azpackhorse

I had the opportunity to go on a South Dakota pheasant hunt this year again, the weather couldn't had been any better. Hunting in 70 degree weather in November in South Dakota, whoda thunk it? Had to get a CWT decal pic in. My Jeep on the runway loading our gear This is our ride, Beechcraft KingAir. Nice plane! Cruising at 23,000ft watching the sun come up.................does it get any better? Well maybe glassing for Coues bucks Here is some birds from our first day Here is the gang on the last day with our limit, we shot 21 birds in 1 hour! Thanks for looking!

yotebuster, we hunted with an outfit called Smith Creek Lodge, they are between White Lakes and Wessington Springs. The owners name is Herb Barber, we've hunted with then for 5 years.

Very very true

Mike, I am fairly certain that you can buy a security box for your ScoutGuard, I like to build my own boxes out of stainless steel and weld them together. Casey says it's because I'm a cheap-butt but I just think it's fun to do. Here is the one I built for my ScoutGuard I just paint them with Krylon camo paint and chain them to a tree with big locks.

We built our own here at work, I've never used it but my buddy's Gradnfather used one to shoot his buck with and it worked well. Here he is shooting his buck off of it. And it worked!

I've seen more smugglers this year than several past years combined, not so much immigrants.

That is one cool Coues! and with a front stuffer! Very nicely done.

Amanda, My boss owns the charter service, we caught the flight from Marana Regional Airport.

Very nice Coues Brent, congrats!

Well this season started as all of them do with high hopes and endless weekends of 180 mile round trips to scout the area we would be hunting. The weather is not what we had hoped for but what the heck, we were deer hunting! My buddy and I rolled in on Thursday morning and set up camp. On the first morning we did not glass a single buck so in the evening we decided to try another spot. I had been glassing for about 30 minutes when I spun my tripod around to the North to look out in the flats. Much to my surpise I immediately picked up 2 bucks traveling across an open area. I hustled back to the Jeep and let my buddy know that I glassed up 2 bucks and that I thought we could get into range if they continued in the direction they were traveling. We were on one side of a very large canyon and they were on the other side. We relocated the bucks and watched them bed, I ranged the hillside they were on at 378 yards. I figured the bucks were 30 - 40 yards past the point I had ranged so the shot would be right aroung 400 yards. We tried for what seemed like forever to get my buddy set up on the biggest of the 2 bucks but he did not feel comfortable with the shot. The sun was setting and my other buddy (Scott aka SA AZ BOWHUNTER) knew how much I enjoy sqeezing the trigger on my Ruger .300 winmag so it didn't take much encouragement from him to get me to want to shoot at this buck. With the blessing of my buddy John, who also had a tag, I decided to try a shot on this guy. I had a clear view of this buck, he was bedded facing right and looking towards us. I figured I would have to hold slightly high at 400 yards since my zero is 300 yards. I flipped out my Harris bipod and settled in for a headshot. I steadied my breathing and held at the top of the bucks head and sqeezed off the shot. The bullet impacted right behind him just over his head. The second shot I held right between his eyes and settled back into my rifle, I got out of it, took a breath and settled back into it and sqeezed the trigger releasing the 150 interbond. My buddy Scott was watching from his 15's and said "oh my gosh you nailed him!" By th time we reached the buck it was well after dark but we walked right to the spot where he layed. The impact was dead center in the neck right on the throat patch. Not my biggest buck but it is my farthest shot on a buck. We ran into 2 bunches of packers, I called them both in to the USBP. I don't think they caught any of them. It was a good hunt despite the 90+ degree weather and the drug smugglers. We did end up getting my buddy John a shot at a larger buck but he just couldn't close the deal. Thanks for looking.

Garrett, you are a stud man, happy birthday and congrats on a great buck! Great job dad!

He looks to me to be around 15" wide and score 73. I can't see if he has G1's or not

Great story Courtney! I really enjoyed reading it!

Great buck Tyler! Good luck on your elk hunt young man!

That is one of the coolest Coues bucks I have ever seen! Congrats!

That is a great buck, congrats!

Very nice! That's the way it's done, congrats to you and your brother.

I have several photos of this buck last year, he was a decent size fork. He came back this year and added a 3rd point (barely) to each side. He's gett'n there!

I shot a decent 3x3 this weekend, no photos yet. It was a hot son-of-a-gun this weekend, we were surrounded by drug smugglers, called in 2 bunches but it was still better than work I will post pics tomorrow and then off to South Dakota for pheasants!

Hope you have a great B-Day Phil! Best of luck in the Chiricahuas this year

The best of luck on your hunt with your son. I am leaving Thursday am, brown Jeep TJ sporting a white CWT decal on the back window. It's gonna be warm this weekend..........dang it

Out of 300 or so photos I will get maybe 15-20 empty shots. I have mine set on normal sensitivity and 1 photo every minute. A lot of the time when I download the photos onto my computer I can enlarge the photo and find the culprit, most of the time it's those pesky Mearns quail.

Looks like you found a couple of nice bucks Casey, I need to get my fat Labs out and have them help me pack my gear!

Looks like a heck of a trip! Nice fish!

I told you! Just wait until you get bucks on there.