shortpants

You had one heck of a season. Way to go ELKHUNTER!

I can't wait to hear about your hunt. Remember to take lots of video and pics. Best of luck to you and be safe. Don't trade away your house or wife and you'll be fine.

Here's a few pics from my latest adventure. I was hunting with Jim Ford, a good ol' farm boy from Iowa. He has taken many quality animals from Alaska to Africa. This was his first coues hunt ever. We saw lots of deer the first few days but nothing that would even break 80''. We had 6'' of snow the second morning which kept us at camp until after noon. On the fourth day we got out extra early and had to wait for enough light to start glassing. As night gave way to the morning sun the hillsides revieled many deer. We glassed all morning and saw 25 deer including 13 bucks! Still nothing we were looking for. I decided to take Jim to an old honey hole of mine where I've found mature bucks holding tight in the past. On the way there I decided to check one other spot. We walked only 150 yds. from the rhino and sat down holding our bino's with our elbows on our knees. After only a couple of minutes I heard Jim going ''psss'' so I pulled my head from my bino's to find a good buck standing not 40 yds. in front of us! The chase was on and we bumped this buck a couple more times before he went over a ridge and disappeared. We sat and pondered leaving the area but decided after how many deer we had looked at to find this buck we had better try and relocate him. We followed the same path the buck went over the ridge and it didn't take me long to find him standing under a tree across a very steep canyon. Jim said he wanted to take the buck even though he was not quite as good as he looked running away. The buck looked like 90'' buck on one side and a low 70's buck on the other. I had to go back to the rhino for my rangefinders, camera, tripods,etc. I returned a short while later and the buck had bedded down in plain view so I set up the video camera and bino's on the tripods and ranged the buck at 313 yds. I told Jim I was ready and he let one fly. Icould see the buck was hit as he jumped up. he went a few yds. and Jim put the finishing touch on his first coues buck! I got the first shot on film but as he moved he stepped off camera for the last shot. It was a great hunt and a pleasure hunting with Jim. His buck taped out to 86'' gross. 01_04_2007_02_46_05PM.bmp 01_04_2007_02_50_55PM.bmp 01_04_2007_02_39_35PM.bmp 01_04_2007_02_53_36PM.bmp

Gotcha Jimbo! Sorry everybody to drag you into this but I had to fool our good buddy COOSEFAN.

Way to go Dipper!

Go get 'em tiger!

It just keeps getting better!

I do recall a certain person who's 2pt. became a gnarly non-typical last year...

That's an even better response than we hoped for! It's those that I love whom I jerk around the most. I love ya Jimbo.

Nothing like a good prank on your B-day. Ya gotta love me! Hey look at it this way, now maybe I can go rifle hunting with you later this year. HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's almost as funny as the joke I played on you.

Found these in 5b south earlier this year. There a matching pair found 100 yds. apart. 01_04_2007_02_58_02PM.bmp 01_04_2007_02_59_41PM.bmp

1 2 3 4, aah, I can't count very good but that deer seems to have a lot of points! It is very rare to find a 4x4 coues. Congrats on a fine trophy.

Can somebody tell me why my pics are just a link? I browsed and uploaded from my pics but they only show up as links.

That's a dandy! Nice job.

Sign me up to hunt with your boys! Incredible year, congratulations.

Excellent job guys! It was a great year for us (Mullins Outfitters) thanks to our great team effort. You guys sure got it done.

Way to go Josh!

Wow!! What an incredible hunt. Your lucky to have such great hunting partners and their lucky to have you. Congratulations you both!

WOW!!! Welcome aboard.

Congratulations on an incredible hunt with even more incredible results.

Am I missing something here? Did you just ask us to thank these kids who allegedly stole the batteries out of your friends camera because thats all they stole? Maybe I read it wrong but if I did read it correctly why are we calling them honest people?

Awesome pics, thanks for sharing with us. What took you so long?

TOTALLY FREAKIN' AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aahh, the old catch 'em on the barrell cactus trick. Very nice Jimbo!