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Come Hunt with Us

A&E Vela Ranch has established an extensive game management program that includes supplemental nutrition to maximize the antler potential of the animals, as well as extensive scouting program using game cameras and time spent in the blinds during the offseason.  Using the knowledge gained from our scouting program, we are able to establish realistic quantities and qualities of the herd and ensure to limit and book our hunters accordingly.  These efforts have allowed hunters to have a 100% success rate of having an opportunity on their targeted/contracted animal over the last 5 years.   If for some reason an opportunity does not present for the targeted/contracted animal, the hunter will either be given another 2 day hunt or credited for next year.

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All hunts at A&E Vela Ranch are all inclusive and include the following:

  • 3 day, 2 night fully 1 to 1 guided hunts

  • Lodging, meals, drinks, snacks, and field dressing

  • Target shooting as needed to ensure firearm is operating correctly

  • Entry in Muy Grande Deer Contest

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NOT INCLUDED in the your hunt:

  • Hunting license (required to hunt)

  • Gratuity of hunting guide (industry standard is 10%)

  • Processing and taxidermy of trophy​

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How to book your hunt and A&E Vela Ranch policies

  • ​$2,000 deposit per hunt is due in order to secure hunt (applied to trophy upon harvest)

  • Hunters must sign a waiver and release of liability agreement upon arrival at A&E Vela Ranch

  • If hunter shoots and draws either blood or hair (i.e. wounded animal), the hunter will be charged the full trophy fee for the contracted animal.  Every effort will be made by A&E Vela Ranch to retrieve the trophy.

  • Hunters must pay the entire balance upon harvesting trophy prior to departing the ranch

  • A&E Vela Ranch has a trespass fee of $500 per day to cover guides, food, and lodging at the ranch.  This trespass fee ONLY applies if the hunter decides NOT to harvest an animal.  The trespass fee will be deducted from the initial $2,000 deposit.  For example, a hunter comes to A&E Vela Ranch for a 190-200 B&C whitetail deer in which the target animal is seen and has a reasonable shot opportunity, but the hunter decides he/she no longer wants to harvest the animal.  If the hunter stays three days, the hunter will be charged $1,500 and this amount will be deducted from $2,000 deposit and issued a $500 refund.

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Scoring of Trophy Animals

  • Scoring will be conducted by ranch owner, ranch foreman, or in Freer at Muy Grande Deer Contest

  • Boone & Crocket scoring system will be used for whitetail deer and be based on gross score (not net score)

  • Safari Club International (SCI) will be used for scoring of red stag and be based on gross score (not net score)

  • Blackbuck will scored using the straight line method along the side or front of the antler (not the curved method)

  • Axis deer will be scored by measuring the length of the right and left main beams, with the longest main beam determining the trophy fee of the axis deer

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Accommodations

  • 3 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom barndominium with large open kitchen/living room area​, large loft living space area, and large outdoor porch

  • WiFi and YouTube TV with four televisions 

  • Three utility vehicles for transportation around the ranch

  • Large BBQ pit and three refrigerators to provide ample space for groceries/necessities

  • Garage space that can be temperature controlled during the winter with darts and corn hole games

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