Well just back, I am really tired but I will do my best.

I enjoy staying at small farm houses in the bush, they are called "puestos". I prefer them more than fancy houses, they give me a truer feeling of being far away home..

This is the third year in a row that I hunt with Eugenio Lutz, there is no words to describe his operation, nice place, nice chaps, everything is top notch, no BS around, if you ask him for xxxxx CIC or SCI points he will tell you that he is not the outfitter you are looking for. He just hunts open farms and VERY wild deers.

The first days we went to his farm after pigs. The place is remote and wild, several waterholes to give a try at pigs.





Looking for tracks



The farm house and our room





Fixing the scope of one of our rifles with a wood screw, look careful at the back scope ring





Don't leave the car's doors open



Then we move to the other "house"







The guides were terrific hunters and great chefs !!!

José and his "a little of everything" receipe:





The "Vasco"



And "Pato" (Patricio, Eugenio´s son)


A camp without heads in boiling water is not complete.



A "forever ten", not many tins but long and thick enough. The whole gang: from left to right: myself (red cap), Federico (standing), Mauro (the hunter) and Ramiro.



We noticed that maybe because of the drought many antlers were not thick enough or they started thick but then they quickly got thinner. Also the roar was not very good as many femals were not in heat, it seems that the lack of food was the cause of this.

The bullet with which the "ten" was hunted with, a Sierra (Game King I think) 180 grains shot from a 308 winnie at 30 metres. The entry hole was big so maybe it hit a branch before going in...




Carrying the ten out of the thorn bush was not a piece of cake.



A stop in the hunt to eat a wild berry called "piquillín".



A "bush potatoe", pigs love them !!



A stag is roaring not 100 yards away inside the bush, but is not an easy task to have a clear shot inside that stuff..



Eugenio´s son and guide "Pato" looking for deers from the back of the truck.



And well finally the last hour of the last day of my ten day hunt I managed to shot this nice stag, not thick but long and symetrical. We have been walking very slowly with Eugenio that evening with a good wind in our faces but without luck, we saw many deers but nothing outstanding, lots of deers roaing infront of us but also a very big thunder storm roaring behind me...I am really afraid of being in the open with thunders over my head !!!

Take a look at the deer and the storm behind me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!





And finally the man that make "things happen", the outfitter with whom I have been hunting several years in a row: Mr Eugenio Lutz



More pictures soon...

Now I am back to work, with milk bottles, smelly diapers and nights without too much sleeping

L

Hi Lorenzo,
thanks for sharing. Looks like you had a good time there. Conratulations on your nice stag.
think i should visit argentina, it seems to be a great place to hunt.
Is that a official huntingfarm? Do they have a website?

kindest regards

caracal

Congratulations !!! Lorenzo, Nice Stag, Nice pictures, You know that most important thing is "being Hunting", and the way that do You do it, not gold medal canned trohys for SCI or CIC awards, late I will send You a PM mail, with Uruguay´s Bill visit info. Cheers !!! Guille.

A wonderful chapter for any hunter's life. I like that stag.

Ahhhhhhh... the memories rekindled !! Bravo, amigo !!! Is Pato finished his law degree yet ??? Is that road to their home farm still got those giant ruts ??? I got a lot of questions ... but I am glad that you got the great stag and are home safely !!!

Caracal,

They do not have a web page and that is not a hunting farm. There are very few cows here and there. During the rut Eugenio Lutz runs the hunting business there. There are not "sure hunting" there, taking a red stag there is difficult. They make you suffer !!! and sometimes you return empty handed, but when you suceed you know you have done a very fair chase hunt and that the deer was well deserved.

Eugenio's believes more in the "mouth to mouth" marketing than on web pages and that kind of stuff..

If you ask him to send you pictures, he will not send you pictures of the big ones, just from the normal deers you find there. He believes that the hunt can not be measured by the trophy quality, for him each hunt and each deer taken is unique and that is what all about is. The experience rather than the trophy.

We were four of us and only one returned empty handed, and not because lack of oportunities, just because his goal was a really good one, sometimes you got lucky and sometimes not.

Hi Richard !!!

They all send you regards !! we all laugh a lot one night around the fire when one of the guides (Mario) remembered that after you shot your stag you asked him permision to jump and shout around the deer !!! hahahaha

From his imitation must be quite a sight !!

L

Lorenzo,

thanks for the nice pictures you share with us!
Thats hunt, if you kill a big one, you have deserved it. And Diana not allways came with big ones! Congratulation to a nice stag ,and many memories !

Matts

" He believes that the hunt can not be measured by the trophy quality, for him each hunt and each deer taken is unique and that is what all about is. The experience rather than the trophy."

That is my philosophy, and the reason I stopped entering my animals in the SCI record book many years ago.

Bill Quimby

quote:

Originally posted by Lorenzo:
Caracal,

They do not have a web page and that is not a hunting farm. There are very few cows here and there. During the rut Eugenio Lutz runs the hunting business there. There are not "sure hunting" there, taking a red stag there is difficult. They make you suffer !!! and sometimes you return empty handed, but when you suceed you know you have done a very fair chase hunt and that the deer was well deserved.

Eugenio's believes more in the "mouth to mouth" marketing than on web pages and that kind of stuff..

If you ask him to send you pictures, he will not send you pictures of the big ones, just from the normal deers you find there. He believes that the hunt can not be measured by the trophy quality, for him each hunt and each deer taken is unique and that is what all about is. The experience rather than the trophy.

We were four of us and only one returned empty handed, and not because lack of oportunities, just because his goal was a really good one, sometimes you got lucky and sometimes not.

Hi Lorenzo,
that sounds interesting. A sure hunt is a boring hunt and hunting is (for me) not about inches or points. Sounds like you found a good place to hunt.

regards

caracal

Lorenzo: congrats on a nice trophy obtained in fair chase. Lots of character in that head, by the way.
You owe us the pig´s pictures, of course.
Now, formalities aside, there is a little itching which continues prickling the nape of my neck.....your cap is in one of the pictures over a pink bed. Did you slept on a girl´s one?. Did you have Winnie the Pooh with you?
Sorry, but I couldn´t resist...

Deer, hell ! You should have seen my dance of joy around the great bull Mara !

quote:

Originally posted by nainital:
Lorenzo: congrats on a nice trophy obtained in fair chase. Lots of character in that head, by the way.
You owe us the pig´s pictures, of course.
Now, formalities aside, there is a little itching which continues prickling the nape of my neck.....your cap is in one of the pictures over a pink bed. Did you slept on a girl´s one?. Did you have Winnie the Pooh with you?
Sorry, but I couldn´t resist...

Hahaha,

Yes it seems it was a girl's bed but without girl...

No pig pictures this time, we don't see anything worthwhile the one and a half night we spent at the waterholes, lots of pigs but none was a monster. Only a medium size one that we nearly kill....from a heart attack when the bullet went over him

There was not many moon left and my hunting buddy shoot "just in case"

That hairy creature must be still running south

L

Nice stag and thanks for the hunting details!
My partners and I will be leaving for Poitahue Ranch (Santa Rosa) on March 31st, hunting stag and boar as well. Not sure about the drought in this area, but I'm sure it's dry all over.

My excitement is building, especially after seeing your pics and reading your report.

I'll post pics and a report when we get back!

Cheers....
john

Good luck John !!

My outfitter, Eugenio Lutz was the man in charge the hunting in Poitahue during 10 years !!

He now run his own outfitt.

Good luck and take a LOT of pictures for us !!!!!!!!!!!!!

L

Lorenzo. Thank you for sharing that wonderful hunt. I also enjoy staying in places like the one you showed us. I hunted in Mexico for many years, and the ranch accomodations were the same.

I am jealous of such a wonderful experience and I congratulate you on that fine stag.

Now, look at the photo of Pato with the binoculars. And on his belt is a knife that looks exactly like my Muela bowie which is now packed in my bag for my trip south Thursday. I will bring it with to Uruguay....

See you soon...

Con carino

Bill

Lorenzo: ¿was the roaring continous like it´s usual in normal years, or was it short and interrupted?. I have several reports and they differ very much between them. The antlers growth anomalies are very interesting...

Ricardo,

The roaring was short and interrupted. As soon as the sun went up they shut up and start again very late in the eveining. It was different from "cuadro" to "cuadro", one day they were roaring a lot in a block and the other day the same block was silent....

We saw SEVERAL heads that started thick and from mid and upwards they were thinner, as if they have stopped eating enough at some time of the antler's growth.

Of course this was not general to all deers or to "enclosure" deers, but we saw a lot of thin antlers, not many tins, skinny deers, etc.


I think it must be tough in a year like this to evaluate a true management deer (descarte) from a good potential animal but without enough feeding.

L