Apatkelley

Good job on a nice buck.

Great buck, I like the picture with the sunset.

Great buck, cool story too.

I want one like that. Wow!!

Sounds like you put a bunch of work into your hunt. Nice looking buck.

Great looking buck!!

That's a great buck. Congrats to the entire crew, well done!!

Well done! I love that country up there. Looks like you had an excellent hunt.

Great buck, way to hang in there.

Ok, I can't stand it anymore.....Why do you say he's stealing your camera? All I see is a guy looking into a camera. As far as I know, that's still ok isn't it??

You can get a light weight rubber coated "V" from sportsmans warehouse for about 8.00 or 9.00. I've been using one I got there for a couple years now and it works great. The biggest problem is they don't always have them in stock. I remember seeing one for sale on the Coueswhitetail.com store also. If I remember right, it's made by Jim White and is priced right.

Awesome buck!! I would shoot him in an instant.

That's cool.

Super buck, I also love the right side.

All I can say is WOW!!

Good job Jesse and Kevin. He's going to make an awesome mount, I can't wait to see it.

Cool, nice cow....looks big.

Sounds like you guys had a great time. Cool looking buck and good shooting.

Nice buck and cool looking country. Good job!

Thats a monster buck, great job!!

This Jr only hunt was fantastic. Forrest shot a great buck on opening morning. I wanted to have Ashlen shoot first, but Forrest spotted his buck and wanted to take a crack at it. His pics are posted under "More success". Ashlen was happy for her brother, but she was ready for her turn. We didn't get a chance to hunt Friday evening but hunted all day Saturday. She had a tough shot at a nice buck but didn't connect. We thought she was done for the season because school for her started Monday morning. She wanted to get back out there bad, but my work schedule and her school made it difficult. My friend Kyle was able to break away for a couple hours on Wednesday evening and saw a small buck, but light ran out before Ashlen could find the deer in the scope. She wanted one more chance, so Thursday I picked her up as school got out at 3:20, and with Kyle we raced out to see what we could do. We ended up seeing 3 bucks together, but they must have caught wind of us as we were moving in. As we saw them topping out over a distant hill, my hope for success was dashed. We looked on another close by ridge and spotted another deer. It was a buck, so we slipped back over the hill away from his line of sight and moved in. When we peeked over, he was right where we had last seen him. Ashlen got set up and made a perfect 325 yard shot. He didn't go down right away, so she put him down for good with another perfect shot. Here are a few pics of her buck and one of Forrest's. I'm so proud of my kids, I can't put it into words. Next year, it will be Karlie's turn. Thanks to AZGFD for providing these quality hunts for our youth!!! My kids loved it.

That's the way to do it!! Great buck, I love those tall spikes

Nice buck!! Looks like it had a big body too.

Cool stuff, way to hang in there and get it done

We had a great hunt. Opening morning we got to the point we wanted to glass and got setup. It was a perfect clear calm morning and we started finding deer right away. Soon, my son Forrest said that he glassed up some deer. There ended up being several bucks in the group and all of them were nice. While we were watching them, something spooked them and they ran down into some thick nasty cover. John (Hammy) was able to keep his eye on two of them as they picked their way through the thick stuff. Eventually, they stopped in a small opening and we could see both of them for awhile. Then one of them went behind a tree and out of sight. The other buck just stood there so we made a plan and moved into shooting range. John stayed back with the other kids while Ashlen, Forrest and I made the stalk. We got Forrest set up and he made what we thought was a great shot. The buck dropped and tried to get up a few times, but it looked like his back legs were out of commission. We couldn't see the buck because he had fallen behind a bush, but we knew right where he was. After about 20 minutes, John joined up with us. We left him there and the kids and I went to claim Forrest's trophy. We got to within about 10 yards of the spot he went down and he exploded out of some brush just below us. Forrest got off a quick shot but he didn't connect and the buck was over the ridge and out of sight. It didn't appear to me that he was hurt very bad and I was worried that we had blown it. John called on the raido and said he could see some blood around the bucks mouth as it was running. The buck was able to clear the first ridge, run down into the bottom and started up the next ridge. As he neared the top, he stopped out in the open. Forrest and I went back to where we had left John and were able to get into position to finish him. John took the pictures, so we didn't end up getting one with him, but thanks for all your help!!