Headed south of the border to do some collecting

After four years of going we have really learned the wheres, whens, and hows of that area. Started the first morning by sleeping in a little bit and doing a Dovehunt so that everybody could dust the cobwebs off.

And 750 rounds and 600+ dove later I had to the cobwebs knocked off.



One of the guys with us had been to Argentina several times and he said this dove hunt rivaled anything he'd ever seen.


The first afternoon we got set up on the bay with the new vboard and full-bodied floater Brent that we brought down got in a little bit of brant shooting.


We only saw small percentage of the Brant, ducks, shorebirds, pelicans etc. that you would normally see on the bay but we did get a few nice groups of Brant to decoy and picked up a couple great ones for mounts and a couple with some bands.

Today too we split the groups. Half went for a canal duck hunt and half went for a dove hunt.

Spent a little time sitting with Brad taking turns shooting the dove that were screaming through the Mesquite brush.




The guys on the ditches got everything that they wanted including all three of the teal and the Mexican Mallard.


With the lower than normal duck numbers we decided to get the Brant decoys split up and get everybody set up for their best opportunity for a few brant.





One of the brant was banded 19 years ago. She's flown a lot of miles up and down that West Coast.

The third day we decided to stick a little closer to home and split groups on Dove and canal hunting.

The morning Canal hunt was exceptional.






And the afternoon when wasn't bad either.



Brad and I stayed busy skinning for two evenings and everybody left with everything they wanted.


Living in central Texas we have Mexican food readily available. But the one thing I will miss from this trip was the home-cooked Mexican food they made for us.
We didn't ask what it was but holy smokes it was good.

This is like deja vu Almost like I have seen this post before somewhere else

I wanna do that sometime...I think I'd rather do that than a trip north of the border.

Looks like fun, congrats!

Well look who just crawled out from under his rock

Hell of a nice trip. What's with the zip ties? I'm guessing it signifies a bird that someone wants to mount?

great pics and story. Do they band a particularly high percentage of brant?

Yes. Each of us has a color. Helps keep us organized.

Yes. Depending on which colony it can be has high as 20% or as low as 5%. Either way it's a bunch. In. 4 yrs 30/32 hunters have gotten at least one.

One guy this yr shot 6 total and 4 were double banded.

Nice!! Looks like y'all still got in to them despite lower numbers this year. Our guys there now have sent in some pretty stellar reports.

Awesome pics looks like some serious fun. If you were ever going to mount a dove that one in the close up pic would be the one.

Definitely had a great trip. Numbers across central and western Mexico are low. Guys in mazatlan have been struggling and we shot about 200 ducks less than the last three yrs. my business partners private UMA in Mexico has been terrible. They normally shoot 500+ ducks on a Sunday and the last two weeks they've shot 10 for the entire club.

Everybody is blaming the lack of weather in CA. With that said we adjusted tactics and still had a great time. Dove hunting g like that can quickly erase the thoughts of lower than normal duck numbers.

Did you do this through a guide service or just by yourself from previous visits? Id love to do something like that

Looks like so much fun, but still dont trust mexico.

There are parts of Mexico that are just as dangerous as south Dallas and other places that are just as nice as North Richland Hills. You just have to know where to go.

Where Brazos and I go in Obregon is safe. Unless you want to go looking for trouble.

I guess so.
My last trip to Tijuana was scary to say the least

I'd love to make a trip like this.

Y'all did great.

Looks like y'all had a good hunt. I'll be there in two weeks, can't wait.

Hope your hunt goes well Jbrad!

That's awesome

I booked through wing shooters safaris. I have a week booked for next yr in the first week if fen with a couple open spots.

Awesome! Looks like it was a blast

Looks like a great trip, and bet you like getting some cool birds to mount. Last time I was in Mexico, had those same fried tacos, they were serving them buffet style and cookin them in front of us, man they were awesome. When I got home I had to cook some duck the same way, pretty darn good way to have duck. Put a toothpick through them to keep them closed.