South Texas and Mexico Trophy Whitetail Hunt
Rick Clark

The first week of January I found myself and a couple of good friends in south Texas deer hunting. Although I didn’t kill a deer I got some good video of two bucks bigger than any I’ve taken. One of the guys, Lloyd, did connect on a 225 pound nine point.

Toward the end of the week we picked up another good buddy at the San Antonio airport, Carson Kimbrough. Alan Estay, Carson and I were headed to the mountains close to Sabinas, Mexico to deer hunt. This was to be a trophy hunt and the first time for us all. We had only three days to hunt. In such a short time I saw three really good bucks scoring maybe 135 to 145 SCI.

The only problem was they were three year old bucks. Big Al saw two Muy Grande bucks but couldn’t get a shot. These deer have not been pressured and were allowed to mature. Carson was hunting with the ranch foreman and saw the biggest buck. They both saw the buck and claimed he was pushing 26 inches wide with 12 or 14 points. Carson had seen several good bucks but this one really grabbed him. He finished the hunt in the same stand but no more monster buck. If the ranch foreman said "Muy Grande" you need to get excited. He refers to a 20 inch ten point as a "Grande."

By the way, when we first rode around the ranch most of the feeders were down and torn up. We were told this was the work of Mexican black bears. One of the guys on the lease saw two huge black bears last season. There are no hogs here, just plenty of Javalinas. I’m going to do my best to return to this ranch.