Ranch house on hwy just out north of Jayton? Ranch split into two places?

1 per 25,000..................not!!

Cant remember exactly around 2000-2002.

We know for a fact that it was poached hard before and during the time we were there. In a local business was supposed to be 2 big deer "killed" off of it. One was a upper 160's net typical and the other a 190's net nontypical. Story was the former ranch manager let him kill them for $500 each for drug money. We caught the Cattle Co. sons jumping out of a truck and chasing aoudads with a rifle. That was it for us. Best pasture was the Croton back then. Had some tremendous bucks in it. One was seen 2 yrs in a row that was a 180 class 6x6 typical and very wide. The other pasture a friend of mine saw a 5x5 that was easily a 170's deer that he could not get to. He was on the far NW corner next to Beggs. All those deep red washes kept him from getting to him. The last year on the place I saw a really big 5x5 back in the same corner but could not get to him. I saw a really big Mule Deer day before season in the pasture right next to the fields up front. He was in the draw next to the green water trough on top laying in the sun. He walked off in the draw and never seen him again. The first year the ranch manager told us of 2 really big Mule Deer in those draws up front that he seen working cattle horse back. We hunted that area hard but think he let his buddies kill them. Deer numbers were really slim and they moved around quite a bit also. Ranch to the south and the ranch in between the 2 ranches were all hunted very hard. Shot whatever they could. Part of our group got on Beggs to the north and one guy killed a really good 170's plus whitetail and one guy killed a 180's type Mule Deer. We had 3- 160's and several more 150's taken in 3 yrs. I took a 4x5 that had a injured right side and had he matched he would have been close to 170. He was 24 3/4" inside with 25+" beams. Looks like he broke and acorned everything in velvet. I only saw his left side when I jumped him with a doe. I thought he looked lopsided when I shot him. Walked up to him and seen his good side up and then I was sick when I seen the other side. I like hunting that ranch just not all the poaching.

It depends on the number of deer. I'm in East TX and it seems that most leases over here have far too hunters per leased acre. I moved here from MS and a hunter per 100 acres was acceptable in the best places over there because of a huge deer herd. Even there, the hunters had to be really disciplined and experienced to make that work. One per hundred here is far too many. I expect the more open areas of W Texas can substain far fewer still. I think over here, a hunter per 300-400 would allow clubs to harvest a mature deer per member in most cases.