AZantlerhead

not a dexter the expert on calling but I've rattled in one Coues buck(Oct.), and had muley does come into a fawn distress and just doe bleats. Also had allot of use simply stopping dear with a series of " maah" mouth calls wether their spooked or not, or just one " maah" does it sometimes. Calling them in though especially in our rut is supposed to be a treat and a wheel of fortune, gotta try it if I make it out, works some in the early months and I heard now is really productive, Especially if your tied to a tree trying to stay awake and stay warm and keep your hopes up. . They say calling in the muley does' with the distress, dureing the rut, brings the bucks in right with them ? What about decoys? anyone "decoyed in a deer?" in AZ? thought that would be fun to try, with a stuffed real cape .

Nothin like leavin more for next time . Good 5'ths & 3'rds on that bull, Yeah, It's allways worth the hike . Got to clean up the litter!! Dang Litter bucks/bulls!!

Scored by Brian Yorksmith of Lakeside with P&Y. Dad's hunting the same Unit/place this NOV but rifle.(can't draw quality archery 2 years in row). 216 gross

, glad to see you do have a sense of humor and good spirit . Happy holidays DB Just ribbin ya.. Win, win what? The Lotto? Well tell me the numbers!!! I'll split it with ya

Thanks for bringing this to our attention AZonecam, The story is sickening to say the least, a great thread for what NOT to do. Problem is that stories like this guys hit the mainstream media(News and Papers) and give hunters in general a bad rep to the Gen. public, especially in CA! Sad and sick. DesertBull, I wish you to down a giant next year, so you can hate every inch of it. . You are like the Uncle Tom of hunters. The story is about some idiot, not the 99% of hunters who are sportsman and appreciate what the scoreing systems have done for Biology, History, and the Conservation of our beloved hunted game species. Also real penalties on poachers who get their bone Illegally.Also a "Trophy Buck" usually being the highlight in a hunters collection rackwise, but not allways the favorite hunt. I for one can Appreciate Big racks. The man in the story will get what's coming to him, in man's courtroom, or god's, and by the public wich he is allready. Most of us will almost kill ourselves financially and physically and Time wise in our endless quest for bone, Legally and morally correct. There is just a couple hunters out of the bunch who are not true Sportsmans though. I pitty them, and the image they give the publiuc when the retards get caught doing something retarded is No Bueno for $&!*.

Jake, srry you had some negative feedback, I'm sure most was great though. It would be expected to get a little wispering and smart @$$ remarks when you down a buck like that. Thanks for filling Cory and I in, your a good man. Yes folks, theres more of them out there. World Class Buck, Congrats again!! We are lucky to have the opportunity to share in what is probly gonna be the highlight of your life. But don't tell your Ol' lady that .

He got his mount back and here are the skull pics also. They did a good job of replicateing that big Ol' donkey head and neck. Dad is Happy. I'm happy for him.

Thats a really sweet set up!! The buyer will be stoked to own that and slayin umm I'm sure.

This is definately my favorite thread of 2009, hands down. This hunt needs to be shown to Western hunter Mag, if it's not allready or something of that nature anywho. Hint hint guys I can't stop stareing at this buck , and reading the story from those involved is really cool too. I can't say enough congrats -----Jake!! Well said CMC

WOW!!!! That's one SERIOUS Buck !!! The story is thrilling to say the least, congrats to the fullest on a hard earned buck. To have a friend like that is the iceing on the cake!!! Congrats again and thanks so much for shareing that with us. AWESOME!!!

It was a long and enjoyable hunting season and we picked up some of the "animal litter" along the way. Heres a couple phone pics, it's all I got right now. 6 deer heads/1 elk head, and the sheds pictured. Three of the large elk sheds were glassed up and the rest we tripped over.We also left allot of bone where they lay, and heads we didn't have interest in ( too fresh or too old/small).A pile we left in ? was 9 chalkie mulie antlers on a fenceline. We found a good mix of " browns" , hard whites, chalkies and skulls.The main highlight was another four weeks in the woods with Pop. My biggest Coues pick up Found one of his sheds aaprox.10 feet away from head, smart lion Set of palmy elk sheds Nice siderack dropped last spring in NM Dad found this Muley with probly 5 1/2 bases, 28 spread Realy old 110-120 head, what a shame This dude was lion killed on the day he was shedding his horns, one is still half shed on the skull, the other is a cleanly shed antler, laying under the same tree Old but nice rack I found in a wash in the slope of a large mountain : ) The one that came with meat, My 09" ML coues, he broke his passenger side G-2(when he slammed the rocks) but I fixed. My dad had the other three tags and got skunked : ( . More and better pics when I can.

Some ideas for those elk sheds you've found or will find this year.

Yup, usually a good story to go with those GOOD Ol' Pics, thanks for shareing

Good idea elmogoo Thought this was more appropriate under my antler art topic, even though it took 30 seconds to make .

WA-wa-Wahhhhh, tomato-tamato . At least a Coues is a Coues!! or is it a " cooz" or a "cow's" ohhh brother

, Jethro says dems fightin words , whoa- easy killer Nice bucks whatever happened. Take it from me, An E-brawl is no fun

Thanks for shareing and congrats to Jake!!

DANDY!!

Awesome bull!! I know EXACTLY where you got him from the skyline in the background!! . I woulda got all choked up too bro, The SPIRIT of the hunt!! Congrats man!! Just awesome!!

+1, Spot on. There is allways a current moon phase calendar on the fridge door of our camper dureing our hunts. It's published regularly in North American Hunter mag. and lists the best times for game movement, according to their biologists. We take stock in it, but don't rely on it. It's fun to compare the calendar and game sightings each day and what they were doing..

Hard to fool a vetran like you Jim good guess. This is my smallest complete antler to date and a couple nubbins I laughed at finding too Dad found the only point dureing our hunts

Ok, and now a pic of the "SERIOUSLY TRUE GAGGER" shed I found......... Dang haveing trouble with pic.... this one is hard to keep ahold of...

That place looks.........Prestine. Sounds like my kind of country. Some day, some day.......ahhhhhh. Dear Santa,

Sounds like to me they need to compensate for the camping spaces that would be there if there wasn't a range. "So looks like they are doing a good job of running the archery guys off" and trying to keep finances in order to keep the whole park open too. , sounds to me like they are trying to make ends meet, and yes you just helped run some more of them off.... I'm looking into the future and see a semi sized RV where the targets once were. Did you speak with the manager about this? I'm betting there is a method to his madness as you see it. Come up to Show Low, there is a nice range near porter mountain, I don't use it but I think it's like $10 a year? Was $5 when it was still on the main drag in town. Maybe it would be cheaper to buy a land parcel then shoot at the usery, or spend the gas to go out in the woods and haul your own target? Just trying to understand your gripe my friend.