Pronghorn Season Miller Ranch 2017

Pronghorn Season Miller Ranch 2017

Pronghorn season on the Miller Ranch ran from September 30 through October 8 this year.  Overall, the Miller Ranch has had a successful summer and fall.  We had fairly good spring rains.  Then the rains stopped for several months, the grasses dried up and turned brown.  For the first time we left the cows up in the mountains because it was still green up there with water in the headers and tenajas.  In July it finally started raining again, the country greened up and we made grass.

The Pronghorn herd adjusted by scattering out and moving between pastures.  Many Pronghorn does successfully raised their young.  We had some nice bucks guarding their group of does and battling for breeding rights.  The Miller Ranch donated one hunt to the Houston Safari Club, and Kevin Chestnut from Washington had bought that hunt.  Our other hunter, Geoff Murphy, had booked a hunt through Jim Breck Bean’s guide service, High West Outfitters.   Both hunters left with nice bucks, and now we’re looking forward to a good quail season.

pronghorn season miller ranch 2017
pronghorn season miller ranch 2017
West Texas Quail Hunting

West Texas Quail Hunting

Quail Hunting on CE Miller Ranch

Both the Scaled Quail and the Gambel’s Quail have had an excellent year for raising offspring making great West Texas quail hunting this year.  At Headquarters, we would often see one or two adults with 20-40 little ones following them to the areas where Jill scattered feed every other day in the months before the rains came and the insects were plentiful. The quail hunting has been excellent this year with many coveys spread over the CE Miller Ranch.

If you are interested in hunting with dogs, West Texas Quail Outfitters has two well-trained Weimaraners to point and retrieve the quail.  If you are looking for an enjoyable and successful quail hunt, contact Bill at 432-238-7574 or Ryan O’Shaughnessy of West Texas Quail Outfitters at 321-279-6506