A ranching family headquartered in Utah also owns and controls some private ranchland in southwestern Colorado, where they offer self-guided hunts.

The PX Ranch is 6,000 acres, comprising most of a valley that is seven miles long and three miles across. Some years the hunt provider has access to additional properties in the valley, which is in Unit 60 on the Utah line.

"The PX Ranch draws some very big bulls. Our hunters got a 350 and two 330s in 2005, and they saw some other beautiful bulls. It's just phenomenal how many elk we draw in, we draw in some big elk off several hunting units, the Uncompaghre and Unit 70 and some of the bulls off a Utah Cooperative Wildlife Management Unit. We usually have about 140 head of elk. We pull about 20 bulls a year off the PX Ranch. The family hunts the third season and sells trespass permits for the other seasons. The deer hunting is excellent, but the deer hunt is full. The same group has taken it for 12 years in a row. "

The WR Ranch is 650 acres in unit 711. Its corner boundary is where 70 and 71 and 711 come together. On the WR Ranch you can hunt cows or bulls. "You can kill a cow almost any day," the ranch's hunting manager said. "We take two or three bulls a year. We limit the ranch to four guys at a time. Success depends mostly on the hunter's ability. Our hunters can rent a cabin from a neighbor, whose wife is usually available to cook if you need her. Our hunters usually do really well. In the second and third rifle season hunters pressure the other ranches, and then it's nothing to have 300 elk on us. Between 25 and 50 head are resident on us. Hunting pressure around us brings in different bulls every year. We used to guide on a ranch in Colorado, and we used the WR Ranch as part of our leases, and we would get maybe five bulls a year on the WR. The do-it-yourselfers usually get two or three bulls a year. The same bowhunters have hunted it seven years in a row, and they kill bulls every year, and the rifle hunters kill a couple of bulls a year. The neighbor with the cabin is a retired cattleman who still grazes the WR. The cabin is 50 yards from the hunting area. The ranch is in a perfect spot that catches the main migration through the valley. There are some big bucks. The hunters last year saw a 30-incher. The world's record archery buck was killed three miles away."

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