Briscoe County, Texas

High Plains caliche flats on top of the Caprock transition sharply to cedar, mesquite, and juniper-covered canyon breaks descending toward the Rolling Plains below. The Prairie Dog Town Fork of the Red River drainage cuts deep coulees through red clay and sandstone badlands with dramatic relief.

Low. Sparse population and limited outside hunting interest keep pressure very light on private ranches throughout the county.

Panhandle antler restriction rules apply in this zone; bucks must have an inside spread of 13 inches minimum or one unbranched antler. Mule deer are managed under separate regulations - verify current TPWD zone maps for Briscoe County before the season.

Mule deer and white-tailed deer overlap in the canyon transition zones, offering a mixed-species hunt rare in the Panhandle. Feral hogs have colonized creek bottoms. Scaled quail and bobwhite quail are present in good rainfall years on native grass ranches. Pronghorn have been historically present but numbers are very low today.

The Caprock canyon breaks of Briscoe County offer some of the most visually dramatic and underhunted mule deer habitat in the Texas Panhandle; the overlap of mule deer and white-tailed deer in canyon heads is a distinctive hunting experience.