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Decided to go try a new hunt in Wyoming with a buddy. He has hunted the area a few times and had good success. Arrived on a Friday morning and drove a fair amount of country trying to cut tracks in the snow. The day was a bust on sightings or tracks. Next day we split up and the morning was a bust, however the evening I hiked into a canyon and found a couple bulls and a few cows but last light with no time to make a play. Day 3, I hiked into a drainage near where I spotted the elk the day prior and found 10 bulls. I closed the distance to 270 yards and put 3 bullets in this one. Beautiful country but man the wind sure does blow up there…almost every day it seems. Great cap on an awesome season!

Had a day to goof off Friday and put the boat in the water, ocean was like glass. Hit a school of yellows 12 miles out, and it was non stop for an hour. They tore every hook off our two Sabiki rigs, so we switched to jigs and kept rolling. We landed 22 , and had to lose that many if not more. They weren't the big boys we find further down south, but they sure fought like it. Finally lost the school on the reef.

No sir. My wife, 3 month old baby and I got out opening day. We hiked 6.6 miles and were at a decent spot. It was hot out so we had to stay down by a creek under trees instead of going up our normal hill and getting roasted by the sun. We got to glass for about an hour. Got some good pictures with the baby and hiked back out. Didn't see anything. When we got home I realized I messed up my shoulder some how. We took Saturday and Sunday off. We picked the toddlers up from daycare early Monday and went back out. We hiked all around with all the kiddos played in the creek and had a good time. No glassing was done at all. We drove up to Humbouldt MtN observation and the kids ran around and we got some more good pictures and saw the sunset. We live in the heart of Phoenix so really dont ever see good stars. We drove out slow so it could get dark. We stopped at Sears Kay ruins and the 4-1/2 year old got to see real stars for the first time. We dropped toddlers off at daycare the next day and took the baby with us. Went to a different spot. I hiked up a nice hill and actually got to glass for a while. It was hot and didnt see anything. I could hear and see the wife was having a hard time with the baby. Hiked down and asked her what she wanted to do. She was frustrated and we drove home. My wife let me go solo the last day of the hunt. Was sitting on a hill before the sun came up. Saw three does in the first 30 minutes of light. Never saw another deer. It was 42 degrees when i hiked in and 82 degrees when i hiked out. The thing I have learned about hunting Coues is you need to put in the effort. I have been very successful hiking in to places. With toddlers and a baby it makes it very hard. Will need to wait until they get a little bit older or keep going solo. It was still great to get out with the family.

That's hardcore. Success isn't always measured by killing something. Good for you guys!!!

Dirty Mike and the boys ?

Woods canyon is good for tigers, rainbows put and take have been taken. Butt if you don't mind fishing the green valley park lakes, they have been loaded up with gila trout . We've been catching fish from 14-16". Good luck

Thought the pack out was going to be narly but found a two track up the backside that got us within 200 yards….quarters slide nice in the snow 👌

3 hunts a year with 750+ TAGS PER HUNT! for the last 20 plus years I'm surprise there's any deer there!

2700 tags for 10 straight years and 2 of the last 3 with bad fawn crops I would say has as much to do with it as anything.

Glasses are in really good condition. New twist cups. Outdoorsmans stud. Serviced by Swarovski back in 2022. Serviced and have not used them since. Went to NL's. $1500 for everything. Buyer pays shipping. Prefer FTF. Located in White Mountains.

Ill save you the time, but 99% chance its a long action

I’ll hit you guys up for a silencer in January

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A few more ready to be picked up.

I had the mid Nov hunt in 34a. Tons of does and two decent bucks that were gone in a flash. You've probably heard the saying, Couldn't grow horns on em." Well I did. Looked hard enough at a yearling still on mommy's hip at about 50 yards then looked again with my 12xs. Sure enough, little fellow had 1 small horn maybe 2" tall lol. As bad as I wanted to make jerky this fall, I gave the runt a pass. Wish I had taken his Pic.

With 2 new grand children coming this fall my wife decided she didn’t want to hunt. It never was in my plans to give her tag back, but she told me she wanted to spend time with the new mothers and babies. So I headed to my draw unit by myself. My son and his wife decided to come visit for a couple days and my wife made the trip up with them. needless to say very little real hunting happened that opening weekend. After they all went home I spent a few days by myself putting everything I had into finding a decent deer that my friend had pre scouted. Lots of driving, still hunting. Glassing and enjoying the woods. I got lucky right before dark. I saw a group of 4 bucks, 2 big bucks and 2 small bucks. Thinking it was the group I had seen opening morning I made the quick decision to shoot the one that was in the opening. Either of the two big bucks I would be happy with. It actually was a buck I had never seen before. It took me a while to find him at night and with flashlights and by myself I took a few videos. These are the best screenshots I got off the video. Here are a few pictures from that trip

Hey, my login here still works! Been a little while These MX coues hunts keep me motivated each year knowing that we get to go back each January. Always a great time

Great job.

Great job, congrats!!!!!

I have seen this cj very nice and clean

Nice Bull Mark! Great tops on him.

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I agree. Seeing the same thing in 22.

Sitting in my elk camp now around the fire dealing with the last 3 days of being rained on chasing a few bulls around with my bow got me missing the warm southern weather. I started the season off with killing a solid buck on the opening morning. I found this buck on the 2024 late December hunt helping my dad. We opted to not shoot him last year as he had half an antler broken off. I kept tabs on the buck from February on. Opening morning I went to where he had been frequently spotted and never turned him up. About 9:30 with not seeing much I decided to change spots and go look for my backup buck. To my surprise the first buck I found in the new location was the buck I was initially looking for. I had never seen him in this area. After watching him bed I snuck in and shot him at 227 yards. Hit him mid body. Slightly panicked I scrambled to reload the muzzleloader. Shot again in a rush and made a bad follow-up shot knocking a chunk out of the top of his back. He went and laid down and I watched him expire about 5 minutes later. My apologies on sub par pictures as I’m not good at solo photography deal. Went over and quartered the buck packed him out and all was wrapped up before 1:00pm opening day. Following that 2 weeks later I took my Mom on her whitetail hunt who turned 66 on opening day. It was slow. Didn’t see any mature bucks. We hunted 3 more days until one of the bucks I was looking for finally showed up. Nice 100”ish type 3x4. We played cat and mouse with him but he unfortunately disappeared on us. A while later my mom found a nice little 3x3 across the canyon that she said she would be more than happy to take. We snuck in to position and set her up 290 yards from the bedded buck. After 3 1/2 hours the buck finally stood. She heart shot the buck and he dropped where he stood. She was extremely happy as this was the first coues she had taken in the last 10 years. She’s taken a lot of time off hunting to help take care of family and grandchildren so this ment a lot to her. Couldn’t of been more proud of my mom. it was a tough 4 days on her hiking the hills getting after it in the October sun. Currently still a busy season going on as I am on a late archery Bull elk hunt and my 10 and 12 year old kids have rifle bull hunts after thanksgiving. We have one late December whitetail tag left to fill this year and can’t be more excited for it.