Gr8 White Jr

FINALLY! Great vidoe! You guys are awesome and I know you make your Papa proud. Congrats again on two great bucks! -Tracy

Great video Amanda! I love it! -Tracy

What a great looking rug! I can't wait to get my rug back from my fall bear. I hope it turns out as good as yours. Congrats again on the bear and an even bigger congrats on your baby girls! -Tracy

Its funny that you say that! When I first started teaching Angie to shoot I was always getting after her telling her "put your foot down". I thought that having her foot sticking up in the air would keep her from relaxing when making the shot. She argued and said that is how she is most compfortable, and then immediately after she shot a 1 1/2" group at 300 yards. If that wasn't a way to tell me to shut up and let her shoot I don't know what is. -Tracy Here is a pic of Angie and her famous leg up position when we were out predaor calling one day and decided to do a little shooting.

This is hilarious!

WOW! Congrats on a great trophy! Very interesting animal. I didn't even know such hunts were available. Congrats! -Tracy

That is correct, if there is any kind of flesh or hide, basicly anything other than bone then you are not legally aloud to take posession of it. So by the looks of that picture the legal thing to do would be to leave it lay. -Tracy

AWESOME!!! Way to go Jim! Was just over at Bret's and he told me so I was itching to get home and log on to check it out. Congrats on your first archery buck! I know that is something you have put a lot of time in trying to accomplish. What a stud of a buck too! -Tracy

Crushing news! I feel sick to my stomache and my heart aches for the family he left behind. A very sad, tragic and devistating loss for the coueswhitetail.com comunity and most of all Mike's friends and family! Our thoughts and prayers will be with them during this hard time. May he rest in peace. -Tracy

Somebody broke into your house and only took your rifle? Sounds like who ever did this knew what they were coming to get, why else would they not take other valuables in your home? Do you have any idea of who it could be, somebody you may know who has been in your home and knew you had that gun specificly? I'm really sorry to hear of your misfortune and I hope you get your rifle back! May justice be served to the lowlife scumbags! -Tracy

I'm sure the upgraded software will be well worth the temporary discomfort. -Tracy

Feeling a little uncompfortable here! Hahaha! I'm sure Amanda will come up with a new look soon. Hopefully REALLY SOON! -Tracy

Saw you Saturday evening approximately 6:00 PM. I flashed my headlights and gave you a wave as I passed you. Nice truck! -Tracy

I'll Take it! PM sent. -Tracy

Beautiful buck! Congrats to the young hunter on a great trophy! Just a friendly question...why in your videos do you always fade out and end it at the moment of truth? Just like the junior archery jevelina video, right at the shot the video fades out and ends. Are you planning on producing a hunting video that you are saving the good parts for? Just curious. -Tracy

Awesome video!!! Why did it cut out at the end? Where is the rest of it? -Tracy

I gave you a wave as I passed you this mornig at about 7:15 AM headed NB on I-17 at Deer Valley. -Tracy

What a tease!

+100 Well said! IMO there is no need for an apology and I think a lot of us completely understand the offense you have taken to such statements. -Tracy

That is the absolute truth! I started the process for BP Agent in March of 2009. I completed the process in August of 2009 in which on August 24, 2009 I revieved a letter stating that my file was in TSU (Training Scheduling Unit) and that I would be contacted and would be leaving for the academy in 30-60 days. Well, here it is almost a year and a half after I recieved that letter and guess what, STILL WAITING! You will be told one thing one day, and then something totally different the next. The best advice I can give is exactly the same as what COUESAZ said and that is to not wait on them, you will drive yourself mad. Unfortunately the system is broken and VERY LONG but if your like me and see it as a dream job you'll grin and bear it and keep jumping through those hoops untill your day comes. Firstcoueswas80 and Scottyboy were a huge help when I was in need of advice when I was still in the testing process. Like mentioned in an earlier post Honorfirst.com has an endless amount of valueable information and is where I go to see where I stand in the "waiting game" compared to other applicants. Good luck! -Tracy

WOOHOO! You sure are bringing him up right Justin. He can glass and he can shoot, that boy is going to be a hunting machine, even more than he already is. Congrats to D on making another great shot! -Tracy

Great write up and very nice buck! Thanks for sharing your hunt with us and welcome to the site! -Tracy

+1 Congrats on a great buck and what looks to be a pretty big sow! I agree with you that javelina are defintely good eating if you do it right. I always turn the whole thing into chorizo. -Tracy

AWESOME!!!! No better sight after a shot than bubbly blood. Congrats on sealing the deal on a great buck! Is that the 3 point that kept toying with you? This has been one of my favorite threads. Thanks for taking us along with you on your hunt! -Tracy

If there is one thing I absolutely love to do in January its hunting javelina with a bow. This year didn’t start off as well as I had hoped. It was extremely cold (14 degrees) and extremely windy on opening weekend and it seemed to keep the pigs held up in their warm hiding holes. After glassing all day on opening day I finally glassed up a herd of javelina at almost a mile away. With less that a half hour of light left I knew that I didn’t have enough time to make a stalk and I just called it a night. The next day my good friend Frank (Kaffer62) and I were back in the same spot as I was the night before hoping to find the herd of pigs again. We glassed for a few hours with no luck. The rest of the day was a bust as well with only one pig being spotted, again at a distance close to a mile away and with less than a half hour of light left. We headed home feeling humbled and defeated. After such an incredible action packed season last year we were very confused and wondering where the heck all the pigs went. Frank and I both had the following Friday off of work so we were planning on a 3 day hunt the next weekend. Frank had a dentist appointment on Friday morning so I was going to head up by myself early Friday morning and frank would meet me up there later in the afternoon. Thursday night I spoke with Ron (ibowhuntaz) on the phone, he didn’t have a pig tag but had been hunting deer in the same area and he had seen a herd of pigs earlier that day. He was heading out to hunt on Friday as well so we made plans to meet up on Friday morning and hunt together. Friday morning found Ron and I on a hill side glassing. It was a slow morning with only a single spike mule deer buck being spotted until about 9:00 when Ron said to me, “I gotta pig!” Excited to hear I immediately asked “where?!” but before Ron had a chance to tell me the pig disappeared out of sight. Ron had seen the pig on a far hill but it disappeared lower into a canyon and behind a ridge between us and it. Ron and I agreed that we should move to the next ridge in front of us so we could see down into the canyon so we gathered our gear and we were on our way try to relocate the pig. When we got to the next ridge we glassed and glassed but could not find any pigs so we moved a little bit further down the ridge. We stopped at a good vantage point and we were both glassing down into the canyon when I spotted a pig bedded down laying in the sunshine. After a brief discussion Ron and I agreed on what would be the best approach for my stalk and I was off while Ron stayed up high to watch from his “front row seat”. I made my way down into the canyon and crossed the wash in the bottom. Before I made the last 70 yards of my stalk I took off my pack and left it under a juniper so I would be more mobile and quieter as I closed the distance to the pig. The wind was very unpredictable and seemed to be changing every couple of seconds but was blowing in my face for most of the stalk with the occasional 180 degree switch where it would be right at my back. I kept creeping my way very slowly and quietly toward where the pig was bedded making sure to scan the surrounding terrain for any other pigs that might have been laying close by. I was getting really nervous thinking that the pig was gong to catch my scent as the wind kept switching back and forth from blowing in my face to blowing at my back. When I made it to what I thought was 40 yards I could see the pig clearly in his bed and he had his head up looking around. I felt it was risky to try to get closer being that I was in the wide open in the sunshine with no cover. Being confident with my shooting ability at that distance I decided to take the shot from where I was. The problem was I couldn’t get a good reading with my rangefinder on the actual pig, only the bushes and cactus that were near him. I estimated and decided to shoot for 40 yards. I drew back and settled my 40 yard pin on the pig’s shoulder as he laid in his bed. I slowly applied pressure to my trigger release and the arrow was on its way. I watched my arrow as it flew literally inches over the pigs back. I must have misjudged the distance. It turned out there had been two pigs laying there and they both jumped up and busted out of their beds at the sound of my arrow crashing into the rocks behind them. One pig ran to the left and out of sight and the other ran up and to the right about 10 yards and was standing in the shade of a juniper. I figured that if I barely missed high on the first shot then I should be right on now that the pig is a little further so I knocked another arrow, drew back and settled my 40 yard pin on the pigs shoulder for the second time. I released and watched the flight path of my arrow on its way toward the pig until it went into the shadow of the juniper where the pig was standing. Because of the shadow I could not see the last few yards of the arrow flight and had no idea where or even if I hit the pig. After the shot the pig ran out from under the juniper and out of sight. Every pig I have ever shot with a bow has always let out a roar when the arrow hit and this time when I shot I heard no sound at all so I was thinking that I had missed for a second time. I was feeling very disappointed and thinking to myself “how the heck did I blow it twice?” I walked over to the juniper where the pig had been standing to look for my arrow. As I looked around I heard a “clack, clack, clack” and I looked up to see the pig about 25 yards above me spinning in a five foot radius circle clacking its teeth. I could see that I made a good hit on him and the rage two blade made a massive hole right behind his shoulder. As the pig was spinning in circles he came to a stop and seemed to gain his composure. He then came charging down the hill right toward me. I came to full draw and stayed stationary but spun my body keeping my sights on the pig as he passed by me at 5 yards clacking his teeth and continued on down toward the bottom of the canyon where he piled up less than 10 feet from my pack. What an adrenaline rush it was to have him come charging down the hill toward me. My pig was down! He was a big mature boar probably right in his prime. This was my 8th javelina, 5th with a bow, and this one is the 2nd to biggest pig of the 8. After I saw that he was down I through my hands up holding my bow in the air signaling to Ron that I was successful. Ron had watched it all unfold from up high on top of the canyon. As he later put it, he “had a perfect view and watched it all go down from the expensive seats”. Ron came down and met me at my downed pig. We shook hands as he congratulated me and I thanked him for his help. We took pictures, I field dressed it, tied it to my pack and we started the hike out. Frank was there waiting when we got out of the canyon and back to the trucks. We all talked about how it all went down. It was a good time to be in the field with some great people! We continued to hunt the rest of the weekend in hopes of finding some more javelina so Frank could try to fill his tag. Saturday was a bust and no pigs were found but late Sunday morning I glassed up 12 javelina on a far hill about 1 ¼ miles out. After a long hike up and over several ridges (over 3 hours) to close the distance we lost the pigs and could not relocate them. We got back to the truck just in time to brake camp before dark so that concluded our weekend. You can be sure that Frank and I will be right back at it next weekend trying to get Frank a pig as well. Thanks again to Ron for coming out and hunting with me on Friday morning! Thank you for reading my story and as always thanks to Amanda for a great site where we can share our passion and adventures! -Tracy Frank glassing. Me trying to relocate a herd a javelina. Me and my big boar. Had to get a pic with the Coueswhitetail.com sticker in the background.