COUESAZ

I have known mike for a few years now. He was a great guy. And yes he loved to hunt coues deer. We met when my wife did his Wedding photos. I just heard this news today from one of his cousins that is on this site also.Also his uncle that i used to work for. I am on vacation in california right now so i am late in sayiong this. My prayers go out for Mikes family that is left behind.

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2002 polaris trailboss $1500 call or text me at 480-220-5504. the pictures are from last year. It is not 4x4 and comes just like you see it in the photos. it is stored inside and used maybe twice a year. i have owned it for a couple years. the was dead. i took it off and was going to get another but then did not end up going on my hunt do to work so i never got another batery yet it will start up with the back up pull start right now. the batery is only like 50 bucks al walmart. i am selling it to buy a mule (the four legg kind). other then that i would keep it.

No the Mule is the picky one. My brothers are all used to sleeping in the cold barn. But they do like eggs and bacon for breakfast every morning. Good call catclaw. Now do you have a spot for my Mule and my brothers MULE.

I am needing a place to put a mule or two. if anyone knows of some one close to the Mesa area I am looking for a place to keep a mule and maybe my brothers. We have another place we can keep them as soon as the three steer go to the butcher.

My brother starts the acadamy in a month and a half. It is a long ordeal to get through to the point he is at so be ready for that. Do not quit your job and wait on them, you will starve. And you better be in tip top shape when you go in.

Almost. Some one took one of our dogs. No way he got off the chain. so someone stole him i think. The bad thing is he was one of the one that will run bear and cats.

Ok Travis for that offer you do not get your lion.

It is auto and was street leagle. Just never kept up the tags.

Shoot me a PM and we can talk. I have a guy in flag and one in payson very intrested but they are going to be making a trip to the valley to look for a couple quads. So they have not come yet and it is still available. It is a 325cc, And I have the clear title in my hand. just needs to go the notary when sold. Iwill look at any offer. Cash is best as i will use the money to go towards my mule and saddle and all the tack.

The motor is sold

I had this engine ready to have built for a 79 ford truck i had. I sold the truck a few years ago. I think i have everything to build the motor except the pistons. I may even have them i just have to look harder to find them. I am thinking it is a 400.Has timing chain and gears fuel pump and a 4 barel holly carb. A few crates full of parts .Any ways if someone is intrested make me an offer.

Another pm sent on the saddlebags.

Pm sent

I am going to post it on there also. i was wanting to get a bout 200 bucks. but will take any offer so i do not have to keep it in storage any longer.

Yep i think they have a couple cats on that mountain.

Does anyone know how to tell what bolck this is. I do not know if it is a 390 small block or another ford size. If no one is looking I may just take it to the scrap yard and see what they will give me. I do not need or want it so if you know someone looki g I will make a great deal to save me the drive to the scrap yard.

I am looking to buy a single shot 357 rifle. Open sites is ok. Would also be intrested in other single shot rifle in handgun ammo. Not 22 or 22 mag.

Well we went out for a last chance lion for 2010. We cut the track early in the morning with snow on the ground. This pack of hounds are top notch Dry ground Hounds that get the job done. So we unloaded the mules and dogs and the hunt was on. They worked this track good. When we cut the track there was a big set and a smaller set that were together at the road and then split up about 10 feet from the road and one went north and one went south. the one that went south droped off into one nasty old canyon. While the hounds went to work we got our gear loaded in the sadle bags and finished getting the mules ready to ride. This was around 6 in the morning. this can took us into some nasty country (like they do most of the time). But this Tom was a smart one for sure. He took the hounds down the side of that first canyon. gave him a chance to leap from rock crop to rock crop. He was going to make the hounds earn the chance to chase him. Then came the full circle back into the canyon right to the north of the trucks on the road. That was about a 3 mile circle. Then up and down canyon after canyon and wash after wash. Then we started to come up on some bluffs. That is When Donnie said we should be able to catch up to him in those bluffs. Sure enough, those hounds headed up over the top of a huge mountain so you know they were on to the Tom now. for them to move like that over such a big mountain they knew the had a hot track. after crossing over the mountain top they came around the back side and back to the west into those bluffs. We are sure they held him there for a few minutes. because some of the younger pups stayed in the area and thought for sure they had done there job. When we got over to the spot and Donnies two leed dogs were not there he looked at his Garmin and said That two dogs were over four hundred yards headed north and his head dog was over nine hundred yards headed north west he said they are right on that lion heals. so we gatherd the pups and pointed them in the right direction and off they went to learn some more from the lead dogs. We could see the area this Tom was taking us was not just bad country to ride mules into but it was Nasty full of cliffs and canyons that even had our mules thinking they wanted to turn around and go home. We just dropped off the huge canyon wall with the mules going down rock covered in snow and ice when Donnie yelled back to us that he could here the hounds now and we need to make it fast because they had him caught and they had a fight on there hands. When we got to the war on the ledge of the 200 foot cliff we could see this was a great Tom. But the bad thing is those gritty hounds were right on the edge of that cliff with one swipe of that powerful paw it could send one of his prized hounds off the cliff to its death. So after a few fast photos, Donnie and Devin started pulling hounds off the cat so he did not have any go over the edge. he was about three feet away and on the ledge himself. after they pulled off two hounds this cat decided he had enough of what was going on. And turned and leaped off the cliffs edge. what we did not see was about 50 feet doen the edge was a ledge and he was on it. So the dogs were let go and the skirted around the edge and like mountain goats scaled the face of the cliff to reach the cat and try to finish the fight that the cat left on top. So we all headed doen into this canyon and made our way to the bottom. Donnie and Devin started up the wall across the canyon. so they could get more Photos and video. We knew we had to take a shot soon for the saftey of the dogs because the bad situation on top and just got worse. Now there was only three dogs and a smaller space, but still about an 80 foot drop to three sides. So we had to yell at the hounds to get out of there. One of them cleared out and sat back about 10 feet. But his two top dogs did not want to let that cat set out there by its self. Well things went Western very fast at this time and now we had a dog killing fight starting up on the little ledge. We could see one of the dogs had a bad wound in its side and an ear opened up good. just at that time he reached up a grbed ahold of one of the dogs and was tearing into her good. So Donnie yelled out that someone better shoot that cat now. and right at that time Devin fired two shots from his gun and the fight was done. We did not have much time now Because the snow had started again and we had about 8 miles ride back to the trucks in some nasty canyons And we had one hound that was bleeding very bad out of her legg. so we wraped it up the best we could and loaded the Cat on my brother marks back and headed up the steep canyon to the top. Once at the top they went to work on the dog to get the blood to stop. we took a few more photos and gutted the cat. Put it on the back of one of the mules and headed out to the trucks. Thank you Donnie,Devin,and Tyler for having us along on this one. hope to do it again soon. Maybe i will have some video to post onit or they can post it for everyone to see. I know they visit this site as they are true avid Coues deer hunters and that is the main reason they hunt Lions. Wow you should see the Coues bucks on the walls at Donnies house.

Man oh man I sure do like that first photo of them treeing

And I will shoot the lion out from in between you both and call it an agreement. HAHAHAHAHA

In my post I never said i thought anyone was right or wrong. Just how i would react to what i saw. If a guy came up to me and said he was hunting this track i would pull off the track. I have done this many times while hunting deer. My brother and I did this for some one deer hunting last year. They walked out on the road and let us know they hade two bucks bedded a few hundred yards up the road. and asked if we could hold off going up the road until they got a better look at them. We said no problem and went the other way. Respect is what i was raised to honor. So This situation between you and them can only be seen by the eyes and ears involved at the point of contact.

And the sad thing is bear hunters are worse than lion hunters. A bear hunter will run his dogs right up beside yours then he will reach up and pull your pants down to trip you up as they run right past you to the tree. Haha. It is a tuff game. Just my thoughts. I was not any part of it have never hunted with any involved and most Lilly never will. So. If I come across a lion track I do not just want to toss the dogs out on it. I will probably walk it out sways and have just a little look around. If I come across a track that has people tracks around it then I will just thing someone saw the track and wanted to check it out. If it has six sets of dog tracks running along with it I am not goi g to turn my dogs out on it. I know for sure if there is a truck at the o e end with peole and dog tacks on it I am not goi g to turn out on it. So what if I turn my dogs out on a track. I donor see people or dog tacks o. Either side o the road. Sure not a truck parked next to it. Well along comes the guy that cut the track five miles back he comes up on my truck with marking of my dogs hot on the track. Some guys will pull of at that point. Then there are those that are going to stay on it. Folks there are guys in the hound world that are the nicest guys around but i have run across those that will want to fight you at the tree. Saying this is there track and tree. Any ways I guess my point is. A track and the critter making it only belong to God and the State until it has a tag on it.

Hey Scott I am glad he is going to have you do it. Too many cat mounts are not true to the size of the cat when taken. His neck and head and those front shourlders are what I hope you can capture the most. And what do you think of that battle wound in his nose. I bet that was a war to see when he got that. I did not put two and two together when Devin said he was going to have Scott do it for him. Next time I go down I hope to see Devins trophy room. I grew up with his brother Jason and devins wife is my cousin.I am glad Devin got that split second shot off between those two hounds or it could heve been alot worse.

Tjhunt do not say water leak very loud I am headed out for lion hunting Friday. That is unless I have to go fix a water leak .hahaha ground leaks and slab leaks have been steady this year but we all know winter kicks them up. I have done three a week for the last two months.