Deer Hunting on the Pecos
The Outdoors writer for the <a href="https://cactusjungle.com/archives/blog/exit.php?url_id=1776&entry_id=1581" title="http://caller.com/news/2008/jan/06/sikesoutdoors/" onmouseover="window.status=’http://caller.com/news/2008/jan/06/sikesoutdoors/’;return true;" onmouseout="window.status=”;return true;">Corpus Christi Caller Times</a> writes about hunting in the Chihuahuan Desert.<br /><br /><div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-style: italic;">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….<br />
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Conditions were not ideal…. something caught my eye about 100 yards into my walk.<br />
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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.<br />
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I could see it’s antlers between the cactus pads.</span><br /></div><br />That’s some literary hunting.<br /><br />
