For all you well travelled big game hunters .. Here is one that doesn't get a lot of publicity .. Hunting in Uruguay. On July 27th I leave Alberta for a hunting trip to Uruguay ,, where Lorenzo (who posts here quite often and has just come back from an African safari) will show us around .. We will probably start the hunt with doves ( a possible thousand rounds a day if wanted ..) wild pigeons, and red partridges . From there we will hunt wild pigs and axis deer !!
Sounds like a real blast. And I will keep this forum up to date on how it all goes ..

Bueno suerte, amigo! Let me know how you made out when you get back.

Regards,
George

I once had the chance to spend a wonderful 1st of May hunting partridge over pointing dogs with my friends near Colonia. We had a great asado with vono tinto in the afternoon. Dang, if this beautiful country wasn�t so far from here...

Woww, what a nice post Richard
I'm preparing everything and we will have a great time. It's very funny how exited you and George are about axis hunting, just an advice, use the next days practising running shots

DUK,
Asado with VINO tinto , thanks for your comment about my country.

I'm also very exited, in one of the sorgo plantation that we are going for doves there are also some pigs feeding every night, this is what I call a "combo" hunt

Richard, see you in a couple of weeks
LG

Lorenzo,

I have shot several axis deer in Texas. They are the absolutely best tasting venison around! Muy saboroso!

George

George,
I agree with you, axis is great venison. The problem is that when I asked Richard about his favourites meals he told me that he wishes to eat what we hunt....no problem with me but I was thinking in shooting some foxes during the first day just for practise.
Maybe with some potatoes they don't taste so bad......
LG

Zorro con papas?

George

You would think that I'd never learn about food.. I still remember my wife staring in disbelief at a singed blackened armadillo .. complete with claws and head with tongue sticking out .. appearing on our breakfast table in Bolivia ... Or the time they informed her the hors d'oeurves she'd munched on at Matetsi River Ranch were in fact - from a leopard .. Since she ain't coming, (I wonder why ?) I suspect that I get her share of the fox, too ??? Ha! Ha!

Yeah!!
Let's see how machos these canadians are!! I'll just follow my cow fillet diet
LG

Say, George ... how you been doing ??? With your new home, do you have enough wall space for your animals from all those safaris and other hunts .. plus the next thirty years coming up ???

How many t-bone steaks from a Zorro does it take to fill up a Canadian ? Sigh ... I reckon that I'll find out in a couple of weeks .. I'd better shoot low on the chest ...

Richard,

The new house is terrific. I have most of the heads up, and with three floors, there is plenty of wall space.

The hot tub comes next week, then it's off to Wyoming for prairie dogs. Thankfully, there isn't much left of them to mount.

George

Richard:

If you get a chance, go to the downtown Montevideo seafood market and wander around the various stalls cooking the catch until you find an old lady cooking, frying, what looks like, and are, minnows. Unfortunately I've forgotten the spanish word for them. Order a batch, chased down with some cold beer. In spite of what it sounds like, it doesn't get much better than that. Trust me.

PS:

You probably won't have the time, but out near the airport is the casino, a couple of blocks from the casino (which is interesting for its ambiance, but not for its gambling), is an artsy suburb shopping with some nice shops selling South American art, go to Garcia's restaurant and order the ribeye. You won't regret it.

Great country, great people, you'll have a great time. Wish I was there.

Gato,
I can't stop laughing!!
The fried minnows are called majugas, some people called them miniaturas. I promise you I'll take Richard and his friend to the "Mercado del Puerto" as soon they arrived (just before midday), and that 2 hours later they will be shooting perdiz on pointing dogs.
I can't believe you know the Bar Garc�a, when I was young I use to escaped from school at midday just to eat pizzas at Garc�a

What I still don't guess is what you are trying to describe as a "ribeye" ???? Give details please.

You're right, Uruguay is a small country but it's very nice, thanks.

LG

Sounds fascinating ... I've eaten my share of ribeyes ... but miniaturas ??? I should hope that the little finny beasts are gutted ??? This trip sounds better and better every day !!!

Please, can someone explain me what "ribeyes" are ????
LG

Lorenzo:

Actually, thinking about it more, I think the restaurant (at least the one I'm referring to,near the casino) is called Nuevo Garcia's. 'Sta?

A ribeye is basically what you call a beefsteak (bifstek ?, hell, my memory is like a sieve), as opposed to a filete.

Richard:

While I won't claim the steaks in the better steak restaurants in Uruguay and Argentina (try Las Nazarenas or La Cabana in Buenos Aires which is just across the Rio Plate estuary from Montevideo, maybe 60 miles?) are superior to our best steak houses, they are better than most "ordinary" steak places and there are a couple of noticeable differences. The meat is all grass fed and has less marbling (but is still very tender) while being very slightly "different" tasting, somewhat more like game to my tongue, but is usually slaughtered at an older age and aged. And, because the animal is usually older, the steaks are usually bigger. Believe me, you will like it. Go hungry and order a heart of palm salad and french fries with it. Not to mention a good bottle of Argentine malbec.

[ 07-13-2003, 04:41: Message edited by: Gatogordo ]

Gatogordo:

Well, you got me convinced. I'll do the steak .. miniaturas on the side, zorro for an appetizer, and follow it up with an Argentine malbec ... Grass fed beef is not to be despised .. although I might miss the taste of steroids and various other drugs they pump into the cattle up here to put on lots of weight .. very quickly ..

Gatogordo,
Please don't give Richard more strange ideas!! I must go running to wine shop to find some argentinian Malbec bottles

Yes, some years ago was just Garc�a and know is Nuevo Garc�a, incredible, I can't believe it, you know everything!!

I've been scouting the area for good places for axis and boars, yesterday I found two farms with plenty of pigs (they travell a lot) and mostly I've to stay at the farm gate with a shotgun keeping my friends out

If Richard and George shoot well I will be eating partdriges, doves, axis and, wild boars cooked in different sauces, and of course plenty of cow meat!!!. I will reserve the delicious foxes for Richard

LG

[ 07-14-2003, 18:17: Message edited by: Lorenzo ]

I've eaten a zorro or two over the years, but they were all of the live variety.

Now fried tecolote, ummmmmm.

Que todos tengan un buen caceria y forman nuevos amigos amables. Lo siento mucho que no puedo atenderlo.

Ah! the live variety is another thing!! One or two a year are good for my health, at least that is what my doctor recomend me

We will have a toast in your name with that Malbec!!

Good hunting for you also

LG