Lot 239

Some tracts sell you a promise. Tract 239 sells you honest working acreage in Duval County, and not much more dressed up than that. This is 57.95 acres of ranch land for sale on Tortuga Ranch, out in the wing-shooting brush that made this stretch of Texas famous. It asks a little of whoever owns it. Clear a spot, hang a gate, learn where the birds move. In return it gives you room and a reason to be out there.

The shape of it tells you how to use it. The tract lies long and narrow, better than two and a half times as deep as it is wide, so you get a good run of acreage without your whole world in one glance. A dirt ranch road already threads the north end, roughly 1,040 ft of it, and that trail is where you'll bring in a truck and start working the place. Follow it and you're saved the trouble of cutting a fresh way in through the huisache.

The grade works quietly in your favor. From one end to the other the land climbs about 47 ft, low 640s up toward the high 680s, an easy rise you'll feel more in your legs than see. That kind of gentle lift gives a man choices when he's picking where to park a camp or set a stand. Higher and drier, or tucked in the thicket where the birds sit. There's fence along the south side, worth knowing when you walk your corners, though the survey and title work are what fix your lines, so we'll go over those with you rather than trust a wire in the grass.

Dove hunting is what this ground is built for, and the field notes back it. The vaqueros were working stock on these Spanish grants 200 years back, and by the 1880s the brush around Freer and San Diego reportedly ran more sheep than any county in America. Land that's fed herds that hard grows the kind of cover that holds birds now. Come September, when the sunflowers dry and the mornings finally break, this is the sort of place a man wants to be standing at first light with a shotgun broke over his arm.

Ownership stays plain, the way plain ground ought to be sold. The tract is surveyed with deeded access on the ranch roads, and we carry the paper ourselves, with as little as 5% down to start. No middleman, no runaround.

A few things worth knowing at a glance:

• 57.95 surveyed acres in Duval County, Texas
• Existing dirt ranch road through the north end
• A gentle 47 ft rise from one end to the other
• Fence along the south side
• Owner financing with as little as 5% down

Wear boots you don't mind scuffing and come in the cooler months if you can. We'll walk the trail with you, show you where the fence runs, and let you stand in the brush and hear it for yourself.