Very perceptive ST. These are sandhills bucks. We have been out there for going on 12 years now. For some unknown reason (to me) these bucks are huge bodied deer, much larger than Trans Pecos mule deer, and also the deer you find in Southern NM in the Guadalupe's. The mature bucks we killed were so large, we used to weight them on the ranch foreman's cotton scales. Many of them had a live weight (prior to field dressing) of 320lbs +/-. These are a good example too:

Those are two nice deer. The second one will out score the first one but his mass and width are really cool. If you locate and stay with the does through the rut, the biggest bucks in the area will eventually show themselves. They'll travel several miles during the rut.

I hunted the western Texas panhandle for 25 years for mule deer and 300 pound deer were not uncommon. Also horn size can surprise most people if not from the area. These are sand hill deer with surrounding farm ground. I've taken many 160-170 class bucks plus one non-typical that grossed 203" and the state record non-typical archery buck that officially scored 222 6/8's.

Here you go Pitchfork:

203 Gross non-typical - rifle - 2014



222 6/8" non-typical - Bow - 2007

Fantastic bucks.

txtrophy85,
A biologist years ago told me they are a mixture of desert mule deer and rocky mountain mule deer. I honestly don't know.

Pecos county surrounds the Fort Stockton area but I'm no where near there. Some of the biggest bucks in recent years have come out of the sand hills west of Lubbock.

Never hunted Pecos county myself. The sandhills I'm aware of where big bucks roam are west of Lubbock and where I hunted in Hartley county.