Our best buck from this past season. Pictures don't do this deer justice because he grosses 213 7/8 typical Boone and Crockett. His rack is so high that he doesn't even look 29 inches wide, and he is heavy.

A management buck this past season. We encourage hunters who haven't tagged a trophy-class animal earlier in the hunt to take a management buck rather than a younger four-point. We like to take bucks that have no more than three main points (excluding brow tine) out of the gene pool.

We had another wonderful season this past winter (December 2010 and January 2011) with 19 mule deer bucks for 21 hunters. All but about six of those deer gross-scored at least 180 Boone and Crockett points. Keep in mind that 180 net is the minimum score for the Boone and Crockett awards competition.

Our biggest buck this past winter will end up very high on the all-time records list. It green-scored 213 7/8 gross B&C points and should net very high in the all-time record book after the drying period. The picture to the left shows that buck, but the photos simply do not do him justice. His rack is so heavy and high that it doesn't look wide, but the outside spread is 29 inches.

Half a dozen of our mule deer hunters also decided to take a Coues deer, and all were dandies, including a buck with double drop tines.

We are excited about next winter's hunt because not only did we leave some great bucks on our leases, but we also are expanding to a couple of bordering ranches. Those ranchers have been producing some huge bucks for Mexican hunters by placing them in blinds near hay baits and water troughs. We're going to include that tactic in our hunting techniques this year.

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The ranches we are hunting now have tremendous Coues deer. In the last few years we have taken some beauties even though our Coues deer have been taken by mule deer hunters who have spent very little time looking for these dainty desert whitetails. This one, taken this past season by Kurt Mahaney of California, sports a drop tine on each antler.

We have plenty of help, especially after the first few days of each hunt as we all team up to help hunters get a good shot at a shooter.