Where: Sonora Texas. 1 Hour from San Angelo, about 2 Hours from San Antonio, 3 Hours from Austin, and 4.5 Hours from Dallas.
There is an airport in San Angelo where clients can rent a vehicle and travel to the ranch (at there expense).

Location: 10 minutes south of Sonora Texas offering easy access for the hunter wanting to drive in. We do offer airport pick up for $200 (for up to 2) in San Angelo.
Ranch is 4,000 acres of which 3200 is free range and 800 acres is fenced.

Hunt Pricing- $3500 Per Hunter
Which covers 3 Days of Hunting, 3 Nights Lodging, and Guided. Guide will skin and quarter your harvest. We do have onsite cold storage.
Bring your ice chest for your meat. We can provide local taxidermy and processing at your expense.

Book with 2 or more hunters or be paired up with another hunter and meals will also be included.
Parties of 4 to 6 I will add an additional hunt day at no extra charge.

Non Resident Adult License/Tags $315 Youth $6

Bag Limit: 1 Mature whitetail buck of any size, 1 whitetail doe, and Unlimited predators seen during your hunt.

Hunter is responsible for there travel expenses to the ranch, licenses, and taxidermy-Along with shipping of any meat or taxidermy.
Once arriving on the ranch you will be escorted in guides vehicles around the property.
We have no hidden fees other than gratuities which is at your discretion.

Season/Availability: The property is on a special program (MLD 3) allowing us to rifle or archery hunt from October 1st through end of February.
Giving the hunter an extended season and plenty of time to hunt. We are available to hunt weekdays or weekends.

Property is set up for both Bow or Rifle and we can accommodate 1 to 6 hunters at a time.
Primary style of hunting will be out of Blinds, Safari style, and if in the rut rattling.

Success rate last season was 100%.
Great rains this year will mean many quality deer.

Mike 915-328-0645
elpasohunter@gmail.com
www.westtexashunt.com

Here are some recent game cam pictures from the oat patch. Yes the oat field is high fenced but these are free range deer.
Its going to be a great season!

BOOK BY THE END OF THE MONTH AND I WILL DISCOUNT THE HUNT BY 10%

First buck down of the season. Its going to be a great one this year.

How can we call this a trophy hunt. I see a high fence on most of the photograph. How can anyone pay big money for a hunt, then go out in someones pasture and shoot a domesticated deer and then call it a trophy. You high fence guys are ruining our sport of hunting, its just been turned into a money game.

Swamp,
Every hunt in Texas has a fence somewhere, so all are fenced. Let Mike make his offer and go hunt it if you wish, otherwise, start the fight with the Texas legislature on this.

Nothing is being ruined.....

Hunting IS a money game - you buy guns, clothes, DVD's, bullets, gasoline, etc...
Go to Africa or Canada or Romania - hunting is a money game. It is not a subsistence game or a "family tradition" game. Our society, country, world has moved this direction. You can get some "free range" hunts, but few are truly free range AND cheap. If you live in Delaware and want to hunt a pronghorn antelope - guess what, you will spend a couple thousand dollars doing that in Wyoming or wherever. But it is still a "dollar" game.

Mike offers hunts in Texas. Most Texas deer hunts are done over a feeder out of a box blind. Is that hunting? Not for me to judge but unless you own land in Texas or have your own lease, you will not hunt in Texas... This is a good option for those that want to go there...

Sonora Texas has a jillion deer, most are scrubby Hill Country bucks. These bucks are feed and protected to grow horns. That costs money, so you cannot have this type of deer in an unfenced area. Make the call for yourself on what size fenced area you hunt and go or don't go.

Swampshooter, I know that high fence in the background doesn't help but this is a free-range low fence hunt. There is a high fence there because we plant agriculture on the ranch and there are small Fields 20 to 50 acres and size that we do have a fence around to keep the deer out of when they are growing yes the gates are open to allow the deer in to feed but by no means would we hunt them inside there we hunt in the free-range environment outside of that area. I specialize in free-range hunt where there are no fences or no fences in the hunting is fair Chase we pride ourselves on the deer we have grown for Hill Country quality genetics in a truly free-range environment

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Originally posted by swampshooter:
How can we call this a trophy hunt. I see a high fence on most of the photograph. How can anyone pay big money for a hunt, then go out in someones pasture and shoot a domesticated deer and then call it a trophy. You high fence guys are ruining our sport of hunting, its just been turned into a money game.

It is extremely poor form to make derogatory comments about a service, product or other offering posted on this or the "classified" forums, unless the OP has offered something that is illegal or patently misrepresented.

There are other forums on this website where commentary can be posted regarding anything controversial--in this case, either the "American Big Game Hunting" or "Political" forums might be appropriate.

Another option would be to send a PM to the OP, stating your objections.

Were I a moderator I'd delete swampshooter's comment, but I'm not, and the website owner allows members considerable latitude, so I'll just say again that in my opinion it's simply ill-mannered to criticize an offered hunt because it doesn't fit a person's personal code of ethics.

I do not know Mulie Mike from a Hole In The Wall. The hunts he lists, he is open and honest with what they are, I see nothing to be gained by attacking him or any other operator for merely offering hunts that fall within the guidelines established by the management of this site.

It is really simple folks, you don't like or agree with what a guide/outfitter offers on here, that is YOUR business, but do not attack them.

From what I have seen over the time Mulie Mike has been offering hunts on here, he has produced what his clients wanted, and if they are happy, that is all that matters.

Some nice deer there Mike
Kudos to dogcat

I have hunted axis deer with Mulie Mike as outfitter and it was a great free range hunt.

I am signed up for a whitetail hunts sometime this year.

I would highly recommend Mulie Mike.

Mike

Me too - Ive hunted with Mike and he is a straight shooter. Every word dogcat says is true too.

Texas Hunting and Hunting Management is Healthy

- The 2011 Survey estimates that Americans spent $145 billion on related gear, trips, licenses, land acqui- sition or leases, and other purchases, . . U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Census Bureau

-In 2011, state residents and nonresidents spent $6.2 billion on wildlife recre- ation in Texas. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Census Bureau


We’ve just finished compiling our annual state-by-state statistics for the Deer Hunters Almanac, and we’ve learned that Texas ranks No.1 in the number of deer hunters, gun-hunters and annual whitetail harvest in the United States.

In 2010, Texas sold 1,245,532 deer hunting licenses. Those hunters took 576,209 whitetails. Of those hunters, nearly 1.1 million are gun-hunters.

- Total deer hunters:
1. Texas
2. Pennsylvania
3. Michigan

Annual deer harvest:
1. Texas
2. Michigan
3. Wisconsin

So sick of hunter on hunter attacks.

Kudos to Mike and Ross.

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Originally posted by swampshooter:
How can we call this a trophy hunt. I see a high fence on most of the photograph. How can anyone pay big money for a hunt, then go out in someones pasture and shoot a domesticated deer and then call it a trophy. You high fence guys are ruining our sport of hunting, its just been turned into a money game.

If you don't have anything positive to add to the discussion, then practice what your momma should have told you and shut the f**k up.

Great looking bucks, Mike. Seems like a great hunt at a competitive price. I am already booked or would surely be interested.

I used to hunt the Sonora area. Our lease had 5000 acres. Fence or not, Whitetail are NEVER domesticated. They can hide in your back yard and you'll never see them.

The presence of "High Fences" in the photographs raises a lot of suspicion in a person's mind unless they are just stupid. Whitetails do become domesticated when they are fed.

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The presence of "High Fences" in the photographs raises a lot of suspicion in a person's mind unless they are just stupid.

And THAT is as ignorant a statement as anything I have ever heard from someone who claims to be a hunter. There are places in TX (which, by the way, is where these hunts are held) where pieces of property approaching a hundred thousand acres are high fenced. Do you REALLY think that places like that are a put and take operation?

There were many large ranches that were high fenced by oil companies back in the 1970s. It was just part of the business. Those fences are still standing, and the deer inside them are just as wild as any living in a national forest. I have seen deer crawl under an 8' fence and go on about their business, and I watched a film years ago where a doe walked up to a 10' fence, measured it by standing on her back legs and laying her head aside the fence, then backed up and went over it with a single leap like a cat. The film was "The Deer in Winter". Look it up...

Most of TX has hogs, and a hog will burrow under a fence almost as fast as a gopher. Once that hole is there, deer use it just like a hog.

You really need to educate yourself about high fences, especially in TX. You don't know what you are talking about.

I'm very familiar with High Fence Operations. One of my closest hunting buddies manages one. I'm not familiar with any high fence free ranging hunting operations and doubt that any , especially approaching 100,000 acres. Give me the name and location of one and I will stand corrected.

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Originally posted by swampshooter:
I'm very familiar with High Fence Operations. One of my closest hunting buddies manages one. I'm not familiar with any high fence free ranging hunting operations and doubt that any , especially approaching 100,000 acres. Give me the name and location of one and I will stand corrected.

We have the Reincarnation of Echoanne12 and Larry Root here again....
Drop it dude....
You were out of line to begin with on this thread.

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The presence of "High Fences" in the photographs raises a lot of suspicion in a person's mind unless they are just stupid. Whitetails do become domesticated when they are fed.

And you are proof as to why we may lose hunting. You don't like or agree with something, say so and move on.

You have a problem with Mike's post, take it up with the folks running this site!

As Mulie Mike originally stated: It is a food plot that is high fenced. When the crops are high enough gates or opened or part of the fence is taken down. The ranch is not high fenced. Is everyone missing this or am I misunderstanding it?

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Originally posted by swampshooter:
I'm very familiar with High Fence Operations. One of my closest hunting buddies manages one. I'm not familiar with any high fence free ranging hunting operations and doubt that any , especially approaching 100,000 acres. Give me the name and location of one and I will stand corrected.

I know of several. Naming them would do nothing beneficial here, and you are not going to change your incorrect opinion, anyway.