Wednesday, January 16. 2008
Deer Hunting on the Pecos
The Outdoors writer for the Corpus Christi Caller Times writes about hunting in the Chihuahuan Desert.
That's some literary hunting.
Beneath the hovering raptors plunged a steep canyon that separated us from Mexico and from several scrawny goats huddled on a narrow ledge of reddish rock....
Conditions were not ideal.... something caught my eye about 100 yards into my walk.
It was the face of a doe peering at me from behind a prickly pear cluster... I stopped and slowly removed the rifle from my shoulder... Before I could level the muzzle of my rifle, I noticed the back end of another deer extending from the other side of the cactus. It was a motionless buck.
I could see it's antlers between the cactus pads.
Conditions were not ideal.... something caught my eye about 100 yards into my walk.
It was the face of a doe peering at me from behind a prickly pear cluster... I stopped and slowly removed the rifle from my shoulder... Before I could level the muzzle of my rifle, I noticed the back end of another deer extending from the other side of the cactus. It was a motionless buck.
I could see it's antlers between the cactus pads.
That's some literary hunting.
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