Mule Deer Hunts

GENERAL INFORMATION

All mule deer hunts are either five (5) day or (7) day hunts in Bridger Teton forest and the wilderness area of the famous Hoback Canyon. We consider our camp to be a “trophy mule deer camp” and you can’t go wrong hunting this area.

DAY-USE LODGE HUNTS
We offer lodge mule deer hunts. On these hunts you will stay in our full-service hunting lodge located in Bondurant, Wyoming, 30 miles south of Jackson Hole. Your meals are cooked daily by our camp cooks, with a hot breakfast, brown bag lunch on the trail and a hearty hot dinner. The bonus of day-use hunting is it allows you to hunt different areas within the hunting unit every day if you choose to. The lodge is nicely equipped with comfortable beds, hot showers, a pool table, a fuse ball table, darts, big screen television and a full bar. We believe you will find it to be very comfortable for your stay.

WILDERNESS CAMP HUNTS
On our wilderness camp hunts you will call our Bear Creek Camp home for the week at approximately 8500 ft. elevation. Our transition camp at the trail head is located approximately 20 miles south of Jackson Hole Wyoming.

We begin your adventure at the transition camp near the trail head. At this location you will receive an orientation on riding our horses and given an idea of what to expect as we ride into the Bear Creek Camp.

All of your gear will be placed on pack horses and we will begin an approximately two hour horse ride through some of the most beautiful country Wyoming has to offer. Once we arrive in camp you will meet the guides and staff and be shown your wall tent home for the week. Each tent is heated with a woodstove to make our guest comfortable during colder weather. You will also be shown our cook tent, where you will be fed three wonderful meals a day, prepared by our western camp cook. Many of our meals are prepared Dutch oven style and are a wonderful treat.

We encourage you to book your hunt as a combination lodge and wilderness camp hunt, as it allows you to enjoy the best of both worlds and recharge your batteries while staying at the lodge. Hunting in Wyoming can be physically demanding and hunting in from both locations allows you to hunt both the high country and the mid-range areas during your hunt. (All hunts are booked in this manner unless other arrangements are made in advance).

All hunts are fair chase conducted on public lands in which we are permitted to operate guiding and outfitting services on.

Our deer hunting area (Region H) contains thousands of acres of high country alpine land where there is an abundance of mountain mulies. This area is one of the best hunting areas in the state of Wyoming for big mule deer! It lies on the border of Teton and Sublette Counties where the majority of your B&C entries come from. Don’t believe us…check out the Boone and Crocket book and see for yourself.  

We have one guide for every two hunters unless other arrangements are made. Most of the hunting areas are accessed either by foot or horseback.  

We use the spot and stalk method of hunting big bucks by finding them with powerful spotting scopes from high vantage points, then formulating a game plan for a stalk. Most shots will be 200 yards plus and each hunter should arrive having practiced for long distance shots. Any .27-.30 caliber rifle will suffice.

In a typical day we may look over several bucks looking for a buck worthy of harvest. We prefer to harvest older bucks when possible and we feel you will be pleased with the genetics the bucks in our area offer. The area is known for genetically heavy horned deer. The average deer harvested ranges from 24” to 28”. A few lucky hunters will take bigger deer in the 30” plus range. 150 Class deer are common place. By-in-large the majority of deer taken will be in the 160-170 class range. Several deer in the 170-180 class range will be taken each week. And the occasional 190+ deer will be bagged. The area also has a fair number of non-typicals to be found. You won’t be disappointed!

We maintain that a trophy animal is not measured by mere spread of the horns, but the overall quality of the animal. We let you decide what deer is right for you to take home.

You will be served a brown bag style lunch during the day while hunting and a wonderful hot meal for breakfast and dinner each day at our comfortable and cozy western style camps. Our cooks like to get creative in the woods so you never know what they might dream up to tempt your taste buds. And of course…we always keep the coffee hot!

All of our guides are fun to hunt with and are very knowledgeable of the hunt area. We spend a great deal of time scouting the area before season begins and always see some very big deer summering in the area.

Our guides will field-dress; cape and care for your animal after harvest and deliver you’re animal to a local meat processor and taxidermist. However, you must make arrangements with each business for deposits they may require and shipping details. Our website has information about local taxidermists and meat processors that you can make pre-hunting arrangements with. We have a special arrangement with Hunter’s Taxidermy Shop in Alpine, Wyoming. You will receive discounted taxidermy work if you hunt with BBO from HTS.

Our mule deer season typically begins September 14th and runs through October 10th. We only take 6-8 hunters per week so book early for the best selection in hunting times.

HOW TO APPLY FOR A LICENSE IN THE
WYOMING GAME AND FISH DRAWING

We are licensed to guide and outfit in the following area:

You MUST apply on your Wyoming Game and Fish Department application for one of the above hunt areas/type before we can provide outfitting services to you.

Applications can be found on the WY Game and Fish Department website. There is a link to this website on our site and can be found in the “non-resident” section of the site. We are also happy to mail you the application and we will fill out the hunt areas and type for you.

Deer licenses in Wyoming come in various forms: general, limited quota and regions. Before you can hunt, you must successfully draw a license in the WY Game and Fish Department drawing.

You MUST apply for a deer license between January 1st and March 15th in order to be placed in the drawing.

You need to apply for the “SPECIAL” license, which costs slightly more than a “REGULAR” license, but increases your odds of drawing a license. A “SPECIAL” deer license is $513 as of 2007. The area you need to apply for is “Region H”.

COST OF HUNT

The cost of our services for a five (5) day hunt is:

The cost of our services for a seven (7) day hunt is:

Hunt includes all lodging, meals, transportation to and from the Jackson Hole Wyoming International airport, as well as delivery of your meat to a processor and delivery of your cape and horns to a taxidermist.

It DOES NOT include the cost of processing/ shipping your meat or the cost of your taxidermy work.

The travel time into and out of camp is included in either the 5 day or the 7 day wilderness camp hunts. There are no additional days as part of either hunt.

This is without a doubt one of the best mule deer hunts available in Wyoming and we will work hard to make your trip a memory to last a life time!

To book a trip, please go to the “payment/ refund” page for details.