Rancho Lobos Hunt

As I told you before, I lost all my pictures from 2010-2011 season, I only have a few, out of those few are from the trip I made to Rancho Lobos. I had heard lots of stories about the ranch, but never had the privilege until January 2011.

Adrian had intvited me before, but couldn't make it, this time I wasn't going to let the oportunity go. Adrian and a two more friends (Mario and Toño) left on a thursday, since I had to work I left on friday early afternoon with Fernando, so we could get to the ranch in time for the evening hunt.

The first afternoon was no luck, we didn't get to see anything, there was lots of wind and probably the deer bedded down early, the following morning I went by myself to a small hill called "flores perez" from there I could glass far away, and did get to see a couple of small bucks and quite a few does, the small bucks were chasing the does. 

Small buck looking out for the does.

Another small buck chasing a couple of does.

All the chasing got the deer tired early and bedded down.

 That afternoon, Toño got lucky and shot his first javalina.

Toño got even luckier the next day, I went to the northen part of the ranch, were I got to see a few bucks, but no shooters, Toño and Mario went to the small hill I was the day before and got to see all the small bucks from the day before and a new buck that wasn't there when I was at the hill. I heard the shot and a few seconds later they called on the radio that they had a buck down, not to big but it was a nice buck, so everyone could go and help.

To our surprise it wasn't that bad at all, 10 point, 29" wide, Toños bigest buck to date. We had a little photo session and then headed to camp, since it was our last day at the ranch.

Toño with his buck.

The hole crew from left to right Mario, Fernando, Adrian, Toño and Myself.

Thanks to Adrian for the invitation, altuough I didn't get to shoot, I got to see lots of nice deer and help other friends on their hunt and the stories at the camp are always a laugh, looking forward to next season at Lobos.