Search on the market for any other TOP QUALITY LODGE like Estancia Ninette that offers you a 1rst class trip for less than 250 bucks a day, and we will low it down for you. Trust me....you won`t find a trip like this for the money.
Contact Javier for more info and book your trip NOW[email protected]also you can contact him on skype javierssarasola
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=26Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:24:08 -0700Report from a customer
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Mr James Major, Mr David Cliffe, Mr Franck Goodall and charming Ms Rachel Morrison were brought by a long time friend of the house Mr Martin Price. They had an oustanding five day hunting trip with a "one day break" they use to feel familiar with the area and go visit some of the cities near by (Mercedes and the british influenced Fray Bentos). Here is a one day report written by one of the gentleman Mr David Cliffe.
We were certainly glad to have Mr Price once again visiting our place and all his fun crowds.
We had a good nights sleep after a very good dinner (a type of indoor bar-b-q) so now its on to the main thing-shooting. We leave c9.30am in two pickups complete with guns (over & under 20bores), cartridges, stools, cool box of water and beers etc and �the boys� [they are loaders, carriers and general dogs bodies but very pleasant and a smattering of English]. We drive approx 5 miles onto a neighbouring property to find random clumps of trees and somewhere to �pitch camp�. The ground is generally poor grass but does support many cattle-mainly Herefords. null
Each gun places itself some distance apart although James and Frank tend to be close together and compete for numbers shot!! Your writer is in a different numbers� league!. What we are shooting are grey doves. They bear little resemblance to English white doves being much more like a smaller pigeon. It has to be said at the outset that there are literally thousands of them and they eat grain, sunflowers and saw gum (this fact has been proved by James �dissecting� some with his fingers!) so they are a real pest. They tend to fly in random directions and �duck & dive� making shooting quite difficult (at least to me). We tend to shoot for say 1hr, have a drink break and chat & then resume for a further hour finishing around 12.30 to return for lunch, a siesta (depending on the volume of red wine at lunch! [but not your writer!] and then back out for a further 1� hrs till about 7.00. It doesn�t get dark here till around 8.45/9.00 pm. Today has been v hot-up to >35�C!!. Tonight there are been some spectacular lightning in the sky a good distance off but it did not rain here (but there was a power cut-interestingly although a very long way from anywhere here, they are on a mains electric supply (11kv I suspect) although Hector no doubt paid heavily to have it installed (with a generator backup)!
The shooting here is spectacular and Hector has to be congratulated on �getting it all together� here and providing such enjoyable sport. The doves provide really good sport-many birds at some distance and only for the best shots!
David Cliffe
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=24Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:20:18 -0800Summer time is coming to an end
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Estancia Ninette is coming to an end before starting with our Perdiz and Duck season on May. null
As we are fully booked for the rest of Febraury and some dates of March, we are offering the remaining dates of March and April at a very special price. null
So ask Victoria ([email protected]) about this super trip and don't miss your place. Also if you want to live a "lifetime experience" with your kids, iniciating them into wildlife, ask for the father a son special.
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=23Tue, 2 Feb 2010 10:07:54 -0800Happy new year!!!!!!
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javiof course in the best place for that... Estancia Ninette.
Happy 2010!!!
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=22Sat, 9 Jan 2010 02:15:15 -0800Another reason why coming to Uruguay
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Dudley Althaus who writes for the well known Texan magazine Houston Chronicle. Give it a careful read and check one more time why Uruguay and Estancia Ninette is the safer way to choose your next hunting trip
When the hunters become the hunted
How nine Houston men were assaulted and robbed in the ranchlands of Mexico
MEXICO CITY � Like generations of Texans, nine Houston hunters traveled each autumn into northeastern Mexico's wildlife-rich ranchlands for a few uninterrupted days of shooting game, far removed from the workday world.
But that ended abruptly last month after the men were rounded up, robbed and terrorized by well-armed marauders.
The nine were wrapping up an afternoon of white-wing dove hunting about 100 miles south of the Rio Grande when a dozen men, armed with assault rifles, roared into the grain field in pickup trucks. The businessmen, some as old as 76, were forced to kneel on a gravel road or lie spread-eagle in the dirt for more than an hour.
The gunmen drank from the Texans' booze supply, kicked several of their victims, and hit several with rifles and shovels, repeatedly threatening them and the Mexican men assisting the hunt. Before driving away, the brigands confiscated cash, shotguns, wedding rings, watches and cameras worth nearly $50,000, the hunters estimate.
U.S. sportsmen have long enjoyed northern Mexico's hunting and fishing, spawning an industry that sustains dozens of lodges and feeds the incomes of thousands of ranchers and villagers.
Tourism to Mexico has sharply declined amid the economic downturn as well as worries over the H1N1 flu epidemic and narcotics-related violence that has claimed some 14,000 lives in three years. Despite operating in what many consider to be gangster country, the hunting largely has been immune from trouble � until now.
�They were like a bunch of cowboys, Wild West guys,� said Stephen Spencer, 72, a former Harris County constable and reserve sheriff who was in the Oct. 18 hunting party. �When a guy has a machine gun pointed at you, you do what they tell you to do.�
Mexican and U.S. officials, as well as hunting promoters and lodge owners, say the assault near Villa de M�ndez � a village about 110 miles south of the border at McAllen � is an isolated incident. But the case raises the specter of alarm for the more than 17,000 hunters, many if not most from Texas, who flock each autumn to areas under the sway of the Zeta gunmen of the Gulf Cartel, the organized crime syndicate based in Tamaulipas state.
�I think they wanted us gringos gone and not coming down there,� said Mark Rand, 50, owner of a commercial printing company in Houston, who has hunted in northeastern Mexico for 21 years and says he lost $14,000 worth of equipment in the robbery. �I'm not going back.�
A U.S. consulate spokesman in Monterrey acknowledged receipt of the hunters' complaint about the robbery but said he couldn't discuss details of the case. Neither the U.S. consulate nor the Tamaulipas state government have received any similar reports, the officials said.
�People are negative on Mexico already, and people getting robbed is not going to help,� said Dean Putegnat, who owns Rancho Caracol, a hunting lodge near Lake Vicente Guerrero in Tamaulipas.
A new problem
Putegnat, whose family has hunted in Tamaulipas for decades and owns several lodges in the state, said drug-smuggling gangs have never shown any interest in hunters.
Putegnat's lodge Web site argues that reports and fears of Mexico's violence are overblown. �This is the first time in my whole life something like this has happened.�
On the other hand, with narcotics smuggling under pressure by the Mexican government's crackdown, cartel criminals and other gangs have diversified into kidnapping, extortion and other crimes in many communities.
The Houston men were hunting out of Rancho Acazar, a not-for-profit lodge that until recently hosted nearly 2,000 sportsmen a year. Founded in the late 1950s by partners from Texas, the lodge has closed indefinitely.
Business was off before the assault. Hunts were halved this year from the usual 18, and the number of hunters at each outing dropped by a third to fewer than 20.
Still, relations with the locals remained good. Hunters routinely passed out candy to children in M�ndez and offered seasonal jobs to locals at the lodge and in the field.
�They usually don't mess with Americans,� said Jeff Van Wart, 49, a Houston investment banker whose 76-year-old father, Don, has been organizing hunts as one of nine partners in Rancho Acazar since the early 1960s. �That's what we were counting on.�
But this fall, Van Wart said, gunmen had demanded $1,000 to allow Acazar's guests to hunt the season. The hunters began noticing pickup trucks with men parked at the entrances to M�ndez, as if watching who came and went. In early October, an Acazar hunting party was forced to a stop outside the village by an unidentified man with an assault rifle. The man angrily told them not to throw candy to the children in the street because it was dangerous.
The robbery took place a few weeks later.
The attack
That Sunday, the nine hunters had driven through Mexican army checkpoints on either end of M�ndez about 4 p.m. on the way to the field. Split into two groups, they had been hunting about two hours and were getting ready to quit when the gunmen showed up near sunset. Some of the bandits wore what seemed like police uniforms, the hunters said, and carried military-style portable radios.
They gathered the entire hunting party, 20 all together, in a field: �I thought they were police officers at first,� said Rand, who was forced face down into the bed of a pickup truck, atop three Mexican lodge employees with a gunman's foot on his neck.
What sounded like a shovel chinked into the earth nearby. He was certain, Rand said, that graves were being dug. Men were smacked with rifles or shovels.
�I already made up my mind that if they lined us up like a firing squad they were going to have to shoot me in the back, because I was running,� he said.
The man apparently in charge of the gunmen � who spoke English � told Rand to �relax, calm down. The next time you hunt, don't hunt so close to town.�
After it was over, they were �whooping and hollering like an old Western,� Rand said. �It was like The Magnificent Seven.�
The hunters don't plan to return to Mexico any time soon, if ever.
�Until these guys disappear permanently, it isn't safe,� said Don Van Wart, 76, who acts as Rancho Acazar's president. �There isn't anything to stop this from happening again.�
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=21Wed, 25 Nov 2009 12:30:20 -0800New way to find estancianinette.com on the web
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Estancia Ninette� have just join www.outfittersrating.com. This web is a very trustable way to find hunting trips all over the world, mostly big game hunting. You can find from an Elk hunt in Cottonwood CA to a dove, pigeon, perdiz and duck hunt in Estancia Ninette�.
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=20Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:06:08 -0800Who is Javier Sarasola
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Estancia Ninette� is not only recognized around the world for having the best upland hunting, wing shooting and waterfowl hunting in Uruguay. Not only for being the only Ranch on hunting right in the backyard witch is only 5 minutes from the lodge, is also recognized for it great service, and care for the customer, in the hunting field and lodge, but also outside of there where you really need some assistance and local knowledge. null
That�s why we are glad to introduce you Javier Sarasola. Javier is the first face you�ll see at the airport when you arrive. He takes care of all the paperwork needed for hunting, licenses and gun clearance before you get here. After he meets you inside the airport Javier will guide you through customs and help you signing all the paperwork so you get out of the airport with all done, ready to go straight to the lodge and begin the adventure.
When returning, he is in charge of signing papers for the guns departure and making sure that you�ll have no inconvenient on your way out. As Estancia Ninette� is a family busniess, Javier is my nephew, the youngest of the family, he speaks perfect English (proficiency grade), and has a variety of different degrees in tourism. Besides assistance Javier will solve any unwanted problem that may happen during flights as losing bags or else. null That�s why we say that the perfect trip starts right in the baggage line.
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Hector null]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=19Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:16:40 -0700How to get here
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American Airlines Several airlines arrive to Uruguay daily from United States, mainly departing from Miami airport you can get here by Copa, Lan, Tam or Taca among others. But only one company has a direct flight from Miami to Montevideo and that company is American Airlines, the chosen one by Estancia Ninette�.
American Airlines has daily flights to Uruguay from different parts of United States arriving thru Buenos Aires (EZE), and one straight flight departing from Miami Airport (MIA). From November 20th to December 18th AA (American Airlines) has three frequencies departing from Miami, Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and from December 18th will have five frequencies, every day but Wednesday and Sunday.
Why AA straight flight is the preferred by Estancia Ninette�, because it arrives at mid morning, usually around 9 AM, so either if you drive or flight to the lodge, it gives you plenty of time to unpack, take a shower, have lunch and enjoy that first half day of shooting at its best, without any rush. And the late take off gives you the opportunity to enjoy that last day of hunting without feeling that you will be late for your flight. When you click for you preferred trip don't hesitate on asking Victoria ([email protected]) and she will be happy to give you a flight quotation, so you can have the best rate to your trip.
Coming from Europe there are also many options available, but the best is get a connection to Madrid (Barajas) and Iberia has it straight flight to Uruguay arriving at mid morning also so you can enjoy all the benefits explained of coming earlier. null Links that might help you
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www.copaair.com
www.tam.com.br
www.aa.com
www.lan.com
Either way you decide to come we will be happy to host you and make you enjoy the life time experience that Estancia Ninette� is.
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Thats why we are happy to announce the new alliance of Estancia Ninette with La zona fishing. World record dorados will be mixed with different hunting activities depending on the season, mannaged with the quality and experience of Estancia Ninette's staff. null In the next few days Estancia Ninette will publishing new programs with all the details. DONT MISS IT.
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Hector Hunting]]>Generalhttp://estancianinette.com/blogs/index.php?itemid=17Wed, 30 Sep 2009 10:35:18 -0700A LETTER FROM A FRIEND, CARTER SCHILLING.
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Hector Sarasola and Estancia La Ninette located near the agricultural city of Mercedes, Uruguay. I have been wing shooting in South America continually since 1991 and have wing shooting experience in Argentina, Bolivia, Columbia and Uruguay with many outfitters. Out of all the wing shooting destinations Uruguay offers the safest and most reasonably priced option compared to the other countries. Of all the outfitters I have hunted with I rank Hector as one of the �Best�. Against his peers in Uruguay Hector is the �Best�.
What makes Hector different than the others � he is �hands on�. Unlike other outfitters he takes a personal interest to see that each hunter has a good experience. Mr. Sarasola also takes responsibility - including the small details that insure that each hunt is the best he can provide his customers. Other Uruguay outfitters send their groups out with a supervisor while the owner/outfitter remains in Montevideo. Normally one does not see the outfitter until it is time to collect the money at the end of the trip for shells and gratuities. There are no surprises or hidden fees when hunting with Hector � he is a straight shooter and abides by his word.
Hector has a wonderful lodge designed for hunters in a �spectacular� location over looking the Rio Negro. The location of Estancia Ninette is not by chance, but was carefully selected. Besides the wonderful view of the river, Estancia La Ninette is adjacent to a landing field providing easy access by private charter from Montevideo or Buenos Aires. More important is the 10 minute drive to the nearby roost containing tens of thousands of eared dove. The food at the lodge is terrific and his staff is polite, courteous and professional.
Being from Texas we do a lot of quail hunting. The next best thing to quail hunting is to experience the excitement of a Perdiz hunt with Hector over his kennel of fantastic French Brittney�s. Unlike other outfitters in Uruguay Hector has an abundance of fields to hunt the Perdiz. Hector will put you in a field of Perdiz, the shooting is up to you!
Just to let you know I am a �flyer� shooter as well as a hunter. In my travels to compete in �flyer� competition in South America I have come to know many competitors from Uruguay. Hector Sarasola is a well known and respected member of the Club de Tiro in Montevideo. This should tell you that he more than an outfitter, but a member in good standing in his community. Mr. Sarasola and his family have been to Dallas and San Antonio to shoot in �sporting� events. His son Hector has stayed at our home when visiting Dallas.
Please feel free to call me anytime to discuss hunting with Hector Sarasola and Estancia La Ninette. I will return soon to Uruguay and when I do it will be to hunt with Hector and stay at Estancia La Ninette.