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Naw man. Look at the eyes. That’s a Chinese deer.

You're killing me, LOL.

Even the jackalope run bigger in Mexico.

Well, I Googled "Rancho el Volteadero"..


A Mexcvan "Resort" with 5,000 Acres under High Fence.


That Mule Deer is just another piece of livestock. Sad.

They generally are, and is why I said that it would make sense if that deer did indeed come from Sonora.

Topped with Sonoran fried ice cream...

Everything else aside, wonder what that deer cost him.??

Plenty.

First thing I noticed was only one bloody arrow left in the quiver. Leads me to believe it was a rodeo and probably a good thing it was fenced in.

Their operation is shooting, not hunting.

I predict 10,000 pages on this thread.

LOL, you guys called it for what it was. Good job.

It's obvious with SCI that it's not free range, I just had never heard of highfence mule deer hunts before.

sci score does not mean high fence......not talking about this deer but in general. sci score is a score, not a reference of where it came from....bob

My guess $12-15000.

Money aside, I just don’t get why a person could feel accomplished for killing a deer or elk that’s been bred and fed to grow gigantic antlers and kept in a small enclosure to be killed like some angus bull.
I’m not in favor of banning it, but whore houses seem like a good comparison. You got what you were after but so what. And no, I’ve not participated in either.

I would guess double...bob

If there is $1 profit to be made, somebody will figure out how to "pen raise" ANYthing!

He could have sat in front of the deer with the bow in his lap and the rack would still be HUGE!

I'll be interested i the rest of the story!

There is a local Mennonite deer farm, and I was there one day trying to buy a scope that the guy had for sale. I asked him if I could see the deer, and he gave me a tour. I wasn't impressed with the size of the bucks, and I told him that I was expecting to see bigger ones. That's when he told me that the big ones had all been sold. I asked him to who, and he said to guys who would turn them out and then shoot them. I asked him if that bothered him, and he said "it's a business."

My youngest has a friend that lives on a "whitetail ranch". A guest pays $10K for a "hunt"!
Last time the kid was there, a guest came in with his "trophy"(?)! The "trophy fee" was an additional $12K. The guest had seen a bigger deer he was thinking about. The "guide" guesstimated the trophy fee for that one would be about $16K!

THEN.....the guy tells the outfitter to reserve 3 spots for next year. He wanted to bring his 2 kids next time.

There was a story going around about Bill Gates when he first made his fortune. If Bill saw a $100 bill on the sidewalk, stopping to pick it up would cost him money!!!!
Some of these "techie" people make SO much money, planning a hunt would actually cost them more than just doling out the cash for a "package" hunt.

Today's society! 🤷‍♂️

Desert mule deer generally live in the low hills, mountains and lowlands of the Southwest. They seldom truly migrate. Rocky Mountain deer tend to be bigger of body with a potential because of larger skeletal systems to produce more massive and larger antlers.