elkhunter

did you use the food scale at a grocery store? ha The great thing about this head is that even if it does not function correctly you will get some cutting done, unlike some other mechanicals out there. Every broadhead has it pros and cons, and this one has it's pro where it still cuts if it malfuctions and it's con is that it takes about 3lb of force to keep blade open.

Awesome, I am lucky enough to see only 1 fully albino javi in Arizona, he was certainly a juvenile about 10 months old or so and we didnt want to shoot him and hoped to find him as he got bigger but he dissapeared! Bet he was easy to spot for the coyotes! Congrats on once of a lifetime kill!

Passed you on I 10 right before vail, you got a sticker that says any tag any time

I meant what caliber were you using- not what type predator call. sorry!

Awesome! What cal were you using? I glassed up a fox bedded on the oct hunt at 400 yards, I did not even think about shooting it at that distance

This is funny, 99% of the time I would say yes but the weird does happen. My dad shot a buck at 250 yds with 180 grn from 300 wsm, bullet landed about 2 inch behind the shoulder and 5 inch below the spine, the buck rolled down the mtn and layer flat. After 10 minutes of watching him we confirmed he was dead. The buck got up shook his head and walked downhill! We were able to kill hil. Upon opening him up, the shot did no damage to his lungs, very weird, we figured maybe he was breathing out when the bullet hit him? Making him miss the lungs? It was purely a flesh wound at that point. It just depends sometimes, sometimes a hunter scouts very hard and gives a buck a haircut on a shot and sometimes a hunter shoots a buck in the gut and doesn't track the buck down. Ur a hard a$$ if someone worked hard and tracked a buck for days, ur not a hard a$$ when someone shoots a buck in the gut and does not track them down

just tough luck- nothing in the rules/regulations about this type of situation other than whoever put the last bullet in the deer belongs to the person- sucks to hear that

AWESOME!!!!!

Anytime the temps drop down, expect the young ones to get confused, last I heard coues deer cant read a calendar. I did see a fork horn mount a doe in July before, was a rather chilly evening in july

Ps you will not find these deals on cw.com but on Craig's or at the local ate places

If you can wait a few months, they start selling crazy deals on rangers after season is over, several people draw those rare mule and or elk tags, buy a ranger and have no use for it anymore. A friend of mine bought a souped up one for 10k when it was valued at 17k with a 900 cc and had custom suspension, speakers installed and all those accessories, in a few months you can get yourself a steal

Those of you who don't know basser, he has worked very hard in the coues field, every year he does himself better, there's no maximum for this guy!

alot of the bucks are bunched up together in bachelor groups- if you had found 2 bachelor groups the buck to doe ratio would change dramatically. On my hunt in a different southern arizona unit we saw 23 bucks and 8 does.

Howdy- had my velbron tripod lose 2 legs this oct and the plastic quick snaps have broken off in several locations. Looking to upgrade to carbon fiber tripod- I am getting old and would like to reduce the weight load of my backpack. What are some tripods you use that's carbon and what are the pro's and con's about carbon fiber tripods? Thanks!

Try shooting 400 and 500 yards, you will get better at 300 yards!

Ah that sucks, there are bruisers south of that lake for sure! Hopefully you will have better luck next year

Groupie!

Awesome, most people would not admit to shooting that many rounds, if I was standing next to you I would have had a blast

Look like the person had a snickers bar on him while setting the stand! Great stuff

Thanks for all the info, looks like promaster is 63 inches, my tripod head will add on another 3 inches, binos and adaptor will add on 2 more inches, I will have to crouch down 5 inches to look through binos. One last question, 63 inch is the max height with the legs spreaded out or with all 3 legs touching together like a monopod? Thanks!

No water, no backpack, most likely up to no good bandits or very dumb hunters. You should have sent one of ur buddies down to ask them! Now we will never know

Just keep at it, you learn from mistakes and not success in life, one day you will put one down and after that they follow like dominos. One time I shot at a javelina when I was 10, missed the pig by 2 ft and hit a rock, the javelina fell over and rolled down a hill 10 feet, got up and ran away, zero blood. My sister once shot a javi and it ducked and turned towards her, the broad head hit the pig right above the nose and proceeded to slice the skin all the way up to between the ears with zero broad head penetration. Missed an cow elk with a rifle in highschool bout 80 yards once One time shot a javi with my bow, shot was about 2 inch too low at 20 yards, it broke both of his front legs and I couldn't catch up to it going down hill but once it reached the bottom, he was screwed trying to get uphill with 2 broken front legs, put him down then. We all got these stories, just dream about them and learn from it, what could have been done differently etc. Do you have a bipod for ur rifle? Focus on increasing stability on shots in the future, if you shoot a cow elk in the right spot, they wouldn't run far with a 3006 hole in their lungs and drop quite a bit of blood,

What caliber are you shooting? Might be the set up. Were there steep angles on your shots? Who goes hunting with you? Having someone watch the animal while you shoot greatly increases your chances of knowing where the animal was hit. My pops shot a coues buck above shoulder blade and beneath the spinal cord, the buck did not die, most people would have thought a double lung hit. Buck bedded down in thick stuff and luckily I was watching and was able to get my dad set up on a fatal shot. When u go target shooting again, do about 20 jumping jacks and then shoot ur rifle, this will give you a realistic shooting on big game. Coues and elk r hard to kill, if ur off by an inch they will get away

Awesome news! Rather quick hunt, must be a beautiful buck!

One thing several people overlook is the fact that in oct coues are typically found near water....a majority of the roads in Arizona leads to water, don't be afraid to hunt under a mile from a pond and a road, typically that's where you find higher density of deer. However some people will disagree with hunting near roads, u will typically find smaller bucks and more does. Farther away will produce bigger bucks but a lot less deer unless there's a good flowing spring or a pond with zero road access If you are interested in seeing a great number of deer, try either 36b or 36a, in those units you should expect to see 15 to 30 does a day and bucks varies from 0 to 20 a day. A lot of fun hunting out there if you are into seeing a lot of deer.