I live about 5 miles east of corona de tucson . I went out tuesday evening jan 27th and got to a camping spot between arivaca and sasabe highway just in time to make a camp fire and think about tomorrow. In the morning i got on the quad and putted up the 2 track and saw what looked like a mule deer convention . There were deer everywhere i looked ! Probably 50 deer (best i could count) no exaggeration including a spike and 1 mature buck . If i was a bow hunter , would have been an easy 60 yard broadside shot as that big boy just stood there looking at me .
After the deer moved on i continued up the trail looking for couesdeer and or coyote but no such luck. Loaded up quad and went west to santa margarita ranch area . Saw some fresh coyote tracks on the 2 track so i set up a stand but no takers . Talked to the ranch hand latter and he said the BP had found a big buck lion kill but didn,t know if it has a muley or coues. This was at the base of the baboquivari mnts. I could hear a pack of yotes in the distance but did not pursue. Loaded up and went to arivaca lake direction for the evening . I like to camp on top of the hill just across from the BP tower, off of the road that goes down to the lake this time of year. Watch out for the big rocks as you pull in.(ouch bang grind). Did some glassing ,nothing to see . Beautifull nite to sit by the camp fire . In the morning while having coffee and getting stuff together the yotes lite up (pack to the west first then pack to the east) . They rousted a buck and 4 does to the west of me whom did not seem to have been happy about being kicked out of there beds. Nice muley buck.
Gathered my gear and walked down the road towards the lake to set up a stand for the yotes to the east of me . Scored my first yote using this ICOTEC caller at less that 100 yards . Before i could get to the yote which was laying dead on the road some jeeps showed up not knowing what to think of the dog laying there in front of them. They went around the dog and stopped to talk to each other so i went over to tell them what was going on . This was nothing new to them as a couple of them were hunters . They did like the ECOTEC caller though as these guys had used cassette tapes in the past. Part 2 of my mission there was to find the BIG coues buck i had seen during the thanks giving hunt . He is still out there!
What a great time it was , lots to see and the weather was great.
