The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department is offering the chance to win Big Time Texas Hunts.
The hunts are guided hunt packages with food and lodging provided, as well as taxidermy in some cases.
The Grand Slam hunt package includes four separate hunts for Texas’ most prized game animals – the desert bighorn sheep, the white-tailed deer, mule deer and pronghorn.
New this year is the Ultimate Mule Deer Hunt, where one winner will be the first to hunt on recently acquired Yoakum Dunes Wildlife Management Area in the Texas Panhandle.
There are several quality whitetail hunt packages available, as well as chances to pursue alligator, waterfowl, game birds, wild hog in East Texas and exotics.
The whitetail bonanza features a three- or five-day trip to wildlife management areas.
Hunt sable antelope, gemsbok and axis deer on the Mason Mountain WMA.
Gators may be pursued on the Gulf Coast at J.D. Murphee WMA in Port Arthur.
Big Time Texas Hunts entries are available online for $9 each at www.tpwd.texas.gov/buyentry, or for $10 each at licensed retailers or by phone. A $5 administrative fee is required for online entries.
There is no limit on the number of entries an individual may purchase. All proceeds benefit conservation, wildlife management and public hunting initiatives.
The Texas Trophy Hunters Association and the Texas Bighorn Society help make the Big Time Texas Hunts possible.
The deadline to enter is Oct. 15. Read more from this outdoors notebook in the weekend Bowie News.

Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. (Logo provided by the TPWD, used with permission)