That's for sure. Red talcum dust. Turns to grease when it gets wet.

That's a good un in that pic. The panhandle deer have food year round from the ag fields (cotton seed, peanuts, milo, wheat, etc...) Lots of high fat and protien food. I have seen them drink from leaking pivots and puddles from pivots many times. I love the trans pecos terrain as well. It is fun to fart around in and no telling what varmints you will see in that area. The ease of hunting in the panhandle is pretty sweet too.

Yep panhandle all the way. Whitetails keep cross breeding and pushing out the cool looking mule deer genetics down around us in sanderson. Shooting mule deer bucks with wider main frame 8 racks on them. Kinda cool but I miss the cool 4x4 frame textbook Muley racks.

Yep. Some great bucks around there. Trans Pecos is much more raw, if that's the proper term. Wild country, no doubt. Not sure about phone service though. Does AAA go out that far?

Trans Pecos for sure. We have taken some good bucks off our place. If you get lucky and catch the rut in the two weeks you got to hunt.

I'd rather hunt for them in the Trans Pecos any day. I just love that part of the state, and the way you have to hunt them out there.

well, I turned down the trans-pecos lease. Had my hopes all up.

What looks like ugly country can be excellent Mule Deer habitat out in West Texas. I had to learn to not look for Whitetail looking cover and habit to more open, low cover on our lease.

Trans Pecos for sure, there are no Mulies or Whitetails in the panhandle. Now move along

Does anyone have a connection on a good daylease in the panhandle for a mule deer hunt at a descent price. Thanks

I still kind of like the panhandle.

Now that's what Im' talking about!!!!!!!!!!!!

Trans Pecos

Not our biggest but my biggest

awesome bucks,congrats!

here is a gaines county buck:

5-23-13 274 by shannabav, on Flickr

Wow. That's probably the 2nd biggest Texas muley I've ever seen. The 1st was also from Gaines County.

I will have to get a couple of pics of some bigger ones. I have the pics at the lake. I will take a pic of the pic and post it next week.

Thought I would add to the PANHANDLE PHOTOS.

Here a couple of our lease in the Trans Pecos I find pics of. I don't have pics of a 220+ net NT that was taken about 5 miles south of the bottom buck in these pics.

I'm surprised to see snow it that picture in that part of Texas.

That was in 2007 our first year on the ranch. It snowed 12" and had IH-10 shut down along with most of West Texas. They could not hunt much at all the first 2 days. When the sun came out the next day it was bucks moving everywhere. There were 5 bucks together and that buck was killed out of that group. A friend went after another one that was as big or bigger than that buck. I was in Alberta MD hunting and could not get there for another 4 days.

When the sun comes out and snow is covering the ground those are the deer hunting conditions you dream about, especially in Texas. We're lucky on the Pitchfork because we usually get at least a couple hunting days like that every year.

you just let me know when you need extra help managing those little mulies ... man are they distructive on the desert!

It's the Elk that are bad on the desert habitat. I would love to see them go if it were up to me.