JACK

Photoshop will do wonders for you buddy...we will fixem up real nice

Well if anyone found it I am glad it was you Ernesto...good to see you posting again and can't wait to post your dance moves...and the only reason its two foot off the ground is that I have a deer foot fetish and was trying to get some great hoof shots...Ya caught me!!

With nine days of hard hunting under our belts and two days left we had not found a buck I wanted to shoot...Our "honey holes" produced a number of does, a few little bucks, no rutting, three lions and no big bucks...to say the least we were frustrated and a little disappointed...There have been several discussions on here about "secret spots" and "sharing info" and all that stuff and on one of them someone said something about sharing all coming back to you well he was right! I taken helped and shared more info with people on their hunts this year way more than I ever have in the past...and it all came back to me! On Friday we meet "Whitey" (azcathunter) then again on Monday when he came to camp to show us the pig of a buck he smoked...I still think he is bigger than 105"...After he told us his story and we told him ours he said he gave us a "tip" where had been seeing several 90"-95" buck rutting pretty hard...So Tuesday morning found Aaron, Gary, and I glassing new country with a new sense of hope. As the sun started to light up the horizon I glassed up a buck that looked like a shooter with a doe about a mile away in an oak filled canyon but soon they were out of sight...we glassed around for about an hour and they showed back up, he looked like he had some extra points and the decission was made to go after him...Aaron was going to keep track of them while me and Gary made the stalk. We have a deal whoever finds them gets to shoot them...pretty sef explanitory...so we made a deal when we get over ther if he is bigeer than 110" I would shoot him and anything else Gary would shoot...off we went all the way down then all the way back up and up and up and finally we were to the rock out cropping where we thought we would be able to see the whole basin. We get all set up and find a doe right away...perfect they were still there...about a half hour goes by and we see two little bucks bedded below us but still no big guy...then all the sudden Gary say THERE HE IS!...WHERE? I couldn't see him...IN THAT OPENING RIGHT THERE! CLOSE! HE IS HUGE SHOOT HIM! Gary said...To my surprise he was 180 yards right below us and he was on a mission not running but seemed like he wanted to get out of there...I was on him...just looked to make sure it wasn't the two point and BOOM! down he goes tumbling down the mountain. It happened so fast land we just looked at each other like what the heck just happened...We were high fiving and laughing we knew he was good but how good? We didn't have time to really get a good look at him. We get over to him and find a beautiful 4x4...and to be perfectly honest I was a little bummed...not because he wasn't big enough for me but...I kinda broke the deal and felt bad because I should have let Gary to shoot him...everything just happened so quick and we both got caught up in the craziness and excitement of the monent! Guess if I ever lose that "buck fever"and don't get up "in the moment" I will quit hunting...We had a great hunt Aaron ended up taking an 80" buck and My buck ended up grossing 102.4 and was a great way to end a great year! Again I just want to thank "Whitey" for the tip! Seems like there is very little commrodery among hunters these days and its good to know there are still guys out there that will hang out, share stories, information and just BS around the campfire with perfect strangers...There have been alot of great stories! Congrats to everyone who had a successful hunt and/or just got to be "out there" this year...good luck in 2009 Jack Luffy

Congrats on two great bucks

Big enough and 5/8"?...Who cares that thing is freakin awsome!!

Well I think we may need to officialy change the name of this website to: CouesWhitetailandLions.com Another coues hunter will hunt no longer.... Headed down to the secret unit 36C Friday morning...saw a coueswhitetail.com sticker on the way down (White Ford had a muley crazy sticker too) so it was going to have be a good day...right? Hiked in about two and half miles to "my spot" Glassed up twenty or so deer...it was around 11:00 I got up streched my legs, watered a tree and was thinking about taking a little nap when I saw this old gal crusing down below me. Put the glasses on her WOW they always look HUGE with that orange and white glow...I am super excited and shaking pretty bad as I fumble around with everything I own finally get set up and range her 407. She climbs up on a rock and stands there...perfect!...except there is an ocotillo I have to shoot through...I pick an opening and BOOM! Felines are pretty acrobatic when you hit them...she flips off the rock runs about forty yards and lays down under a mesquite. I can see alot of blood but she is still up...BOOM! This time it sounds like i hit a watermelon WHOOP! It was a done deal! I got my first lion She was standing on the rock on the right and I shot from the ridge in the backround The first shot ended up hitting two ocotillo branches...good thing I shoot a big gun and the Berger still had enough left. It was a little far back and would have been fatal and the second just sped up the process a bit. And I am no expert but to me it looks like she used her teeth way too much when they were new!...I am curious to see how old she is when I check her in. She was in pretty poor shape ribs and backbone were visable and eyes were kinda cloudy...probably did her a favor So I mess around take a bunch of pictures get her skinned out all that good stuff. Then head out and figured I would take it slow and kinda still hunt back to the truck. End up seeing like ten more does and some javelinas but the sun is down and still I have a pretty good hike to the truck. Just as I stand up to leave a pack of coyotes start yipping down below me...I couldn't resist I heard them callin all day. I dig out my call get set up blow on it for about thirty second and four of them come boiling up out of the wash. Two go behind a little hill and two stop at the bottom of the hill around 200 yards...BOOM!...dust flies coyote takes off...dang it I missed...the other one crosses a wash and is at a slow trot BOOM! WHOOP! no doubt about that one. Head down to check him out and decide to look around where I shot the first one...yeah blood everywhere...follow the blood and the two coyotes are laying about thiry yards apart! It was awsome kinda felt like a one man wrecking crew :lol Look triplets..who knew! Wait I am not finished yet...Friday night I meet up with my buddy Aaron (MARV). We drink a cowboy soda pop tell stories and check out my lion. And now he feels left out and wants one too. We joke around about how cool it would be to kill two lions in one weekend...Well that almost happened! Saturday morning we get to where we are going to glass...start glassing and literally I put the glasses up pan over and there is another lion!...are you freakin kidding me! I show Aaron he gets set up and I take a few pictures through the binos...We range him 1017 yards...yikes...turn the scope up 15 minutes BOOM...hits 6 or 8" over his back and out of sight he goes...we almost had a double! Ended up seeing around thirty deer it was a good day and great weekend. Here is a pic of the second lion ...and hopfully we catch back up with this lion and a couple big ol bucks after Christmas!!

Congrats on a great hunt and three really cool looking bucks!

Great bunch of bulls...Hmm but I don't know why you would want to hang out with that Mark feller...I'm totally kidding! Congrats guys

That's friggin weird bro Hows it weird!?!? Don't worry Casey it's not weird...I am with you on this one! It is proper etiqute and good luck to place the "stuff" on your right boot and kick em east and try to get them to hang up in something...tree, bush, cactus, whatever dosent matter!

We could start a whole new thread...but I just started shooting the Bergers this year. A buddy shot his deer with my gun, my lion and those coyotes are all that I have seen shot with Bergers and no problems so far...knock on wood As with any bullets performance shot placement is probably most important...fluke things can happen and if you dont hit any bones who knows...I would like to a pic of the bullet though! and I like your style on the free tag deal

It sure seems like there have been alot of lions taken or seen this year...dont know if it is more publsized by these forums or there are just more lions...either way I like it!

We shoot 300 RUMs sighted in 3" high at 100 yards and with the Bergers they are pretty dang flat

Here are a few more pictures where you can see how skinny she was...ribs backbone shoulder blades were pretty visable and alot of loose skin...I am sure she had tasted her fair share of deer meat over the years but it looks like it may had been a while...She is around 7 1/2' nose to tail and she MAYBE weighted 80lbs at the very most...

I didn't take any wound pictures I am very happy with the Bergers so far. I am shooting 185s out of my 300 RUM...Can't say how much hittin the ocotillos affected the bullet impact or performance but it nearly severed the hind get away stick when it hit her...it was just hangin on by a one inch piece of skin and the second shot hit her in the spine and never exited...the bottom coyote wasn't too bad just in and out but the top one was a mess to say the least....they have performed well for me so far! no complaints

WOW!! Ok...ready...this is really funny...NEWS FLASH!...with the exception of most trailcam pictures...The big bucks and bulls in those photos...WELL...THEY'RE ALREADY DEAD FOLKS!! I'll be damned if I am going to go looking for something thats already dead! and last time I check mother nature isn't using cloning as a means of reproduction...So who cares? Every unit, every mountain range has areas with better genetics, higher populations, less pressure, more water, fewer predators, shorter fences, greener grass...but hunt any one area long enough and you will see "your honey hole" change from year to year...nothing stays the same forever...Besides that if someone really really wanted to know I think you can buy a copy of the draw results at your local Game and Fish Department...or is that a secret too So asking or saying what unit you hunted in seems pretty harmless. Hunting coues makes you a liar just by association...I doubt that the juicy details of most hunts are retold 100% accurately anyhow...take it all with a grain of salt

They seem to work on the TV shows...of course the deer populations and terrain are diffrent than here. So I don't know if they will work...but I bought a rattle bag and a buck roar gunna give her a whirl this weekend...

Heres a couple

Headed down Thursday...haven't been down there since Aug. but things looked great to me feed and water everywhere!Should make for a less stressed healhty herd! IMO these deer are creatures of habit and even though they have more opptions now they should be in the same general areas. Good Luck!

+1!!!! +2!! And although I am only in my late twenty's and have no tats (but dont worry I still have time) I do think it is great fun to rattle the tin, giggle nuts, and clear out the surounding benches...always seem to get the best reactions after the first shot!

Yup thats him!

Again great pics!

That things cool lookin! congrats!

THE DISCLAIMER: Warning due to the diffrences of opinions, humor level, morals, values, sex , ideas, ethics, religion, and/or beliefs the following pictures and story maybe not sutible for some viewers. For the record this antelope was harvested on state land in the state of Arizona on the morning of September fifth, two thousand and eight at 7:13 a.m. mountain time, with the use of a muzzleloading rifle, shooting a optically sighted, 270 grain .50 cal heat seeking, rapidly expanding, platmium coated bullet, propeled by 130 grains of a substence known by the state of California to cause cancer death and air pollution. Motorized vehicals, video cameras, blow up antelope dolls, coffee, high powered optics, radios, breakfast burriots, water, cellurized phones, and snicker bars may have been present and/or used durning this hunt. And althought this was a God or Mother Nature or OSHA or...whatever...approved and designed set there was an animal harmed prior to the taking of a few of these pictures... Long story short, after the excitement of getting drawn four months later and countless hours of scouting...I woke up Thursday morning to go scout around one more time...and at about seven a.m. I found this guy and seventeen of his girlfriends... ...and at seven p.m. twelve hours later when it was to dark to see anymore I quit watchin him and couldn't wait til dawn! Morning finally came, dawn broke and I found myself 250 yards away from the herd. I knew this buck was super aggressive, watching him they day before he ran off anything that wasn't an antelope doe, little bucks, coyotes, deer, it didn't matter to him he didn't want them around. So I popped up my decoy and got ready...and nothing...I got his attention but he wasn't intersted and the herd feed off. I ran out of cover so i backed out, looped around and tried to get in front of them. I came up over a little rise and I could see a couple of the does 150 yards and the buck was bringing up the rear but never offered a good shot. I back off again and made another loop. The herd was coming through a little saddle about 120 yards as i peeked over the bear grass and a couple of does spotted me. I knew the buck was behind them so I quickly sat down and tried to find a opening to shoot through. All of the sudden I see the buck and he is RUNNING!...FASSSTT!...RIGHT AT ME! I had bearly enough time to get my gun cocked and shouldered and he was ON TOP OF ME! All I could see was hair, shoulder, brown, white...BOOM! SMOKE...Everything happened so fast it was unreal...did I miss? did I hit him? I jumped up to see through the smoke and saw the blood behind the shoulder and just let out a big woohoo...he went another couple strides and pilled up! It was one of the coolest hunts ever! I waited fourteen years to hunt a crazy suicidal antelope for an hour...it was worth the wait! Thanks for the help Dad!

He breaks bones too? Guess he's a chip off the ol block eh! Congrats on the first goat!

Great story! Awsome pics! I know its frustrating when another hunter shoots a buck you've been watching I've had I happen on two deer hunts...way to hang in there and tag a great buck!