Hi Kids!

Received a text last night about a cancellation hunt outside of Alpine, TX.
Leaving MT at 6am tomorrow! Will report upon my return.

Ski+3
Whitefish, MT

Good Luck! Buddy and I just returned from the panhandle. He got a nice mule deer and I got my first ever whitetail.

Blacktailer, let’s see some pics….

Goodluck Skibum! Safe travels and looking forward to the report

Congrats on the whitetail Russ.

Have a great trip. Hunting for mule deer in what we call the Texas Trans-Pecos is a great hunt. Can be hard, and sometimes game sightings are far between, but it is magnificent country.

Any deer can be a trophy to a hunter, but be aware that desert mule deer don't grow as large as your Rocky Mountain variety. They can be impressive, but don't be disappointed if a great mule deer from Texas doesn't match one from Montana.

I have seen some special bucks come out of West Texas.

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Originally posted by 505 gibbs:
Blacktailer, let’s see some pics….

Ive worked on and leased and owned ranches in Texas and a few south of Alpine. Tx. Know all of the old timers in that area, and a few of the johnny come late Leys. the closer you stay to Aline the better, but far south towards Lajitas there are some nice trophy deer in the high rimrock country.

Nice 10-pointer, Blacktailer, and with a drop tine to boot! But it looks like somebody put a hole in its ribcage Body looks good-sized, too. There can be some good deer in the Panhandle. What was the closest town?

Near Dalhart.

Very nice buck!

Whoops, Id call DAlhart North Texas. Very nice whitetail and looks low fenced, I like that..

That's a beauty of a whitetail!

Nice job.

That's a fine whitetail -- first or last.
Dalhart is XIT country. Great grandfather helped sell parts of it off. I need to see that museum.

We usually say Dalhart is in the "Panhandle", but it is certainly a part of West Texas as well.

Dalhart (both Dallam and Hartley counties) has not only some nice mule deer and whitetails, but pronghorns, prairie dogs, and pheasants to hunt as well. A few years back they also had a small herd of elk, but I think those all eventually went into poachers' deep freezes. Just try to stay upwind of the feed lots.

Skibump,
Whatever happened on the mule deer hunt? Some of the less blessed are waiting for details….