Texas Big Game Awards Entry Form
Texas Big Game Awards is a hunter and landowner recognition program designed to promote big game hunting in Texas through the promotion and encouragement of sound habitat and wildlife management.
The program recognizes:
- The quality of big game animals in Texas
- The hunters who harvest these animals
- The achievements of young and new hunters
- The land managers who produce these animals
- The importance of our hunting heritage
First Big Game Harvest
- Any hunter, regardless of age, who harvests his/her first lifetime big game animal in Texas during the current year’s hunting season is eligible for recognition.
- This is a non-scored category and any white-tailed deer, mule deer, javelina, bighorn sheep or pronghorn antelope is eligible regardless of the animal’s sex or score. The animal must have been wild-raised. Animals that were born or bred in captivity and subsequently released into the wild are not eligible; the animal must not have been trapped and/or released at any time during its life.
- Entry forms are available via the website or through the TPWD, TWA or any certified TBGA scorer.
Youth Division
- Any youth hunter, under 17 years of age when they purchase their hunting license, with a Youth Hunting License (license type 169) is eligible.
- This is a non-scored category and any white-tailed deer, mule deer, javelina, bighorn sheep or pronghorn antelope is eligible regardless of the animal’s sex or score. The animal must have been wild-raised. Animals that were born or bred in captivity and subsequently released into the wild are not eligible; the animal must not have been trapped and/or released at any time during its life.
- Entry forms are available via the website or through the TPWD, TWA or any certified TBGA scorer.
