OpticNerd

Loving those eye guards BTW!

The look on his face says it all. My best memories are hunting with my dad and grandpa. Congratulations on your big ol beautiful buck!

I agree with westernhunter23 if money is an issue Vortex Razor HD is awesome. I had the chance to look through one the other day and I was very impressed. The only side by side comparison I've done has been with the Swaro 80mm HD, 77mm Leica APO and the 85mm Zeiss. To my eyes I couldn't really tell a difference between the 3 under normal conditions but in low light the Zeiss slightly pulled ahead of the other 2. One thing I should point out when it comes to optics one person might prefer one scope while another person might think another performs better. This was the case when I bought the Zeiss 85mm. Pretty much everyone I knew told me that nothing was better the the Swaro 80mm HD but I decided to get the Zeiss because it had a bigger objective. After doing the side by side comparison to my eyes the Zeiss came out on top over the Swaro and Leica but the owner of the Swaro liked the Swaro best. What I'd recommend to anyone looking at buying new glass is to try before you buy if at all possible. And not just in the stores but out in the field under hunting conditions. Maybe there should be an optics camp out one weekend this spring where everyone brings their glass to compare with fellow hunters glass. Should be fun and very helpful.

Thanks for the comments. Sorry pixman I'm a video guy but if I ever want any stills taken I'll let you know.

Finally found the time to put some video clips together from my outings in Dec and Jan. Hope you guys enjoy it. Make sure it's set to HD before watching it

Thanks for the comments guys it's good to see some of you liked it. gotcoues I've never used Windows Movie Maker so I don't know for sure if you can do it with that program. The only editing program I've used has been Adobe Premiere. There are several ways to accomplish what you are describing in Adobe one of them is the same as what Elkaddict said about Roxio. I would think you should be able to do it in Windows Movie Maker because I think its one of the more basic features in an editing program I just don't know exactly how to do it.

Guys I tell ya what ((finger point)) this camera seems purdy good and I'd tell ya why ((finger point)) but I don't have enough time to go through it all ((finger point)). I tell ya what guys just watch the video((finger point)) it will tell ya all you need to know about this camera ((finger point)) Here's why ((finger point)) cause the guy in the video that's why((finger point)). In all seriousness the features on this cam look good. Too bad the little black box only has about a 50ft range. I wonder if the box would still work if you put it in a Tupperware container and buried it or covered it up with some rocks to keep people from finding it.

Wow! Loving those beams. You get any measurements on him by chance?

Good stuff! Really digging the live deer pics. Awesome job!

What a buck! More pics please! Hard to tell but how many points does he got

Wow I've personally never seen anything quite like that before out in the field. That must have been one HOT doe for them to get into like that. I find it Funny while these tuff boys were scappin it out some sneaky buck ran off with the doe. AWESOME stuff thanks!

I know this isn't on your list of choices but get the new 88mm Kowa and don't look back.

Sweet buck with cool character. Great job and thanks for posting the pics.

Dang nice buck! Hard to tell from the vid but whats going on with his right side? Looks like he has double the mass or something compared to his other side in the spotting scope footage.

When I finally got a good look at him my first thought was "dang he's got sum good eye guards!" It's hard to tell from the pics but he also has some bladed points, a tiny kicker off his right g2, starting a g4 on his left and great main beams. I love this buck! Definitely going to be giving him another shot come this weekend.

Well I wasn't planning on going archery hunting this until August but after seeing the rutting action from my scouting/video trips I couldn't resist and I got a tag. Just in-case you haven't seen the pics yet here's the link http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=30032 I was only able to hunt Sunday but man what a day. The day started off with a mile hike up into the area where I plan to hunt for the day. I figured I'd go in a bit further then I normally do in hopes of finding a giant. Just before reaching the top of my glassing location it is now light enough to see so I decided to stop for a quick glass and to catch my breath. I haven't even put my binos up when I see 4 deer playing ring around the mesquites. I pull up my glass and immediately see that one of the deer is a good buck but it is too dark to tell for sure what I was looking at. The action didn't last long before the deer chased each other out of my site. I never got a good look at the bigger buck but from what little I saw he looked good. The deer were heading down towards where I parked my vehicle when so I figured I'd continue up to my glassing point to see if I could find anything else. Well long story short I found a good amount of deer and a few good bucks as well from my glassing location but nothing that caught my interest like the first buck I saw. I decided to circle back down the mountain to see if I could pick up the four deer I saw earlier. After a minute or two of glassing I picked them up again rutting around really good all within 300 yards of my truck. There are now a total of 6 bucks and 15 doe all caught in a rutting frenzy. I moved in a bit closer and just sat back and enjoyed the show for an hour or two when finally the big buck I saw first thing this morning finally decided to bed down. I thought this is my chance so I took some quick video and started my way down to him. Well another long story short he didn't stayed bedded long enough for me to make it to him and the closest I got was 200 yards. Then out of no where all 21 deer start hauling butt straight for me. They blow past me and just kept going up over the mountain out of site. Baffled I glass down and find two hunter topped out just above where the deer were. What a crappy way to end such a great day. O well that's hunting for ya. There's always next weekend. Here's some video stills I was able to get of the big buck.

Congrats! That's a beautiful buck! Got any other pics of him you wouldn't mind sharing?

Awesome buck! Congratulations!

That's cool right there! I've always wanted to try ice fishing but there's something about sitting on a sheet of ice that freaks me out.

Very nice congratulations man! I agree with Redman that last pic with the dog is AWESOME!

Does this mean I can use my old PSE that was made back in the 80s set at 30# even though it will be shooting a measly 150 fps? Or is there a speed/kinetic energy requirement that I need to meet as well?

Thanks for the comments. I never noticed that bucks tail until you pointed it out Jim. I was able to go out again for a few hours and was able to get some more video. Here's some of the stills from the footage. I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR!

purple chainsaw! I'm must be abnormally abnormal.

We use to have an archery doe hunt. I can't remember when or why they got rid of it but I think it happened back in the mid to late 90s. When they 1st got rid of the archery doe hunts I thought we'd surly see an increase in our deer numbers but I can't say they've change much since then. In fact I tend to see less deer numbers now then I did back when there was an archery doe hunt. I don't know if it's because I'm not as good of a hunter as I once was or if it's all in my head. All I do know is that back when we had those doe hunts I use to find bigger and more herds of does during the winter months. It wasn't uncommon back then to see herds of 20-30 does. One of the biggest herds I've counted had 98 in it. Now days the biggest herd numbers I find are rarely more then 10-15 does. Maybe having the archery doe hunt back then was actually helping our deer numbers.

Sorry to hear your so upset over this Kevin. I really don't see these guys doing anything terribly wrong other then not checking for blood but then again I wasn't there so maybe it was worse then it sounds. Seems like more wrong place at the wrong time kind of thing. It would be different if after you yelled at the guys they continued shooting knowing you were there but it seems as soon as they knew you were up there they stopped. In my opinion the biggest error I see made in this scenario is you waving your arms yelling instead of ducking for cover but then again I wasn't there. All I know for sure is is good no one got hurt. What I don't understand is why some people bash road hunters as bad as they do. I'm not talking about the guys that drive around with guns loaded ready to shoot from the back of the truck or from inside the vehicle. I'm talking about the guys that drive around looking for game and when they find it they get off the road out of the vehicle and then go after the animal. Really what so wrong with this? Growing up this is how I hunted with my Grandpa because he was just to old to get out and hike. Now days this is how it is with my dad because he too is getting to old to hike. The only way I can get my dad to go out hunting with me is to drive roads. We'll drive to a nice glassing spot get out and glass a bit and if we don't find anything we'll drive to the next glassing spot and so on and so on. While driving from spot to spot we are looking for animals. I just don't see why this type of hunting is frowned on as bad as it is. Once again glad no one was hurt.