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Southeastern Arizona / Est. 2004
Coues whitetail. Desert mule deer. A guide who knows the country, a hunt built around you, and the kind of days that stay with you.
The hunts
Three focused Arizona deer hunts, each guided one-on-one and priced per hunter. Compare the season, length and next open dates below.
Five days. One guide. A lot of glass.
Two deer. Nine days. Four thousand feet.
Your outfitter
“I answer every call because the person booking the hunt should know exactly who will be standing beside him when the light comes up.”
This is not a booking desk feeding hunters to whichever guide is free. Ray scouts the country, calls every client, and guides the same ground he has worked since 2004.
Ray Delgado
Owner · Arizona registered outfitter
Why book with us
Standard on every hunt, and the only way we run the desert mule deer camp. Coues hunting is a two-person job.
We cap it. Nobody is following another hunter through the same drainage two days behind you.
We have never operated outside southeastern Arizona and we do not lease country in three states.
Cameras run from September. By opening morning we know which bucks made it through the summer.
The land
Southeastern Arizona is a hundred desert mountain ranges standing in a sea of grass and saguaro. Drive an hour and you climb from creosote flats at nineteen hundred feet to Douglas fir at nine thousand. The deer sort themselves by elevation: Coues in the oak and manzanita up top, desert mule deer on the bajadas below.
It means two genuinely different hunts inside forty miles of each other, and it means the country is big enough that nobody has looked at all of it. We have spent twenty-one seasons narrowing down which parts are worth looking at.
The method
There is one way to kill a mature Coues buck consistently, and it is not glamorous.
Fifteen-power binoculars on a tripod, sitting down, before shooting light. We will burn two hours on one hillside before we take a step. Most outfits move too much. Movement is how you push deer into the next drainage without ever seeing them.
We run cameras from September and sit glassing points through the fall. By opening morning we have a list — which bucks made it through the summer, which drainages they are using, and which ones are worth five days of your week.
Coues hunting is a two-person job. Somebody stays on the deer through the spotter while somebody else closes the distance. Split that attention three ways and you lose animals. We run 1×1 as standard and we do not run 2×1 at all on the desert hunt.
We spend an afternoon on the range before opening day confirming your rifle and your honest maximum distance in wind. If a buck is past that number, we do not shoot at him — we go get closer or we come back tomorrow.
Proof
Every deer this outfit has taken in the last three seasons. We publish all of it, including the years that were thin.
This doe brought two bucks past the camera four nights running. We started D. Marchetti here.
Heavy old buck feeding on a grassy bench below the rim. K. Whitfield took him that evening.
Four hours on this face. Nine deer, one buck worth walking to.
Water. Everything in this country comes back to it by the second week of September.
Same wash, same week, three years running.
Twenty minutes of shooting light left and a buck two ridges out.
“I had hunted Coues twice before with other outfits and never fired a shot. Wes found my buck at 2,100 yards on the third morning and we spent six hours getting to 340. That is the whole hunt in one sentence.”
Camp
You are buying nine or ten hours a day in the field and about six hours in camp. We take the second number seriously.
Our Coues hunters stay in a 1930s adobe ranch house at the mouth of Aravaipa Canyon. Private room each, a real bed, laundry, hot water at four in the morning, and Starlink if you have to answer something. Dinner is at a long table and it is the best part of the day.
The mule deer hunt runs out of a wall-tent camp on the bajada, because the country is four hours from anywhere and we would rather spend that time glassing. Heated tents, cots, real bedding, hot showers, and a cook who has been with us since 2013.
The invitation
Nobody books a hunt like this off a website, and we would not want you to. Tell us what you want to hunt and roughly when, and Ray will call you. Fifteen minutes on the phone tells both of us more than any brochure.
Or just call (520) 555-0148
Open dates — 2026 & 2027
| Year | Hunt | Dates | Open |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | Coues · rifle, early | Oct 30 – Nov 5 | 2 openings |
| 2026 | Coues · rifle, rut Best week we sell | Dec 28 – Jan 3 | 1 openings |
| 2026 | Desert mule deer · rut Waitlist | Dec 14 – Dec 20 | Waitlist |
| 2027 | Coues · rifle, rut | Jan 6 – Jan 12 | 4 openings |
| 2027 | Desert mule deer · rut | Jan 8 – Jan 14 | 2 openings |
| 2027 | Two-deer hunt | Dec 28 – Jan 7 | 2 openings |
Hunts from$7,900 2026 openings3 Speak to the outfitter(520) 555-0148
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