For many a coues deer hunt is a bucket list hunt. This might seem a bit odd because if you are one of those folks who score or measure their deer, coues deer have very small antlers compared to other whitetails. However, a coues deer hunt is maybe more about the experience than the trophy. This is especially true if you get to hunt at a place like Rancho Mababi.
“…but I’m never really alone; dad’s dead, not gone. He’s with me there, just like he’s with me when I’m sitting under a hickory in the Appalachian hills. And I always try to have a nice and shiny, big red apple to share with him.”
My family instilled the love for the hunt inside me. My mother loved to sit in a hickory patch—still as a mouse—squirrel hunting. My father and his trusty Winchester Model 12, 16-gauge prowled the West Virginia hills for squirrel, rabbit, turkey and deer. And my grandfather, with his prosthetic leg and cane, followed coon hounds from dusk until dawn. They always took …
