La Pirinola 2013 - 2014 Season

Its been a while since I have made any post, but hunting season is almost here again and the fever is getting to me, here is a look of what the last season was like...

Early morning while riding on the high-rack

A small buck, right in front of the house, having a sip of water.

A big 2 x 2 on the way to the ranch.

I actually got as close as 30 yards from this buck, it was bedding down when I saw it, nice 4 x 4 but needs a couple of more years. 

Nice 4 x 4 that a hunter did not want to take, really heavy buck, this next season is going to be a really nice buck.

A couple of bucks at a distance, one of them had already broken an antler early in the season.

A javelina coming out of a dirt tank, no need to run.

 



Some predator control.

 

Taking the new generation hunting.

 

Enrique with his first mule deer ever, really nice symmetric buck.



The whore crew with Enrique's buck.

 

Raul senior, at the target practice, since the rifle had not been used for over 5 years, we took a shot at the range before the hunt and the rifle was still dialed right on.

Raul senior with his mature typical buck, after holding on for more than 5 years on a hunt, he is now hooked again to came back this up coming season.

Nice 4 x 4 buck that we got to see and pass on for the next season.

The rainy season was above average, so the buck should be getting bigger antlers this year, they have lots of food and water, I will be posting some trail camera pictures of bucks we have been getting on the cameras, even some that I have been keeping an eye for the past 3 seasons...

2013-2014 Season "Around the Corner"...

We are less then two weeks for opening weekend of the 2013-2014 hunting season in Sonora, this looks to be a promising season, lots of nice Muley and coues deer... even a couple of mountain lions, I would rather not see them, but hopefully we can get a tag to hunt one of them.

This past year I really didn't update the blog, tons and tons of work, that will be my main got to keep the blog running this next year, tons of trail camera pictures, a couple of trips already planned to new ranches for coues, I only have 1 mule deer hunter for the ranch so I will probably have a chance to hunt it after the hunter is done. So this years goals are:

1. Keep the blog going with updates and pictures of the hunting trips.
2. Still looking for that amazing coues that I haven't found, but something tells me this is my lucky year, there is a really nice one I have been seeing, don't know if it will be 120+, we will see.
3. Last year was no luck for my girlfriend, but we will give it a try this year, opening weekend we will be at the ranch, we have our aim to a particular coues since last year, it has a scare on the right ear, that is how I can tell it apart, this year it has nice forked G2's.

I have also added a link to Cayo's blog "The Primal Hunter"

Here are some of this years trail pictures...

 

 

 

Rancho Lobos 2012

This year I was invited to Rancho Lobos, it was basicaly the same team, exept that this year fernando did not go and was replaced by Ricardo. We took of on a thursday afternoon, and with some complications on our way (military checkpoint and missing key to the ranch) we got to Lobos at 1 am, the guys were still awake and wating for us, Miguel our cook for this season prepared some bbq ribs that were great after a long drive to camp.

First morning was kind of slow, very little action only one buck with a couple of does, we decided to hunt around Coloraditos hill that afternoon, I remmember from the year before it was a great area to glass from. As soon as we got to the top I spotted a big buck about 300 yards, called Ricardo "Cayo" on the radio who was about 100 yards from where I was, but he had already spotted the deer and was waiting for the shoot. I turned on my camera and video taped the buck moving aways, since the radios were not working I didn't know when Cayo was going to take the shot. As soon as I stopped taping Cayo took the shot.

After a couple of minutes I went over to contratulate Cayo and went on our way to take a closer look, the buck was an old 4 x 3, 27" wide, long and heavy tines, it is a great buck and to Cayo's luck it is he's first muley.

The pack out was hard, about 3/4 mile to the truck, but with the excitement it went on by fast. The next day we got to see a couple of nice muleys but no takers, the days were warm but the rut was starting to kick in, it was just a matter of time for the big buck to show up. About noon, we hear on the radio that Mario and Toño spotted a couple of shooter bucks, they had bedded down for the evenning and we decided to gather up and take a closer look.

After taking a closer look at the bucks Mario decides to take a shoot at a buck he likes, the shots were far, but after a couple of tries he gets the job done. another 3 x 4 buck down. This bucks pack wasn't hard, only a couple of yards from the closest road. since we left the truck at the camp with a flat tire we had to put the buck on top of Adrian's SUV, funny sight.

As it did last year, Rancho Lobos was amaizing, lots of bucks and does, the rut was barely kicking in, I can't imagine how it gets with a full rut going on, thanks again Adrian for inviting, it is always a pleasure to go to your ranch.

Here is a small video with the hunt highlights...

Just before the season

I have been busy with work and haven't been abel to update, yesturday was openning day for deer season, FINALLY!!! I have been going to the ranch and got a couple of nice deer pics from cameras. here are a couple...

This is the first year that I have given feed to deer and we have had a good reaction, by what we can see on the pictures, lost of fawns as well.

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.

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.