CouesWhitetail

Wow! Great hunt and congratulations to mom!! Great family hunt, way to go! And wow, what a brute that nontypical is!!!

Big body on that buck too!! Congratulations!! Can't wait to hear more!

fixed it for you....

I was on Mt Graham....

Neat buck, congratulations!

If he needs to borrow a .270, he can use mine. I am going to be using my hunting buddies gun on my hunt tomorrow....but I can run my .270 over to him today if he would like it. have him call me 928-200-0544. I also have extra range finder, GPS, tripod, binos, etc. So let me know if I can help him out.

Oh no! I am so sorry to hear about this! This is terrible. I am always tempted to load the night before and have opted not to because I worry about getting stuff stolen. I actually accidentally left my backpack in my jeep last night after a hike with all my optics and was scared that I was going to find it gone this morning, but I was luck. I am so sorry your father got hit by such creeps. Your dad is such a nice man and doesn't deserve this! (not that anyone does)

Cool....it would be neat to stay in an old fire tower.

You can download the pic and zoom in if you are having trouble seeing the live deer.

Miller's does excellent work and they are genuinely great guys too! They are a longtime sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com and they also donate a lot of meat to the youth camps held throughout the state. And they donated a bunch of meat to the women's javelina camp last year. This is a great business run by great people who are avid hunters! here is a link to their website: http://www.southwesternprocessing.com/

Great write-up Christina!! What a great adventure! Sorry you lost your doe, that is just heartbreaking, but I am glad you are not giving up. I hope you and Sean have a great hunt next year and you get to take a lot of venison home with you!! Thanks for all the pics and for sharing all the details of your hunt!! It's like we got to go along with you!

Hope you are spending your bday out in the hills!

Love it!! What a priceless picture and day in the field with your girls!!

Praying for your family. It's so hard to lose those special people in your life.

Happy belated bday!! Sounds like you had a good one! I always enjoy reading about your hunt adventures!

Congratulations and great pics!!! I am so glad you didn't get hurt falling asleep at the wheel too! Quite the adventure! Thanks for sharing your hunt with us! Nice tshirt pics

LOL! funny!

Wow! This is such a great and inspirational post! And how cool that he helped inspire TJ's dad too!! that is just so awesome! Congratulations to your grandpa on a life well-lived and an incredible bull at 92!!!

What a wonderful event! Congratulations and enjoy the ride!!

Thank you all so much for the wonderful birthday wishes! Sorry to be so late replying but I was gone for the week and just got logged in now. I had a great trip up to Mt Graham to enjoy the fall colors with my husband for my bday! Stayed in a cabin and had a nice warm fire in the crisp evening. Perfect weather and fall colors were at peak! It was such a wonderful trip. here are a few pics:

If you are looking for a great camping trip for your family, you might want to head up Mt Graham now! Over the last few weeks, they have significantly smoothed out the dirt portion of the road. It's nice! The temperatures are awesome up there (low 40s in the morning and 60-70s during the day)! And as an added bonus, the flowers are stunning along the roadside and in the forest. here are some pics:

2013 CouesWhitetail.com Wildlife Conservation Challenge So I thought we would try something new this year since it's the 10 year anniversary of CouesWhitetail.com. I wanted to do a special contest and I want help motivate people to do more for wildlife. So the idea is if you do one of the activities listed below and post about it in the correct subforum (see rules below) then you get an automatic free entry in the contest. And, as a bonus, if you wear a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt or hat at the event and have pics to prove it, then you get an additional 3 entries. For each event you attend and post about, you can get more entries. The more entries you have, the more likely you are to win a great prize. I will run the contest for the 12 month period (Jan to Dec 2013) which should give everyone time to find several events to attend. If you did any of the following types of events this year, prior to me announcing this, then it can still count if you post about it. At the end of the year, I will randomly select winners from a list of all entries. Multiple entries are possible using the framework below. We have some GREAT prizes lined up so far! Please thank our sponsors for their support of this contest and wildlife conservation in AZ! Top prize is a scoped Ruger American .270.....a very nice gun! (you can read a review about the gun) We have a lot of other outstanding prizes lined up and you can see the list below. So.......HOW MUCH CAN YOU DO FOR WILDLIFE THIS YEAR? Ruger American .270 with Nikon Monarch 2.5-10x42 scope and Weaver quad-lock rings – donated by Healy Arms and CouesWhitetail.com Outdoorsmans medium tripod with pistol grip head – donated by Outdoorsmans Outdoorsmans Backpack – donated by Colburn and Scott Real Estate IBEX EVO II 65+10 hunting backpack by Markor Hunting – donated by Vision Outfitters Blacks Creek Canadian backpack – donated by Santana Outdoors $100 Sportsmans Warehouse gift card – donated by Sportsmans Warehouse 6 weeks of 1 on 1 archery instruction for a beginner or 6 free hours in DART target system for more advanced bowhunter – donated by Archery Headquarters Jetboil Stove donated by Gila Outdoor Gift certificate for $75 dollars off game processing at Miller's Southwestern Processing Gift certificate for $75 dollars off game processing at Miller's Southwestern Processing Ways to enter this giveaway: Attend a wildlife conservation group work project anywhere in the US (includes groups like Arizona Game and Fish Department, New Mexico Game and Fish, Arizona Elk Society, Arizona Deer Association, AZ Desert Bighorn Sheep Society, AZ Antelope Foundation, etc) and post about the event here with pictures in the forum in the Wildlife Projects subforum. You get 3 additional entries if you post a picture of you at the project wearing a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt, hat or showing a CW sticker on your vehicle at the project. Being a member of any Wildlife Conservation group during 2013 and post about it in the forum in the Conservation Group Events subforum. You get 3 additional entries if you are serving on the Board of Directors and you get 2 additional entries if you work at the banquet of one of these groups. You get 3 additional entries if you are a Life Member of a conservation group. You must post proof of your membership, proof of you being on the board, and/or proof of you working the banquet. And again, if you are wearing a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt/hat at the event, then you get 3 additional entries. Work at a youth camp or adult camp designed to teach hunting skills (ie, like the women’s javelina hunting camp) in the US during 2013 and post photos and text about the event in the CouesWhitetail.com forum in the Conservation Group Events subforum. You get 3 additional entries if your photos show a picture of you at the event wearing a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt, hat or showing a CW sticker on your vehicle at the project. Attend and speak at an AGFD commission meeting (or other states' commission meeting) and post about it in the Political subforum. You get 3 additional entries if your photos or video show a picture of you at the event wearing a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt or hat. Post photos or a link to video from the AGFD website that shows you were there. Attend a banquet and post text and photos taken at the event in the CouesWhitetail.com forum in the Conservation Group Events subforum - You get 3 additional entries if your photos or video show a picture of you at the event wearing a CouesWhitetail.com tshirt or hat. You get 2 additional entries if you work at the banquet of one of these groups

I thought this video was excellent....does a good job trying to explain why we hunt...what do you think?

Congratulations and thanks for sharing your hunt with us!

Just like Chef said....I love this time of year! It's great when the success stories of our youth start rolling in! Congratulations!