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I wish you guys would stop posting all these horror stories your starting to freak me out. I'll be down there by myself this year and I don't like that one bit!

My thoughts exactly Jimbo! When every bone in your body is telling you not to go by yourself down to an area filled with drug smuggling dirtbags for a deer! Is my life worth it? Absolutely not! Am I going anyway? Definately!

Time and luck. Thats it.

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I mentioned this story in my recent post about my archery coues buck and some of you requested that I tell it so here goes... I had just lost sight of the 95'' 3x4 coues buck that I had put an arrow through about an hour earlier. After hitting the buck I watched him run across the other side of the small bowl I was in. He stopped under a tree and stood there for 15 minutes before a doe came running by him. He put his nose to the ground and started chasing after her as if nothing had ever happened. They disappeared over the far side of the bowl so I started blood trailing him. There was a lot of blood in the beginning but it quit about 80 yards shy of the tree he had stood under. I made my way to the tree but there was no blood there. NOT GOOD! I made my way in the direction the buck had chased the doe over. While looking over into the next draw where the buck had gone I heard a doe snort across the other side. I had been walking around with an arrow nocked so I raised my glasses to look for the deer making the snort while still holding the bow with the arrow nocked. Ok, so your asking yourself what does this all have anything to do with a lion??? Well I'm about to tell you... While looking through the binos I got this feeling that something was standing to my right staring at me. I slowly lowered the binos and turned my head to find a lion standing 5 FEET from me with a look on his face like holy crap, where did you come from? Well I was thinking the same thing he was! I wasted no time clicking the release onto my loop and started to draw back. About halfway back the arrow fell off the rest from all that shaking I was doing so I let back down slowly. I decided to stop messing around and went for my pistol on my hip (since I was a mile from Mexico I always have it with me). In all my nervousness I couldn't even get the dang pistol out of the holster and in trying to do so I made the lion nervous enough that he spun around putting his back end to me with his head spun around looking at me! Now your mine I thought as I put the arrow back on the rest! I drew back and put the pin on his left rear quarter because of the angle thinking the arrow would pass through to the opposite side front shoulder. I released and SMACK, hit him right where I was aiming! The only problem was the arrow only penetrated about 3/4'' and I watched the lion run off with with the arrow sticking out of his hip. There was only 15-20 minutes of light left by this time so I came back the next morning starting out glassing the area. I glassed up the buck I had hit chasing a doe as fast as a deer can run. Later I returned to the area of the lion encounter to find nothing. That day without a doubt will go down as one of the most exiting days I've ever spent in the field but a day that will also always haunt me. I hope you enjoyed the lion story, thanks for reading!

Because I am a good friend of yours and because I care about your well being I'm going to have to bring you back down to earth. After reading some of the previous posts I know your feeling all giddy but these guys don't understand how dangerous it is to blow up the ego of Jim Mullins. Your not that smart, and your not that good looking. Yea you've gotten lucky on all your hunts and fishing trips but you aint that special! So get your head out of the clouds and have a great birthday you old fart! Ok I admit, I'm just jealous and you know I love you but seriously, you aint that good looking. :lol:

Awesome double!!! Good luck sticking that other buck!

Great job Tyler!

Very nice Jim!!!

WOW!!! That's a dream come true right there! Congrats on a monarch of the desert!

Way to go guys!!! When you and your dad are on the prowl them critters better lay low!

Oh TANK! I get it!!! :lol:

I just got mine delivered last week from Safe City AZSAFES.COM in Mesa. I absolutely love it! The point you made about buying cheap just to upgrade later is very true with safes. Most people out grow their first safe and have to upgrade later. Buy bigger than you think you need, they fill up quickly!

Thanks Gino! You've got quite the collection there as well!

I have been going crazy trying to find time to get out and do some archery hunting. I have not done much hunting this year so i was getting anxious. I was finally able to get out yesterday for a day trip and what a day it turned out to be! My intentions were to find some rutting muleys and shoot the first buck that gave me the opportunity. After abandoning the first spot I drove down the road a short distance and parked the new truck. I hiked a short distance to my glassing spot and found this cool frozen waterfall. I set up to glass overlooking awesome muley country but of coarse it's hard to break old habits so the first thing I do is point the glasses way up the farthest mountain and immediately find 3 coues bucks a mile away and up on a steep open hill side. I watched them for a bit and then decided I'd better find some muleys a little closer. The spot I was at is an old honey hole of mine and I used to hunt it a lot. I would always find a lot of muleys and see a couple of coues up high. Well of course now I can't find any other deer anywhere. I decided I would move the truck closer to the 3 coues bucks and try glassing from there. I was able to park the truck 1000yds. directly below the 3 bucks. I tried to locate some muleys from there but finally decided I'd better give the coues bucks a try. I didn't feel like my odds were very good because there was no cover where they were. I left my backpack behind and just took my bow, binos, and rangefinders. I was able to get to 200yds. of the middle sized buck (a decent sized forky) but could not see any other deer. He walked closer and bed down at 175 yds. I decided to try to just stay low and try and close the gap keeping prickly pears between the buck and I. I got to 100yds. and all of a sudden a deer came down from above the buck and they both trotted about 40yds. and stopped. I'm not sure if I spooked them or they were just running around like I had seen them doing all day. They fed away slowly just out of sight so I got up off my knees and quickly made my way over to where they had just been. I had about 10yds. to go to get to a tree I had picked out and I looked to my left and the forky is standing at 70yds. looking my way. He had turned around and was coming back when he caught my movement. he was unsure so he circled down wind of me and held up behind a small bush at 45yds. I needed him to take a few more steps but instead of taking steps he bolted and ran off the direction I had come from ( away from the other deer). At this point I didn't know if all the other deer had run away or if they were just over the little rise ahead of me so I slowly walked towards it. I had gone maybe 40 yds. and all of a sudden a doe appeared out of nowhere feeding towards me. I was stuck standing upright in the wide open with the sun shining on me. I was trying my hardest to grow spikes on the doe when I caught tines coming from behind the doe. The biggest of the 3 bucks, a nice 3 point was coming from behind the rise! As he came up behind the doe she took off running towards me stopping at 20 yds. and pegged me! I could see the buck out of the corner of my eye just feeding but I was locked eye to eye with the doe. She stomped and head bobbed several times before bolting and letting out a snort on her way. The buck was now stopped behind a bush at 40 yds. Then the third buck a small forky came over the rise and stopped broadside at 50yds. Should I take the shot or wait for the 3 point and risk him bolting out of there. I decided to wait for the 3 point. Finally he stepped out looking my way trying to find what had spooked the doe. His vitals were just clear of the bush so with him looking right at me I drew put the 40yd. pin on his vitals and with buck fever now in full effect punched the release. MISSED! The buck ran and stopped where the small forky had been standing while the small forky ran to where the 3 point was just standing. I already had another arrow knocked and drew once again with the buck looking at me. This time I composed myself and put the 50yd. pin on his vitals and released. The buck leaped high into the air and as he was at the peak of his jump I saw my arrow fall out of his opposite side shoulder! As he came down his shoulder was broken and he face planted and did a forward roll. He ran less than 50 yds. and crashed!!! The small forky didn't know what to think and came to 22yds. of mee staring curiously. After a few minutes of messing with him I walked over and retrieved my arrow. I turned and followed the blood trail down to my buck. It took me 13 years to kill something with my bow. I have missed a few, wounded a few, passed several, wounded a mountain lion at 5 feet, missed a coyote at 10 yds. This was long over due but well worth the wait. Sorry this story is so long, hope you enjoyed it. P.S. all I had in the field was my cell phone and it died after one pic. but my wife snapped a few when I got home. Thanks honey for putting up with me!

Those are just rifle kills, they shouldn't impress the great TREESTANDMAN! Just kidding I appreciate it! I've been lucky a few times. I've got 1 more to pick up from the taxidermist and 2 to drop off! Can't get enough of these coues!

I understand and I have my half day cooler also HA HA HA!!!

That's an awesome buck, congrats!!!

Great buck Phil and good luck in mexico!

Awesome job!!!

Hey thanks guys. Things definitely went my way this time. I did put a tape on him, he scores 87 and change! He's even bigger than I thought he was and I couldn't be happier!

Way to go AG!!! Having the boy to share that with makes it even better!

That was just a half day ride so the cooler was sufficient!

Every hunt is different, thats what makes them special! I work my butt off on every hunt to try and kill the best representative buck on that hunt. Sometimes it's a 100+ and sometimes it an 80. If I decide to shoot something I'm usually deciding to mount it at the same time. I don't hunt coues for meat I hunt them in hopes of taking a real trophy. They are all trophies if I'm pulling the trigger. I will be honest the one 80 buck I referred to I did not mount along with my first buck and a 75 I shot on accident while trying to shoot a 95, ( got 'em confused ). Those 3 hang in the garage euro style and I'm proud of all of them. So I guess you could say I do have a cut-off at 80 but it all depends on the story behind the buck as well. I would mount those bucks in your pics for sure! Those are great bucks!

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