San Felipe Ranch of Benlett-Pachard Santa Clara County August 24-26, 1979 I arrived for the annual deer chasing festival at 3 PM and found the Livermore sipping a beer in the shade. Hunter kept arriving until our full quota of 12 was on hand. We set out for the evening hunt in four jeeps, and when we returned at dark there was only one buck taken -- a little fawn that lived in the pasture by the barn. It is abundantly clear that the two drought years, which virtually no fawns were reared, have caused a substantial drop in the deer population. In our jeep we saw 28 deer on Henderson Ridge; in recent years on the same hunt we would have seen 100 to 150 deer, including 35 to 40 legal bucks. Of the 28, two were legal bucks. On Hunter Lissett Bruce Elliot reports that of the first 50+ bucks killed, one was a yearling, something like 4 were two-year olds, and the rest were big mature animals. Thus the hunting was considerably tougher than we are accustomed to. He did much more brush-beating about. One by one we got deer until finally we ended up with nine, of which two were old heavy bucks, several were three year olds and four or five were two-year-old fawns. No-one got two -- but I got one. There came on the Saturday afternoon hunt with Dorrie Hoyle and Ernie Arbuckle. I took them to Borastiegs