The Digital Log Of A Bowhunt With Venado Loco - by Robert Hoague

Venado Loco's Great West Texas Bowhunt (Friday)

(Morning Hunt, the last day)
Cowboy hunted #9 and first saw 20 Wild Turkeys but they were just out of range. Later on a doe, a fawn, and a spike buck came by. 

The Duck hunted #23 and saw saw the 9-point he tried to shoot last night. He got a good look at those horns, wider than the body, nice long tines, a respectable buck. This time the buck was extremely cautions and looked at Don's blind several times and was within 20 yards too, but it never gave Don a shot opportunity. Later a flock of wild turkey Hens came to the feeding area. In our home county you can not harvest Hen wild turkeys but in the Vale Verde County you can. 

At #15 - before light one large buck came through. Even in the dark I could see it had a heavy rack. Light finally came and a big boddied, thick horned 7-point with short tines came by waited. A doe with a fawn came in from my left. The feeding station went off and they all moved downhill to it. The 7-point wouldn't let the does inside the feeding area fence. Two more does arrived and a 5-point with a very swelled up neck showed up and started chasing the 4 does around. Four other bucks waundered into the area, a spike, a 6-point and a Forky. The 7-point came charging uphill and chased these new bucks away. While I was watching that and getting a chuckle out of it 2 does came up and one saw me moving. It's companion cut back in the brush to my left and walked to a few steps from me. I held tight. If they are looking at you they don't know what you are, cause if they did they would be gone. The does didn't I.D. me and they went on downhill. 

An 8-point arrived, he was out to his ears and had long tines but from his body size I figured him as an exceptional 1 1/2 year old with very good potential. The 7-point spotted it and charged, ears back, looking very menicing, and sounding so as well, because of noise he made in the hard sandy desert and rocky ground. The 8 ran back to where I could have grabbed his leg from my blind. Then I noticed he wasn't and 8 but a 9-point. (If you  recall, on this hunt they have to have 9 point minumum.) When the 7-point was over his fit the 9-point walked down the same trail as the larger buck yesterday and gave me the $100 perfect shooting quartering away angle.

Back at camp Venado Loco asked me why I didn't shoot the 9-point. I answered, "Heck, I wouldn't shoot him on my own lease, I'm not going to shoot him on yours."

Tomorrow, more about this hunt...

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