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"In 2010, the 500-year-old Italian gun manufacturer launched the first system to rate shooting sports venues, evaluating them on site conditions, cuisine, lodging and service. Joshua Creek Ranch is one of four charter U.S. destinations and the only in Texas to receive the Beretta Trident Lodge designation in upland bird hunting.

'You put together your date and guest list, and we’ll do the rest,' says Ann Kercheville, who runs Joshua Creek Ranch with her husband, Joe Kercheville."

Prepare and enjoy delicious fares like Venison with Green Pepper Sauce, Pheasant Chardonnay, Fried Quail, Pheasant Tamales, and the ever-popular Joshua Creek Ranch Wild Game Gumbo.Filled with both game and non-game recipies, each has detailed instructions that make it easy to prepare. Many of Harvest Hunter's recipes are enduring family favorites, practical and delicious, fresh from the busy kitchen of Joshua Creek Ranch. Written by Owner Ann Kercheville and Chef Kay Read, the book includes a short history of Joshua Creek Ranch and how it has thrived in over twenty years of operation serving the country's most discerning sportsmen.

A Beretta Trident can’t be bought.

Similar to a Michelin Star-rating system for hunting lodges, it signifies an organization’s thorough dedication to its craft. Only one ranch in Texas has secured a two-out-of-three Trident rating for upland bird hunting, making it one of only four ranches in the entire nation to do so.

Joshua Creek upheld these standards long before the rating system was established.

Joshua Creek was recently featured in Sporting Classics magazine. We had so much fun hosting writer Chuck Weschler, and can't wait for you to see what he thought of the ranch.

 There are those experiences that you want to repeat. They are the kind you wish will stick like beer- battered pheasant to your ribs. Texas Hill Country is a foreign land to me: 1,400 feet high, lush and green, bugless save for the crickets and dragonflies, and cooler than nearby San Antonio. Such country could be in many places—a small town in Martha Stewart’s Connecticut with perfectly coiffed horse fences or the hills of Marin County, California.But this Hill Country is in Texas, slightly north of San Antonio, between a town called Welfare and one called Comfort. There lies a ranch on Joshua Creek. - Joshua Creek Ranch -

On September 9, 2011 – Joshua Creek Ranch hosted an afternoon retreat for the Westin La Cantera Resort Press Tour. The purpose of the press tour was to provide an editorial research experience for meeting and convention trade journalists. One of the goals for the press tour was to highlight off-site venues for team-building opportunities. The group enjoyed an afternoon of Sporting Clays shooting, fly fishing, cocktails on the patio listening to the Josh Peek Band and a delicious game dinner served with wines from local Becker Winery in Fredericksburg.

 Joshua Creek Ranch, located in the beautiful Texas Hill Country, is nestled on an isolated stretch of the pristine Guadalupe River – just 40 minutes northwest of San Antonio International Airport and 30 minutes from Kerrville Municipal Airport.

 Larry Lefner recently finished transforming a century-old Texas Live Oak tree into a monumental sculpture at Joshua Creek Ranch, a nationally recognized game preserve and hunting resort owned by Joe and Ann Kercheville. Download the full article here.

Lightening struck tree at Joshua Creek Ranch is turned into a work of art. Download the article here to see what the Dallas Business Journal has to say.