This outfitter’s primary focus is on giving their clients a high-quality experience. The memories created from just one visit to a place as steeped in hunting traditions as it is in hospitality will leave you wanting to go back and visit again and again. This outfitter has a great passion for the outdoors, a great business mind, and the experience he has taken from booking his own paid outfitter hunts over the past 20+ years, he is able to combine all of that and lead his awesome team of guides, cooks, marketing peers, and close friends to bring you an experience that you will not soon forget! This is not just another outfitting company; conservation, being stewards of the land, a deep appreciation for the animals they hunt, and ensuring each and every client has the experience of a lifetime are the corner stones of why they have evolved into a company you can trust your outdoor adventure to.
Their lodging is an old homesteaded ranch house built from lodge pole pine trees which were hand hewed from the timbers in the surrounding wilderness. Although the exterior of the house is dressed in siding, the inside still bears the logs that were all formed by hand back in the day! The three bedroom lodge sleeps 7 comfortably, and is used for their smaller more quaint groups. When the weather gets bad, which it will in the later seasons, they have a washer and dryer so you can be as comfortable as possible out in the elements, 1 full bathroom with an awesome shower (an authentic 1800's outhouse available as well). There is a comfortable living room with Direct TV and high speed wireless internet, and a kitchen with all the cooking utilities needed to make sure you are well fed by their in camp cooks. There is also a private rustic cabin available for couples or clients wishing to have a bit more privacy, the cabin is located around 100 yards from the main lodge.
These mountain ranches are an incredible migratory destination for giant mountain mule deer. Most bucks live in the high country that surrounds their ranches and migrate down onto the lower sage flats to rut and winter every year. This is a wild, fair chase hunt and the bucks, which are extremely hard to hunt early in the year, become very hunt-able in mid to late November as they descend on the doe groups that live in the willow bottoms and timber fringes lining the valley floor close to the hunting ranch. They never know exactly what is going to show up, but they know that there will be some giants which makes the hunt incredibly exciting. Expectations for their late season hunts are bucks scoring north of 180? with possibilities of 190-200+”. Huge mass, dark antlers, big square heads make these mountain mulies worthy of anyone willing to brave the snow and cold to put their tag on one of these majestic giants!
These mountain hunts are in GMU's (Game Management Units) 6,17,171. These hunts take place in Late September/Early October and November during the third and fourth rifle seasons. These hunts can be booked alone or in combination with one of their rifle elk hunts as well.
They are hunting migrating bucks in the rut, so they never know what is going to show up, but if the snow and weather is right, be prepared to see mature bucks in the 180+ class. Their goal is to harvest mature bucks with a minimum score of 180 or minimum age of 6.5. This is not a hunt where you will see a high number of deer, however, the bucks you will see will be mature and huge in both antlers and body. Although they cover a lot of ground on these hunts, they also use heated blinds in proven spots where you will be overlooking open sage and dark timber/aspen patches which the deer use for cover and feed during their migration to winter grounds. This hunt is very dependent upon cold and lots of snow in the high country which pushes mature bucks to their winter grounds.
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