Hatchet Jack

i'm surprised at how many guys don't pack a spotter. I feel naked without mine.

Been a few years since i've had a coues tag, picked up a Thanksgiving tag ..... What optics are y'all carryin for a backpack coues rifle hunt? I have meopta 10x, Swaro 12x, just picked up some used Swaro 15x, Twin Kowa 30x66 and a Kowa 884 spotter. Obviously not going to carry everything unless I can get @CatfishKev to tag along and be my pack b!tch. Will also be packing all my own water so gotta try and keep things light. I've always sworn by my EL 12x50s but am considering carrying only the 15s for this hunt. I hate carrying 2 pairs of binos. I used to pack 10x and 15x and only time I used the 10x was for a rear rifle rest. Will be glassing the standard distances of 400 -1800 yds. I'm leaning toward carrying the swaro 15x on my chest and the big Kowa spotter in the pack. Curious if anyone was a 12x guy and moved back to 15x for coues and how they liked it.

Anybody here have a 16e archery tag? I’ll be helping on a youth hunt there in October and curious how the roads have held up with all the rain. Thanks

both outstanding bucks. That first buck is what dreams are made of. What porro prism binoculars are you using there? They obviously work well 😎

Do these have fluorite?

Any interest in Zeiss victory ht?

do you, by chance, have a famous youtube channel? Congrats

Did not draw a 29 Thanksgiving coues tag with 2 points as a Resident; Unbelievable

Thanks guys. Yeah bob it was diy if you can count 6 guys in camp as diy. heres my unpopular opinion: as far as pure adventure and hunting style I prefer a early season backpack coues hunt. But there’s no denying the kaibab is a special place and I’m grateful to have got to hunt it.

I got lucky and drew a random 12aw late tag this year. I honestly expected to see more bucks per day, i'd say we averaged seeing 10 bucks a day, but roughly half of those we saw were pretty good bucks in the 160-165 range, with a handful of 170-175 bucks over the course of 5 1/2 days. They seemed very pockety to me, one draw would have a bunch of deer with some bucks kicking around, the next draw with the exact habitat would have nothing. The evenings were very slow for us, at least the first few days since it was so dang hot. Most of the mature bucks seemed to be hanging in the pines right before it opened up into the oaks. My dad found this inline buck on day 3 and i figured he was on the bubble; good deer but i wanted to hold out for a few more days. Day 4 we couldn't turn him up and considered him gone to find new does, but we hung around to see if new bucks would move in. I was able to put glass on him the morning of day 5 in the same canyon and knew he was a shooter. After several days of looking at what i'd consider good bucks, he stood out a lot. I knew he didn't have great mass or width but was long and had character so i couldn't resist.

Dang. Email I got from g&f said it’s now open. So does forest service just expect 75 camps to hang out at the gate until midnight of the opener? So instead they’ll have 150+ trucks going over top on the snowpack roads Hauling trailers to get to west side, but they claim to 22 road is closed because it’s a hazard. Bunch of idiots running the show. keep us updated if they open it, I’m headed there Wednesday.

Does anybody have insight on the road situation? I called the forest service and the kind lady said there's a chance they could extend the 22 road closure if it's a safety hazard; i'm hoping she's lying. Also I saw that ADOT closed SR67 after this last storm. Will ADOT typically reopen this road once it's cleared or do they just shut it down till spring? Even if USFS opens the 22 road on Nov 20th it's gonna be a cluster F on opening morning.

I was under the assumption if there’s a big storm it would be hard to get back out over top on that road. Maybe I’m thinking of the wrong road? I’m still learning.