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Freakin killer deer!! I hope I get a chance to hold that beast one of these days. WOW! Not real sure what you're getting at Hendo. Not even sure what would make you think this deer is anything other than 100% Coues? What is it that makes it seem questionable at all actually? And who has ever led on that a lot of the Northern AZ deer are hybrids? Sure it may happen from time to time but the way you keep pressing the issue I wonder what your true motives are. Please elaborate in a New Topic as not to take away from this awesome buck and to put it in the "Questionable" category. Although this topic has been discussed quite a bit before. But if you have something new to enlighten us with please please, lets hear it. A monstrous CONGRATS to headhunter for one heck of a buck!!!!

Oh my gosh what incredible deer! Congrats guys!

WAY FREAKIN COOL!!!

Drove down to Douglas with Tim Tuesday night and got to the hotel at 2:30 AM. Got 3 hours of quick sleep and met Kevin at 6. We were the only ones going thru the border at that time and it was a breeze getting thru. After a quick stop at the military to check his gun we were done and headed south all in about 40 minutes time. After 2 1/2 hours I think we were at the ranch house and headed for an afternoon glass. I think it was pretty uneventful evening for all of us but at least we were glassin. Sure was nice to be in camp with Phil and Jim again. We swapped stories and BS'd till way to dang late then hit the hills again early the next morning. Jim glassed up a buck across a big canyon while Phil was stalkin in on a nice buck since it was his last day to hunt. Since Tim was on the opposite side of the canyon I talked him in on the radio to it and he made a great stalk and a quick one shot kill to score on his buck. Not to long after, Phil got in close to the buck he was "settling" for and made 4 shots only to miss them all (sorry Phil). Like Jim said, "His heart just wasn't in it." and he was probably right on since they had already passed some pretty dang nice bucks a couple days before. That evening I walked way out on a point and glassed up a small, tight racked 3 point and a huge 3pt grooming each other's faces and necks. Thought this was supposed to be the rut..... Regardless, I knew this big buck was a shooter for my standards and I called Phil on the radio and said I'm goin for him! With failing light I ran off the ridge, across a deep drainage and up on higher ridge which ended up not being close enough for a shot so with what light was left I took some quick video. I couldn't believe the length of the eyeguards on this buck and knew if I got to see him again he was gonna be in trouble. We all got a little more excited that night when we watched my footage on Phil's computer. What was weird was that these two bucks licked on each other for at least 25 minutes! Quite odd.... Well the next morning found Tim and I out on the end of the ridge and the wind was awful. Despite the wind we saw a lot of deer activity that day but couldn't turn up the buck with the big eyeguards. However, around 3 or so that afternoon Tim called me to tell me there was a pretty nice buck coming my way chasing a doe. Not really knowing where these deer were that he was watching I just held my position. Tim said the doe stopped and I think the doe sees you. Then he said that the buck was a real nice 3pt. Then he says, OH AND HE'S GOT A 4" DROP TINE!!! THEN, he says, WAIT! NO, HE'S A 4PT WITH A 4" DROPTINE!!!!!! Now I was totally rattled and a little frustrated since I didn't know where they were at and the doe was already watching me. AAAAHH!! Tim was giving me the commentary from his POV and said they turned and went the other way. DANGIT!!! Oh well I guess but we both hoped to find him again in our remaining days. Next morning found us glassing from the same spot again and Tim and I split up a 100 yards or so from each other. Luckily the morning started off without any wind and it was a gorgeous day. After about 30 minutes of glassing I spotted a doe approximately a mile away from us and it looked as if she was "necking" with another deer. I put the spotting scope up on them and realize IT'S HIM!!! Only this time he was in an awful spot a half mile farther than where he'd been 2 nights before and clear across a deep canyon. I bailed off the ridge again and 30 minutes later I was in position 650 yards from the now bedded buck. Tim crossed after I got set up and met me there a while later. We discussed our options and I crept onto a lower ridge that would eventually put me at 475 yards so I took it. I laid on my belly in the prone position for a few hours waiting for the buck to stand up and when he did he only offered me a butt shot and walked strait away where neither of us could see him. DANGIT AGAIN!!!! Finally decided to move positions to a steep ridge line across a deep and steep draw which turned out where we lost about 50 yards but now we had a great view of the entire ridge he was on. Got all set up for where we'd been watching him all day and played the waiting game again. About 3:30 and about a 150 yards north of where we'd seen the buck I see a doe come out on an open and narrow ridge with my eyes. I put the binos up only to see a large racked buck following her. I said out loud, "DON'T TELL ME, DON'T TELL ME.......", knowing full well it was the buck!! They made it thru all the brush without either of us seeing them. How typical is that? Anyway I got set up real quick while Tim was hitting him with the range finder. Got set the best I could and pulled the trigger and kept pulling only to realize I hadn't flipped the safety all the way off!!! DANGIT AGAIN!!!!! Thinking I'd lost my chance since they both went over the ridge line I was cussing myself when Tim said, "HERE THEY COME BACK!" Buck made it thru some brush and came out on the slope across a small draw and he said, "536 YARDS!!" Knowing the second line down from the crosshairs was good at 530 yards I held right on him and pulled the trigger. HIT!! Still standing so I let another rip and hit again!! Buck made it 20 yards or so and stopped broadside and I squeezed off another and Tim said, "YOU HIT THAT TREE PERFECTLY!!" Final round in the .300 Rem Ultra Mag and I found the buck in the scope again and let the last one rip. Tim says, "YOU GOT HIM AGAIN!!" Tim watched as the buck arched it's head back then flopped limp on the ground in front of it!!!! YAHOOOOO!!!!!!!!! I was pumped and couldn't wait to see my buck. In just a few seconds I was ready to just float across the canyon and go get him when Tim voiced his concern that I was basically out of my mind if I thought I could cross this deep sucker and be back in time before it got completely dark. DANG IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!!! Glad Tim was with me to talk some rational into me cause had he not been there I would've been down the deep cut we were next to only to find myself bluffed up like I did the following morning. Had to hike clear out of that bottom the next morning only to find another way down that steep dude. Here's a look down and across this steep canyon I had to find my way across the next morning. From where I'm at it's about 600' down and about 450' up the other side up onto that grassy bench where the buck was. Found the buck without too much trouble and this is what I find laying in the grass..... Talk about PUMPED!!!! Drug him out of the draw and up onto the ridge line for some pictures. Enjoy After boning the buck out and making it back across the mother of a canyon I made the rest of the 2 miles back to the quad and dropped off the meat then hiked back out to Tim for the rest of the evening. Right at dark he spots the big droptine buck but it's 680 yards away and down a big canyon. Here's Tim glassing down on for the buck just before dark. I'll let Tim fill in the details of the following time looking for this buck if he wants. The buck Phil had shot at on the last day was a really pretty 3pt buck that I had passed back on the hunt a month ago on my first trip down there and I spotted this buck for 3 more days in a row after Phil left. Having glassed our tails off from daylight to dark every day I told Tim on the last day that if I saw this buck again I was gonna go after it. Thing is, that when Phil left he knew he couldn't come back so he offered me his tag!! What a guy and I hope he knows how much I appreciate it! About 20 minutes into glassing that final morning I again spotted this same buck and told Tim I was gone! I unloaded all my unneeded optics etc that I wouldn't need cause I knew the pack out was gonna be a rough one if I got him. I made it across the canyon in about 45 minutes and belly crawled the last 25 yards onto a bench only 312 yards from the unsuspecting buck. I got prone once again and after 2 quick shots the buck was mine! It was horribly steep where the buck died but I managed to get some great pics and boned him all out. Just before I left on the hunt my 4yr old son Isaac told me to take his Speedracer car for good luck. Seemed to have paid off. Buck on left grossed 100 5/8" and the right one grossed 108 5/8" with 5 1/4" & 4 7/8" eyeguards Here's a few more shots of the fantastic country we got to hunt. Thanks for reading and I hope you all enjoy the pics....

HILARIOUS!!!

Boy Keven that buck sure was nice to hold that evening you finally got him back in to camp. LOVED the blading and mass on those antlers for sure! Congrats man!

Can you imagine if it wasn't broke?!?!?! YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Killer deer guys, way to get it done! Chad showed me video on his phone of that deer the other day and HOLY MOLEY is that thing SICK!!!

WOW!!!

I sure appreciated all the wonderful and nice comments from everyone. Thanks to everyone. Sure hope we can find a place to go for next year. What made this hunt memorable for me is that I got to go on another hunt with my huntin partner Gail and finally got to spend some time in the woods with Tim, Phil and Jim Parker. I know there was a couple other guys that were there when I was but we never got to hunt together. Nice having a group of guys to hunt with that are so selfless and willing to share everything they have too. Sure makes it extra special. Wish the Mrs understood why it is that we do what we do.... Thanks again everyone for your comments. Josh

Can you imagine what the crap that thing would be if it didn't have the right G2 broke off and that big drop on the left broken?!?!?!

No way that thing is coues. Hope some poor sap doesn't pay $600 for a $30 eastern rack.

He just killed my dream buck. Not sure if I can go to Mexico for the next week now after seeing that.....

Sweet mother of all things holy!!!!!!!!!

Diggity DANG that's some great action!!! Thanks Lance!

Dude that javvy nose KILLED ME!!!! Hilarious!!! And all you wt hunters thought that lions only eat coues deer.....

Glassed this one up on the deer hunt back in early Nov. Looked and looked for the other side with the binocs but couldn't find it so I was kinda figuring the other side was gonna be right in the bushes next to this shed. Hiked over there the next morning and BINGO there it was just a few steps away!! NICE! Later my friend Dave Mathews and I went out looking for elk and sheds and he snarfed up this nice 7pt

Thanks for the comments gentlemen

Great shed!! I would guess it's about a 52" antler so in the 118" range. Pics are to whited out from the bright flash to tell antler age but from the little clear peek of the eyeguard I can see in the first pic I'd say it's relatively new, maybe shed this spring but no longer than 2 springs ago. You seriously need to find the other side or at least try to find that buck and hunt him!

Ok all now don't hate me for this..... Went out glassing in an area that holds few coues today but I had to give it a shot. Froze my tail off and never saw one coues. About 8:30 I glassed up a decent 115-120" muley with a few does. Knowing I was about to have tag soup with my archery tag I continued to watch them and wait for my chance. 2 hours later I'm still watching and another buck shows up. This one is a solid 4x4 in the 130-140 range. Watched some more till I see something out to the right and it's another archery hunter!!! CRAP!! He got to about 100 yards from them till he got busted. They ran up the hill towards me and I tried cutting them off but was to slow in all the rocks and they got by me. So yes I'll admit it, the intent was there to shoot a carp. I'm sorry ok!!! They caught me at a weak moment and I admit my faults. Good thing I didn't have to waste an arrow on one of them though.........

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! I'd love to see those pics Jake!!

Ya way nice!!! 112 5/8"

I'd like to take you up on that! Probably find all the whites while you guys round up the the brown ones though.

Ah yes, I remember that shed quite well. Hated to let that one go but about 3 weeks ago I loaded it up with the rest and down the road it went. Oh well, I know you guys are gonna pile em up this year!!! Maybe Jimmy will finally convince me to get out there with you guys.....

Those are all awesome!!!

Nice Dan!