Hunting with Justo

[peloncillo]

Well the time I've been waiting for all year has came and went. Now I have to wait another year. This is the third year I have hunted with Justo on his ranch by Magdalena. I hope I have many more oppertunities to do so.

 

I was with my younger brothers a couple of months ago and we were talking about hunting. They have hunted with me several times over the years here in Arizona but have never killed a deer. I had a couple of deer permits for Mexico and offered them the chance to come with me and hunt. One brother couldn't due to work but my brother Barry said he would go and see if his luck would change.

 

Justo met us on the USA side of the border and escorted us through. I have never had a faster border crossing before. We were at Justo's ranch before noon. We unpacked and got settled in then went out to glass for the evening.We saw 6 does some as close as 100 yards. Barry said he was excited for tomorrow. We went back to the ranch house and had delicious tamales for dinner that Justo and his family prepared for us. The food is always good there.

 

The next morning I drove us to where I killed my buck last year. We made our hike in the dark and were set up to glass before the sun was up. Right away we had bucks spotted. We had deer and javelina in our view all day. We passed up many bucks(which is extremely difficult for me). Right at dark we had this buck at 180 yards.

 

 

We had seen a much bigger buck earlier in the morning so Barry said to pass this buck and come back to try and find the bigger buck.

 

We were back in the same spot the next morning and saw many bucks chasing does. I saw a buck moving just over 450 yards out and told Barry I thought he looked pretty good. He looked him over and wasn't impressed. I told him I would try a shot then. I pulled the trigger a couple of times but the buck just kept on walking around the hill. For some reason the buck decided to turn and headed back towards us and I put him down at around 250 yards. Not my best shooting but I had my buck down.

 

 

The next morning Barry and I were back at the same spot and I didn't even have my tripod set up when Barry said he had a buck going through the ocotillos right in front of us around 100 yards. I asked him if he was big and he said yes so I told him to pull the trigger. The buck was running now but some how Barry's bullet found him through all the brush. Barry had finally killed his first deer.

 

 

We packed his buck out back to the ranch house and Barry said He still wanted to try and get a bigger buck. The next morning we were back at our spot and Barry had a buck spotted as soon as we sat down. I told him to wait until I could get my 15's on him to make sure he was bigger then his last one. The buck was at 408 yards at the top of the hill in front of us. I could see his g3's were longer then his g2's. I told Barry I thought it was a good buck. I was watching through my binos when his .308 went off. The buck just dropped in his tracks. Barry had killed his first 2 coues deer in 2 days with 2 bullets. He does a lot of target shooting and loads all his own rounds and it paid off for him. I like to think I used to be able to soot that good.

 

 

We had a great time there and I am pretty sure Barry is a coues addict now. We talked about the hunt and what we did right and what we did wrong all the way back to Phoenix. I hope to go back and hunt with Justo again.

 

Keven

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[scoutm]

Glad to see Justo sold some tags. How was the ranch looking? Did you see more deer than in past years? Nice to hear you were seeing Javelina hope that's a sign the lions have been addressed.

 

Congrats on some fine bucks!

[tjhunt2]

Congratulations to you and your brother on some nice Mexico bucks.

 

TJ

[cw4192]

good

[Mocha1545]

Congrats. Nice bucks!

[Chef]

You guys did good Keven.

It is nice to see Justo's smile once again.

I'm happy to hear of you and your brothers' success and you are right, after two bucks like that, I know he's hooked!

 

You are getting to know that ranch better than some of the units here in AZ!

[bonecollector]

Congrats on 3 nice bucks. Congrats to your brother on his first 2 coues.

[Coues Sniper]

Great job on some nice bucks! Your brother is spoiled with two first bucks like that.

 

Also, I NEED more info on that buck in your avatar!!!

[cramerhunts]

^{Congratulations again Keven on some mighty fine bucks! The entire time you guys were down there I was wondering how you were doing and hoping for the best. You just can't be Justo and his family's hospitality. I'm happy you were able to have a great time again and hope for many many more!}

[Ernesto C]

Wow that was awesome and fun! Congratulations

 

Ernesto C

[lucky2hunt]

Nice bucks! Congrats on the success!

[peloncillo]

My Brother got his bucks up on the wall now. We can't wait until next year to try and do it again.

 

Keven

 

 

 

[izquik72]

Wow that was fast.

I am assuming the capes were already prepared.

[Santana Outdoors]

Those are some nice bucks!! congrats to all, sounds like a good time.

[cramerhunts]

Absolutely awesome work on your brother's bucks Keven! Dang good start to an awesome trophy wall for him! Happy to hear he is hooked and you'll be going back!