For several months I have been suffering the views of several trees like this but nothing more...



Well, yesterday I was walking towards a nice spot for pigs, my idea was to spent the night there. It was very windy and raining a LOT.

I was thinking how increadible my luck was, I was needing rain for my cows as right now we are suffering the worst drought in the last 40 years !! but the last two times I went hunting the two times I suffer a lot of rains...

So there I was walking when I saw an axis deer walking quartering away from me, there was a lot of brush between us so I was not able to judge his antlers, it was just a question of seconds before he dissapear and I don't know what to do. I was following his shape through the bush when in a clear he suddenly turn his head and looked at me, at the same moment I shot, he jumped and run into the bush.

He was a big bodied deer despite not having too much antlers for his body size, it seems he was old and his antlers started to come back in their size.



My buddy Federico with the deer



Checking one of my trail cams I find three poachers , thanks God they don't stole anything, I don't mind someone killing a deer or a pig now and then for venison, the property is near 5,000 acres, so no problem meanwhile they don't touch anything.

Some times good chaps from the country towns don't have access to farms, they don't know the owners or the people in charge so sometimes they jump a cattle fence for a small "tour"

I don't enjoy it but it is near impossible to stop it, so as I said, meanwhile they don't stole nothing or they don't turn the property in a "hunter's orgy" I don't mind a couple of pigs in their fridges....

In my book, everyone that enjoys nature and hunting, and behave with respet towards nature, must have the possibility to hunt. Sadly not all poachers are the same so the "good" chaps that just go for a pig or two (pigs are considered pest in my country) must pay the broken dishes of a few stupid vandals .

The unknown hunters...



L

Congratulations, what a beautiful buck.

Good pix. You have a wonderful place to hunt!

Nice buck Lorenzo, congratulations!
good with that rain for your cows and for your hunt also. I do not hunt during summer much here. Most fall(autum) and winter. I had to have much cloths on. Semms nice to hunt at your place!

Matts

Save me a steak for July 3rd !!!

Hi Richard !!!! nice to hear from you.

I will not save you a steak, I will take you there and you will hunt for your own steaks

Say hi to Margaret.

Take care my friend

Lorenzo

Wow that is a beautiful animal, are there opportunities for USA hunters in Uruguay?

I enjoy the pictures. The Axis is a beautiful deer. It looks like wonderful country to hunt in. And you have a very good attitude. Better to let them take a few pigs if they do no harm than to try to aggressively stop them. But it must be difficult.

I have been following the dorught with some dismay. It is also causing big problems in Argentina and with some of my amigos there who are farmers. I wish I could send you some. We have had a wet winter here.

Hmm... I tried "hunting for rain" a few months ago. No luck -- we limited out on ducks, and got a few dove as well, but no rain...

Now, I'm trying "fishing for rain..." Unfortunately, still no rain... or fish... But plenty of lost flies...

Oh well, I never have gone fly-fishing w. the intention of catching fish...

Soon, I may have to try hunting Axis for rain -- there's no green growth left, and they're starting to look fairly skinny...