00 County Road 142 E, Electra, TX 76360

Hunting Land, joins 510,000 acre Waggoner Ranch!!!

The Busy B Ranch in Wilbarger County, Texas has 643 +/- acres, and is located just a few miles from the town of Electra, approximately 1/3 of a mile off of Highway 287. With roughly 80% in native pasture and 20% in cultivation, it the perfect mix for hunting. The ranch joins the historic 510,000+ acre Waggoner Ranch along its whole south side; with no hunting pressure on the north, east, or south sides, and management minded neighbors on the west, the Busy B is perfect for growing monster bucks! HUNTING: The seller owns and/or manages around 3,500 acres of land in this county, including land on the Red River, but says he sees more wildlife on this ranch than any of his other properties! This ranch joins the northern Grayback Pasture of the famed 510,000 acre Waggoner Ranch for a full mile along its south side. The Grayback Pasture is known for its big bodied deer and high wildlife numbers and has no hunting on it. The property on the east side is 1,222 acres large and is owned by Mobil Oil Corp; it has no hunting on it either. On the west side are 320 acre and 160 acre tracts; the south 320 acre is mostly a large wheat field, and it's not abnormal to see 200+ deer grazing on it during the wintertime. This 320 acres is hunted but they are trophy-only hunters. The property to the north is 498 acres and has little to no hunting on it too. Since 2002, three bucks have been taken that scored over 200″ B & C; the neighbor took a 180″ class buck just last year in 2017. 140-150″ class bucks are common here. The property has four food plots on it (22, 8, 2, and 1 acre in size) and numerous smaller plots, plus a 107 acre wheat field on its north end. The food plots were all sewed last year with a mixture of wheat, milo, and millet; the field was sewn in wheat only. The large 22 acre plot (with the six acre watershed) and the 107 acre field are fenced off separately so you can control how cattle graze these areas. Seven spin corn feeders and one large trough protein feeder provide year around feed to supplement the crops. The land was formerly enrolled in the MLD ("Managed Lands Deer") program from 2002 to 2015 but is no longer under its restrictions. Lots of other game will be found here as well, including feral hog, javelina, bobcat, coyote, Rio Grande turkey, and bobwhite quail! A large six acre watershed by the 22 acre food plot attracts hundreds of ducks and geese during the winter, and there's always dove hunting in the fall. Sandhill crane and have been seen on the ranch as well. Five other water tanks are scattered across the ranch, some of which were dug out in the last few years. In 2012, during the peak of the regional drought, the big tank went dry. The owner used that opportunity to dig it out and plant a waterfowl feed mixture in it, from which he still see benefits. This mixture included wheat, winter rye, millet, milo, and Illinois bumbleflower, and is one of the reasons the property attracts so many annual ducks and geese in the winter! The ranch has several tower blinds on it, two of which are big enough to sleep in! The two large ones are basically small storage buildings that were raised up ten feet in the air. Other than a couple of deer blinds that are on trailers, the owner will convey all hunting related improvements with the sale. IMPROVEMENTS: The ranch comes with two furnished trailers, both of which have metal coverings over them. A 30' x 50' barn is on site too, with concrete floor. One of the trailers has a large attached porch. Electricity is on site to the headquarters; water is brought in, as there is no ground water here and no city water line nearby. The property has a perimeter barbed wire fence in excellent condition. Blinds, feeders, and all the wildlife convey too! MINERALS: No minerals are owned by Seller, so there are none to convey. There is active oil production on roughly 1/3 of the ranch.