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Day 6

(Morning Hunt) It was still cold, windy and cloudy. Chad took us to another new location and we set up in the cactus, hoping to intercept one of the bucks Chad has observed using the old ranch road we are hunting near.

After daylight came it was very foggy. I was slowly looking around and Jim Autrey caught my attention by moving his finger and pointing toward the road. I saw the shadow of a deer sprawled on the dirt in the road. The shadow had horns. Very slowly, I moved my head and checked it out, I picked up the legs of the deer, it was standing behind a tall cactus directly in front of me, and was no more than 15 yards away. He turned left on the road and walked away from us.

Nothing else moved and we radioed Chad to pick us up, we needed to recover my wild hog while it was still cold and early.

The wild hog's trail was easy to find in the daylight. The hog had gone into the thick brush across the road from my blind. I want to mention something about the brush down here, all of it has thorns and stickers, so trailing is slow or you will get stuck, scratched and cut by the sharp thorns. Because of all  the thorns I didn't go step for step on the hog's trail. Instead I picked the least sticky route that would keep me close to the trail. 40 yards into the brush I walked up on my wild hog. The hind quarters and everything in the body cavity had been eaten by coyotes of other wild hogs. The head and front shoulders were still ok and we used that to take this picture.

We carried a Double Bull to the far end of the oat field and set it up so we could hunt it this afternoon.

(Afternoon Hunt) The word windy pretty much describes most of the afternoon. We went in at 2:00. The sun came out and turned the sky blue and we began seeing deer. Two does were first. Three does came later and joined the duo in the oat field. A spike followed the does. Later a forky came through. The opposite side of the field started getting action, a big 8-point and two other nice  bucks. 

When the sun was low but still bright a deer caught our attention. (See photo at the top of the page.) It was the buck we saw the first day, the 177 Booner. He was on the other side of the fence bordering the oat field, 55 yards distant.

Jim and I stared at his big antlers shining in the suns rays. Something Jim Autrey had said to me earlier in the afternoon played in my head, "If nothing comes close enough for your bow you can use my rifle if you want." 

A Boone & Crocket buck would certainly make my day. I moved over to the blind's shooting window and shot him ... with my camera.

Here is this fine 177 buck in sizes for your computer's wallpaper:
(640x480), (800x600), or (1048x800) .

The sunlight faded and today's hunt was over.

For information: about Rancho Del Zorro's whitetail, wild hog and javelina bow and rifle hunts as well as quail and dove hunting, email them. Chad Edwards @ Rancho del Zorro, email: ranchodelzorro@aciglobal.com, or phone: 956-419-1906.

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