elkhunter

your ram compensates for all the misses you'll ever get on coues in your life

depends when you submitted your apps, I sent my apps in back in early May and check has been processed, if you sent yours in towards the last day, AZGFD has to process thousands of checks so it may take a few weeks

Great ram! Musta felt great being 17 yrs old and to accomplish that. By the way I met you out in the field before, you came around camp after a buddy's dad took a 4x3 coues, you said you were just on the other side of the mtn. Your old name was THOR wasnt it?

Here's a picture of some blisters I got from the work around Seligman, one day it was 104 degrees and I had danners with 200g thinsulate which is too much for that temp!

you are a spoiled SOB, I get to read all of your postings while going to school at U of A, you really really suck Jim, both Perk and I are starting a riot group against you and your spoilings. all crap aside- looks like a great trip, that's a huge striped marlin and the eye looks awesome, never seen anythin with a pupil shaped that way, congrats!

I was an intern back in 07 for AZGFD and got to work with the gunni p dogs and black footed ferret, the job was to mark pdog burrows each meter while following the latitude on the GPS, I think in 5 days each person walked about 40-50 miles, had big ole blisters! The temps was 101-104 during the hottest part of the day. Pronghorns were everywhere as well, great times.

azslim- here ya go 5x3, 109er story here= http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...ic=7290&hl=

doesnt make a difference to me, just packn more firearms

Jim- I agree with you, I had 3 dec tags before I even drew an Oct tag and my biggest bucks are from the early hunts and my best buck is from an October hunt, the temp was almost 90 degrees and it made it easy for me to locate deer under the trees, there was no one around us and we were a good mile and half back in some rough country and that day we saw 8 shooter bucks! You can get big bucks on both dec and october hunts, it's just that the oct hunt you have to tolerate the heat during the day just as you tolerate the cold temps in dec Another benifit of the early hunt is that the bucks stay still when bedded, they are not active due to hot weather so if you find them a mile or two away in the early morning, good chance they will be right there 2 hours later as you get to 300 yards, just like this bad boy

the success rate for oct/nov hunts for hunters who spent alot of time scouting and pattering bucks is well in the 80-90% success range for most and 100% for some, alot of big bucks are killed during all hunts mostly the october hunts out of the 3 early hunts, dec hunts typically reduces "bad luck" and competition among other hunters

count my pops and i in

Last two years I was in those shoes, however they are my smaller bucks. The biggest bucks come when we never see them til the season starts, pretty weird. 2008 Video 2009 no blood trail on this guy

my birthday too, 24 yrs old!

you might want to give Jim White a call, he designs tripod adaptor/tripod accessories and he'll know what you're talking about. You can find him through the coueswhitetail shop off the main webpage

Since 6A has a vast amount of elk, I think game and fish is turning that unit into a profit unit....decrease quality but increase quantitiy, 6a is the most popular unit I believe for beginning elk hunters and for beginners quality does not matter much. Game and Fish chooses to regulate some units for trophy/quality and some units for the quantitiy. I agree with you the quality has gone down, I remember while going to NAU, we glassed up a 350/360 class bull while scouting for coues and at the time that was the biggest bull I've seen in 6a in 4 years of hanging out there.

Keith, post your coues buck picture I took some great footage of wolves in Idaho, it was awesome to watch em run around in groups of 5-10's and watch how the dominance takes place, I consantly had to remind myself they're 100+ pounds!

I'm a member of hunters who care, it always looks like that, often you don't see that kind of stuff from the road but once you walk a hundred yards or so it's always looking like the pictures above, we do pretty well picking up the trash but it's never enough! Probably cover one square mile per day

That's pretty cool, I was watching that show and I was impressed on how Fred went ape %%%% when he shot his buck, for once someone got excited to harvest an animal on TV. Woulda been more sweet if you were able to take that buck though!

It's no joke, they are expensive! I was born profound deaf and through my whole life my parents and insurance must have dropped about $20,000 just so I can atleast hear loud things

Congrats to your pops, my pop is out turkey hunting now with his pops, the odds are against my pops as well, lets hope he can pull a turkey out! Nice pics jim

rattlesnakes in Oct and the worst feeling is when another person happens to hunt the same area as you are hunting and or someone shoots the buck you've been scouting for a couple of months all of the reasons are natural reasons

Again beautiful mount! The key words of the hunt came when we were glassing, "I got a deer....wait....it might be a buck....it's a buck....holy #### it's a big buck!!!"

It's been a few years since I've been in that area, however I know the northern third portion of the unit has more glassing areas. If game and fish dpt recommend a spot for hunting, don't avoid it due to several people, just work harder in that one particular area than most people will. There won't be many muzzy hunters on your pops hunt so competition won't be high. It probably will take you about an hour to figure out where you guys will want to hunt as you drive around the unit. It ain't as glassable as 6a but still a few spots are good for glassing. Might want to send a pm to WHT MTNMAN, he grew up in the area, nice fellow, he'll give you some description about the unit

Does the tripod legs move freely? I had a velbon tripod in the past and loved it and it had a locking mechanism where the bars touch the legs and the legs can be set at different angles, is this the same tripod?

bet he became more of an ambush hunter than goin after critter, what a cool picture