Coues Sniper

Well it kinda depends. If I'm by myself, I'd probably set up where I'm at and try to wait him out. I'm confident enough in my rifle to make that shot if i could get into a prone position. If i had a guy to watch him, and i thought he'd stay put for awhile, I'd try to get a little closer and have my buddy talk me in on a radio. I'm confident, but not stupid.

Long time reader, but had never posted till now. This i just had to share. I guess this was just a matter of time, i just never thought it would be so soon. Check this out: http://www.couesdeersanctuary.com/ I guess it's a farm where they raise monster bucks and then let them loose in a 6500 acre area so they can be "hunted" Bring your checkbook - 25 Large for a buck scoring 130-144! They also claim to have the typical and nontypical worlds records alive and ready to be "hunted" for "market price". Gotta be kidding me.

That's amazing. Holy crap is right, geez. Glad nobody was hurt, thanks for sharing!!!

Phenominal buck, what great character! Congrats. I'm glad all your hard work payed off for you!

Well, there's a difference between banning it and supporting/doing it. Should it be banned? Course not. How would you police it? I mean what if it's a 200,000 acre enclosure? Surely that could still be considered fair chase (assuming it wasn't rasised in a pen, which some of the pictures on that website clearly suggest.) So how big is fair? Should it be different sizes for different species? So on, so forth. All wanted to say is how ridiculous it is to "hunt" an animal raised as a pet and then brag about it. It's the exact oppisite of Coues hunting in my opinion. Exact oppisite. As far as people buying bid tags and hiring an army of people to find them a big buck, i don't look down on that at all. It's still a wild deer. Honestly, i bet most anyone here would jump at the chance to shoot a monster buck if someone told them they knew where one was. I mean if one of your buddies is like "hey i know where a 130" nontypical hangs out in your unit, i can show him to you, no problem", what are you going to say? No thanks, i didn't scout that deer myself so i'm not interested? Crazy talk. Just my 2 cents And I'm glad this site officially doesn't support high fence hunting!

Well i'm not trying to step on any toes, but i would hope that this site would not support high fence Coues hunting in any way. Younghunter, your signature hits it right on the head, Coues are a tough little deer to hunt and i think that's why most of us here love them so much. They are so elusive and tough to hunt. But when a website has pictures of deer you can shoot with chainlink fence all around them, and says be prepared to shoot "up to 200 yards", come on. That's just ridiculous. You might as well hunt in a zoo, or shoot the neighbors horse. I think this gives hunting a bad name.