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2020 Coues deer 2020 was a very long year with the bow. In January I had multiple decent bucks get away and really set my focus on early archery to kill one. For whatever reason, I had decided to only apply for late December tags (which was pointless) so I knew I needed to get it done with the bow. Early archery in august came and I missed a big buck on the first day, then two weeks later I ended up missing the same buck again. Spent some time looking for him in December but he didn't want to play. A buddy of mine, Reyes, did have a Late Dec tag in the unit so I went to glass with him. We didnt get out until it was close to Xmas. On this day, we never saw anything he was willing to shoot (although i tried my best to convince him...yeah im that friend). As it was getting later in the afternoon, I found a small buck across the canyon from us, around 400 yards away. Reyes passed yet again so the door was open. At one point, the buck had worked himself to a good spot and I told Reyes "If he beds there, I'm gonna have to go after him" and of course the buck beds haha. I pack up my stuff and drop into the canyon, where I left my pack and start working uphill to the buck. At one point I look up and the buck is just standing 5 yards from where he was bedded, I was about 200 yards away at this point. Not sure if he was just sunning himself in the last bit of light or what but he turns around and beds right back where he was before. I keep sneaking in until I'm 60 yards from where the buck is bedded, although I can't see him. I knelt there for a minute then decided to get closer. This is when all coues stalks normally go south but for whatever reason, I couldn't do anything wrong this time. The next spot I settle is around 20 yards from where I think the buck is bedded. I range his areas to walk out and everything is sub 30. I have a pretty big boulder in front of me and all of a sudden, antlers appear above the top of the rock! I draw back, the buck walks out and hes walking straight away, then he takes a big step to his right to go broadside, before he stopped the arrow was on the way. Arrow went through both lungs and stuck in his offside shoulder so he dropped right where he was. I guess I needed a shot at 26 yards to get it done! It was cool that Reyes got to watch everything go down and watch me kill a coues at such close distance. He's a great friend so he didn't mind me hijacking his hunt for a little bit haha. I did get to return the favor for him a week later and he filled his tag on a nice 3x3. ^^^^^^^^^^Reyes' buck^^^^^^^^^ 2021 Javelina Fast forward to Jan 4. I go back to look for the buck I keep missing. Find him before the sun is up and he disappears over the ridge so I pursue (like a dipstick). End up blowing him out as I cross the saddle, he was feeding or bedded just 30 yards over the top. I was not very happy with myself at this point so I decided to hike over to where i knew some pigs hung out. I get to the area, I'm sitting there and I hear a sqwuak below me, then I hear it again. I throw up my binos and a young javelina walks out under a mesquite, 100 yards below me. Glassing around I see an adult get up, round up the little one and disappear. I drop down, sneak around and start crawling into where they were. I'm crawling through and cannot find a pig, tracks were all over so I knew there were more than the two i saw. I literally crawl through where i had just seen them and nothing. I stand up and stand walking around, finally I find one feeding on a prickly pear. All I could see was its butt sticking out, he was chomping away so sneaking in was pretty easy. I was at 12 yards and waiting for almost 10 minutes before i could get an arrow in (YES thats how deep he was in prickly pear haha). Felt good to salvage the day and have meat for tamales

Congrats to a good friend and his wife. so much drama over a little picture...

My wife and I had another successful Javelina hunt yesterday. It was really fun tagging out on 2 pigs in the same herd. I love hunting with my wife, she has become my favorite hunting partner!

Was able to take a nice pig in 19b last week. It was the first experience my son had of big game hunting and I think he is now hooked. From camping to hiking and glassing, he seemed to enjoy ever minute.

This makes me want to go out and buy an AR pistol.....just for the reactions.

Its a good thing, cause I'd go broke with more than 10 strippers. Two or three can get pricey enough.

Is there a GoFundMe set up for legend yet? Ammo is ridiculously expensive right now.

I bought my frame new from Kifaru, but I found a brand new Fulcrum bag on rokslide for $290 shipped. The owner bought three bags then filled each one with his backpacking gear and sold the ones he didnt like. I like the Fulcrum it works great as a day pack or for a 10 day hunt, all the reviews are spot on. The bag was only about 320 + shipping when I bought mine, they have gone up since but I see the for sale all the time. Since hunting season is over you will see plenty of them for sale on rokslide. https://kifaru.net/store/packs/expedition-packs/fulcrum-bag-only/

Forget GameStop, I need to sell my ammo if these are the going prices!

Kifaru for sure.

Kifaru over Kuiu. No experience with the others.

I've done 7 days in Colorado in a mystery ranch bear tooth. Worked just fine.

+1

Whichever you choose, I highly recommend checking out Rokslide.com's classifieds. Great deals to be had and a backpack is a backpack is a backpack.

It's not what others do, it's what you do that makes meaning.

What an incredible line said out of pure excitement from my son! Glassed these piggies up about 1045. Got the wind and cover, made our way in. Two through the pump station with my 10mm and she was done. To say Levi was excited is an understatement.

At least it’s only two weeks...used to be a lot longer. I remember when most hunts were due in early June and you didn’t know till end of July. You had 5-6 weeks till archery elk started from time you knew you were going. Guys who were low in the pecking order at work couldn’t get time off. Kudos to g and f for moving it to Feb and getting draw done in a couple weeks.

Congratulations Adam and Tracie. Agreed it’s a pistol as classified by ATF and Game and Fish. 100% legal. Hunters need to stop the fighting amongst themselves. Game cameras are not going away because of live feed. Game cameras are going away because Game and Fish is tired of all the fighting at water holes and the complainants about cameras being stolen. The Anti hunters and Anti gun nuts love to see us eating our own.

Pops and I had a great time as usual. We spotted a herd Friday evening after sunset and weren’t sure where they bedded. On Sat morning we set up across the canyon and was able to find them bedded and made our move when they got up to feed. Pops harvested his first muzzleloader javelina at 60 yards. We spotted another herd but I had to go back in town for my daughters bday party. Sunday I picked up my buddy and we rolled out early and met pops at his camp. We located a new herd going over a mountain and no luck relocating them again, in this unit we’ve glassed herds in the past moving over 1000 yards from bedding grounds to feeding grounds, crazy. We then went to another spot and after 2 hours we glassed up a herd moving it’s way to bedding grounds. After a 30 min hike over some mountains, found myself 138 yards from the nearest pig and sent a 50 cal sleeping pill his way. This makes pig #49 and #50 for pair of us, pretty stoked to make our batch of jerky.

Another classic thread on why anyone worth a shoot doesn't post pictures or stories anymore.... The ankle biters are rampant.... If you can't participate in any meaningful way then quit acting like a lib and STFU...

If sold and licensed as a pistol, it will.always be a pistol, and cannot have a butt stock installed. Nothing ever said or written about the use of a bipod. Is it really any different than this? An SBR (short barreled rifle) will need a $200 ATF tax stamp, and can have a butt stock. But cannot be considered a "pistol". So could not be used as a pistol on a HAM hunt. Get your definitions straight. This is 100% a pistol by definition. Next on the gripe list will be the new in-line smokeless powder muzzle loaders... Nice job Adam and Mrs. Big Brown. And Adam....her pig is bigger than yours...

LOL, Just keep living in your own make believe reality, dictated by the rules your small mind sees fit to create and impose. The rest of us will continue to live in the real world where we learn how to make the existing rules work for us.

Actually that's exactly what happened! I have the scope eye relief set up so you have to have the stock off your shoulder in order to see through the scope. 100% legal.....

Great job Adam. Looks like a handgun to me 😃 at least by today's definition. Could be and probably will be different very soon.