COUESAZ

I think the ears looking big are throwing you all off. It has the white coloring around the eyes and the shading of the skull patch is throwing you off as well. Like i said before I say 100 % COUES DEER.

No doubt in my mind it is a Coues deer. In fact i my self do not see any thing to make me think Mule deer. Just my 2 cents.

Well I soaked it in water for about 30 minutes. Then i started pilling it off. I found under the old yucky velvet that the rack had a crack in both sides. Not sure if that was just from setting for so long or if it was from the water. So i decided to not put it back in the water. OK so I put it in thw fireplace and you are right no more velvet to bother with. In fact i should not even need the bettles at this point. Ma it sure stinks right now. I had to put it back on the side yard for now. I will boil the skull this week and bleech it out next week.

No but I do have some with going to the doctor to get repaired.

I was wondering how many of you guys have my bare naked butt in there pictures. I am a pro mooner and seem to shoot the moon when I know I am on camera.

We took ours in there on the 30th also and still waiting. My nephew took his there at the end of last week and his is done. Not sure how they decide. When you are the only guy in the city you are busy.

Well my brother and I went down to help my dad and his wife on a mule deer hunt. This is the little spike his wife killed on saturday. Dad still needs a buck but has some good help. My brother and I had to head back to work. This buck is still in velvet and you guessed it his nutts were screwed up.The bloody guy is my little brother.

If you get the chance to shoot a lion on a deer hunt you need to take it. There are plenty of deer for you to shoot later that day. Do not do anything with the lion. Throw it over your shoulders and pack it out and take it to the guy to mount it.

Not sure what head way you would get in fighting a ticket if you ever got one. We used to hunt the Navajo every year. That was until a field oficer made a stop on us and charged us 250.00 each on the spot for useing a truck to hunt with. We were just driving to our location to hunt. Bows behind the seat of the truck in cases. There were two guys in the front of the truck the bows were in the back seat of the nissan hard body truck. There were two guys setting in the bed of the truck. And their bows were in the truck seat also. He told us if we could not come up with the money right now he would go back to camp with us and take our camper and other trucks in custody until we could come up with the fine hecame up with. We paid our money back at camp. The next day we loaded up our camp and drove into the trible councle offices to report what had taken place. The supervisor told us the field oficer has every right to decide how to site the laws. and can make in the field judgment on fines to be paid to him for the broken laws. Any ways we haver never returned to hunt some of the biggest mule deer in AZ for many years now. Like you said some of the best hunting you could do is on the rezervations. But all the fees to do it just are not woth it to me. We did buy the pass to hunt our 31 coues last year and never saw a sole the part we crossed was only about a mile and it cost us every day to do it. I would not even try crossing it with out it. Good to have people like Dan and Amanda that know the rezervation laws to help you out clay.

OK I will try the photos again.

Hope to be glassing deer in unit 32 in the morning with my dad and brother. Have not dcided to use a sick day or not. So maybe saturday.

I will take this time to thank you as well. Even when i do not know who you are. I do not mean any disrespect by jumping on this post from your loved ones. It would not be right for me to enjoy this life I have with my loved ones If i did not take the time to thank you for your sacrafice. We pray that the lord keeps you safe for your return to your family. Thanks again. Jade Goodman.

Way to go on your deer. Each year we all learn somthing new. The best thing to learn is to take someone in a lions shirt with no sleeves right. HAHA Great hunt. Anytime you get to hunt with your family is a good hunt. I am hoping to get down on my dads hunt in 32 this week end. It has been a few years. and a hunt that is long past due i fill.

Well yesterday morning was the opener for our 2009 hunt. We only had a couple days for scouting in the unit, But knew we had a few spots from psat trips that we wanted to check into. We found out that those spots had a good turn out of bucks being taken in the first hunt. We decided that most of the bucks had been taken closer to the road and went there in hopes that maybe no one else had gone in as far as we wanted to go. As we drove up to the first spot we had chosen to glass from, Wouldent you know it there was two quads on the hill top. As we drove up to drive past a hunter met us on the road. He asked us if we could hold off the spot until leagle shooting light. He said they had some deer bedded on the oposite hill and one was a buck. We honered his request and headed off the other dirtection and glassed some steeper canyons that we thought looked good as well. After about an hour those guys drove past us so we knew the buck must have been a small one. We glassed around and found a fresh ( that early morning or the night before) lion kill at the opening of the canyon they had the deer bedded in. So with mister kitty in the area we knew the deer would be acting diferent. At this point it was going on 8:00 am and nothing but Javis had found our wandering glass. So as we start to question if we have forgot how to glass for our loved Coues deer we decided to head to another high point to glass. When we got there my brother said he wanted to hike down the canyon to the main road. I took the rino and headed down the mountain. On the way down i bumped a spike and doe and pointed them out to a father son hunting team. I do not know if they ever got on them. When reaching the main road i traveld to the mtg point. I called him on the radio to see if he was close yet he said he was still on top of the hill were I left him. I thought oh great i have an hour to set and wait as he hikes down. He had glassed up a few does and bucks and was looking them over to see if he could find one to go for. I thought i would just hike around some of the breaks in the spot while waiting for him. I parked in the mouth of a wash And started to hike around. As i went up over the first big hill i was looking at a location that i thought WOW how have over looked this area in the past and I hope everyone else has over looked it as well. It was full of deep steep breaks and it can not bee seen from any roads. I was about 30 minutes into the hike when i thought I better head back incase my brother was getting close. There was one break that ran a diferant direction than any of the others. So i said in my mind that i had to look into it. When i walked up to the rim of it I looked down to the bottom. and I was looking at them they were looking at me and at the same time as i thought Oh crap those are two bucks at about 65 yards. they said in there minds Oh crap there is a guy at the top about 65 yards away and he seems to have a gun. Hw did he ever find us in this spot. Honest that was the way they looked at me. Anyways they jumped and i took one shot at the wider of the two. And yes I missed. They went into a deep split in the canyon and i knew they were gone. Just then they did the dumb thing. We all know that Coues deer never do the dumb thing. They turned up into the open side of the hill. They could have stayed down and i would have never seen them again. So my second shot hit My buck and he spun around and fell into a thick tree. The other deer was headed right for the top of the canyon to the location i thought my brother would be. I got on the radio and told him i had a nice buck on the ground. I told him it was a wide four point and i think it was another four point with him and he was headed over the top in his direction. Well about 10 minutes latter i hear a boom from his ultra Mag he radios back and tells me he had just shot a buck that was going to run him over. And he said by the way it was not a four point just a nice two point. OOPS . He shot it at about 60 yards also. Well when i walked up on my four point Coues buck I relized he was just a two point as well. You see to me every deer seems to have horns and be a buck and they all seem to be big four points. HAHA I get that from my grand father. I guess it is my form of buck fever. Well anyways at this point I relize i am in trouble. I left my pack at the rino to make my short hike. I had to gut my deer with my swiss army knife that i pack everyday in my pocket. ANd the worst thought was just about to hit me. You see I challenge my brother every year at how far he can pack my deer before he puts it down. Well he had his own deer to pack now too. I gutted my deer and headed down to the rino. It was all down hill for me and not to bad of a pack out. My brother on the other hand had some big hills in his path to deal with. So i got the deer down to a side road and drove to it to load it. I wanted a coke so bad but thought of my poor brother with nothing to drink heading down or up at this point. Well just by chance he sees a road and tells me i better do what ever it takes to get on it. He is just about done. So with a little luck i find this side road and jump on it. It was one of those that makes you pucker the cheecks when you head up it and you know all you can do is go forward because the last thing you want is to go backwards. What luck it was to find this hiden road. It drove right up to the ridge just about a hundred yards from the spot he had made it to. As we looked at the whole thing he was about 3 quarters of a mile away from me when he shot this deer. That little buck was getting the heck out of the country after having been shot towards by me shooting his bud. This turned out perfect as we only had the few days to hunt. He has jobs waiting in Showlow to get done and i am very short on days off at work. It is always good to enjoy a good hunt with friends but even more when that friend is your Little Brother. Thanks for the good hunt Brother. And to Team Jesus (travis) there were some of the biggest pigs i have ever seen at that first location. You know the spot. Have fun doing your yard work. Glad we could get our deer the first day so you did not have to give up your chores to come lend us a few more eyes. No we did not shoot them in front of picketpost mtn that is were we spent the night before the opener.

Snap shot. you are looking in the right area for sure. That is my favorite area and spot in the world.

I have seen two albino coaties in unit 34b. they have been a few years back and not in the same area of the unit. Just like you said like the color of a yellow lab. one was even a lighter color of yellow. I would have shot them if they were not seen while aiting on bucks.

Oh well see the thing i saw in your post that made me think this was that you said the buck right behind the spike. So I misunderstood what you were saying. Sorry about bashing you for it. Like i said if i read it wrong then i am wrong.

So stra8shot. I am not trying to be to judgmental on your choice of shot. Before you take a shot at an animal you should do all you can to be sure of the shot. I would hate to have seen hat could have taken place if you would of had a pass through shot on that small spike and hit the bigger buck behind him in the grass. Then there would have been a bad mistake (choice on your part that may have ended up with you not beeing able to hunt for a few years. We all need to be ethical enough to use our glass to see our target and beyond to be safe hunters. Just saying. If I read what you said wrong then i am wrong for saying anything.

OH nice Travis no everyone knows they were killed by the fence in the unit.

Well OK Chris. I sure hope we can all live up to your expectations dude. To hope for a youth hunter to have his hunting rights pulled is a joke. Many people use binos for the pupose to evaluate a shot on a game animal. Yes the fact that the cow went a diferant direction is not a sure sign that she was hit. I have seen deer and elk have a round hit under them and the run the oposite direction as the rest of the herd, Because the boogy man was trying to get them. I do believe the young man was shooting a 7mm. He is not a small boy. Dang near as big as I am.

Please use some to replace your wore out buckskin underwear.

Mine have only been used once and they are already un sprung. I was just going to buy the dome tent bungi repair and try it. I am glad it worked for you so i can do it also.

Nice buck Joe. How about the rest of your families hunts this year. I need to go over to the outback site and see if you have more hunts posted there. Jade

Alot of traffic on the post ranch. They break into the ranch house all the time. I have never seen violance with any of them and have never come across the drug runners but that does not mean they are not there.

I think i saw more jeep cherokies this year than i did deer. Great first big game critter. What a great buck.