). The northern 121+/- acre pasture is separately high fenced and there is a 15-acre fenced pasture north of the lodge.

Turkey Creek, a wet weather creek, traverses the ranch for approximately 1.25 miles. There are 7 lakes/ponds on the ranch, ranging from ¼ acre to over 2 acres in size, and all are supplemented with water from the high volume well. All of the lakes except one support recreational fish populations and the small lake near the lodge is used to produce baitfish and catfish. These lakes/ponds are the primary water source for the ranch’s wildlife and exotic livestock. The 7 lakes/ponds are supplemented via piped water from a high volume well located near the southern boundary. This irrigation well was drilled in 2006 to a depth of 2,200 feet and tested over 1,000 GPM. It is currently outfitted with a 75 HP electric submersible and produces approximately 600 GPM. There is one domestic well and cattle are currently pastured just north of headquarters and utilize trough water from the domestic well. The domestic well is also used for the yard irrigation system, garden, the barns and pens at the headquarters. “City water” is used for the residential structures and game cleaning facility.

Electricity is available at several locations, including 3 phase power.

This offering is surface only. There are two well maintained active oil & gas sites on the ranch that are accessed from a different entrance so as to minimize impact on the ranch.