Mailtrail valley ranch

[Generic cowboy]

Can anyone tell me about the hunting around the Mailtrail Valley Ranch?

[powderburner]

So the Old Bar C ranch was my deer lease 25 years ago. I had 8K of the 14K leased. There was another 14K of the Bar C that was family only. Where the Bar C Ranch Airport is was my camp site till we moved to the old ranch house. Stayed there till they sold it all off. Best lease I had when the anthrax was not killing the deer off. We killed quite a few Texas Big Game award bucks off that place

[Generic cowboy]

Do you know anyone that still hunts the area. I see several properties for sale in the subdivision. Most tracts are a little over 100 acres. I'm trying to determine how well it is managed, recently.

[techzan]

It's one of the few subdivisions in Edwards County where all the tracts are 100 acres or larger, have electricity & water. Bill Cocke developed it a few decades ago.Anthrax hit it hard several years ago. Some of the tracts have axis & some don't.

[Generic cowboy]

I definitely am after Axis.

[Generic cowboy]

I would like to hear from someone who owns a tract and if most of the owners are management minded guys or is it the wild west around there, if you know what I mean.

[CoolHandLuke]

We hunt the ranch west of the bar c and have for the last 35 years. We’ve taken some nice deer but would love a high fence between us and the old circle c. We have enough property we feed away from the fence line. I know the tracts next to us do not have water and I haven’t seen or heard any action in the last few years.

[slayr]

We hunt the ranch west of the bar c and have for the last 35 years. We’ve taken some nice deer but would love a high fence between us and the old circle c. We have enough property we feed away from the fence line. I know the tracts next to us do not have water and I haven’t seen or heard any action in the last few years.

Yep!!

[techzan]

I would like to hear from someone who owns a tract and if most of the owners are management minded guys or is it the wild west around there, if you know what I mean.

I'm guessing you're considering buying a tract there. If so, I suggest calling the next door neighbors who will probably give you honest answers- unlike real estate agents who will tell you what you want to hear.

[Generic cowboy]

Yep, the listing's always talk the places up, make it seem like hunting in a petting zoo.

[sharpstick35]

use a local realtor to find a place. I've seen a lot of others stealing photos to sell places out here.

[CoolHandLuke]

Also talk to a biologist about the numbers. The density fluctuates and I’m sure a lot of the tracts are over hunted. I was talking to a guy at country boys feed in Rocksprings about 8 years ago and he had 2 tracts that 4 guys split when they purchased. That’s a lot of hunters on 200 acres in Edwards/Val Verde.

when the first neighbor we had bought one of the tracts next to us he didn’t have water. Probably still doesn’t but went to our ranchers house and asked him if he could tie into his tank or water lines. It’s was funny listening to our rancher tell the story. The guy was told if he was caught back on the property he would be shot. He had his ranch hands ride the fence lines daily to make sure. They still check that fence line periodically.