CouesWhitetail

cool find!

Wow! what an adventure! thanks for sharing your trip with us!

Thanks to Doug Burt of AGFD for sending out a timely email summarizing some of the youth camps coming up. If you know a youth hunter in need of help on their deer hunt, these are great camps to get advice, food and general help. Hunting and Angling Heritage Workgroup, Next weekend, Nov. 21-23, kicks off another string of youth camps! If you’re interested in visiting an event to get an idea of what they look like, want to help out – glass, cook, fire tending, etc., or just looking for a road trip with the family during this great weather here are some great options. Details and contact information is below. Also, don’t forget it’s small game season, so take advantage of flushing quail, running rabbits, jumping jackrabbits and ducks on cupped-wings. A good small game hunter makes a great deer hunter. Thanks for all you do! – Doug B. 602-531-7578 Nov. 20-23: MDF Unit 42 Junior Deer Hunter’s • Location: Wickenburg, Unit 42 Vulture Peak • Hosted by: Arizona Mule Deer Foundation, Arizona Game and Fish • Information: Terry Herndon, therndon@muledeer.org; or Craig Heath, cheath@azgfd.gov Nov. 20-23: MDF Unit 18B Junior Deer Hunter’s • Location: Wikieup, S.E. of Kingman, Unit 18B • Hosted by: Arizona Mule Deer Foundation Kingman Chapter & Youth Outdoors Unlimited • Information: John Beauchamp, jhn_beauchamp@yahoo.com Nov. 20-23: MDF Unit 33 Junior Deer Hunter’s • Location: Oracle area near Peppersauce Campground, Unit 33 • Hosted by: Arizona Mule Deer Foundation – Pinal Mountain Chapter • Information: Steven Naranjo, stevennaranjohunthard@yahoo.com, (520) 705-7020 Nov. 20-23: AZSCI Junior’s Deer Hunt Camp • Location: SW of Tucson, Units 36A & 36B • Hosted by: Arizona Chapter of Safari Club International • Information: Bobby Boido, azsci@yahoo.com, (520) 490-8367 Nov. 22-23: Free Family Predator Hunt • Location: Double U Ranch near Tombstone, Unit 30B • Hosted by: Huachuca Gould’s Chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation • Information: John Millican at 520-508-4272, j2dbmill@msn.com Very respectfully, Douglas Burt Hunting and Shooting Sports Program Manager Arizona Game and Fish Department dburt@azgfd.gov (623) 236-7487 Desk (602) 531-7578 Cell/Text

Blue-winged teal! Cinnamon Teal! Beautiful bird and photo, Wampus! oops! you are right...my mistake!

and one that is not so creepy....

Blue-winged teal!

cool thread, thanks for starting this. I love taking pics of all kinds of creatures, big and small. I took some insect pics back when we had a thread going about bugs and I forgot to go and post them, so here are a few creepy crawling critters.

Very nice....God bless those who serve and the families that support them.

God Bless those who have served!

Great buck!! Thanks for sharing him with us!

Way to go! and a nice video to go with it!

Excellent! Congratulations!

cool stuff!

LOL!

Down two more pounds since I last posted......did my backpack hunt, which was awesome, right up until the point where the big buck ran away unhurt despite throwing lead at him...oh well...had a great time and great opportunity at giant buck....anyway, on the backpack hunt I ate a lot of calories to make sure I didn't run out of energy during the hunt and ate things that I normally don't eat now like mountain house meals, bagels and peanut butter...but I still managed to lose weight, so that's awesome! Felt strong and was wonderful being slimmer on my hunt. Can't wait until next year to be toting around a lot less weight. Luckily one of my hunting buddy is into this same weight loss, high nutrition eating that I am doing, so that made it a lot easier to not sabotage my diet.

Happy belated birthday! I always enjoy your photos!

Congratulations on getting a new hunter into the flock! love the statement "His yell when seeing his dead buck brought over a hunter from the next ridge"...LOL!

Excellent! I love processing my own deer and making my own sausage....just like you said, there is so much satisfaction and quality control. Great photo, thanks for sharing!

That last buck is unreal!! And congratulations on all the other successful hunts too! Great job!

Outstanding Ty! Congratulations and thanks for sharing your buck with us!

An AGFD employee texted me this pic....congrats on your mule deer!

Excellent buck! Congratulations and thanks for sharing him with us!

The Alaska Guide Bino pack is what a lot of guys use for their 15s.... I carry them in the store and just added two in realtree camo pattern today. http://store.coueswhitetail.com/binocular-pack/

I have two large and one small in stock now.....they are real tree camo pattern. You can order them in the store now. http://store.coueswhitetail.com/binocular-pack/

We saw a coues doe like that on my backpack hunt. We didn't get as close as you did, but she clearly heard and saw us coming and just kept calmly feeding and slowly moving slightly away. We got to 20 yards or so before she finally decided to move off more quickly. It was a nice experience! I had another time the same thing happened on Mt Graham....got within 20 feet of her...fun!