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Got my first Coues yesterday! Been hunting with traditional archery gear 10+ years and coues proved to be a challenge. Been in Arizona for the past 3 seasons and finally got one!

Another vote for Draysen with Great Hunter Skulls. I am not advertising this on his behalf but him and his right hand man turned around an antelope skull for me in 48 hours. Top notch all around.

Look up Rossislider on the Forum. His Son Draysen does them.

Heading up to 4b to set up camp for my nephew's first trophy cow elk hunt. Lol If anyone up there needs help or just wants a s'more, give me a shout. Actually I dont have any s'mores so please bring me some.

I have a 4b bull tag. I won't be hunting until my brother gets here from Indiana on Sunday. First time missing opening day....it's killing me. Last weekend I was practicing my calling from the campfire and had two bulls bugling. It's gonna be a warm one.

Bret Prentice at game trail has my vote.

Thanks, I got in touch with rossislider and will be using his son. Thanks everyone.

Hi guys, thanks for the support for Draysen. I'm sorry, Sorry, I don't know what is going on with the PMs, but my box is empty. Feel free to shoot Draysen or me a message or text. Thanks Draysen - 480-798-7643 Sean - 602-524-2973

Getting ready for school. I remember coming out of my bedroom and seeing my mom with tears in her eyes, mouth wide open covering it with her hand. I also remember being pissed off that football practice wasnt cancelled. Looking back on it today, that was a wise choice. We were all so pissed off that we had an amazing practice. We beat the dogsh!t out of each other.

Make sure that you rub your hand over the surface prior to any paint going on. If your hand is chalky at all, then insist on an additive like "Emulsa Bond" be added to the first coat. It will allow it to stick to a slightly chalky surface, but will need a top coat as it isn't designed to be used as a top coat. Probably TMI, but I do this for a living. Now go take your bow out and find a deer while you still can. LOL

Well, I got my antelope opening day, which was nice because I had the rest of the weekend to get ready for my elk hunt. I started in an area I had located a couple decent bucks but didn't turn anything up so started exploring some new country. I was glassing into a giant flat off of some really cool painted desert stuff and found a nice buck chasing a doe way, way out there and moving away fast. From my maps, it looked like I could get to a road that would take me closer, but ended up hitting a locked gate in the middle of nowhere. It looked like if I went far enough back around, I could get to it from another angle, but I decided to take a little two-tracker that looked at the flat from another direction. As soon as I got my tripod up and started glassing I found another buck, all alone about 1.5 miles out. Well, a buck right there was worth going after rather than trying to make a 20 mile loop to get on the guy that was moving fast in the wrong direction, so I started my stalk. I picked out a "knoll" way off in the distance that would at least tell me how far out in the middle of the flat this guy was. It turned out that knoll was much bigger than it looked from a distance - ha. So I worked my way off the red dirt hills to the edge of this huge flat. It was weird because it was really hard to navigate around in there. lots of dead-ends, up-and-down just to get to get off the hills and into the edge of the flat. I re-located the buck but he was still so far off I couldn't get a range from my sig kilo. Over 1000 yards still. I started working out a plan, and this guy just started trotting toward me. I got my first range at 643 yards, but it was clear he was going to do all the leg-work for me. There was a little ridge out there I didn't even see from up top, but once at eye level, he dropped behind it giving me an opportunity to make a move. There were almost no trees or bushes, so this was just what I needed to close the distance. As I got closer, there was a little run-off ditch I could use to stay low, but I knew once I came up out of it he'd be pretty close. Turns out, closer than I expected. When I popped up and started looking for him I expected him to be 200-300 yards out still, but he was withing 100 yards. I dropped back down and dialed my scope back down to the lowest power, then came back up to my knees. He was about 80 yards with his head down. I raised back up and shot him off-hand. He dropped right in his tracks. Doesn't get much easier than that - well until the pack out. Once I had him quartered and stuffed in my pack along with my gun, two pairs of binos, a tripod, etc. I could barely take more than a few steps in the sandy soil uphill toward the truck. I ended up having to leave half the meat and his head, and come back for them after getting more water and some food in me. Really kicked my old butt, but I manged to get him out.

Coues hunting Ended with a 'dang what just happened' yesterday. Found a spot in unit 1 with a pocket of coues deer. Hunted it every weekend and finally got into shooting range when a very good buck jumped cover at less than 20 yards and this guy watched from 45 yards than when I went to pull back he ran.

My wifes bison hunt from April is up on YouTube on The Mountain Project Page. Check it out and let me know whatcha think! Thanks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K34Vz5e2tSA

I was truley blessed this year...and was lucky to harvest this buck from my tree stand at 19yds. Had 6 bucks come in on my first day in stand. This buck decided to come in as I was preparing to leave for the day. I only had this buck on camera twice... but in 3 weeks from the first picture he must have doubled in size...amazing, and I'm sure he had a little growing left to do as well. We rough scored him at 107 1/8"

Don't discount the possibility of filtering/treating water in the field. You can use resources like topo maps, Google Earth, and Habimap to locate potential water sources in the area(s) you plan to hunt. Tanks (what dirt stock ponds are called out west) are pretty easy to spot on GE. But don't count on them actually having water when you get there. The water in many of them can be pretty sketchy looking, but a good filter can handle almost anything. It could save you trips to your vehicle, where you should definitely keep extra water regardless.

Your saying it's open to wood cutting? Or did I totally miss something, I'm sure the trolls will let me know. Lol

Dom with the voice of experience there...awesome.

A valley resident with Snowflake connections put this together from our Friday night game against Page! https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10212740724577968&id=1382702515

They are there! Unit 10 is nothing but a glassing unit. Then drive another mile up and glass. Hike up the next hill and glass. Sometimes I see them all day and then sometimes it takes days to see one. Don't let it get to you. Good luck and happy hunting.

I'm gonna head up just to practice with my bugle and hoochie mama. 😏😏😄😜

Dang it , now I have to wear spandex, we are heading down the wrong road..

gotta give credit where credit is due, ASU played great last night, the defense was impressive. If the QB was more accurate, I think ASU wouldn't of had such a tough time, he over threw every pass except one and the best / beast of a WR made a great catch. UA looks horrible, Sumlin is getting roasted, wasting Tate and the record shows, he better get it sorted out. UA's defense is atrocious and undermaned.

We packed him from the kill site to camp yesterday night to camp. Then broke camp and hiked every thing to the truck this morning