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    This morning's view.

    Woke up to this view this morning.
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    HUGE COUES

    Fantastic buck Brandon!!!! Well worth the 30 years it took to get him! Congratulations!!
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    A product of El Nino

    When I got home from work this morning I had this beautiful view from the house.
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    Intros and my 09 buck

    Awsome buck Travis! He's gonna look great on your wall. It's good to have you on board.
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    150" WMAT Coues

    You are the man!! That buck is a freak of nature, an extremely rare specimen! It may be another 20 years before we see another buck of that caliber. Congratulations!!!!
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    Snow Buck

    Got this buck on one of the cams last week, only the second time I've gotten him on camera. He's a 4x4. Here's the other two photos I have of him. He's a sneaky one, this one. I'm gonna be keeping an eye on him. He's got potential!
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    Archery Success

    Welcome to Coues Whitetail Hunters Anonymous Colton! We've all got it bad!! I've got a 19 and 21 sons and they're hooked too. Glad to have you.
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    Snow Buck

    Probably not. I'll chase some others.
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    Mexico sheds

    Good luck finding the owner of that picket fence Jim!
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    My December Buck

    I'm speechless Jake!! What an awesome Coues buck. A rarity of nature for sure!!!
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    Mountain Lion

    I had my boys setup a camera at a water tank that a rancher friend of mine said some Coues deer were hitting. I didn't get any deer at all but plenty of cattles and this mountain lion which my buddy is going after with his dogs this week. I still have 3 cameras out that haven't been checked since the end of Oct. It'll be early Jan. before I can get up to check them.
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    Storm pictures

    I just took these pictures from living room a few minutes ago. Thought y'all might like to see what I have to put up with every day.
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    The Rut

    My sons saw some pre-rutting on Tues. the 2nd. About a 90 incher chasing some does and a couple of small bucks sparring.
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    Brocks First Deer

    Those pictures are priceless!!
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    ricks '09 buck

    Nice bucks Rick!! Trent built the 6.5 WSM that I shot my buck with. It performed flawlessly!!
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    Lori's Luck.....

    What a great and memorable hunt. Congratulations on making the memories!
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    Tanner first coues deer

    Great photo and a great buck! Good job Tanner! That's just the first of many more to come
  18. I just wanted to thank all of you who shared your congratulations and kind comments on my recent hunting success. My post on this buck was hit so hard that Photobucket temporarily shut me down for exceeding my bandwidth!! You're a great group of people who were truly excited to see me take this monster buck without a hint of jealousy...well not much anyway Thanks again and I sincerely hope that all of you at some point in your hunting career have the opportunity to get a crack at truly huge Coues buck. Believe me, it's quite a rush! Thanks, God Bless and have a great Thanksgiving!!!! Took this photo in the living room of the buck with the mountains where I killed him in the background.
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    Thank You CWT Members!!

    Thank you Ernesto and also for the Mexico offer. Looks like I'll sit out another year though.
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    Thank You CWT Members!!

    Brandon is a great guy and an awesome framer! Come on out for a visit and we'll play with all the hunting toys and take in the view!!
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    Thank You CWT Members!!

    Webber, I have Gavin Weller mounting him. Here are a few comparison photos.
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    First Deer

    Very strange.
  23. After 17 years of chasing the ever elusive Coues deer I finally connected with a giant Coues buck. How sweet it is!!!! Thank you Amanda Moors and Trent Neff for all your help! I couldn't have done it with out you. Thanks Joey and James for packing it off the mountain and hauling it to the house.
  24. I first started hunting Coues deer in 1990 and was really gung ho throughout most of the 90’s. So much so that I even guided hunters to bucks of 118 and 123. However most of you may be surprised to learn that I personally had never taken a deer over 100 inches let alone something of Boone and Crockett caliber. That all changed this year when I was finally able to close the deal on a World Class Coues deer. I believe I first saw this buck last year on the October hunt when I missed a shot at a very large Coues buck down the ridge from where I was glassing. Amanda was around the corner glassing a different area and had the only range finder. Afraid the buck was going into the brush, I guessed at the yardage and missed at least 3 shots, actually it was more. Turns out it was 550 yards out. I never saw the buck the rest of the hunt and didn't get a good enough look at him to realize just how big he was. However, my pursuit of this particular buck didn’t begin in earnest until December of last year when I took a friend to this area who had the December hunt. We got into some rutting Coues and my friend killed what I thought was the biggest buck in the group, and only after the buck was down and dead did “The” buck step out. Man what a giant he was. All we could do was watch in awe and wonder as this amazingly large and awesome Coues buck wandered out and peered at his deceased friend for a good 30 minutes. I took a few photos through the binoculars. Around May of the this year I purchased some Covert II trail cameras from Amanda and set one up in the area where the big buck lived. It didn’t take long for me to get that big rascal on camera and man what a beast. This picture was from Aug 8. These are pictures from Aug 13. These are pictures from Aug 15. Finally these pictures are from Sept 8. By the time I saw the photos from Sept 9, I was totally pumped about hunting this buck. The day before the hunt Amanda, Trent and I backpacked into the area the big buck called home. Here I'm wondering if the Lord will bless me with this big Coues buck. Early opening day found all 3 of us glassing different canyons along with my son James and his friend Joey who hiked in early that morning, glassing yet a another canyon. But it was Amanda who found him feeding on a slope in a bachelor herd of bucks all of which he dwarfed by a large margin. The big buck broke off from the other bucks very early and dropped into some trees where he ended up bedding. I worked into a position under an oak tree about 200 yards from the group of trees he was in and settled in to wait. Wait I did, about 5 hours of it. Suddenly without warning the sound of a deer blowing pierced the silence and the game was on. I think the wind may have swirled over to where the big buck and a doe were bedded. They blew out of the trees and started running up the ridge and directly into the sun. Even with a sunshade on my scope I still couldn’t see to shoot. The buck ran way up the hill and into a thicket where he bedded. Amanda could see the buck and I knew Trent had seen the buck because I heard him say “Good God!!!” over the radio when he finally got his first good look at him. I couldn’t see the buck from my current location. I moved from my location to the next ridge over but still couldn’t make out the buck with my 10’s, of course it didn’t help that I was so buck fevered up that my hands were shaking like a hardware store paint mixer. I set up my 30’s but only located the buck after he stood up and started feeding some. I hit him with the rangefinder and it read 410 yards. I chambered the 6.5 wsm and cranked the scope up to 20. Holding the crosshairs at the top of his back, I touched her off and heard Amanda say I hit to the right. The buck didn’t go far and this time I was much steadier. I touched her off again and heard the smack of the bullet as it hit Pure D Boone and Crockett Coues flesh. I heard Trent say he was hit hard. The buck staggered and rolled. I had hit him a bit far back but he expired in less than 2 minutes. The buck actually broke a tip off one of his antlers but thank goodness I was able to find it. It was a grand celebration on the mountain that day let me tell you. Everyone got to see the kill from their different positions since after we bedded the buck everyone moved in for a front row seat. We took all the photos and relived the hunt and Joey and James gladly packed the buck out for me. It was certainly worth the nearly 20 year wait for. Maybe the next one won’t take quite as long. Again thanks Amanda, Trent, Joey and James for your help. I couldn’t have done it without you. It was indeed a great day to be alive.
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    The ROCKIN YOUTH we are Blessed with!

    Way to go Lance! Now that's how it ought to be!!
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