He has reserved the hunting for himself and his partner for the past two years, and he will start taking two and possibly three hunters a year for the first four days of the season. In 2009 he saw 14 bucks that he estimated at 175 B&C or larger. The widest was a 38-incher they captured on video tape. He also found a shed that scored 91 inches on one side as well as a typical that he thought would score 210 B&C after he had killed his buck.

"We saw eight bucks over 185," he said. "We are taking so few deer on 100 sections of land that there are deer dying of old age. It's scrub oak, and we've had a good acorn crop for the last or four years in a row. It's really a perfect situation because we border a 24-section waste control site on one side, and they allow no hunting on the area bordering us, and on the south side is a lot of Conservation Reserve Program land where there are few deer. The bordering county has produced 14 bucks over 200 inches in the past two years, including a 240 and a 226. We might not have any 240s, but I think we have as good a place as any, and you don't have to go to Mexico and deal with the inconvenience of traveling to Sonora. We're going to take two guys in 2011 for the first four days of the season, and then my partner and I will hunt our bucks after that. We're hunting so lightly that we will maintain excellent trophy quality, while the ranches in Gaines County are fairly small, a lot of them in the 3,000-acre neighborhood, and there is enough pressure on those bucks that I don't think the good trophy hunting will last long. The hunts there have been selling for $12,000 to $28,000. We'll be a lot less expensive than that. We'll be staying in travel trailers, and we feed the hunters well with barbecue and all that. "

In 2008 he did not take any hunters, but he and his partner killed a typical that scored 190 7/8 B&C points and a 34-incher that scored 190.

The deer are wild and free-roaming; there are NO high fences. We've known and worked with this outfitter for eight or nine years now, and we have never got anything but a positive report on any of his hunts. He also offers aoudad on a different ranch as well as high-quality pronghorn antelope hunts on a buddy's ranch in New Mexico. He did a few whitetail hunts, too, until he decided it wasn't worth his time.