COUES DEER HUNT
December 23, 2009
Mexico in December, Mike Whelan, Brent Deal, Jeff Van Well and Enrique Molina
We had a great start to hunting Coues deer in Mexico this year. A lot of the ranches we are hunting look very dry and the cattle on them look like they are going to have a hard time unless they get some real good winter rains. But the Coues deer looked like they were in great shape and had a good year on horn growth. I filmed a couple of hunts and out of three guys we took two really nice bucks. Jeff Van Well’s buck pretty much set the bar real high. It has a few extra points but is really a straight 3×3, that grosses about 125 B&C. Jeff really is good with a camera and I was able to film the entire hunt, it is one of the largest Coues deer I have filmed being taken. A bit later Brent went out on his own and shot a totally unique 11 point 119 inch toad! It all made for a great hunt.
Some notes from the hunt: I did see a what I thought was a huge number of deer for what the ranchers say has been a very dry year. These sightings also included a very high number of does with twin fawns. Seemed odd to see this on such dry year. We did see a bit of rut activity but most of the bucks we saw were still in groups. More in January, good luck on your hunts.
McCLENDON’S GUIDE SERVICE
December 20, 2009
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STIKINE GUIDE SERVICE
December 18, 2009
David Benitz ,
P.O. Box 1535 ,
Petersburg, AK 99833 ,
907-772-3258 ,
Dave Benitz specializes in black bear and goat hunts. He is a bow hunter himself and these hunts are ideal for bow hunters. We have hunted with Dave a number of times for bear and goats and we can’t recommend him highly enough. You can see Dave and and get an idea of what his hunts are like on our DVD Bear Stalker.
Mike