catclaw Report post Posted Sunday at 10:42 PM Excellent 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Rudebob Report post Posted Sunday at 11:55 PM Very nice deer. He should be very proud. Congratulations! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ingo Report post Posted Monday at 06:02 AM Thank you everyone. As pretty as he was he tastes even better! 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZbowhntr Report post Posted Monday at 01:40 PM Awesome! Congrats to you and your son. Would love to hear the story. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viper Report post Posted Monday at 04:55 PM Congrats! Hunting with kids is fun and very rewarding. Good job! I'll be heading down to 36b tomorrow for the after Thanksgiving hunt. The reports are not very encouraging. Sure beats working though. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ingo Report post Posted Monday at 06:20 PM 1 hour ago, Viper said: Congrats! Hunting with kids is fun and very rewarding. Good job! I'll be heading down to 36b tomorrow for the after Thanksgiving hunt. The reports are not very encouraging. Sure beats working though. It was shocking not to see a bunch of animals, for us. I literally didn't see a single doe. I scouted all day on Thursday before the hunt opened and Friday we hunted 2/3 of the day before we found the buck my son shot and another (likely bigger) buck and that's all the deer we saw. We were hunting near Pena Blanca/Rio Rico. I will say, the bucks were certainly not up high where I expected them to be. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ingo Report post Posted Monday at 06:40 PM 4 hours ago, AZbowhntr said: Awesome! Congrats to you and your son. Would love to hear the story. This was our first time hunting 36B but we had decent intel as we have friends in Rio Rico/Nogales and talked to a bunch of guys who were successful from elsewhere. I scouted all day Thursday before the hunt and found the areas I wanted to focus on. My son was pretty discouraged after not seeing anything Thursday and all of Friday until we found his buck in late afternoon. There were two bucks and they may have just briefly hit water and were walking back to bed down. My dad caught them up and then lost them but I found the one my son shot bedded and then my dad found the other. According to my dad the buck we didn't shoot was bigger. He was watching from about 700 yards away. My son and I snuck into 300 yards and he anchored the buck with the first shot but had to finish it off. I have him shooting my push-feed Winchester M70 in 7mag with 150gr Sierra Gamechangers at around 3100fps. It's a nice, light recoil load and they actually performed excellent and both exited. This buck was just a tough customer and still tried to crawl away after taking that second bullet through both lungs. The fat on him was like nothing I've ever seen and we had to shave off an inch just to pull the backstraps. Definitely eating good and living the relaxed life in a hidey-hole. I really love the area and have been waiting for an opportunity to hunt there. Hopefully many more hunts down there in the future. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
My Rights As An American Report post Posted Monday at 07:30 PM Great job, we saw over 80 does in 2.5 days before we saw a single spike buck on the last morning. Could not believe how many does we were seeing without seeing any bucks. Statistically speaking, should have seen way more bucks than we did! Also 36b. 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Viper Report post Posted yesterday at 04:40 AM On 11/24/2025 at 11:20 AM, Ingo said: It was shocking not to see a bunch of animals, for us. I literally didn't see a single doe. I scouted all day on Thursday before the hunt opened and Friday we hunted 2/3 of the day before we found the buck my son shot and another (likely bigger) buck and that's all the deer we saw. We were hunting near Pena Blanca/Rio Rico. I will say, the bucks were certainly not up high where I expected them to be. We're hunting near arivaca lake. Joined a friend who has hunted the area for several years. It appears they haven't had much rain here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
My Rights As An American Report post Posted yesterday at 04:57 AM We were near Arivaca Lake also and saw a ton of deer, but all does that I could see. I think a few of the deer I saw were bucks but could not see their heads. Some probably had headgear on them, but we did not get a good view of those. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Zeke-BE Report post Posted 18 hours ago My sons hunt was there too. It felt tough tough too. But Monday when the sun came out saw lots of does. I had work to finish up so we called it quits.. A handful of other hunters said they had a hard time trying to find just a deer. But very proud of my son though. He is getting better at glassing. He was the first one to locate a deer. 1100 yards, bedded down under a mesquite tree while cloudy out side. He even guided me into the location and I said yeah I can see why you might think that is a deer. Second guessing him. And then her head moved lol 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
