azryan

when people shoot carp like that...makes me like them a little more....congrats on a very nice buck

congrats on your first...you will always remember that. Tyler, you have had a fantastic year with your deer and helping many others tag out. Congrats on a huge year, make next years even better

way to go! congrats on tagging three beautiful deer!

congrats...way to get it done!...that was a great intro

Stop second guessing and buy the Swaros..... you won't regret it!!! If you dont make the decision we will do it for you , Gino is right!!

just hurry up and post the pics!!!!

Your unit has a built in basemap of just the major highways and city names. If you want any extra maps and detail on your unit then you are looking at another hundred dollars. You can only use Garmin's specific software for your unit. Do you have the regular legend or is it the Legend HCX?...the regular Legend only gives you 8MB of memory the HCX has an expandable slot for a micro-sd card. As far as maps go AZ with the new Topo 2008, is 61MB so if have the regular unit then you will not be able to upload a lot of maps. The older Topo cd is now really cheap if you can find it, for all of Az it is 32MB...so you can fit a 1/4 of Az on the unit. The only thing I use my GPS for is placing waypoints i.e if you find a waterhole or a good glassing point you can mark those on your GPS and always be able to find them again. The biggest use to me is when I go hunting I will place a waypoint where my truck is and then turn the unit off, and if I do need help getting back to my truck then I will turn the unit back on. Another thing that it helped me with was marking where my deer was, and then I went down to the bottom of the hill to wait for my friend, we were able to easily locate the deer in the dark with the unit. Another beneficial thing is being able to put in coordinates, so lets say your buddy has a camp up north, he could give you his coordinates and then you can put them in yours and should be able to find him exactly. The one thing I do not like about the legend is it does not have the digital compass or altimeter. With your unit you have to have at least 4 satelites picked up in order to get your elevation, and you have to be moving in order for the compass to work, which sometimes can be a little difficult getting to a waypoint with it. But you will get used to how it works the more you play with it..It is a great little unit. Hope this helps a little Ryan

awesome pictures! that trip looked like it was well worth going

despite everything, that buck he harvested is a great deer. you gotta love the character bucks

heck ya dude! go get em'...you got my heart pumping reading that.. now you know if that buck is not on the ground we are all gonna be very dissapointed keep working at it, its gonna pay off

woohoo! what a great buck!

...nice one!!!...I saw some bucks just like that mounting some does in my neighbors front yard looks like the rut is picking up....

Cody shot this bull on the 5th day of his hunt in the morning. He shot it at 379 yards with his 300wsm and dropped him. He gross scores at 323" with 50" main beams!!!

awesome looking mount...he sure did he a nice job...I love how he made the nose seem wet, little detail like that is important

beautiful pics!!!....thanks for sharing

awesome job....congrats to your girls....I love the teamwork on the hunt!

he always kills something

...thats hilarious

he looks like he is "JACKed" up....he has harvested some great animals...we will see what kind of bull he gets this year.

awesome job!!!!!...way to go!....im glad to see you were able to tag out....sorry if some of us came across a little rude those coues sure are beautiful deer

Sweet!!!...thanks for sharing with us...nice looking bull

Nice looking buck!!! I would guess him right around 80"

Day 1: I had a bunch of people up helping opening morning...Christian came up Wed night to help me out through the weekend...My buddy Brandon also came up and then my dad and two of his buddies also were up there to enjoy the outdoors. We get up before sunrise get out to our glassing point in the dark and we waited for that great moment waiting for it to get light enough to glass. Christian and Brandon went to one spot while my dad and I headed to another spot to glass. No later then thirty minutes in, Christian drove over and said they had a buck located. S o we headed over there to take a look. The buck was a decent forky that would score around 50". I decided to pass him up, but it was hard to do so, especially with Christian and Brandon urging me to shoot it, but I did not give into the peer pressure very easily, later on this decision paid off. We ended up glassing a bunch of does, which was basically the story of this whole trip. Lots of deer but the wrong gender. After we decided to stop glassing at the one spot, we decided to go for a hike to get into some good glassing territory, that turned up nothing. The rest of the day was spent hiking our butts off in some very nasty stuff, and glassing. Day 2: We kept glassing from the same spot hoping to turn up more bucks, but it never worked out like we wanted to. We were already tired from all the hiking we did the day before and we decided to call it an early morning. Christian got some really bad allergies and was miserbale so he headed out Sat afternoon and Brandon had left Friday night. My dad had to take his buddies back into town. So it was just my dad and I the rest of the weekend. That afternoon I went down into some lower elevations to glass a hillside where I had seen some bucks scouting. I caught some movement behind a tree not far up the hill, and saw it was three coues feeding around at 2pm. I narrowed it down to two of them being does and one spike. I was debating whether or not to shoot that spike. I decided to pass him up as well. The rest of the evening I only turned up four muley does. As it got dark I started to become a little discouraged after two days of hunting. Not finding any bucks and just does. Day 3: We were back in the same area where we had seen that forky. I was hoping to find him and try and shoot him, but we could not find him. We only found more does. After glassing some more areas and turning up more deer of the wrong gender I decided to go home that afternoon and recharge my body. Four days out there was enough for me. So I left discouraged about how opening weekend went. Day 4: Brandon and I headed out into a different part of the unit to some areas that predominatley held mule deer, but there were always a few whitetail hanging around. That morning we glassed and glassed only turning up 5 mulies. I knew we were taking a chance hunting these lower areas due to all the mulies in it, but its always worth trying. That afternoon we hit a different area and hiked to the highest peak we could find to glass. When we got up to the top we setup our glassing perch and started picking apart the hills. After a little bit of that we both passed out and took a little snoozer. I love glassing and taking naps in the process. It is refreshing. After our eyes were refreshed we found a herd of piggies right below us. Brandon then says he has a buck bedded right below us, So my heart starts racing, but he di not mention whether it was a coues or muley,ended up being a little forky muley. Then we finally found some whitetail way up on a far mountain side. We put the spotting scope up and it turned out to be three does. Just our luck!. After all the glassing we have done the whole hunt we only turned up two bucks. the rest of the evening we glassed up two more whitetail, a doe and fawn. At the end of the day I started to regret not shooting that forky. But I was still determined on finding a good buck. I knew all this work would benefit us in the end. Day 5: I slept in and got a really late start. My buddy Cody or aka Napolian had the next couple days off so he came up to help me out. We headed into am area that had been burned years ago that held some whitetail. We got out there just as the light was fading and had about twenty minutes to glass, we only turned up one doe.That night we made a call to Brandon and he was going to come up in the morning. Day 6: We waited for Brandon to show up then we packed our gear and headed out to look behind more glass. after awhile of nothing, Brandon says he has a deer, the problem was it was at least a mile and a half up hill in the next mountain range. We confirmed it was a buck, and we headed out after him. We knew it was going to be a very very low chance of finding him again. Well after an hour and a half of hiking some rough country we made it up to a hill that was across from where we saw the buck. We set everything up and started to pick the hillside apart. we had a really good idea of where he bedded but it was to thick to even see in. Then all of a sudden Cody yells "Buck, Buck, Buck" the two deer were 200 yards below us. But Cody jumped to conclusions and they ended up being does. He states that he does not like these little deer, but deep down inside he has a passion for them He only wants to shoot mulies. So after he got all our blood going we were dissapointed again. Brandon had class that afternoon and had to leave. So Cody and I went to another spot that turned out to be money. We get up to our glassing point and start looking, after a little nap here and there I spotted two deer, but confirmed them as more does. It was frustrating seeing all these does. About twenty minutes later it was about 4:45, Cody yells "Big Buck", sure enough he glassed up a really good buck with the El's, we were thinking in the 80-90" range feeding at the top of a little mesa. This deer was a long long ways up at the top. He was pretty much in sheep country. He was located at the top of some sheer cliffs. There was only one way up to him. I decided quickly which route I was going to take to close the distance. My plan was to end up right on top of him. This image does not do justice of how steep this country was. Below the deer was a sheer drop off at least 200 ft. The image does not show it well at all I knew I had to go quick because I had a little less then an hour of shooting light. So I went up these steep steep hills as fast as I could. I have never been on hills that steep for that distance. I knew I was crazy going up this stuff, and at one point I almost gave up, I did not physically think my body could do it. It seemed impossible to make it up in time. But I kept going because my adrenaline was going. I ended up to the top in about 30 mins, which I was amazed at. I finally got to the top and started looking for him below me, I had about 15 mins of shooting light left, and I started to worry that he was gone some I look back to where I left Cody and the 15's, I look back at him through the El's and could hardly see him but I saw his arm pointing right. So I slowly worked my way to the right, but nothing. I then looked at him again and saw his arms come out. I interpreted it as he is gone...start heading down, but he really meant "what the heck are you doing"....I turned around no more then fifty yards up from me was the buck. I turned the safety off and let the led fly. I missed him the first shot, then he started running, my second to last shot hit him, then I let another one go and it dropped him. I was shaking alot, I was so excited yelling at the top of my lungs. I could hear Cody yelling " You got Him"...it was a great experience. When I first put my hands on him I was so relieved and the feeling that it was over was awesome. This buck was my first, and My friends and I worked our butts off for him. We did not get back to the truck till 5 hours later packing that little guy out of the hills. Sorry I do not have any field pics, because I did not have my camera with me. Christian came up with a gross score of 84 3/8"...not bad for my first I would like to thank everyone that helped on this hunt, especially Brandon, Cody, and Christian. They helped me out so much, they busted their butts for me when they did not have to. I shot Cody's .300 short mag, the same gun he dropped his Kiabab buck with.

"Congrats. Should make a fine looking european mount." Here is the euro mount, It took me a couple of days to do it but now its pretty much done

haha i know what your talking about and i dont even have them yet. I always try and sneak my dad's away for a trip but he always seems to "need" them for something now. so i decided to man up and pick some up. plus im gettin everything at cost It will def be the best purchase you will make. Once you have them, you cant hunt without them...you wont need a new pair for a very very long time if not for the rest of your life. You gotta love it!