stalkincoues

First off Welcome to the site! That's good to hear about no traffic. Hopefully I don't run into any trouble. Thank you for the info.

Bought a leftover tag in 30A for Thanksgiving weekend (November 26-Dec 2) for Whitetail and just figured what the heck. I guess there is a lot of private land and probably the reason there are left over tags. I was wondering just how safe this unit is? Where should I stay away from and is the any parts of this unit that will be any safer than others from the border crossers and smugglers, or are they kind of all over? I planned on staying towards the Northern part of the unit. Two people that were supposed to go on this hunt with me will not be able to go after all. May have a couple buddies headin out with me but only time will tell as of now. I REALLY hate to be that guy that asks where the deer are and where to hunt so I'll just ask where I should stay away from in case I wind up there by myself. PM me if you'd rather, I can keep a secret and am very loyal Does anybody else have this hunt? Where will you be camping? Need another camper? I have no problem hunting on my own if needed but when it comes to border units I always worry. I am sure I'll figure something out when I get up there as far as the deer. Thank you!

Great job Jim, very cool! Stacking them up is right! I enjoyed watching it. Thank you for sharing.

Great buck Jim and great pics! Thank you for sharing!

Good old AZ Game and Fish. I want and need to support them so bad, but sometimes they make it so difficult. They never cease to amaze me, epsecially in a situation with a well known AZ hunter and AZ supporter in the community! I guess good and honest guys finish last in these kind of situations...... Honesty pays with with them.......... right?

Holy cow man! Very crazy and cool story, thank you for sharing. Wow, I wonder how I would have handled that situation......... Geez PHYSCO'S!!!!!!! It amazes me that the animal lovers and PETA types would rather injure or kill another human being than to see an animal hurt, I just don't understand their intellect. That just doesn't make sense, especially when it's all legal. Congrats dude on your first Coues but it's too bad it all had to go down like that, it's too bad. I am sure that will probably be the most memorable hunt of your life huh???? I see the tag is in his leg, guess you're gonna get your first mounted? Very good looking buck and he will look good on the wall, along with the story to tell about him.

I've had people ask me to share my Elk hunt I was recently on, on this site and friends. I threw this video together the last few days with my laptop. I am very new to this and want to improve. This is a youtube link and there are two parts. I was trying like heck to make it under ten minutes, but didn't happen so I kept the end a bit longer. I figured if someone is still watching after the kill then they're probably interested enough to watch till the end. If I killed the intro and about two minutes or so of the Bull and not any trailers afterwards I might be able to make it but was trying to show the whole story the best I could. We have a lot of great Bulls on trail camera (pics, but mostly videos) that I'd like to incorporate to talk about the 4 months of scouting prior but ran out of time and that will come later but a lot of great videos none the less. This is only my second attempt at putting a hunt together. Didn't have all that much video of my hunt, not as much as I would have liked so hopefully it doesn't get too reduntant. Anyways I would like some honest opinions. I would prefer to hear what you don't like about this video rather than just saying "I liked it." If I don't hear what you do not like then it will be much harder to improve. It's all interesting to me but I am very biased since it was my hunt and I was there and lived it. I have three more hunts we filmed to throw together after this one so your input will definitely help with the next ones. Please be <u>VERY critical</u><b></b>, don't hold back! I.E. Was there too much narration? Should I have let the video speak more for itself? Shouldn't have narrated in first person the whole time? Too mono-toned, stuffy? (Sure sounds like it to me LOL)! Not enough music? Get boring? Where did you have your interest? Where did you lose interest and so on...... You won't really hurt my feeling but you'll be helping me. Thanks in advance and I apologize for the gratuitous advertising of my product in the video, it's free advertising so use it huh ??? <img src="http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" /> Once again, please be Honest. Amanda sells the Range Snap here in her store. Thank you Part 1 <a href=" target="_blank"> Part 2 <a href=" target="_blank">

Thank you all for the responses good and constructive. I asked to be critical because I want to hear what I can improve on and opens my mind more. Keep the don't likes and what to improve on coming...... Please! A big thanks for the Range Snap shoutouts as well. I am glad it works for you and you all like it! Love my Range Snap as well!!! You know Jim, you are completely correct. I assumed if somebody doesn't know what a Range Snap is they'd just go to the site. It's silly not to show exactly what it is and promote it every chance I get. Even have a little commercial at the end or something as well. Will do so on my next video coming up very soon. Thank you for your help and the support! The more I watch it the more I can see where the parts lull and what could be cut. I think I started too fast, got right to the point of the Bull i was gonna take and then drug it out slower than I should have. I thought the narration sounded a bit monotined to me as well, and I am sure to others even more so. Will try to work on that, have somebody else either narrate or add segments that break away and show us actually talking about the hunt and setting up the scenes. It's funny you say that about the effects. Yeah I tried to throw a bunch in that I haven't used and probably got carried away. I see what you mean about being cheesy and stock, that is a great point. I appreciate your input. Thank you! I will redo this video a few more times and the input will help me! This is my rough draft and hope to improve greatly each time as I go. Thanks again and keep em coming, and please don't just try to be nice. christian

He isn’t one of the big ones I was hoping for but still a pretty good Bull I am happy with. We spent a few days down in the canyons and meadows we were initially seeing the Bulls in. Since the rut had started, the Bulls seemed to have moved out of this area completely in search of cows. We only saw one cow down there this year so the Bulls were gone. We moved on to other areas. The Bulls were talking early mornings and late evenings. Had three opportunities and passed on a couple Bulls that were bugling. I actually passed on this Bull I shot two days prior. Called him in and had him at 35 and 65 yards. He came right in and was alone. I was by myself this day and my camera man / hunting partner Jamey Waite hadn't made it up yet so I put down my bow and picked up my camera. I filmed him for about 10 minutes grazing and searching for the cows. He was weak on his ones, two's and his left fifth. Since I had eight more days to hunt and the rut was picking up, I decided to pass. Well two days and a couple of opportunities later, we set up around the same area I saw this Bull in. The evening was among us now and started hearing a couple of bugles. We'd set up just right and we heard a Bull gathering cows. He was bugling and running back and forth on the hill and the cows were mewing like crazy. Pretty soon the cows started trickling into view one by one from off of the hill. As he came in to viewl and out of the trees my buddy and I realized it was the same Bull from two days prior. He was now the heard Bull running the show, when just two days prior he was alone and searching. I decided to go ahead and take him since Jamey was there filming. I’d already passed on this Bull before, have a brief history with him, and now he's with about twenty cows it was all too perfect. Even though I had the entire hunt if needed I still felt very rushed and pressured for this hunt. As soon as I killed we needed to scoot out of there and get ready to drive to Wyoming for our Antelope hunt and be back before the end of the month. This aided in my decision to take this Bull so early in the hunt as well. Plus you always wonder what happens if they shut up or I don’t get another opportunity at a good Bull, much less another Bull at all. Not to mention every day the full moon was getting closer and closer and I was worried it may make them more nocturnal. I turned to Jamey, who was about ten foot to my right to make sure he had the camera on him and he nodded. I waited for what seemed like an eternity for the Bull to step into my lane, put the pin behind his shoulder (after I ranged him with my Range Snap of course) and squeezed the shot off. The arrow blew right through him and he only ran about thirty yards. He stood there still for a minute while all the cows settled back down, bedded, and expired all within view. I shot him in the evening and we waited until about dark to go get him. We decided to drive back to camp and get the tarp and lantern. We started cutting, skinning, and packing him out piece by piece with our frame packs. We didn’t even get the last piece of him back to the truck until 10:00am the next morning. That was a LONG night! He was a Mature Bull with good mass, 52” main beams, and a 46” inside spread. He is just really lacking on his lowers and left G5. I really like the way his left G3 is inline with his left dagger, that’s what sold me on him. It was a good hunt and what a rush when you see that possible shooter herd Bull coming into view while bugling and pushing cows. The only thing we could have hoped for is more hunting days with more action on video, but still turned out pretty good and have enough video to throw together my hunt. The pack out Jamey Me And of course the CWT.COM glory picture

I'd initially seen him on the 6th day when I passed him and he was alone then. Was he limping when you saw him? He had a really bad limp and a pretty bruised leg when we skinned him out. Sounds like he might have got beaten up and his cows taken from him. Were you able to tag out up there?

Great Goats!!! Thank you for sharing.

Very nice goat congrats! We just got back from ours and was a blast. I think that "do not shoot the first buck you see" is great advice up there.

Thank you all! Yeah I will, I have another Elk hunt I need to finish editing that I had the privledge to help out on and film for and then I can start on this one. Still have a few more hunts to throw together just need to find the time. I'll post it up when finsihed. Yes he is. He's pretty unique so probably the same Bull. When was it you passed on him and was he with cows or by himself?

Wow what an animal for your first big game! A huge congratulations and a very nice Bull. Holy muddy antlers That will be a hunt to remember for years to come. Sounds like a bunch of great guys.

Congratulations on a great Bull!

The top if you wanna go where the deer are.

Congrats, very neat looking Bull. It must be nice to have that horse for the pack out.

Great Bull, congrats. That's awesome that the Mullins boys helped you out, very cool of them!

Very nice Bull! Hopefully you can see pics of him before he got all busted up.

That is a Gorgeous Bull and I dig those Devil points on that bad boy. Congratulations.

Great job, very nice Bull and very cool pictures. Sounds like a lot of work and effort went into this hunt, glad it payed off!

Congrats on hanging in there and making it happen for you! Good looking Bull, thanks for sharing.

Unfortunately not any of these. Spent a little time down in this area but there were no cows and the place dried up a couple of weeks before season. We only saw three decent bulls down there, maybe in the 310" class and smaller. We yanked the camera and salt two weeks before season because there were really only small bulls and raghorns left. Ran into a couple people who had hunted down there and sounded like they weren't seeing anything either. We moved to an area close where we thought they migrated to but never could quite get visual. I'm sure they were a couple of the larger bulls we had on camera, including Brutus. I tagged out in a different area, and had to rush to Wyoming just days later for our Antelope hunt. Just got back home yesterday and has been kinda hectic. Will get pics and a story up soon.

Yes, pics and a story please. A big congrats, he's a stud! I'd love to see him on the ground and what he actually scores. Never saw him during season in the area he was in just weeks before but were just behind a couple of BIG sounding sceaming and chuckling bulls and never could quite get visual of them. Were within 60-80 yards or so twice. Which was very close to the area we think he migrated to in search of cows.

good luck to everyone! Should be a great year. Headed out this evening and hoping to let the air out of a good Bull myself.