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SunDevil, sorry your trip wasn't what you hoped it would be. Although for NM I think it was still a success. I'm sure you already know but NM does not have nearly the quanity of coues that places in Arizona have. In my experience in NM unit 23 seeing 3-5 deer per day is not uncommon as an average. This November will be my 4th year hunting coues over there and I still don't feel like I've got it figured out yet.

I was wondering the same thing? Even spikes get 4 mass measurements. I'd get the tape back on him so you can add to his score.

Congratulations on a beautiful bear!!!

That buck is a STUD!!! Thanks for posting the pic's Josh.

I can't believe that anybody would consider themself a Cardinals fan??? Why would anyone want to support Bill Bidwell and company??? I believe the cardinals are in there 19th season in Arizona now, and I ask everyone that calls themself a fan, what has Bill Bidwell done for the football fans in Arizona??? The list is short. Why do people keep falling into the same trap each year with the cardinals? It's the same thing, we're going to be better blah, blah, blah!!! The people of Arizona are so niave that we approved (just barely) a 450 million dollar stadium for a looser owner like Bill Bidwell. In 18 years Bill never did a thing to put together a competitive team but yet he whined and whined that he needed a new stadium so we gave it to him. They fans want the Cardinals to win so bad that each and every year they give them another chance and jump on all the media hype that they will be a better team. I think Bill makes way to much money with the NFL's profit sharing to be concerned with putting a solid football team on the field. I wish there was a way to fire the owner!!! Bill Bidwell is without a doubt the worst owner in all of the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL!!! For what it's worth, I'd love to be a fan of the Cardinals. I choose not to be until I see Bill Bidwell make a serious commitment to winning games. Untill then my favorite NFL team is who ever is playing the little red tweety birds!!!

I think perhaps the differences in question are that during the October hunt the bucks are not spooked and often times are still bachelored up. During the November hunts the deer have been pressured and often times the bachelor groups are beginning to break up. The key to the October hunt is to do your pre season scouting to locate and pattern the bucks. Once the season starts you have a real good idea what their habits are so you go ambush them. During the November hunt all bets are off. You may have done real good scouting during the summer and early fall, but if the hunting pressure got to the bucks you patterned they could have moved away or changed their habits. Now in a sense you are starting from scratch. Also it's possible that someone shot the buck you had scouted during the October hunt. Good luck!

That's pretty much the situation I'm in. I set the rifle up specificly for coues deer but with the intention of using it for any deer, antelope, or bear sized animals. Most of my elk hunting is with a bow, but given the opportunity I'd love to see how it preforms on an elk.

I shoot the Trophy Taker and like it a lot.

Congratulations! Pictures?

I really like the Hornady Interbond bullets. They're a bonded bullet so you'll get controlled expansion even at close range. Also as mentioned above the Hornady spire points seem to be very accurate! I killed a mule deer at 380 yards with one of those a few years ago and the results were devistating!!!

Nice work Austin!!!

You're right, that's not good news. It's great news!!! Sorry that it will suck for hunters down there, but there is a much bigger problem at hand and the closures could make it better for us all down the road. Good luck!

Wow!!! Keep us posted on that bad boy.

A lot of guys love to hate Weatherby's. After all they're expensive, they can be a challenge to reload, they use belted cartridges, They have this interesting thing called free bore, and they tend to be barrel burners. The truth is that Roy Weatherby was a man that was way ahead of his time!!! The FPS he was getting out of his rifles 50 years ago was unheard of. Even today many rifle and ammo manufacturers are just beginning to come close to the same levels of performance that his rifles were getting decades ago. Look at all the WSM's, Ultra Mags, and now even WSSM's on the market today. All of these manufacturers are trying new approaches to the same thing that Weatherby has been doing for years! Get more bang for your buck!!! I'm a big fan of Weatherby rifles. I took a serious look at the .257 wby before deciding to go with the .270 wby instead. To me the .270 gave me option of a little heavier bullet to buck the wind, along with greater kenetic energy down range for those longer shots that coues deer often present. I don't have or want a muzzle break on it, so it's probably not a good gun for a youth, but I can still put 30 -40 rounds through it at the range and not be too soar. I'd say that it kicks somewhere between a .30-06 and a 7mm Mag, which for me is very reasonable. I've shot several deer and antelope with it and nothing I've shot has so much as taken a single step after being hit with it. I personally don't like using ballistic tips with my .270 wby. I'm not afraid of using them for longer ranges, what worries me is how well the bullet will perform at ranges under 100 yards with a muzzle velocity over 3,550 feet per second. I think the bullet may expand and fragment too quickly to make a quick clean kill. I really like the Hornady Interbond bullets. They're a bonded bullet so they hold together better at close range, and they shoot very well out of my rifle.

Let me guess....... He shot it with a .270??? Nice work Lark.

I'll be heading down to hunt w/ Cola Blanca in January. I can't wait!!!

Nice carp!!!

Josh, so which brand of bottled water do you recomend pouring into the salt? I personally like to drink Aquafina, but which one will the deer prefer? Perhaps Evian, Dasani, Arrowhead, or Figi? So many different choices!

From my experience when a coues deer gets big his home territory gets rather small. During the rut he may roam a little more looking for does, but the rest of the year he's probably not moving very far.

Anyone ever find any sheds at night? This past Saturday night Treestandman, my two boys, and myself went out in the dark to check a couple of my cameras. At about 9:30 PM on our way back to the quads in the pitch dark I'm using my flashlight to see my way and nearly step on this little coues shed. It's not very big, probably 65-70 inches but it's an antler and it was in the dark. Pretty lucky I guess. I found the mule deer shed on Sunday night while trying to get some video of elk. I wish it's main beam wasn't busted off! To top it off two of my boys were with me when we found the antlers and they were pretty exctited to be the ones to pick them up!

My lips are sealed when it comes to unit 42!!! I'd go in either from Barnhardt or Mt. Peeley. Either way you are going to do some serious vertical climbs, so be in good shape. That's some tough country in there so be careful.

I've never used a wisker biskut, and now I use a drop away rest. But in the past when I used a regular rest if one fletching kept coming off of several different arrows I knew I had a clearance issue.

Ultramag, I think the noise you are referring to is called glunking. It's not very loud so you usually only hear it when you're real close. It's a pretty cool sound. Anyone else heard this before?

Cool story, and a nice lion!!! Thanks for sharing.

Very nice, congratulations!!!