Randyh2412

Finally after 8 long years i can post on this topic that i drew an elk tag. it was posted on the card yesterday the 24th. was banking on that bonus point again and going with a buddy that also got drawn.

This is my daughter’s 2nd Coues deer. Aisha is 11 years old. We both drew leftover tags this year in a unit she killed in last year. Also we are camped with a buddy and his brother-n-law who have tags. Last year she shot a smaller buck while a boy with us shot the bigger buck standing right next to hers. Was not letting that happen this year we hunted alone. Open day comes and we get to where I wanted to try and hunt away from people. We split up from my buddy they go one way we go another. All we see is does and little movement, so we decide to move to a different place. It’s the same hill where she killed last year. We hike up the hill at noon and have lunch. After lunch I start glassing and after about a minute I see a deer on a hill side a mile away feeding and when it picks its head I can tell it’s a buck, but the heat waves make it hard to see what it really is. I tell her to pack up I see a buck lets go. (Already) Aisha tells me, yes let’s go. We drive around into the bottom of a creek and start walking. We almost make it up to where we want to try and set up to take our shot. I peak around the hill and see a buck, then another buck a good buck. I then hear some quads coming up the road they pass our vehicle and go up about 200-250 yards and park and start glassing. By this time the deer lay down. We finally get set up 340 yards from the bucks bedded. The people on the quads glass for awhile 2-3 hours the whole time the bucks are bedded. I glass up another deer a spike watching the other hunters on the road out in the open. Then another truck pulls up and then they start glassing with the quad hunters. Now my buddy comes down the road they have a buck down in back of their vehicle. I tell them that we have a buck bedded along the road. He stops, and sets up just in case we miss. Finally the other hunters pack up and leave. The deer stand up about 5 minutes later and start feeding. We wait for a long time the buck to finally clear the brush so she can get a shot. Then I hear a my buddies ranger start up and start driving down the road the deer pretty much turns around runs right back to his bed and lays back down. My buddy wanted to get his brother-n-laws buck taken care of it, it was to hot. They stop at our vehicle and try to wait for us. He calls us to what was going on I tell him what happened. About 5 minutes later they leave and when they get out of hearing distance the bucks get up and start feeding. The bigger buck goes right back to the bush he was eating off of. By this time our set up was turning bad the sun had moved to where it was hitting on the riflescope. We have to move into the shade to where it’s not bothering her. She gets everything right and lined up (BANG) she hits the buck right perfect he humps up and runs over to the right 20 yards then turns back 30 yards and try’s to run back to bed and lays down. He’s done. I tell Aisha to move let me try and shoot the other smaller buck. I move her over and try to get set up. Looking through the scope I see her buck laying there with the other buck just looking at him. But no shot. He’s small for me, but would be nice to get a double with my daughter. The buck moves over in the clear and I can’t get steady. I shoot and then I can’t find him. All I see where he was standing is a dust cloud. After packing up and walking over we find Aisha’s buck. I find where the other buck was standing nothing. I make circles for a while still nothing no blood. It’s getting dark we have just enough time to take pictures. Aisha sat on this buck for 5 hours fighting with me, the sun and the frustration of not getting a clear shot. This was the biggest buck I found on the hunt. My buddy ended up killing a small buck. We went 3-4 on leftover tags for the weekend. I went back the next couple days with a friend and his son who was 11 also he killed I I pointer for his first Coues deer. In all we went 4-5 for the one hunt with leftover tags. Even though I did not kill I had a wonderful hunt, Aisha did not let him get away. Watching the kids kill is always worth it. This is Aisha’s first deer with her new gun that I had built for her (Thanks Mike). She loves it and have to make her stop shooting it can’t find bullets for it. Thanks for reading Randy

Had a 243 mauser 98 rebuilt for daughter this year. You can see it in the story her in this section. Also she has killed with her moms 308 sako 165gr sierras, which has killed a couple other deer with kids behind it. working on building up a 25-06 ruger 77 now for elk and deer.

Her gun is a Mauser 98 in .243 It has a Richards Microfit Stock glass bedded and cut down for her, Timney trigger with has a Vortex Diamond scope with BDC 4-12x44.

This year was my 10 year old daughter’s first deer hunt. We picked up a leftover tag in November for her. This is what she had to say about the hunt. My First Deer Hunt My first deer hunt was near the Mexican border. Me, Marcos, Matt, and Josh all had tags for White-tailed deer. We came in late on Thursday so we set up camp and took off in our two Rangers and checked out the area we’d be hunting in. Friday morning we set out on our Rangers until we parked in a small clearing next to the road. Then we climbed a tall ridge and glassed from there. When we got to the top we got blasted by a very strong wind. We had glassed for about a half hour until we spotted a group of three deer. Since me and Marcos were the youngest Matt and Josh let us have the first try at the group. So me, my dad, and Marcos had to circle back to the road and drive closer to the deer. We had to hike a couple of ridges to come in full sight of the deer. I was shooting a 308 win. I believe Marcos was shooting a 7mm mag. When we got to a point close enough for me to shoot we stopped and waited for the deer to get in the right position. When I finally shot the gun at 260 yards (a gun I’ve never shot before) there was a big silence. I gave Marcos the bigger one because I already owed him for grabbing me when I almost fell down a tall hill into a pile of cacti. Sure he grabbed me a couple other times but that one would’ve hurt the most. We were supposed to have shot one after the other real fast but Marcos lost the big buck for a second. But then he found it and shot it. We had both shot our deer and killed them but mine was the best hit-and-kill shot. So my dad and Marcos dragged our deer down to a place where we could gut our deer. It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw and heard. For me, she had a few other excuses for not shooting the bigger buck, but all that matters is that she was happy. RIGHT. The next day she did ask or wish she had another tag to keep hunting. I'm very proud and she do alot of shooting with her 22. We borrowed a 243 that she shot before the hunt, but she wanted to use her moms rifle.

SOLD Pending funds to Kilimanjaro I have a Left Handed Winchester Model 70 Classic Sporter in 270win. It comes with a Leupold Scope 3-9 x 40. I bought it from a gunsmith in town and he went through and made it a pretty good gun. It does have couple of scratches from only being on a couple hunts nothing major. I bought it about 8-10 years ago. Reason for sell Im building a gun for my oldest girl who turns ten this year, and I mostly archery hunt anymore. Looking to get $550 firm for it. THANKS for looking Randy Cell 480.338.4575 after 5pm please Located in Florence and can meet in Phoenix and Tucson. Brass and bullets already sold

July 21st 9:45

Found this way to be the most secure especially for heavy elk. http://www.taxidermy.net/forum/index.php/topic,43097.0.html just have to scroll down to see

awesome way to go and stay at it. was thinking about this all weekend.

have FUN and have alot patiences

Swarovski Booster: for SLC 15X and EL 10X adapters $275 Thanks for looking

only thing left is the booster Sorry

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yes it is

My antler's on the closed mouth bull. Awesome work Cody THANKS.

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I went to the Sure Loc Lethal Weapon QC Max with 4 pins. had the SDP and was just to many pins to look thru. Then I liked the fact that I could adjust to any distance I wanted.

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