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.

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