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Coues deer hunting is my passion, love it! That's what I breathe. Located a shooter buck, disappeared in the thickness of the desert floor. While glassing for him for about 3 hrs. a BIG BUCK walked into my field of view. My heart skipped a beat! My eyes wide open and my jaw dropped to the floor, what a buck!! Looked for him frantically in the brush and mesquite packed desert floor.. just before dark I saw him again, waling behind some trees and then stopped on a opening to show me his majestic rack, wow! I immediately got up with the intention to grab my rifle and got into position for a shot; as I lifted my tripod to put them by my side some how my swaros got detach or disconnected and fell hard on the rock below me. It was a hard hit I knew that while I was aiming my rifle where I just saw the buck... the buck wasn't there anymore. I looked around that opening with my rifle scope and with my naked eye to see if I can see him again and shoot but nothing...looked again and then some more and notrhing. Immediately after I grabed my binoculars put them back on my tripod to find him again and guess what? they were broken!! My binos broke when fell onto the boulder below me! I could not see through them!! and somewhere below me therea was a huge buck! Looked for him with my naked eyes and through my rifle scope but with no success! 😩 Now I had no binos and it was only the 2nd day of my hunt. I was frustraded, devastated and traumatized...how I was going to look foor that giant on an area that is very thick full of brush and trees with no binoculars? To make a long story short, hunted for him for 4 more days never to see him or the other buck I originally saw before him. On the last day of my hunt I moved to a totally different area. Right at 7:00 am located this buck at 473 yards. I said to my self hey, last day, lets do it! One shot and this buck was mine! It was a long 3 hrs haul to my truck but a very happy camper 😋 Next year, Lord willing...I will go back and look for that big buck and with binos of course. P. S. Sucks to hunt with no swaros.

Man, what an interesting hunt. Friday, I had the AC running in my trailer. Sunday I had the heater going. Monday we were 100% socked in from fog until I think 11 or so? Glassed this guy up at 835 Wednesday morning, at 840 he was dead. With my hunting partner, Jim spotting, the 28 Nosler made quick work with a heart shot at 436 yards. Can't wait to have some snack sticks!

When they shut you down for in class instruction, wrestling practice and college life what do you do??? At a time when this group would be practicing and competing Cole and his coaches/team mates took to the hills with OTC tags! Nothing to brag about head gear wise but there is gonna be some elk steaks in the freezer this winter!!!

Well it was a hard hunt until it wasn't , then the real fun starts. .The weather the first couple days were 40 mph winds then next couple days was snow.. Then perfect conditions and still no movement from are grey ghost … Stuck to game plan and glassed until eyes bled .Then " WALLA" a head pops up.. A Good Buck "Yes", Coues "Yes" good line of site " No"... Moved about 20yrds to right.. Here we go moment of truth from 4 Bills.. "Boom" .. Hit it in the spine dropped like rock.... Went from super Frustrated to ecstatic and that's why we do what we do on coueswhitetail,com . Then the real fun starts .. The pack out. Across Canyon 3/4 way up down to wash then mile out of wash , mile to the truck... Then back to camp … Almost to tired for a beer , "Almost"

I think vacationing in San Diego is the law for Arizona people.

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Absolutley f'n NOT! you get one in and more come. She aint stupid she knows exactly how the system/departments work. shes already in it.

You can get meopta 15s brand new for about $1300 and they are better then the non hd swaros.

Problem is most gunsmiths these days are really just machinist. I’m also in search of an actual gunsmith.

Sorry for your misfortune. My guess is you are very young.

Had to show off lance huh?

Why not just hush up? Sending money to someone you don’t know is foolish.

Ah yes. A knee jerk reaction to the complaints of non hunters that do mostly nothing to fund conservation effort that hunters and anglers have been carrying for years Makes sense. People want to see wildlife but have no idea who pays for wildlife.

When the river bottom flooded and Mill ave Bridge was one of only two places to cross. Sitting in traffic to get home (with a six pack to help kill the time-relax, there were two of us and we were young and bulletproof) When Apache Trail was the main East- West route in the east valley

Jennifer Martin and Sue Chilton have both served as commissioners. Jennifer had a biology background and may have worked for the department at one time and Sue Chilton is a rancher just outside of Arivaca.

Never send any money. And a good rule of thumb is if they are not a frequent poster dont risk spending a ton of money. sorry for your loss

And I'm not talking about the current state of the nation. I knew the odds of me drawing a sheep tag were slim to none, but it happened in 2019. The odds of what happened on my deer hunt this past weekend however, had to be far slimmer and certainly unbelievable without proof. Whether the destination of the day or the particular part of a ridge or canyon, I have told myself a hundred times "that is where you're going to find a lion." With an abundance of hunting pressure on opening day of the third coues hunt in the unit, I went 2.5 miles to the deepest and darkest canyon available from my hunt party's area before sunrise on Saturday. The drainage of the canyon was surprisingly void of deer at first light, so my partner and I kept on the last several hundred yards up a shale face that crested into one of the steepest and biggest Google Earth tricks that I've ever played on myself. I immediately thought, "crap it is going to be tough to find a buck in here, but this HAS to be lion country." One tucked in doe and 5 minutes later, and I had finally found what I'd been dreaming of every day on the mountain for the last 18 years. There sunning sideways on a large boulder along a steep draw, stretched out my first glassed lion with no idea we had slipped into its lair. Unbelievable. The excitement nearly doubled when my rangefinder read a number starting with one of a few magical digits, 4. With the state of cat and a series of boulders and rock faces to navigate through, I closed the number to 400 yards even and set up prone. I waited for an hour and a half as it roll occasionally from side to side. I tried to guess how everything would play out including when, how and for how long it would get up for a stretch, but I was in no mans land. I knew nothing first hand about their daytime behavior and came to the conclusion it could be hours before anything changed. With a solid rest, no kittens joining the party and a forecast of high winds picking up well before noon, it was time to put all the load and range work to use. Timed to a break in the early morning gusts, 2 quick reports and a cloud of dust rising from the rock pile beneath is all that could be seen. For the first time ever, the deer tag in my pocket didn't matter anymore. We found 3 kills all within a few hundred yards. Upon arrival, I feared the lion had crawled its way into a hole that I was going to have to dig out similar to several javelina over the years. But luck continued on my side. My first lion, a 2-3 year-old female. Another first was my young cousin's buck on Friday, his first day ever hunting. Obvious first timer with his headlamp still on his head at noon. I hadn't noticed all day or when taking the photos either! Haha. It was also my first weekend with a new pack and I couldn't have carried the lion out like I did for camp to appreciate without it. A buck on Friday and a 80-90 pound lion on Saturday - what a way to break it in. The Savage LWH has also taken a sheep, coues and lion all within the last year with the 6.5 ELD-X doing its job 3/3, dead right there. And the most unbelievable part? After 18 years behind binoculars across the state with zero lions spotted, a second lion on Sunday after creeping into just 380 yards. It didn't have a care in the world, like it knew none of us had another tag in our pocket. We watched it along with deer a couple hundred yards to both sides for an hour before we let it lay and moved along. I've always heard "anything can happen" when it comes to hunting, and after the last 2 years, it isn't so unbelievable anymore.

Looking to buy a youth shotgun in 20 gauge. Prefer a Remington 870 or a Stoeger Condor. Right handed. Thanks in advance.

60 ended at dobson rd in 1980. i was working at the huge Levitz Furniture store on dobson and broadway. had my first whiskey at that chinese rest/bar on the ne corner. i got fired by Texs' son Hal for making a pass at his girlfriend in 1987. Jerry Jeff Walker at Dooley's in tempe 1980. 'up against the wall redneck mother.........' lee

https://www.pinterest.com/saralavaquera/my-mostly-1960s-phoenix-childhood/ Full color memories !!

I had some obligations in town so I barely made up to my hunt today. Once I arrived I had some work items to take care of as well. Now that that’s all taken care of I decided to take a drive around the unit to see what was going on. First off as you guys know it dry up here. No monsoon has left tanks dry and grass short. Finally got out of the truck and walked down to a small cut and glasses up some elk. Got on one small group of elk with a small spike. Not quite ready for a meat bull yet.

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Mogollon taxidermy. I think clay does awesome work on cats.

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I would have never noticed their color differences with that head gear.....