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Well, had a really tough hunt this year. Turns out I wasn't the only one that knew about my target bucks. After dealing with people shelling off artillery rounds at the bucks from over 1000 yards every morning i decided to back out of the area for a couple of days and let the pressure die down. I snuck back into my perch on Tuesday evening and was able to knock this buck down. He was about my "plan D" buck but I'm happy with him. I've always wanted a big two-point and i think this one qualifies. He's a really old troll of a deer and was the dominant buck in the area. A good one to get out of the gene pool. Sorry for the disgusting decapitation photos. He was a long ways from a road and didn't get to him until well after dark. The field photos were terrible.

Well, I got it done! Opening day around 3pm we spotted this guy across the canyon. Super pleased with my first AZ Coues Deer. I'm no pro, but per my calculation, he was 88 1/8"

Tried selling this earlier with a different scope but wasn't getting much action. Remington 700 action trued and bedded Tuned factory trigger breaking crisp at 2 lbs H&S Precision stock Shilen match grade barrel. 23" and threaded 1/2x28 and cerakoted OD green. Free floated. Zeiss conquest MC 3-12X56 mm with Talley one piece rings and bases. Round count under 40. Selling because it sits in the safe. $1200. Text 6029089two59

Doing some remodeling/cleaning and uncovered this unit 10 find! One my favorite finds on a bluff ridge north of Oliver Tank!

Thieves really suck. I hate to hear that. But my optics and gun/bow go into the house as soon as I get home.

god I hate thieves

I’ve got the tool, and yes I’ll let you borrow it. Let me know txt 602-568-1418

Glad it worked out. Thank you

I have posted these before, apologies to those who have already seen them, but here are some 37B bucks my neighbor and I killed over the course of several years:

My body finally stopped hurting enough to type. Short story 27 days hunting two bull bison seen on the last day. Long story Checking my cc when I saw the spring cards getting hit. I saw the typical nothing, a week later for s&g I check my points and then I see I was drawn after a few cards were declined. I literally lose my breath for a moment. I immediately start googling everything, watch every video on youtube and post something about getting drawn and get some big time help from a couple of CWT members WHTMTNHNTR, Tom and Chewy. I spend the months talking, practicing with my bow and talking to the guys who previously had the hunt. After talking to about 20 previous hunters I discover a theme about the politics of the situation. 18 essentially said the same thing and two had glowing reviews of Jacoby. I decide not to play and go away from the group always being respectful to the group but doing my own thing. First weekend (5 days) I run into a giant wall of snow and that doesn't allow me to get much past Jakob Lake. I decide to try Saddle Mtn Wilderness. Saturday morning just before dawn I am just waking up I hear a clop of a bovine animal 30 yards from where I sleep, I grab my flashlight and see a smaller bison escaping up the hill next to my truck. Nothing interesting happened for the rest of the time except for stopping at Lee's Ferry for the first time and catching a few trout. Two weeks later I go for 3 days I get within 3 miles of the traditional area and see my first bison sign at some far off point. getting stuck and nearly getting in a fight with some californians that rented some pretty cool razors and were driving like they stole them was the highlight May 10th , nine days, My brother and step dad come and we stay at big springs cabins. Finally get to a marginal area stina point and timp point. Lots of sitting no bison. Me and my brother decide to look around a bit and meet some other hunters and discover the main guide does not like people on his trail cams. My brother took it as a personal challenge and the next camera he saw he started using his Fortnite Repertoire and did the "orange justice" than the "carlton" and finished off the day with a "Dab" We meet a couple of other hunters and they suggest the loser dance and I go retro with MC Hammers U cant touch this. Snow is still much to hunt anything but the three mile stretch that the majority of hunters are in, I do my best to stay away from them. Jacoby very likely has 80 salts with cameras so it is very hard to leave his grasp. The week ends drinking Bacanora with a couple of turkey hunters from Chihuahua and a retired game california game warden telling hunting stories and looking at successes on each others phones. It was a good evening. The final week I go solo (10 days). I head to the nameless point where we cut some fresh tracks and I left a salt and a camera. Nothing. I check the other eight cameras I left out there and nothing. I learn that the only thing I missed for the week was more snow. Total one Bison was seen for the all of the group of hunters and it was still deciding its gender. Sitting there thinking and watching the same piece of salt for a few days I decided if I am going to fail, I will fail the way I am best hunting. Thick cover stillhunting. I go to the deepest canyon I can find and find one of the super special areas that one of the paying clients is in. I leave shaking my head in frustration. Friday comes around and I hear three gunshots, for the first time its warm enough not to wear jacket. Later I learn, a gentlemen I met at Arizona Archery Club filled his tag deservedly. Saturday I hear four more shots but no reports of any more bison taken, first day without rain or snow. Last day, I am resound to the fact I will not fill my tag and tell my wife I am leaving around noon. the voices in my head are telling me to go by the park entrance which I do. (you will hear voices in your head too if when you go ten days solo) I wake early and pass the groups meeting place an hour before there scheduled meeting time. I get to dirt tank 1 about the time the remaining hunters are getting to their group session and for the first time in the morning I leave my bow in the truck (packed to go home) and take my WW2 model 70 instead. I work my way to the southeast corner of the small field and then I see a brown head pop up and ram another brown head. For a second I think I am watching a couple of bears fighting, then I realize they are not bears. The fight is going on for several seconds as I am just realizing what I am watching. All of the videos and studying is kicking in and I start figuring out if they are male or female. The vitals are out of sight but there eyes and horns have me pinned. I drop to my stomach and crawl to a flatter area. they stop fighting and it looks they are going to leave when they turn and head to the flat part of the field. The closest bull is about 60 yards and the farther one is about 80. after 27 days i no longer care about which one is bigger and am waiting to see the penis sheath to confirm sex and a broadside shot. the one at 80 obliges. I place the crosshair on his heart and squeeze. He buckles and starts jogging I place two more shots in the lungs in a few seconds. the bull stops and place my last shot and last bullet for that matter in him and he drops and is down within 45 seconds of my first shot. This is where the pain begins I get my truck 248 yards from the bison on snowy road. I take pictures and take my pack. I start about 545 and put the last piece in my truck around 300. It was the second and final bison taken out of 25 tags. This is also my eighth big game species of the big 10 all of them solo, seven with my bow.

Opening day I was able to tag out by 8:00 on this deer I had been seeing on my cameras since August. He was a very heavy bodied buck. I was luck to have a Buddy watching in the glass to give me a hand down off the hill.

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Those old school pics are awesome, thanks for sharing.

Thanks man, glad you liked it. Good luck this weekend we will be out as well. My wife's 1st hunt starts friday. Hopefully we can get her a shot

You have an amazing father and you should be proud!!! Congrats to you and your father!!!

Good deal for someone looking to see what rounds work in your new 6.5. Good luck with sale.

Yep, the gate at Tortilla Flat is now locked again. Meaning access between Tortilla Flat and Fish Creek hill is basically cut off unless you take long dirt roads. Sucks for any upcoming deer/sheep hunts.

Thank you for the recommendations. I went in to Bull Basin twice, the second time was to buy a bow. They were helpful, and willing to answer basic questions. Proud owner of a PSE Unleashed, have a month of free range time at their shop and will take a few lessons there in the next couple of weeks. I guess this is the year this old dog learns a few new tricks! This is a great forum!

how is it a trap when the speed limit is posted on a sign before entering said speed trap

Highly recommend bull basin. Robinson’s has rubbed me the wrong way a couple times and I wouldn’t go there if you support getting new hunters into bow hunting.they sure didn’t.

Bull Basin and check out the Desert Archers 3D shoots once you start to feel comfortable shooting. The range at Tucson Mt. Park is awesome if you are west and the east side county range is great if you need to site in or wanna shoot long range.

Bull basin on craycroft

The Costanza Wallet returns. 😳

My Self Esteem.