Can anyone give me some info about The Wildlife ranch in Mason? I am looking at taking my son down there for a Ram hunt and wondering what kind of operation it is.

I think you would have a more enjoyable time and rememberable experience choosing another operation. UNLESS things have changed since I went there when I was a teen about 10 years ago, then I would NEVER recommend them to anybody.

There are many other outfitters, even on this site, that offer comparable prices of the wildlife ranch.

Good luck!

yea it has not changed a bit sam killing style. Not much of a hunt.

I would steer clear of them as well. I've heard a lot of horror stories. You'd be better off going to Thompson Temples place for a ram hunt. I think Koon's Canyon also may have some good specials going on? Check out www.allaboutexotics.com and you can search outfitters there for ram hunts.

If your kid is young, impatient and you really want him to get something, go. Its cheap, and there are a lot of animals to choose from, there is no chance he wont get something.

IF you want to do something a little more challenging and dont mind paying, then go somewhere else.

Just got back from Koon's.....Great place, great people, great animals. One impatient boy of mine took a nice ram. The other boy hunted hard for a nice Axis (on the first hunt he passed on a 30inch in velvet Axis) till the last day, he then went after BB and missed a nice one, then settled on a Nice Ram. I took a nice Red Stag and that took some hunting to find him. We will be going back there.

Just got back from Koon's.....Great place, great people, great animals. One impatient boy of mine took a nice ram. The other boy hunted hard for a nice Axis (on the first hunt he passed on a 30inch in velvet Axis) till the last day, he then went after BB and missed a nice one, then settled on a Nice Ram. I took a nice Red Stag and that took some hunting to find him. We will be going back there.

X2 for Koon's. Hunted there several times and had a blast each and everytime. Shot some very nice animals as well.

Thanks for all of the posts and opinions. I will for sure ck these places out.

Also check out CLWILDLIFE. Tyson is a good guy and I'm sure would give you and your son a good hunt.

If your bowhunting take a look at Diamond C just south of you at Caddo!Like has been said many good outfitters on here with positive feedback to look at.

Took my daughter to there once. Won't do it again. Hit up DB Hunting. Much better place!

Triple A Outfitters in Carthage did an amazing gold medal ram hunt. Billy and his boys are top notch!

www.tripleaoutfitters.com

Thanks again!

Terrible experience! Went on an Elk “hunt.” Prices were up to $1500 for management bulls and from $1500 for “trophies.” When you get there, only spikes are “managements.” I opted for the management bull as a “meat hunt.” This is a 100% canned hunt, in the sense they release the one small Elk herd from a small pen into a larger pen. You drive right up on the animal, he looks at you curiously while chewing his cud, you chase away the others elk, and then you shoot him. That was bit of a let down….. but what really depressing is then they want to charge you $40 to gut it, then $80 to skin it, then they want $700 to grind it all into hamburger meat. I finally said no way on the $700 meat grinding and left to make arrangements at another meat processor. When I get back, the guide asked me what I thought a fair price would be to do the processing. I said $400, thinking it would surely be rejected…..I was wrong. That little voice in the back of my head went off saying, “you still getting slammed” but they had me at that point. Well, to make a long story short, I come back after 4 weeks to pick up 48 lbs of elk hamburger meat from a 800 lbs bull elk. That’s about 12% of the field dress weight-I guess they did a real shotty job cutting meat off the bone!