Hunting White Tail

A friend of mine, Robert got a tag for hunting white tail deer for this season. So he asked if I would like to go with him. His hunting range was in the Gila National Forrest just out side of Silver City NM. His tag was for Nov.7 thru Nov.11,2009. Since he or I hadn't been hunting for several years, we thought we would start early ( like 2:30 am). It took us about an hour to get to the site and then wait for sunrise so we could see what we could shoot at. Needless to say that early in the morning and a four hour wait in the forrest ( it was cold out). We didn't see any deer but had good coffee and walked around some to warm up.

As you can see we walked a good deal throughout the day. This was about a 6.7 mile trek. Since all we could see were tracks and bush, we decided to change locations and try our luck on down the road.

                                                         

As you can see it was another 6.8 miles we walked. This is getting to be fun. However we never did see a white tail deer or any other type of varmit. But the coffee was good and the day was getting short.

So we decided to try again the next time.

I told Robert the tags were given out by the state and the same four days they sent the deer on vaction to the bahama's. I guess thats a good way to make money on the tags and keep the deer population up. We stopped at the VFW on our way home and I thought for sure Robert was going to shoot the meatloaf just to say he did shoot something. (I love it)

                                   

This time we decided to go on the other side of the mountain near Lake Roberts. Found some good camp sites and even a dozen wild turkey's just walking around (no deer). So if anyone has venision for sale let us know...LOL...well maybe next year..