elkhunter

Awesome work! Not very often do you hear about those bucks in 34b alone see a pic of a buck taken.

Saw you driving by Whetstone, I was in the green dodge dakota hauling a quad, coming back from scouting and you were hauling a trailer with firewood,

i have the canadian backpack, I bought one when they first came out in 2006, I believe, and packed out an elk and 10 coues buck with it since, my dad just bought himself the newer model and eventually he bought me the newer model as well a few months ago. The older model had some issues with the zipper, they were small zippers and a few of them broke but the newer model now has a larger gauge zipper and I trust they'll last longer. I think they are great and certainly last quite some time. They are very good for packing out a coues deer, just the right size

awesome buck, in a way he does look like one big ole coues deer

I think this is a great place to show your critters and include stories, I know I love reading this site after hunting season starts, I sit down with coffee and read through each hunting story posted on this site, it's kind of like a hunting magazine that changes everyday, Trophy Hunter only comes once every few months!

NAU and U of A Grad, biggest was 109 3/8 and second largest 102 and 4 80 class bucks

absolutley! There has been bucks from the 120's down to spikes taken out of the unit, every unit has 100 inch bucks, some more than others, if you are in a unit that has coues deer then you are in a unit that can produce a good buck

fish the deep water, anythin yellow/motoroil color will work, its very slow flipping along the cattails

rock on, my first is coming in july, sure is a pretty boy, congrats!

it was real smoky here in sierra vista yesterday, the fire really got out of control fast, today it seems to be in more control, it'll be a hotspot for hunting in a couple of years

no way for AZGFD to make accurate predictions on the hunt success so they have to make a rough estimation from the hunters who did submit the survey... I found out through my 4 years of college that people who were successful are more likely to submit the survey than those who werent, interesting stuff.

how the heck did I miss those pics? wow! As my friends told me, they always buy their houses to acommodate their mounts.....rather than have mounts and try to make them work in the house!

WAIT! I am missing the field photos of the 09 and 2010 elk! If you don't mind, could you post them? Thanks! That's a great bull there, sweet mount, I really like the dark antlers and ivory tips~!

love it! Had similar experiences like that before yahoo

Doug- it would be interesting to see how the success rate of this year compared to last year throughout all coues unit and compare it to the percentages of people who harvested a deer this year verses last year (that enrolled in the contest) For me and some of my friends, we had a rough year, few deer taken overall, I also noticed some of the success rate in the regs being lower than the previous two years

it seems like everyone is getting tile these days and getting rid of carpet. If you make a posting on craigslist regarding buying carpet or turf I am sure you'll have a seller within a few hours of posting in the phoenix area. I have two friends who ripped out carpet in their house and looking to sell, you can certainly find a person in the phoenix area looking to sell even a portion of their carpet/turf!

rock on Jim, ur a nicer person than I am!

"Fantastic job on the bird. You have established one heck of an AZ hunting resume" DUH! Congrats on the bird, looks like a solid coues spot as well, nice and thick! Where can I find the video of this hunt? I looked on Jay scott blog and can't find the video for this goulds hunt

The last picture is a classic example of identifying a young bear, nearly-pancake ears! Great pics, I sure hope they all get bigger this year

6A probably had more potential for a real beast of a buck but I would guess both units has equal opportunities for a 100 inch buck Each to their own I guess!

I learned that cheaper optics can help out with finding more critters because of the smaller field of view, it's easier to find a deer at 1000 yards in a small field of view than a larger field of view. When I glass things closely with the swaros, I put the eye caps all the way down, when I glass farther out, 1 mile or more, I put the eye cups up to reduce the field of view. EL's have a huge field of view, that may be what happened to you. I used a pentax 16's back in the old days then switched to Zeiss conquest 15's then switched to swaro 15's and in that process the amount of critters I've found went significantly up, not because I was finding them but because I could find them at longer ranges.

I have had the same issues as you, increasing powder loads meant tigher groups. I shoot a 300winmag and discovered some bullets with tighter groups but they were slower loads which meant more of a drop at longer distance. Thats the greatest thing about reloads, my loads certainly wouldnt work well on another man's 300 win mag. I would say keep working at it, the limit is the day you can't beat your own loads. I always have to remind myself that a 1/4 inch difference at 300 yards does not mean much to a coues, but you probably shoot farther than that!

Nice footage Jack, I'm guessing all of those bucks are probably in 19B Looks like you got some great footage over the years, I remember the posting you made on that one buck you were thinkin that was pushed 90

funny how deer only think about food, water and sex and they can still outsmart us

wait a few weeks and alot of hunters will put up their "2010" bows up for sale, anytime tax season runs around people sell their hunting gear, your buddy can get a brand new bow for a real good price, check the local newspaper, craigslist and even on this website.That way your buddy can get a bow that is 1 year old and not feel bad. Dont let the modern bow technology fool you, alot of people shoot bows that are nearly 10 years old with the same "hunting success" as those with brand new modern bows.