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I've been wondering this same thing for a while now! Very interested to see what people think of this thread

Most sign I saw on the ham hunt there was in the flats near copper mtn. Never did see any though

How's everybody doing this year? Gf and I struck out this weekend in Mayer, and the perkinsville area but will be at it again next week! Sure was some gorgeous country though!

My gf and I went out for a hike this afternoon and I found this guy sitting atop a steep, tall canyon. Saw a spike and small 2x2 while hiking as well.

2x2

Hope this works!

Howdy, let me start off by stating that I am mainly a mule deer hunter but have a high interest in coues deer. Mainly from my neck of the woods (very low Sonoran desert), but only cause I'm a desert rat! Anywho, I've seen a few does before and gotten the random pic of a buck or two at water but both were completely random and only happened once. Last week while atop a high hill I glassed up a beautiful, tall 3x3 coues buck with 2 muley does. It was without a doubt a coues buck, and I was able to stalk 130 yards to him. Anyways my question is do you think that's his home area, or was he just following those does around? I hiked into that canyon today and set up 2 cameras near trails with mineral rocks so hopefully I'll have some pics soon!

We used to bring our cattle to them all the time. Been a few years now though, but we were always happy with their work.

So in an area that has normal densities of coues deer one buck might not travel as far looking for love. But in my area that isn't known for having a lot of coues deer I wonder if he was following those muleys for a reason? Either way I'm intrigued

Thanks man! Honestly I'd be happy just to get a pic or two of him! Not really even planning on attempting to "target" him, more than likely I'd end up just staring at palo verdes...lol

Agreed, but do they travel great distances looking for love like desert muleys? Or could that canyon be his home turf? Idk how big of an area they live in.

That's unbelievable!! Congrats

Congrats on an awesome buck! Can't wait till I draw that tag!

Awesome ram! Congrats on a monster!

Nicely done!!

That's an awesome pic! I saw a few posts on fb of people being successful on this hunt and it had me wondering how I missed it on the regs too!

We got hit today for 2 javelina ham tags!

Anyone have any idea when they usually hit cards for spring hunts?

Haha didn't mean to rile everyone up. I'm from southern az and never really had much interest in hunting them, but my girlfriend and I decided to give it a whirl this year! Hopefully draw a ham hunt, if not maybe a leftover!

Right on thanks man

I watched a 3x and 4x lock horns and push each other around for a few mins at a time in 10 last weekend. They were with about 15 does

Congrats on a great bull! We were out there as well and I couldn't believe the amount of people just driving circles around the mountains we were hiking/glassing.

Haha sounds kinda like us!

Dang! Awesome finds! Glad to see there is still some out there haha

Good luck to you guys. I'll be out there as well helping my buddy with that tag. Should be a good time! If you ever come across a big green 1977 Chevy k20 truck on 35s feel free to stop and say hi.