Well I survived the hunt. That in it self was an accomplishment. I have never hunted such a harsh environment in my life. Had some really up close and personal calls with a couple of bobcats 1 or which ran beside me so close I felt him running and when I turned to my left he couldn't have been more than 3 feet away. He ran towards the mojo and about time he got there it started spinning he jumped straight up and turned in the air and ran about 4 feet from me headed into the brush. This all went down in about 4 to 5 seconds . I didn't even get my gun up not that that would have made a difference at 20 feet. I was setting on 1 corner of a 4 sendaro. I had a couple run out of the most godforsaken brush you have ever seen only to dart right back in. The best chance I had was when I setup by a tank and started calling and caught movement across the flats of a pond. It turned out to be a trophy 12 point buck. I moved my rifle around and was watching him as he tore up a mesquite tree. He would look at the direction of the caller and then proceed to tear the tree to pieces. I looked back at the caller and there sat a bobcat looking at the mojo about 75 yards out. He turned and went back into the little ditch never to be see by me again. The buck came to within about 20 yards of the call and destroyed another little tree before slowly going to where he came from.I did manage to get 1 coyote but he spun around a couple times and darted back into the brush and I wasn't going in looking for him. Every thing on this place would poke, stab, prick, jab and literally cause you pain. I am still pulling cactus spines and thorns outta of my body. I pulled a 5/16" long thorn out of my calf tis morning. I did manage to drop some quail and shot some rabbits for dumpling though. Man I could see quail I shot from the road but there was no way to get to them. You couldn't get more than 3 feet of the road before you were in serious danger of being penetrated by some form of pain inducing plant!!!! I have an open invite to come back anytime and I plan to but with snake chaps and hex-armor gloves and a cane pole to retrieve anything worth bringing back out. Had some fun shooting a few javelin with my pistol but my phone and camera were in the other jeep. I did manage to score several arrow heads as this place was covered in them. My buddy probably picked up about half of a 5 gallon bucket when he would drop me off to hunt then go look for arrowheads and come back and take me to a new place. Did I mention this is a 7 thousand acre ranch? I do plan on returning to figure out how to hunt this type terrain but I will be better prepared next time and take some tweezers with me as well.
