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Congratulations to you and your daughter, Ernesto. What I wouldn't give to double up on two Coues bucks with my daughter some day. You deserve to be very proud!

That's a great looking 2-point, with some dandy eyeguards! Congratulations.

While Jimmer mops up his keyboard, I'll throw in another congratulations! Any one of those bucks is a buck of a lifetime. That 7X7 is unreal.

Congratulations to our newest prospective member . . . "Firstcoueswas138"! That's a monster buck.

Unfortunately, I can tell you from personal experience that you're out of luck. I drew an October tag for a northern unit this year. Not far into the hunt, I decided to come home and buy a leftover tag for one of the southern units I'd successfully hunted recently. When I called Game and Fish this week to ask about purchasing a leftover tag, I was told that once you're successful in the draw, you can't buy a leftover tag. Skeptical, I looked in the regulations, and found the very disappointing news that I was finished hunting this year. R12-4-104(L): "An applicant shall submit only one valid application per genus of wildlife for any calendar year, except: 1. If the bag limit is one per calendar year, an unsuccessful applicant may re-apply for remaining hunt permit tags in unfilled hunt areas, as specified in the hunt permit-tag application schedule published annually by the Department." When you drew your unit 22 tag, you were a successful applicant. Although you don't have to go through another draw process to obtain a leftover tag, you do have to fill out and submit an application to obtain a leftover tag. I don't understand why a person can hunt with a bow in January and August, hunt a rifle tag in the general season, and then hunt again with a bow in December if they haven't taken a deer during one of the previous three hunts, but a rifle hunter only gets one shot at it, even when there are leftover tags going to waste . . . but I don't make the rules. Hopefully you, unlike me, hunt with a bow and can go back out in December! Good luck.

Maybe see ya around some where up there. I'll be in a white F150 with a cwt sticker on the back. Good luck I'll keep an eye out for you. I'll be in a white F150, but the cwt sticker isn't on yet. Good luck to you . . . and if I'm not mistaken, you should have a pretty short hunt based on the decent bucks on your trail cams this year.

I'm headed to 24a also. I hope to help my brother (who's never taken a deer) and my dad (who turned 67 this week) both tag out this year. Good luck to everyone headed out this weekend!

Great first buck Vin. Congratulations!

Great first buck Kade! That's a tall spike!

Nice pics. That deer in your second-to-last photo seems to have an unusually short tail.

During last year's scouting trip she was only two months old, so we didn't go far from the truck. Now that she's 14 months old, we ventured out onto a good glassing ridge and she took over from there. No deer sightings, but it was nice to get out, despite the hot weather. By this time next year, I may be in the market for my own pair of Swaros!

Wide World of Maps in the Phoenix area usually has a pretty good selection of various topo maps. I think they have a website, but I'm not sure how easy it is to find the topo map you're looking for on their site.

Nice video. You almost had no choice but to click your release in self defense. That bull got in your face in a hurry. No reason to have regrets, even with him being broken off. That's a great looking archery bull. Congratulations!

That's one heck of a bull! Congratulations!

Thanks for sharing your dad's hunt. Thirty-five years of waiting for the perfect sunrise! He got a great looking goat after such a long wait.

That's a great looking, life-like mount! Congratulations.

Nice photos. Thanks for sharing them. That's a long, curvy road, but the scenery is always worth the extra time it takes to make the drive.

Nice looking brown.

That's definitely a suspicious story . . . the snake part I can believe, but I'm not sure the D-Backs have 16,000 in total attendance this year!

Not a bad shot for a Franco! Must be the Heber water.

Nice win for the Broncos, especially considering that was essentially a home game for Va. Tech.

Great looking goat. Your scouting and persistence paid off nicely.

Those sheds make me think that Harold should stop wasting his time chasing those little 150 class bucks and start spending his time hunting real deer! Unbelievable find!

My wife decided she wanted to clean out the diaper bag last Wednesday night. When she reached down into one of the exterior pockets, she felt a poke on her finger and wondered why there was a sharp object in the diaper bag. She then realized she had just been stung by a scorpion, which was confirmed when the scorpion quickly crawled out of the pocket. After calming her down (she said it was the worst pain she's ever felt, with the exception of child labor) and calling poison control, I went back over to the bag to kill the scorpion, which by that time had crawled back into the pocket. When I lifted up the bag to get the scorpion out, it and a baby scorpion fell out of the pocket. When I saw the baby scorpion, I thought that was probably bad news, but I didn't know how bad. I did some quick internet research and learned that scorpions typically have between 2 and 100 babies. With that knowledge, I pulled out the black light and the search began. During the following four and half hours, we tracked down and killed the other eight babies. They weren't easy to find because they were tiny, they weren't in the diaper bag pocket, and they blended in pretty well with our wood floor. Needless to say, neither of us slept well for the four hours we tried to sleep that night. We hope we found all of the babies, but the black light is getting a lot of use every night and morning. I hope the family picture, with the dime for reference, gives you some idea just how small those nasty little critters were. Fortunately, my wife didn't have an allergic reaction to the sting. Her hand and arm, up to the elbow, were numb for a day. The tip of her finger is still numb. Poison control said it could take up to two weeks for the numbness to completely go away. We're just thankful our one year-old, who loves to dig things out of bags, wasn't stung.

Simply incredible. Congratulations and thanks for sharing the hunt and pictures with us.