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WOW! Great buck!

Great Buck. Like the story and what a problem to have................multiple deer to choice from! Congrats on your buck!

After the first major snow storm. We have had that tag several times and it has not been an issue......................but you never know. You could call forestry service and see what they said about previous closures.

Great story! Great bucks! Congrats to the to all involved! A family that hunts together....stays together!

Great Buck! Congrats! The body on the buck looks huge!

He can always get a crossbow permit for the archery hunt! The process is simple. He calls game and fish and they tell him what forms he needs to have filled out by the doc!

Great Story! Huge congrats to on here huge buck! Way to go!

Understood

Congrats on your buck! Looks like you put in some hard hiking for him! Great video!

Yeah, we have been drooling over this bull for a while now. How about a write up! I have been sent a pic of your bull on my phone several times by differnt people and they all say different things!

Great Buck! Way to go! Pregnant, hunting, and a sharp shooting........Wow! Huge congrat on you buck!

Great job youngman! Great video Darr and Jay!

Way to go! I know how you feel! I started hunting 20C a few years back and had a goal that each year the bucks would get bigger! Started with a spike and now I'm up to a 3x3. Now I need a 4x4!

Great writeup! Like all the pics! Congrats on your bucks! Hunting with family has to be the best way to hunt!

Sounds like a good time had by all! Keeping putting in and you might get lucky and drawn that tag again soon. My friends hunted in there with you this year with only 4 points!

I think you are close. Move to different ridges in the same area or an adjacent canyon! At first light, I glass ANY slope I can see as the deer are where they are. As soon as the sun crest the horizon, look at the sunny slope! That low angle light make the deer glow in the binos but I have to force myself to slow down my glassing because Im so excited about seeing that unmistakable glow of the body and sparkle off the antlers! As the sun get higher I start looking hard at north northwest facing slopes and especially any cut that is thick and stay shaded (dark) around 9ish (that was when most if not all the deer bedded in my area). You should find a buck those areas! Lastly, the pactience it takes to find deer in dark shaded thick brush is understated! I watched a fork from about 800 tp 900 yards away feeding on the face of a canyon in and around a large bush/shrub. We watch him for 30 minutes and amazingly I would lose him in the same bush. I like to stand will I glass off the tripod (back hurts) but I had to sit down and pull my eyes a half inch or so from the binos so that my field of view was just that bush. Thats when i would see his anters or ears move in the bush or the limbs move that he was eating!

Super Buck! Congrats! Packed in overnight with a 10 year old is very cool! She must be one tough kid!!!!!!

Great buck! Congrats! I was looking for something big also but that always easier said than done!

Great buck! That pretty cool that you were about keep track of a buck for so long!

I have a lot of good memories hunting that unit. I think it was the first unit I hunted whitetail in! The canyon was not that glassable before. We would walk in to the area in the dark and after the sun can up we would "sidehill" it about a quarter to half way down and glass the opposite side to find deer. The biggest bucks we would see bedded in the thick north facing slopes and we would do a drive with my dad doing the push with his favorite rifle in hand (lever action 30/30 open sights). Great times!

I sent some field pics to one of my buddies who is a taxi and we decided the cape probably was not salvageable, it was a big hole and it was right in front. Its ok now I have an excuse to be trigger happy next year. Redman - You are correct, I got a little close to the scope and it bit me right on the bridge of the nose. Sad to say but the deer actually drew first blood. Thanks everybody for the comments. Good info!

Giant buck! Congrats! They are some sneaky little animals...............watch them bed and try and find them again is a huge undertaking!

Edited: Welcome to the coues brotherhood........and sisterhood as there are some great huntresses on this site!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great write up! Huge congrats on your first and BIGGEST coues buck! There in only one FIRST buck!

Great job and sticking with it! Great buck! We used to hunt that unit in the 90s near sunnyside(?) canyon. Man there were a lot of deer then!