On weekends after getting off work, I gather my things and hit the road, most of my scouting was inside a ground blind and glassing from two hills that are inside the ranch. From those two hills I can glass a nice area, but still there is alot of terrain that can't be covered, those areas have to be covered driving around on a high rack.
As soon as the seasons started, I began by staying inside a ground blind at the water holes I was seeing deer on the trail cameras, In the following weeks I mostly got to see groups of does with small bucks and fawns, no big bucks at all, since the rut was a month or so away.
Here is a picture of 5 does and a yearling that came in to water, I was inside a ground blind a set up a few weeks before openning day, that morning I got to see another group of 5 does. Another group consisted of a single doe with two fawns, one of them was missing the black tip of the tail, don't know if it was a birth defect or a what.
Here is a picture of 5 does and a yearling that came in to water, I was inside a ground blind a set up a few weeks before openning day, that morning I got to see another group of 5 does. Another group consisted of a single doe with two fawns, one of them was missing the black tip of the tail, don't know if it was a birth defect or a what.
A couple of weekends my cousin Beto (he was with me when I got my biggest coues deer), was glad to help out and tagged along, he loves hunting and doesn't get much time of to go to the ranch, but on one of our trips while glassing we spotted some javelina about 400 meters away, knowing he has not taken any big game animal, I told him we were going to get close, so he could take a shot.
As we got to the point were we where still above the javalina and they had no idea we were around we settled for that distance to take the shot, we were about 200 meters from the pigs. I placed my tripod so Beto could have a solid rest and I began to guide him on where the pigs were, it was dificult to see them, they were hidding behind something I could not tell what it was, after about 15 minutes, finally one of the javelina came out to an opening and Beto made a great shot. All excited about his first javelina, we went down the hill to take a look.
The javalina were all behind a biznaga eating it up, no wonder they last long time without having to go to a water hole, biznagas are really tough, I would love to see how they open one of them up...
I got to see plenty of deer before I got to take my first shoot, here are a couple of the bucks that gave me the time to take pictures and I let go in the process.
This is a video of a buck I got to film eating some cholla, the buck was really calm with my presence, I got to see it jump a fence back and forward and was minding it's business, really nice deer, but not quite what I was looking for. It will be bigger next season.
The sheep hunt
It has become a tradition for my friend Ricardo "Cayo" and I to make a trip on the last weekend of the hunting season and usually that weekend is a long weekend, I belive the 2009-2010 season was our fourth time doing it and on our last trip Cayo's brother Luis Manuel "Mane" also tagged along for the hunt.
