CayoSonora

I figured that huge white head looked familiar......Good ranch, we scouted forever but did not see huge ones....

Traveler, you should take a look at this file that I came across in the web, detailing the origins of Primero Conservacion. http://www.wildsonora.com/ws/sites/default...valdez-2010.pdf Regards.

Here's mine, never scored but a nice story. Shot 60 miles northwest of Hermosillo with a .300 WSM.

Hello to all Readers and Regulars, I'm new to the forum but have been reading your good stories and seeing great pics for some time now. Here's an account of my experience this last weekend: we started off Friday flying to Hermosillo, from Mexico City, and arriving at the Ranch well past bedtime. This ranch is 70 miles northwest of Hermosillo, with 22,000 acres of desert lowland -chollas, mesquites, buffel grass and paloverdes all around- (choked full of HUGE deer, both Mule and Coues). Two "little" sierras dot the northeast and southwest corners. It has a story of producing marvelously racked Coues for the past 10 years, as evidenced by my friend and owner Alberto's 130-class biggie (that he will surely upload soon). As it has been mentioned in recent posts, predictability went out the window with out-of-season rains that drenched most of Sonora. Deer that were being seen on trail cameras and by ranch vaqueros in waterholes vanished with the first inch of rain. We were doing a combo hunt with Alberto focusing on muleys and my time invested in chasing the "grey ghost". Hunting out of the pick-up and tower, Saturday turned out to be a bit slow with a couple of Muleys and two Coues seen (a small buck almost crashed out car). Sunday was much better, with us hitting the road before light and seeing lots of movement: two nice MD bucks, lots of does and at 8:17am, a mega shooter MD buck that Alberto struck twice with is trusty M70 .270 Win. After that, I was ready for the sierras. I hiked the first peak to set up a glassing port and saw only a doe being frantically trailed by a small buck. By mid day, I had changed locations a couple of times spotting deer long ways from me, and with the heat creeping up, I decided to get down and radio in for a lift to the ranch house. After the car came, we rode the trail around the Northeast sierra, finding lots of deer sign among the ocotillos and paloverdes. At the sudden pull of the cord that connects the tower with the driver, I saw heart-pounding white fluffs bouncing 150 yards away. We quickly spotted a young buck followed by dark, thick rack with large eyeguards. Swinging the Sako Finnlight to the shoulder (.300 WSM), almost by instant reflex, I found nothing on the scope, with the bucks disappearing into the mountainside. After a couple of minutes of planning our attack on the deer fortress above us and riding 200 yards around the mountain, we detected both deer slowly coming back to their original spot. Round in the chamber, I placed the crosshairs on the expected crossing path and after some looooooooong two minutes, catched the small buck passing by, it was just moments for the other one to appear – a quick whistle made the buck stop, so I sent the 180 grainer to meet him there. I'm very happy with my buck, the best one to date, taken on a Ranch full of history and family connections going way back (my great grandfather bought cattle there). Let's see if I can repeat the feat next season with a bigger one!! We unwond monday calling up some coyotes, with Alberto and my brother Luis Manuel anchoring one each. Thanks and Good Hunting! Ricardo.