My dad and I hopped in my truck Thursday evening at 5PM and began our almost 12 hour drive to West Texas near Big Bend. We were in bad shape, we both had a bad cold, I had been running a fever for 2 days and he had an infected tooth. So I guess it takes a lot to keep us from going on our hunts... The snow/ice in Odessa slowed us way down so we got a hotel, spent the night and tried to get to feeling better before we made the rest of the drive Friday morning. Well, when we woke up we knew we were a in trouble...
Well after about 6 more hours of driving we FINALLY made it! Luckily the snow had let up just before we got to the ranch. So it was just chilly (21-degrees)
Here's a few random pics of the ranch. I don't know how the deer live in this terrain but they do...
We saw lots of does like this on the hill sides and hill tops.
After 4 days of being there, not seeing any shooter bucks and still both having pretty bad colds we decided to head home after we made one more pass through our favorite area on the ranch. We even packed all our stuff so we could just take off after we hunted. As we came up the hill there was a buck walking away from us up the steep him at about 150 yards. Since my old man got one last year and I didn't, I was up to shoot. I made a small stalk and smoked him with my Weatherby 30-06!
We gutted and loaded him up and my dad says "We will hunt back to the camp then leave". Sure enough we came back down the other side of the hill from where I killed mine and there was another buck with about 15 does. BAM! My old man smoked his. They are almost identical. Neither have big racks but huge bodies and will eat just fine!
Then we had the kodak moment of the trip as we were headed back to camp with all of our camping gear and two big mule deer bucks tied in with the tailgate down. Or at least we thought they were tied in until we headed up a steep hill in 4 wheel drive. OOPS!
Well after about 6 more hours of driving we FINALLY made it! Luckily the snow had let up just before we got to the ranch. So it was just chilly (21-degrees)
Here's a few random pics of the ranch. I don't know how the deer live in this terrain but they do...
We saw lots of does like this on the hill sides and hill tops.
After 4 days of being there, not seeing any shooter bucks and still both having pretty bad colds we decided to head home after we made one more pass through our favorite area on the ranch. We even packed all our stuff so we could just take off after we hunted. As we came up the hill there was a buck walking away from us up the steep him at about 150 yards. Since my old man got one last year and I didn't, I was up to shoot. I made a small stalk and smoked him with my Weatherby 30-06!
We gutted and loaded him up and my dad says "We will hunt back to the camp then leave". Sure enough we came back down the other side of the hill from where I killed mine and there was another buck with about 15 does. BAM! My old man smoked his. They are almost identical. Neither have big racks but huge bodies and will eat just fine!
Then we had the kodak moment of the trip as we were headed back to camp with all of our camping gear and two big mule deer bucks tied in with the tailgate down. Or at least we thought they were tied in until we headed up a steep hill in 4 wheel drive. OOPS!
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