The funny thing is, about 3 years ago I moved out of Austin to the neighboring county, a fairly rural area, all the land is protected in the area because it is the aquifer recharge zone and it is tough to work with because there are caves and your house could just fall in the ground and you are kind of on your own, with the terrain they can't run water, sewer or gas lines so you have to be the type that can make do and figure it out and likes quiet. It is relatively cheap because you need to own 2+ acres just to bulld a modest house with the impermeable cover rules and most lots are 2-5 acres. One of the odd things was, on the highway leading out there they had elk crossing signs and I was sure that the highway department just screwed up, ran out of deer crossing signs. We live on a 15 acre lot and by law I can actually hunt there, but very carefully as there are a lot of houses all around us, I have to be up high and shooting down and everything has to line up just right. One day I was walking around and there was a herd of elk back there, one bull, four cows and a calf. I called the county and was told I could shoot them and that basically 12 or so years ago a game ranch fence flooded out and 14 escaped and there are now 47 of them by the last aerial survey and they span a roughly 70 mile range from South Austin down into Central Hays county. I was totally psyched, I had 3 chances to bag one and my problem was the terrain is really rough and rocky, I mean, this land is about worthless for farming or much of anything, just this porous limestone with thin clay and a lot of scrub brush and short trees and so somehow I would have to drag this thing back to the house, I also needed it to be cool enough to keep the meat safe for all the hours it would take to cape and gut it and needed a friend or two, never could make that work. Now the big 400 acre ranch beside us was high fenced and the elk don't come into our neighborhood anymore, my immediate neighbor has 33 acres and hunts and he keeps waiting for that fence to wash out, he has a lot of equipment and I tease him he needs to have an ATV or tractor accident with that fence.