elkhunter

Shooterpar- It's me, Tyler, the fella you ate breakfast with at the cafeteria in the AM at NAU, I just spent 6 months up in Alaska last year working for NSRAA as a fish biologist and got to do some work on commerical fishin rigs, mostly purse seining. I spent quite some time down in Sycamore canyon during shed hunting season and water wasn't that hard to find, there were often pools of water down there after the snow has melted and lasted as long as April. I picked up some dandy elk sheds at the bottom of sycamore canyon, it would be a great idea if you hit it up at that time right when bulls are dropping and you'll have plenty of water at the bottom, beware of warm days..sycamore canyon'll flood up like a MOTHER!

Great buck! Those long g3's are not common with coues, congrats

Just some more detailed info, the pistol was lost during scouting on Friday at the lower hills north of Cerro Colorados about 3/4 mile from the road, thanks for your help fellas!

Hey guys, I managed to lose my pistol when helping my sister's hunt, it's a Ruger GP100 .357 mag with 5 rounds of reload shells, I left it on a hillside and forgot to put it back in my backpack, turns out someone else got to the spot and picked it up before I was able to realize I left my gun there, I know some of you fellas were hunting that unit, thanks for the help!

many great bucks in the area, rarely see illegal traffic, walk a mile from the roads and you'll find bucks, you'll never see em under half mile from roads

Usually when you find Big horn sheep then you'll find the bucks in 6A, you're in the right area, we pulled a 104 where you went scouting

Dillion send me a pm, I know how to help you and i've helped others through this forum on 35A

I had a neighbor when I was growing up in Elgin and he hit a black bear out off of Rain Valley Ranch area while traveling down the highway just west of Whetstone, they're around, not too common though

I work based out of Elk City, ID, not too many big bulls around here but the success rate is doggone high. The bulls here come in easily to calls and the option is open for using either a rifle or bow, most bulls go around 250-300, a few made it bigger than that range. It's thick country like Hannagan Meadows in 27 but easy draw and good hunting. Just an FYI on that area

Since this topic has risen up on another post, thought I would make my own, I popped the question on a nice beautiful montana cowgirl a week ago and "whattyaknow" she said **** yes! I thought I'd post this on the coues biology section because this lady will be putting a biological impact on the buck population...starting off with spikes...forkhorns...farther down the road maybe a whopper buck? After this year's run of working in Idaho I decided to stop working out of state. I'm fed up with working in Alaska and Idaho and I am finally moving back to Arizona for good, thus more time for coues scouting. Here's a picture of my Fiance (hard to get used to that term!) and I We'll be gettin married in Sierra Vista on May 29th...cheers!

You'll probably sell the truck faster if you showed your archery buck from this year!

Amanda- it's true, when I started working in Idaho I met me a nice montana girl and popped the question about a week ago, soon we'll be moving to AZ and the wedding day oughta be next summer sometimes in May

COUESAZ- I don't know why I was reading this section but while reading your post I almost couldnt believe there was another sleeveless javi/coues killing machine in Arizona until I realized...oh...that's me!

I found me the same thing this past Dec, it sure gets creepy just because you never think you'd find anything like it

It's happened before with javelina tags, my sister and roomate and a friend put in for a hunt that had 3 leftover tags, 2 of em got the last two and my friend got the one tag 301 out of 300 tags total, we figured since they recieved apps at the same time they'll hand out one or two extras

My turn! Personal best are 109 3/8 and 102 flat, back in 2006 I thought I was going to die without a buck over 100' I am sure many of you feel the same, just a little hard work, spit and blood helps. 109 3/8 102 Comparison of racks! Best memory was being able to harvest a buck in October which I previously thought was impossible and to pull a double with my old man in the middle of no where

very nice, no more squinting

Happy Birthday Christian, hope you don't remember it tomorrow

More Illegals = less hunters = better chance at a trophy buck

cant believe I never saw this topic, here's my best picture of a bedded buck..I got quite a few but none of em match up to this one mostly because I was able to find him during a hunt!

6A has to have the highest density of pigs in the state along with the largest herds, your son should do great!

Great job

Congrats on a nice buck, I can see that you're right in my backyard, I was just out there today lookin around, that's really a great buck, good job

My family and I been out hunting pretty much since the start of the season. This year's pretty rough with the 3-4ft tall grass making it hard to find pigs. I will skip the first few days of hunting for my sister to write up about. With my dad at work today, I headed out even though the weather was gonna be crappy...rain. Right in on about 8am I located a herd I had scouted and was on em. I got up to where I last saw them but they had moved a bit and were below and behind me....downwind, tried to walk right at em for a shot but at 14 yds they winded me as expected. Later on the day ohh say about 1'0 clock I located a herd, possibly a herd I have never seen before (always love finding new herds where I grew up). I cut the 3/4 mile distance and perched on a ridge 200 yds above em. I could not come up with a game plan, they were in a rough spot and the wind would not let me get close quietly. Luckily they went down to the wash and bedded down. I made my way to 21 yards from the tree they bedded under. I sat on my knees for 3 hours (streching my legs and foot once in a while, plus I had to pee real bad so that made it difficult), right about 5'0 clock they got up and next thing you know I had an 8 yard shot, pig was facing me slightly quartering, arrow went in on the front shoulder and exit out the stomach, he did a 5 yard death run and expired. Yes I did wear camo this time, I had to...it was pretty cold out there

Thanks for the comments guys, sometimes I feel they should be able to see me but once you don't move....they don't have a clue Case- I used slicks this time, those wac-ems seem to fall apart when I shoot past 35 yards, they get loose and a blade will fall off so I switched to a version of locked blades