Lot 14

Hunting is what this land does best, and there's no sense dressing it up as anything else. Lot 14 carries 15.92 acres of unbroken thornscrub, low and gray-green and tight enough that a man standing in the middle of it disappears at 40 yards. This is ranch land for sale on 44 Ranch North, in the South Texas scrub of Duval County, where the quail and bird hunting reputation was earned long before anybody started selling tracts out here. Walk it in September.

The land reads flat from the road, but it isn't. There's roughly 40 ft of relief here, from near 517 ft at the low end to 557 ft at the high, and that lift is worth knowing when you're picking a spot to set a camp and you'd rather have the rain shed away from you than stand in the ruts. Soil is sandy caliche, pale where it's cut open, and it holds a two-track well. The scrub itself runs low thorn timber with taller clumps breaking the skyline, silver in the August heat, greening fast behind a rain.

A hard caliche road runs the head of the tract, wide enough for a truck and a trailer to turn without drama, and a dozed line follows the east side and bends southwest into the interior. That old line is your head start. Clear a sendero or two off it and you'd have shooting alleys and a way to run a side-by-side into the middle without fighting thorns every yard. The deed and the recorded plat govern how you get in and out, and we'll read both with you before anybody signs anything.

A pipeline easement crosses the tract toward the southwest. That's common in this stretch of South Texas, it shows on the survey, and it's set out in the title documents. We'll point out where it lies when we're out there. Restrictions on this ranch are light, enough to keep commercial operations out of the neighborhood without handing you a rulebook on what color to paint a camp house.

44 Ranch North totals 1,119 recorded acres, split into surveyed tracts, and at 15.92 acres this one is a size a hunter can learn in a single season. Boundaries are surveyed. Ask us how the tax valuation is carried on this ranch and we'll tell you straight what the county has on it and what you'd need to confirm yourself. Owner financing is available, and it can start with as little as 5%.

Wear boots and long sleeves. The thorns out here don't negotiate, and if you're walking it in August, bring more water than you think you need. Late September into October is the better time, when the heat backs off and the birds are flying. Call and we'll meet you at the caliche road, follow the dozed line, find the high end, and show you where the easement runs. Then you decide.