MEXICO HUNTING TRIP
Getting there was an adventure. Flew to Tuscon on Thursday (April 9) and overnighted there. Up at 4:00am to meet up with two more hunters and our guide. Made a 2 hour drive to the border crossing in Douglas, AZ but stopped for supplies just before the border. Crossed into Mexico around 8:00 in the morning with no real problems. From here, we headed south on paved roads (at least that's what they called them) into the Sierra Madre Mountains of Sonora, Mexico. After a four hour drive along the Rio Sonora, we finally reached the entrance into three different ranches that shared a road back into the mountains. We had to cross the first two ranches to reach the third where our hunt took place. It was about a 30 minute drive on dirt roads through the first two ranches and then the dirt road abruptly ended at the gate entry to our ranch.
Cuco, our guide explained that the ranch was 16000 acres and the ranch house was located on the back side of the ranch. He had guided here during the winter months for Cous Deer and they were everywhere.
Less than a half mile in, we saw the first deer bedded below a ridge.
Getting there was an adventure. Flew to Tuscon on Thursday (April 9) and overnighted there. Up at 4:00am to meet up with two more hunters and our guide. Made a 2 hour drive to the border crossing in Douglas, AZ but stopped for supplies just before the border. Crossed into Mexico around 8:00 in the morning with no real problems. From here, we headed south on paved roads (at least that's what they called them) into the Sierra Madre Mountains of Sonora, Mexico. After a four hour drive along the Rio Sonora, we finally reached the entrance into three different ranches that shared a road back into the mountains. We had to cross the first two ranches to reach the third where our hunt took place. It was about a 30 minute drive on dirt roads through the first two ranches and then the dirt road abruptly ended at the gate entry to our ranch.
Cuco, our guide explained that the ranch was 16000 acres and the ranch house was located on the back side of the ranch. He had guided here during the winter months for Cous Deer and they were everywhere.
Less than a half mile in, we saw the first deer bedded below a ridge.