***Daily Hunt Pics and Stories 2005***

[Jeff Holchin]

I was surprised to have rain in the desert, and enjoyed the colors in the landscape that at first seemed bleak and harsh, but was actually full of life.

[Jeff Holchin]

Oops, I forgot to add this photo....

 

[Jeff Holchin]

My last photo shows the only animal that I stalked within range of.  Of course, I didn't have a javalina tag!

 

It was a nice bowhunting adventure and I hope to return next January.  The only downside was the amount of illegal aliens passing through this area, something that made me worry about my safety as a loner instead of focusing on the animals.  I had planned on "coyote hunting", sleeping wherever the night found me as i followed the deer, but upon the advice of the border patrol agents I encountered, I slept in my locked truck with my 2 friends, Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson.

[Killdeer]

Always an excellent choice of companions! That certainly is a beautiful place. Your first picture made me feel the spirit of the land. I don't know if I would see any game out there at all, I would be so busy scanning the ground for chipped stone. That was a grand hunt indeed!

Killdeer  

[BrandoninAZ]

Jeff, that second pic looks like the backside of the Huachucas, am I right?

[Warren H. Womack]

Jeff, You did a great job posting your first batch of pictures. I look forward to seeing lot's more.

Thank you for sharing.

Warren

[Terry Green]

Thanks Jeff!!!!!!....nice pics.

[Roughcountry]

Really nice Jeff, Thanks.
I have the pamplet that Mr Warner Glen put together on the jaguar he bayed up. It's the first wild Jaguar ever taken on film in the United States. It has several pictures and the story how they ended up with the cat bayed in the rocks. He called it Eyes of Fire. Good stuff

[TexMex]

Really nice pictures, thanks

[Huntrdfk@Work]

Hey Jeff,

Great pics as usual.  Are those still the same arrows from the moose hunt?  

Great to see you posting pics here.

Take care,
David

[Jeff Holchin]

Thanks, and to think they came from a wal-mart disposable camera!  I really need to buy a decent digital camera and carry it all the time.

Yes, David, same arrows - I'm cheap!

Brandon, that ridge is actually part of the Tumacacori mountains.

Killdeer, I always kept one eye on the ground but was not lucky enough to find any arrowheads.  I even spent time in this cave, blackened from many fires, without luck.  I could almost feel the ghosts of the past, and wondered just who and what had used this cave throughout time...
 

Tracks in the dirt revealed that the most recent visitor was a large cat.

Jeff

[Mark Normand]

Very interesting pics Jeff, thx for posting.  Much different than swamps here.   :-))

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

Charlie,

THAT'S THE PICTURE!!!

What a heck of a shot, for both your and the guy on the camera.

[bayoulongbowman]

Jeff , where do ya get tag for the ilegals aliens????????....what the best bait...        IM JUST KIDDING PEOPLE , lighten up its all good...

[WoodChips]

Jeff,
Those are some great pictures. Beautiful country. Hope to get out there someday. Thanks for sharing.

[Jeff Holchin]

Roughcountry, I couldn't get over the beauty of the jaguar in the photos I saw.  Big cats fascinate me.  It reminded me of a story I heard about a hunter in south or central america, who hunted them with a spear.  I'd love to learn more about him, if anybody knows.

[RayMO]

Jeff the pics are just great. Next best thing to actually being there. I especially like the one of the bow next to the cactus.

[Roughcountry]

Jeff
The spear hunters name was Shasha Semiual or something like that. There are two or three books about his hunts but they are long out of print and very expensive. I've seen a few for sale but way out of my price range.
  When they quit letting you bring the hide of the jaguar back into the united states it stopped most the hunting of the cats for profit. I have a couple books by outfitters that ran hunts in cental and south america. Real good reading but I don't remember one story of someone using a bow.

Mr Glen in his booklet says it was his all time hunting highlite when he bayed the cat up. Thats says a lot, he's been hunting and guiding hunters for most of his life. All the profits for his booklet went to a fund to pay ranchers for any preadation the cat caused. They tryed to head off a listing under the endangered spec. act but failed I think.
  If it was legal to bring back the hide a jaguar hunt would be at the top of my list for the ultimate hunt. I'd love to do it with a bow but notice most of the guys who hunted them carried shotguns. Bad kitty in a scrape I think.

[Littlefeather]

Hey Robin, Ya got room for a Texas Boar hunter in Oregon next year during cat season? I'd love to do a little kitty pestering! CK

[Roughcountry]

CK, Got room for you in my camp anytime. I tryed to see what the chances would be this winter on getting a big cat without dogs. It was a bad year snow wise so wasn't a fair test. I did find one kill that I could of got a cat off of, problem was she was a young female so I didn't sit on it.
 They are trying to introduce a bill to bring back the dogs on a limited basis. Trying to stop our deer & elk from the big nose dive their on. Don't know if our Governer will sign it. I know you don't want one with dogs but at least if you missed getting a shot we could send you home with a great picture. You sure never forget when one locks those eyes on you. Kind of the same as landing a huge gamefish takin a pic and letting him go. Better than a harvest in my book.

I might have a deal thought out on our fall bear also. I'll give it a try this fall and let you know if it's good enough odds for the darn out of state fees. Don't know that I'd say the cat odds are very good after this winters huntin. If you ever get up this way I'll have extra firewood cut. I've heard you really like things cool after living in that heat all the time.

The tent don't have anything electric so your safe that way.