COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Well I'm finally back from a hunt I dreamed about for a long time! I experienced some of the most desolate, untouched, rugged country I have ever been in, and made friends with some incredibly nice poeple! We were 3 hours out of Nuevo Casas Grandes, up on the highest mountain range, and another client and I had it all to ourselves! I didn't expect to be hunting Coues in the Pine trees in Mexico, and I wasn't overly excited with the thick country but it sends chills up your spine knowing there's deer in that country that have never seen a man and live to a ripe old age! This ranch has had only a handful of hunters over the past years, and only a small fraction of the ranch actually gets hunted, it's truly amazing to head out on a good road, before light and find shed coues antlers from years past, on and just off the road! I did that opening day and knew we were going to experience something special! The owners of the outfit had wanted us to hold out for 110" plus for at least the first 4 days of the hunt They wanted really big bucks for pic's for a new brochure and website and I agreed to try!? My brother was with me to video the hunt, and we had Antonio and Jaime helping. At first light my brother glassed up a bear crossing the ridge and I found only a couple does. We took the quads about 500 yrds further up the canyon and stopped to glass another clearing. I set up my tripod and immediately had a buck cruising sidehill. My heart jumped out of my chest and I turned to Antonio and said "I found my buck!". I set up fast and just before the buck disappeared, I shot him, but didn't see him go down. I climbed a tree, and ran around to find another window to the hillside when Jaime found him standing licking where I had hit him. My brother had the film rolling as I dumped him with the second shot. I knew it wasn't the buck they wanted me to hold out for, but when a guys biggest whitetail-to-date is a 75" 2-pointer he's not passing up a 100" class! This whole hunt took place in less than 1 hour of opening morning and was the first Mexico buck I have ever seen or glassed up! This buck is 97" and is absolutely beautiful! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bchoitz Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Awesome buck! Nice and Symetrical. I can see why you had to have him. Congratulations. Bret C Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DEERSLAM Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Yes he would have been hard to pass. Dandy buck COOSEFAN, congrats Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azhuntnut Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Good job Jimmy. He looks perfect on both sides. Do you have any pictures of the sheds you found? David Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted January 27, 2006 That is a real pretty buck you took for sure. He will look mighty fine on their brochure. The hillside in the background of the second photo looks somewhat open. Do you have any other pictures of the ranch and countryside that you can share? How did the other client fare? RR Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Now that I was done opening morning, and had five more days left, I wanted to go hunt again! I waited a long time for something that just happened in 1 hour, and I hadn't even begun to hunt, so after 1 or 6 cocktails that night I bought a second tag( my brother became there new "manager" over night because of his selling talent, he was relentless and talked me into it!) So on the third day we were set up looking at a few small openings on a pine covered hillside, watching "8" 90" class bucks with a few smaller bucks as they chased around and fought over a few does. I couldn't believe I was looking at that many nice bucks, a few looked close to 100" but nothing over. My brother had seen what he said was a muy grande taking his does over the ridge away from the other bucks, we couldn't get on it fast enough to see it and where it went had no vantage points so we waited and enjoyed all the other bucks running around. Our helper, Jaime, had said he found a big buck and motioned it was coming up from the bottom. Because of the terrain you have to be ready fast and make quick judgements, making you really rely on your spotters. Antonio picked him up in the binos and directed me where he was at. I found it in the scope and could see it was thin antlered but looked very tall off his head and had character,"good enough for me"! I ranged a clearing ahead of the buck at 404 yrds and held tight. He walked through and stopped. We all thought this buck was at least 100", I was looking through my scope and my brother is looking through the videocamera so I asked one last time if the buck is big enough and Antonio said shoot! I did and missed! The buck jumped and stopped. Now I'm shooting through pine trees and trying to calculate bullet trajectory through branches and finally dropped the buck at 364 yrds on my 6th shot! Just before I pulled the trigger on the last shot my brother yelled to wait and I then saw why, It wasn't as big as everyone had thought! Each time I shot I verified it was the same buck by his upturned right beam so I knew I was shooting at the right deer but at that moment I looked at my brother and asked if he's got em' on screen, he said yes and I finally dropped him. Score really doesn't matter too much to me, I love big bucks but I also love small bucks! I went to Mexico for the experience, to see eight 90" class bucks rutting on one hillside was worth every penny. My brother videotaped the other client taking an incredibly massive 105" on the 4th day and we went out every day seeing huge bucks doing what they do in a very serene, undistured environment. I'm overjoyed I harvested not one but two beautiful coues deer and enjoyed an incredible experience with my brother, and every last detail is on tape! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 I been messing around with my other flash card to get pic's of my second buck, I thought you guys would catch the title " Dos Venados" two bucks I took a million pic's, My brother took two hours of video, he got all three bucks getting whacked on tape! The other client shot one of those bucks that score doesn't justify, I'll post pic's as soon as I can, I have one pic showing the sheds but the lion kills were way cooler! Three of them each 100" plus! I brought two back with us, Nobody said anything about them at check points, and I'm having my biggest buck mounted as a pedestal mount off of one of the skulls on a table. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
25-06 Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Dang........What a great hunt, those are some vary nice lookin bucks Thanks for sharin the pic's and story Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chilllcouesmaniac Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Dang........What a great hunt, those are some vary nice lookin bucks Thanks for sharin the pic's and story <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Very nice Congrats!!! CM Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DEERSLAM Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Yup I missed the dos part. Two great looking bucks, love the extra inline on the second buck. So which one is bigger? Should have a double pedestal mount done, it would be sweet Sounds like an awesome place to hunt! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Left to right is Antonio, Matt, me, Kevin, and Goose. These are the lion kills and our bucks. The rest of the sheds are in the house on the fireplace. There is only one "vaquero" , cowboy, and that is Jaime, that works the 25,000 acre ranch and he doesn't pick up any sheds or skulls and doesn't hunt for himself. This place is untouched and you'll never hear a plane, or other vehicle and it's like you took a step back in time before all that. The Goulds turkeys were everywhere and my brother was actuall videotaping some when a 90" class buck came up to within ten yards of him, with the turkeys still in the background, and stood broadside for the photoshoot! I'm doing it again naxt year but with my bow, can't wait! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Thanks for your reply's. This is the other client's buck. His name is Kevin from Iowa. His first coues hunt ever! I think that helps in holding out for a big buck, if you haven't even seen one before and you are used to shooting 170" easterns! This is a great buck and is hard to score becuase of webbing. I scored it at just under 105" but Antonio scored it at 99". I think everybody would score this buck differently becuase of the character issues. What a hog though! My brother was videotaping over Kevins shoulder when he shot this buck at 150 yrds! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DEERSLAM Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Who cares about the score, awesome looking buck You can't score character! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 27, 2006 Yup I missed the dos part.Two great looking bucks, love the extra inline on the second buck. So which one is bigger? Should have a double pedestal mount done, it would be sweet Sounds like an awesome place to hunt! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> I conservatively scored the first one at 97" and the second just under 91". I'll sit down and score them more accurately later, they are big enough for me! I thought about the double pedestal but this is the second and third coues deer I've taken to my taxi in less than three months!$$$$ It is an awesome place, I just couldn't imagine how many deer we didn't see because of the terrain!? We would only sit an watch one hillside because it was too thick to see anywhere else, and we would see a lot of bucks in just one hillside. They have two other ranches they don't hunt yet becuse theres no facilities yet, I couldn't imagine what those would be like. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
