MEXICO 2002-2003 SEASON
November 29, 2002 through Jan 19, 2003

Following are selected pictures taken at my hunting lease in Tamaulipas, Mexico. Our 11,000 acres was a pleasant place to hunt as long as it didn't rain (see stuck trucks..!). There was an abundance of varied wildlife (deer, bobcat, javelina, coyotes, rabbits, quail, badger, dove and even one cougar), and an overabundance of feral hogs. Our hopes were high at the start even though we realized that the spring drought had continued again in 2002. There were disappointments in that bucks that we passed the first year either were not seen or those that were seen had put on 20 to 30 pounds of body weight but had actually gone down in B&C score. All of the hunters wanted to take high quality bucks, but though we saw many bucks again, not one really met the requirements of a real Mexican macho buck. The ranch has now been under severe drought conditions in the spring for 4 years and we believe that this is playing a major part in antler size on the mature bucks that we did see.

I was again able to photograph quite a number of bucks during the season and with some rain in April there still are some good prospects for the 2003-2004 season.

Take your time and enjoy a visit to Mexico.

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Caracara, the chief carrion eater	Lake dam failure drive carefully..!!	What is that lump on that tripod?	Beautiful mature buck
Previous buck	10 pointer	A big 8 getting away fast	Good body disappointing antlers
Nice lighting on this immature buck	Another heavy buck with poor antlers	9 pointer sniffing at a scrape	Wide but lousy antlers
An 8 out at mid-day	A 10 pointer in the fog	Big hog or small doe??	A jackrabbit
Easing through the brush	Good solid 8 pointer	Late in the season he was tempting	Previous buck another view
A couple of young ones glare at each other	Working on a scrape	Raising dust on the scrape	"10" with 2 points broken off
Nice 10 watching that coyote closely	10 pointer	A couple of 3 yo getting serious	Another shot of the fight
Whitewinged Dove	Fall rain brought out the flowers in December	Great White Egret	Feral Hogs
Projectile point, Shumla, ca. 1000 - 200 BC	Avalanche stuck	F350 stuck	Sunset in Mexico

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