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Hi, I'll post some pictures from Uruguay in the next days but meanwhile I'll give you a small idea.

Down here there is not too much hunting organization, with the exception of bird shooting and big game in Argentina and a little in Chile (red stags & fallow).

In Uruguay (my country) it's very easy for a foreign hunter to come and go hunting, everyone will be trying to be nice and I'm sure that many farmers will allow to a tourist to spend some days in their farms, that's not a problem the problem is that you'll need some local hunter to help you because if not you'll be walking around in a very ETHICAL way for weeks, and see nothing.

The terrain is mostly open, with a few hills (very low) and many rivers. In the shores of these rivers you'll find thick vegetation, mostly thorn bush and pajonales (tall grass), here is where you will find pigs and a few different deer species.

If someone will ask what will be my recomendation for a REAL, and affordable hunt (not in money but in logistics) for a foreigner, I will recomend two differents places, the Chaco region in Paraguay and the Patagonia region in Argentina.

Of these two the most easier one to organize (always for a foreigner) is the argentinian hunt for red stags.

Each year around mid december there is an auction where big areas of a National Park called Parque Nacional Lanin are sell to hunters, these areas are more or less of 3.000 ha each one and are called "cotos", if you are a foreigner you pay the price by three, depends of the week you buy how much you will pay, the rut season goes through march and april and the first weeks are cheapier because the weather is still hot and the rut don't start but the deers are there, they're just more difficult to find.

The only limits between these areas are rivers, mountains, etc.

You're allowed to spend a week with a hunter companion with a red stag for each one, you split the cost of the week auctioned, then you must hire a guide, horses, food, you must add a new regulation were you must pay a fee for the deer depending in quality (around 300 for a good/normal one), you must add a tag and your hunting license.

This is a big and wild place bordering Chile (andes mountains), if the summer is rainy the deers will 've water and will stay more up in the mountains, so is better to go later.

If not you can go to big private lands (no fences) and hunt there....the first one it's more difficult but can be cheapier.In the private lands you will pay more, how much? depends

In the future I will share information about other places.
Hope this help somebody to plan a hunt in SAmerica.

I've been also fishing (fly) many places (from the amazon to the patagonia) so if somebody wants information just ask, you can do many things for yourself and pay very little.

Regards
Lorenzo