Wade Johnson Outfitting (WJO) has some high quality New Mexico mule deer hunting areas and Wade and his guides have enjoyed very high hunter success rates. Hunting Game Management Units (GMU) 2B and 2C and several others,
WJO has access to New Mexico mule deer hunting areas that provide the hunter options in both quantity of deer and quality of deer. These are true "western" hunts that provide the hunter with not only the natural beauty of the New Mexico landscape but also a bonafide chance of harvesting a big mulie. The mule deer hunting in New Mexico has been good for the last several years and WJO has both the knowledge and the desire to help make your next New Mexico mule deer hunt the very best it can be.

Mule Deer Info
Mule Deer have large ears that move constantly and independently, from whence they get their name, "Mule" or "Burro Deer." They do not run as other deer, but have a peculiar and distinctive bounding leap (stotting) over distances up to 8 yards, with all 4 feet coming down together. In this fashion, they can reach a speed of 45 m.p.h. for short periods.

This stocky deer with sturdy legs is 4 to 6-1/2 feet in length and 3 to 3-1/2 feet high at the shoulder. During the summer, the coat on its upper body is yellow- or reddish-brown, while in winter more gray. The throat patch, rump patch, inside ears and inside legs are white with lower portions running cream to tan. A dark V-shaped mark, extending from a point between the eyes upward and laterally is characteristic of all Mule Deer but is more conspicuous in males.

Males are larger than females. The bucks' antlers, which start growth in spring and are shed around December each year, are high and branch forward, forking equally into 2 tines with a spread up to 4 feet.

The Mule Deer is slower and less colorful than the White-tailed Deer, but its pastel, gray-buff color provides a physical adaptation to the desert environment which disguises it from predators like the Cougar, the Coyote and the eagle who will swoop down on a fawn.

Mule Deer have no canine teeth and, like the cow, have a multi-part stomach, the first two chambers of which act as temporary storage bins. Food stored here can be digested later when the deer chews its cud.