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Saw a nice 4x4 and a forky following 2 does today!

Went out by Saddle Brooke this afternoon and saw a forky following a doe and a nice 4x4 dogging a doe like crazy!

Sounds like you are quite a guide! Congrats on a successful hunt and a great buck!

We are looking at the Edgar/Beuhman Canyon area On the back side of mount lemon

What part of 33 I'm heading out there tomorrow

Standman were you up north or down south?

Well we picked up a couple of leftover tags for 36b this year and my dad was able to take his first coues this morning in 36b at 278 yards it is a great first buck but man was it a hike!

I picked it up at PSE on Fairview for $400 Bare Bow

Amazing bow for the price shoots better than any bow I've ever owned it is a steal for only $400

Headed out to the 36's and 33 next week

My Dad and I saw a couple quality bucks in that unit this year Ended up shooting a nice non-typical 85" buck We were in rough country though!

Im am going to try Bow hunting this year and am really looking forward to it! My plan was just to sit at water all day, does this usually work or is there a more effective method like spot and stalk? I will be going after coues in the southern units like 33 and 36b! please help me out any information is gladly appreciated! -Jake

Hi, Im Jake Im 18

I picked up over $200 of bow hunting gear (bag targets, block targets, rage broad-heads, carbon express arrows a new arrow rest, a limbsaver stabilizer, and some other stuff) for only $88 man who would of thought!

HOLY CRAP! Are the first words that came out of my mouth! Congrats on an outstanding buck!

I have a good pair of vortex's and a solid tripod I use during rifle season I think I might give both a chance depending on what I see! It will be interesting to see the difference in glassing in nov. compared to dec.! Cant Wait!

So me and my dad decided to pick up a couple of leftover tags for 36b; my dad got one for the Nov 4th hunt and I got one for the Nov 25th hunt!We headed out early opening morning ready to shoot the first buck we saw! We started by just glassing off the road but realized that there were way to many people with the same idea, so we headed back to an area we had scouted that looked promising. We parked at the new area and started our hike up a trail conveniently made by illegals lol. It is about a 2-mile loop back to the truck that has some great glassing points and I thought for sure we would get on a buck, but unfortunately all we saw were 2 does and 2 fawns, but it was enough to get us excited for the rest of the hunt! When we got back to the truck, it was about 9am and we decided to go to a place we call "The Canyon" It is a place we had scouted before and had seen bucks in. We figured it would be perfect because the wind was howling and we knew the deer would be bedded down out of the wind and this was the perfect spot! When we got to "The Canyon", we got out and started hiking; it is about 1.5 miles to the spot we wanted to be in. Unfortunately, when we got there, there were 2 guys glassing right were we wanted to be :/, we talk to the guys and they said they had 2 other people on different points glassing this same canyon and the only thing they had seen were a couple of does which was kind of disappointing! We decided that we would go up 200-300 yards from them and start glassing until lunch. On the way over to the new ridge, I heard my dad say "crap", and I look back and a rock had slipped out from under his foot and he had just dropped the new gun we had got for this hunt. We looked it over and notice a big dent in the beautiful wood stock and then realized it had also hit the scope pretty hard; then we were worried! We knew there nothing that we could do and we just had to hope the scope didn't get to messed up. We got to the new ridge/canyon Where we had decided to glass and were only glassing for probably 20 minutes when my dad says "DEER!". I, of course, said "where?" and he was trying to describe it for me and he looked away for 3 seconds and looked back and it was gone. He pointed me in the direction of the deer he saw and we both glassed this part of the hill for 10 more minutes when I saw it! I did the whole "DEER, ITS A BUCK, ITS HUGE!" thing and then tried to explain to my dad were the deer was bedded. The deer was laying down right in front of a rock that was just a bit bigger then he was. He blended in really well with the rock and if you didn't know there was a deer there, it was almost impossible to find him! My dad spent 5 minutes trying to find him and I decided to get the spotting scope out and just put it on him. My dad came over, looked in the spotting scope, saw the deer and got really excited. He quickly got the gun and the shooting sticks and got on him. I ranged him at 278 yards and my dad was set. He asked if I was ready and I said yes; He squeezed the trigger, I saw the cloud of dust and said you missed. It was about 4 feet high and 3 feet left; obviously the scoped was off from when he dropped it earlier! Surprisingly, the deer hadn't moved; it was just laying there. My dad and i got ready again and BOOM he shot and just missed, maybe a foot to the right. The deer still stayed bedded, my dad readjusted and sent another round down range; whack, he nailed it and I really got excited and said you hit him and my dad said "yeah, stay on him". We realized when he got up to start running away his front leg was broken; then we got worried. We thought he had just shot his leg. so he got back on the rifle, found the deer in the scope, and shot! He hit the deer and the deer went maybe another 15 yards and laid down. We gave him 30 minutes and started the hike over to the other side of the canyon! When we originally saw the deer we thought he had 2 on one side and 3 on the other but were we wrong! He has 5 on his right side with a split G2 and a couple kickers,he had 3 on his left with a little kicker on the inside plus the eye guard! Here is the canyon were the deer was, It was bedded right to the left of the rock face that is on the right side of the picture! This is the ridge that we shot him from we were at the top of the ridge next to a pile of boulders on the right! My dad with his buck Me with my dads buck A video of the canyon and my dad starting to gut the deer! http://s940.photobucket.com/albums/ad243/soccerstar2013/?action=view&current=VIDEO0003.mp4 All in all it was a great hunt! Now it is my turn come November 25th!

Headed out to 36b tomorrow seeing as my mom wants the whole family home today! Good luck to everybody!

Shot my first coues deer yesterday and i want to mount it but dont want to burn a hole ion my pocket! Do you think this deer is worth the money to mount or should I just bleach the skull!

Shot this buck yesterday and wanted to know what you guys think he will score!

Ya there are some decent areas My dad and I hunted it 3 years ago saw tons of dear everyday but only a couple small bucks I would hunt there again if I did a little more scouting! Ill PM you when I get a hold of my dad I dont exactly remember where we were in the unit but you can glass from the road or your best bet is to hike over a couple ridges maybe a mile and glass thats were the bucks are!

We actually saw them at their truck when we went back to put the spotting scope and miscellaneous stuff in the truck before we packed him out they were confused to say the least! haha

Congrats to your brother for shooting a fine buck! Even though he was the only one that tagged out sounds like you guys had fun at that is what matters! My Dad and I were lucky enough to take a pretty nice deer out of 36b this year on this same hunt I love the area there are just to many people! I'm going back on the 25th for my hunt and i was just curious were that stalk tank was at were you saw a good number of bucks! PM if you want but I understand if you don't want to share but I have a couple good spots of my own that I would exchange!

We guessed Him at 80-85 but when we get the head back from the butcher we'll let you know!

we shot him in 36b in our secret spot haha!