August - September Trail Pictures

Here are a couple more pictures from the trail cameras, on these pictures we can see the deer are almost fully grown, I can't tell if these bucks are the same that we got to see back un June or July, but these are defenetly worth a shot on the season.

This is a nice coues, hopefully my nephew can get a shot, he hasn't taken any big game animal, this would be his first. Two years ago he had a chance to take a 10 point coues and blew it.

A doe with a little fawn, how old is it when they change they hair color?

Another nice coues buck...

Just a glimps at a very nice muley, deep forks, heavy, we can't tell how wide it is but, I am liking what I see.

Another nice muley, deep front forks, ang big eye guards pointing out...

A mule deer doe with 2 fawns, not something I see every day.

Not  a very promising buck, probably would go into a managment category, depending if the antlers develop or not, the particularity of this buck is that the right ear is almost split in half, very easy to distinguish.



June-July Trail Pics

I have been a little busy with work these past few months and I haven't been able to upgrade the site, but with hunting season only 6 weeks away the fever is starting to kick in, I have a couple of trail camera pics I would like to share.







A couple of buck getting together.




This is a tall buck I have been seeing, we'll keep a close eye on this one.

This is the widest buck I got to see in the summer, only one picture of this one, hopefully I'll get more pictures to see how it develops.

This is a funny picture, don't know what it was trying to do, maybe fighting with another buck.




A comun scene at the ranch in the summer, bucks and bobcats together.

This year has been hard, we didn't get that much rain as we wanted, there are not much green grasses and no too many places were the deer can go to get water, so my guess is that deer will be more predictable than other years.

Last Pre-Season Pictures

Here are a couple of coues deer pictures before season opens, actually hunting season this year started yesturday, Wujuuuu!!!! It't been 6 years since I last killed a coues, hopefully I will get one this season, I am aiming high and try and get a 120+ coues, I haven't sean any pictures of a deer that big this year, but I am positive there are a couple of monsters at the ranch...

A little skunk vs deer action...

I will go and retrive a camera I have at another location, its been there for a month now, hopefully we'll get some good pictures.

Aug-Sep Trail Camera

These are the latest pictures I have, since it has been raining more than usual, the deer are not hitting the water that often, but on the hot days I get a few pictures...

This last picture date actually is August 23rd, because when the battery is running low the camera resets the date, this buck has good potential to become a nice deer this next season.

Here are some coues deer pictures from a new camera I got, I was impressed with the quality of the pictures, I will be getting another camera of this brand soon, this first picture is a group of 5 bucks, I had never seen some many coues deer bucks together.

Fighting doe...

A five year wait (Season)...

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.

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.