Serving Sportsman Since 1985
Magnum Guide Service, LLC is a renowned, full-time hunting guide service providing exceptional hunting adventures across the globe. With a rich history and established reputation, we cater to serious hunting enthusiasts seeking the finest hunting experiences.
Our Commitment to You
Memorable Experiences
Making your trip a memorable experience is our number one goal. Our experienced guides, cooks, and staff members work tirelessly to help you bag your trophy while ensuring a comfortable, safe, and enjoyable adventure.
High Success Rates
Through careful ranch selections, extensive game management programs, seasoned guides, top-of-the-line equipment, and dedicated hunters with strong marksmanship, our hunters consistently achieve high success rates on all game pursued.
Camaraderie
Our hunting camps foster a warm feeling of camaraderie, where many friendships are formed that last for years to come. We are proud of what we offer and hope that you too will become a part of our family of friends.
“Thank you for fulfilling the hunt of many lifetimes. Not only did I kill a world class extremely wide buck the first day of the hunt, I also was blessed with the opportunity to hunt another world class ranch and kill a second amazing buck of many lifetimes!”
“Jim, your ability to get that huge bobcat in was awesome and of course everything else you called in too! Melony, the food was excellent and the hospitality was superb. Anybody who goes predator or sheep hunting with “Magnum” will have the time of their lives!”
In the Spotlight
Magnum Guide Service has been publicized in various magazines such as Texas Trophy Hunter’s Magazine, Field & Stream, Texas Sportsman, Texas Fish & Game, Texas Parks & Wildlife, Big Game Adventure and SCI’s Safari Magazine. Private publications such as the North American Hunting Report, and newspapers from the San Angelo Standard Times, Dallas Morning News, The Austin American Statesman, to the Brownsville newspaper, have also featured Magnum.
Media Appearances
Jim has been a guest on various radio shows, including KCRN Radio, ESPN Radio, WOAI’s Alan Warren Outdoors, the National Award winning Wildlife Report with host Marty Malin, and KLBJ Radio in Austin with Russell Tinsley. He has also been a guest speaker at numerous events such as Cottonwood Creek Baptist Church’s Annual “Sportsman’s Banquet,” First Baptist Church, Eldorado, and Glen Meadows “Man Church” San Angelo, TX.
Both Jim & Melony along with members of the Magnum “Team” have been featured on local TV stations as well as the Outdoor Channel’s “Hunting Across America”, KSAN and KLST in San Angelo, Texas.
Endorsements
Magnum Guide Service is proudly endorsed by several national hunting clubs.
Community Involvement
Jim and Melony are actively involved in Adventure in Youth Missions (AIYM), Directors of the AIYM High Adventure Camp in Colorado and serve on World Mission Teams to developing countries like Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Peru, Costa Rica and Mexico. They personally arrange for meat donations from “Magnum Hunters” to feed hungry families in West Texas along with major shipments of venison to four orphanages in Mexico.
They have hosted hunts for charitable organizations such as; “Hunt of a Lifetime”, “United Blood Services”, “The American Heart Association”, along with many youth hunts, family hunts and dream hunts for terminally ill children.
Jim and Melony host an annual Christian Youth Hunter Education weekend to help build a future generation of young Christian hunters. They both feel extremely blessed to serve and look forward to participating in future Christian adventures.
“One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted….If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.”