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Here is the Coues deer I was able take with my statewide tag with the help of Kory and Bobby of A3 . There knowledge of the area and with the deer was truly amazing. Once we found this deer they spent hours breaking it down. It was decided that we would try and harvest this deer. We had to relocate to find him again and after 8 hours of waiting he finally reappeared just before dark . Now he was with another buck of similar size but was a typical 3x3 with amazing eye guards. To be able to have two 130 inch bucks standing next to each other I thought I was seeing things. Now I had to make a decision it was an easy one for me. I like em trashy . After we ranged him at 600 yards I let my Axis works 280 AI do the rest. It was now almost dark Kory and I hiked down to the deer When I put eyes on him I was speechless it was bigger than we had thought . I told Kory I was going to do a life size mount so he was very careful field dressing the deer. He then proceeded to load the deer into his pack whole it’s a pack that he has designed and just now starting to sale it was his smaller one about 3200 CI it was amazing all of the room it had not to mention it’s the best built pack I have ever seen I am getting one. His company name is Desert Mountain Outdoors Well after many miles of packing we got back to camp about midnight what an epic day. Still in shock of being able to take a deer like this thanks to A3 and there amazing guides Kory and Bobby.

Finally after 6 days of tough hunting I dropped this bull at 60 yards. Was very lucky to get it on video. 5 hours to break it down and get it back to the truck. They are such big animals! No giants at the end of the rainbow but a good one just over the hill. Also saw a nice MD buck IMG_0326.mov

I've been enjoying this thread for years. And now it's my turn to post some photos. Ryder's first Arizona mule deer, at 11 years old.

Had my boys first youth cow elk hunt in 22. Started good while scouting a couple days before the hunt saw a few but not alot. Hunt started with an almost full moon so elk were hard to locate. We had a lot of downs before my son made a great shot and got his first elk. I wanted to say thank you to some of the guys on here who helped provide some good information. Hope all the youth elk hunters have/had a great experience.

It's a story hard to write but my son killed his first bull after a whirlwind 6 days. He was very limited on time and it got the best of him but we had a great time and lots of memories made. Bull he passed after a tough day the day before. Bull that came in after he didn't have enough patience. This is the bull we were hunting but he had already shot another bull 5 minutes before. Having little experience and no time for a hunt really hurt him but in the end his goal was accomplished. He killed a bull, and we got to spend some good days hunting.

(Edit): We ended up hunting for 6 days straight, 3 with my little one right by our side. On third day a forky ran right up on us at like 30 yards while we were talking to a game warden. He got spooked and darted off in the bushes and while we were trying to find him, a truck pulled up from the road and the father and son jumped out and shot him right in front of us. On the 4th night we spotted 2 forkies and a doe right at dusk at 460 yards, but we ran out of good shooting light and then they weren't there in the morning. But while looking for them ended up spotting a nice 3 x 3 bedded down on the side of a hill at 315 yards. All we could see was his big head and while attempting to get closer for a better shot he got spooked and ran over the hill. For the next two hours went all the way around the hill, directly through the cat claw bushes trying to find him, but never did. On the 6th morning we conquered just about the biggest hill in the area, to find this beautiful specimen. Ryder shot him in the lungs at 360 yards. All of the hard work payed off and it was a great lesson for Ryder. Hunting teaches so many valuable lessons and that's exactly why I wanted to teach my two sons to do it.

Grandsons first dove Grand daughter glassing for sheep

Special thanks to: Cody Bigelow Johnny Bigelow Brady Poggendorf And, Matt & Mike!

This is a pretty unique story, A good friend's son drew a muzzy tag in NM and my buddy got called to do some LEO training in Washington DC and NY for 12 weeks so he called me and asked if I could help his son on his first tag. I only could commit the weekend but after a bunch of rain and couple missed opportunities Colter smoked this bull at 250 yards off his knee for his first bull.

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Great buck. Did you gut him and them put him in a freezer to take pictures the following day? I really am curious what the cooler temps need to be to keep meat overnight? Thanks for the help.

For the refined palate. You can always substitue Walmart cheese spread.

That might be the prettiest Coues I have ever seen. Congrats 218buck.

2020, and the addiction started…

First elk for my kids this year, awesome experience.

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I went the ruger American predator left hand for my son, and put a large self timing brake on it. It is in 7mm-08 and my 7yr old was shooting it last weekend without issue. I think someone on here had a Ruger American Predator in 6.5cm first sale recently on here. Lefty.

Well it has been low 40s at my place at 6300' and that looks significantly higher. I'm betting it was in the 30s or even lower so yeah I'm sure the meat cooled down just fine without a cooler.

That is fantastic! Great shooting to your son! Enjoy some good eating

Nice job guys! Congratulations.

Congratulations to your son on his first elk! Love the photo and thanks for sharing your success!

Congrats. Hopefully, now hooked for ever on hunting!

Nice!!

What part of the valley is he in? I'm sure we have members here that would help him with this either at Bev Avery or at Rio Salado.