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Welcome to The Refuge
The Refuge is a 3,000 acre working ranch, dairy and whitetail deer operation located just 70 miles South of Dallas on the banks of the Trinity River. We're truly blessed and enjoy being stewards of the land and of our animals. Whether you're a hunter, rancher or scientific breeder, our long years of experience, integrity and big bucks with a history of siring big sons can make your wishes come true.
We've been raising whitetail deer for 15 years, and we are just as passionate about it today as we were the day we started. Our facilities are home to many 200"+ bucks. Our doe are the cornerstone of our program. We are proud of the reputation these females have achieved, both for their big sons and their survivability, from 15 years of intensive culling that can only be obtained over a long number of years. In addition to 15 years of careful records, pairing fawns with mothers at birth, and single sire breeding, we can now provide DNA verification of parentage. When you stack record book genetics for 15 years, you increase your odds of raising big bucks that cannot be matched any other way -- except buying those genetics. We have long been a source of genetics for some of the finest whitetail deer breeders in Texas. Our deer have traveled to all parts of the State with great survival results.
 We have closely selected for long tines, mass, width and strong main-frames - the easy-to-see characteristics of our bucks. One of our best bucks has been Texas Sam, who was the recipient of the Texas Deer Association's prestigious "Best of Show" award at the annual convention in 2005. The Best of Show award is chosen from all winners of each category entered in the TDA antler contest. The estimated 1,200 attendants then cast votes for the highly coveted Best of Show award. Texas Sam also won the Best 5-9 year old Typical in 2005, and best 4 yr old typical in 2003. Our Apache buck was the 2nd place 4 year old Typical. Wildcat was the 2nd place "Most Drop Tines" buck and Junior, a son of Texas Sam, was the 3rd place 2 year old Typical. All of these award winning bucks were born and raised in our facility. Selective breeding is a slow process. It takes years to see if a breeding decision was successful, and then to build on those successes. It's not nearly as simple as the commonly held misconception of " buy a big buck and put him on some doe." Buying our transmitting, award winning genetics allows a breeder to gain a decade and a half of stacking record book genetics on both the sire and dam sides.
In 2005, we added the two best 2 yr old pure Texas bucks we've ever seen or heard of to our program - Cadillac (226 gross) and Cash (216 gross). Given their sire's history of producing big sons, we're real excited about these two youngsters and the chance that they will dominate pure Texas genetics for years to come.
We hope you admire these magnificent animals as much as we do. Serious breeders - those who want to grow the best - do well to take advantage of our 15 generations of trial and error. You can progress much, much faster in growing your own big deer by purchasing the best genetics, and not simply the most deer. If you talk to any of our past clients who purchased breeder bucks, semen, bred doe or fawns from The Refuge. We think you'll find that most are repeat customers and all are happy with the animals they got from us. We hope you enjoy our web site and we look forward to getting a chance to know you. Please email Chris at chris@refugewhitetails.com to schedule an appointment to see our deer, tour our facilities or just sit down and talk deer.
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