In search of my biggest Whitetail, 2010 MEXICO SEASON

[Gatekeeper]

Great looking buck! Good luck.

[KellyG]

out in  NM is that a coues? If so it is a monster. either way that is a danday and wide.

[Pon]

Not a Coues but a "texan" withetail is the subspecies we have in the northeast of Mexico.

Way to go Gerardo! keep up the hard work and it will pay off!

Good Luck

[rushlush]

Good luck with that old buck Gerardo!

[huntnmuleys]

holy lord that buck is huge!! good luck.

[DannyBows]

Good luck Gerardo! He's a good'un!

[guspup]

Do you have this type of Texas Whitetail as far south as Aguascalientes?

[maineac]

A great deer for sure.  Good luck with the quest.

[leatherneck]

That is a buck that will make any mans knees shake. Good luck with him my friend.

[Gerardo]

TODAY  
4:45 am alarm goes on , usually I don't wake up with a smile on my face but for hunting thats different. I just get up and have all if my clothes ready I never prepare too much as I do for hunting. I have the coffee pot ready , bow in the truck, boots in the entrance and everything is in place. I drive to the lease which is 1hrs away. Usually I sleep in the ranch but having a 3 month old baby and a 2 yr toddler in the house , I need to make points with the wife and help out

[Pon]

Originally posted by guspup:
Do you have this type of Texas Whitetail as far south as Aguascalientes?

not as "free range" as there are 14 different subspecies of withetail deer in Mexico:

1. O.v. texanus Coahuila, Nuevo León, Tamaulipas y Chihuahua.
2. O.v. couesi Sonora, Chihuahua y Durango.
3. O.v. carminis Coahuila.
4. O.v. miquihuanensis Coahuila.
5. O.v. acapulcensis Sur de Michoacán y Guerrero.
6. O.v. veraecrucis Sur de Tamaulipas.
7. O.v. truei Sur de Quintana Roo.
8. O.v. oaxacensis Región de la sierra de Oaxaca
9. O.v. thomasi Campeche.
10. O.v. sinaloae Sinaloa y Jalisco.
11. O.v. Nelson Chiapas.
12. O.v. mexicanus Michoacán, Puebla, Querétaro, Guerrero y Oaxaca.
13. O.v. yucatanensis Campeche y Quintana Roo.
14. O.v. toltecus Oaxaca.

O.v is for "Odocoileus Virginianus" whitetail deer scientfic name, acording to the next map deer in Aguascalientes could be coues or miquihuanensis


 

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However a lot of Hig Fence ranchs are now offering "Texas whitetails" across the country where they are breed and managed same as "exotics"

[Gerardo]

TODAY  
4:45 am alarm goes on , usually I don't wake up with a smile on my face but for hunting thats different. I just get up and have all of my clothes ready I never prepare too much as I do for hunting. I have the coffee pot ready , bow in the truck, boots in the entrance and everything is in place. I drive to the lease which is 1hrs away. Usually I sleep in the ranch but having a 3 month old baby and a 2 yr toddler in the house , I need to make points with the wife and help out

[Gerardo]

Being that christmas and new years where a Saturday , those are two weekends I can not go hunting, so squezzing time during the week has to be done.

The plan was go hunt in the morning and be back at work by noon

the lease is 1hr away and my blind is 20 minutes into the hills.

So I was ready at my blind by 6:50 am

[Gerardo]

I am using a ground blind this year a pop up, it helps and gives me some handicap with certain movements, where we hunt we only have mezquites and they are not to tall. I have gotten on mezquites with a sneaky sac and a tree stand , but big old bucks are way too smart, and they see you before you even know their coming.

My plan was to hunt untill 11 am if I didn't see a very big one by that time I will be out.

[Gerardo]

at 8:00 am this guy came 10yds from my blind,

If this was another year or if I didn't have my mind set and focused on my goal he would have met my douglas fir stos tipped arrow.

[Gerardo]

I am on a Mission ,

and i need to be the most time outside and have a lot of patience and do things right,

of course luck will play its game,

and if I am lucky to hunt a big one I will do all of my part to try and make a good shot, if I don't I don't , only time will tell, but I will do my job

[overbo]

Wish we had bucks like that walking the streets in my town!
good luck

[guspup]

Great Thread,
Thank you for the information on Aguascalientes :-)
For those of you that do not know, Central Mexico has an abundance of rugged beautiful mountainous country. The people are extremely friendly and helpful as well, just like tradgangers.
And the weather is like a nice spring day year round.
I was not aware that the deer were so well racked.
Good luck with your hunt!

[huntnmuleys]

awesome thread. even with that big buck ya have your eyes on there is no way i could have passed that last buck lol...

[Gerardo]

guspup,

thanks , people in Mexico are friendly and we are very into family values and moral actions.

I hunted those mountains this year on May, Aguascalientes and Zacatecas are famous for Gould Turkey and Coues deer. Gould Turkey is the biggest specie of turkey , they are about twice the size of a rio grande.

I shot a good one , but couldn´t find it, they did find it two days after we left. So no hero pic there but a great and amazing time and scenery