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i was flipping through some photos i have taken over the last few years and i found this one. this buck literaly let me walk right up to him and snap a few photos. this is one of the better ones

nice! i love the pic with that coues buck stuffed in behind those elk sheds!

ya i agree, it seems like they know when your hunting or not.

great video! what kind of cameras do you use?

wow you do some exceptional work! if i'm ever in the area do you mind if i stop by and take a look at your work? i have a part time taxidermy business in new mexico and always like looking at other folk's work.

photos of the sheep please

iv got a pair of 15x50 vipers that i could let go of. pm or txt me 575-590-2082

what is the diameter at the muzzle?

I have a question that some of you guys might be able to answer. I have an old set of antlers that an older gentleman gave me, and i would like to know for sure if they are coues or not. he told me it was killed in new mexico about 20 years ago. but im not convinced that they are coues antlers. is there any way i could send them in to someone and get dna results to tell me for sure. it would be worth it to me because they score 152" .

i live in silver city just north of there. Im in if someone wants to go with me.

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here is a picture kinda crappy its from a phone

thanks for the info.

I was talking with a buddy of mine today that is a mule deer fanatic. and the discussion came up what makes me coues deer crazy. he thinks that im stupid that i chase these little deer around all year taking pictures, setting up trail cameras, taking video and whatever else i can do to find that big buck. He really thinks im stupid that i didnt go on my elk hunt this year just to scout for coues deer. when he asked me the question why am i so crazy about these deer i couldnt really come up with a logical answer i just told him "i got bitten by the bug". i thought this would make a good post to see what everyone elses answers were. So..What makes you guys as crazy as i am?

good way to think about it

Nice deer..I can't wait to start hunting with my boys

Regardless of the point argument that is an awesome deer!!!

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Nice deer Congrats Tommy!

Still got the camo.?

I beg to differ, even if your were to buy a used action lets say at $350.00. I have a gunsmith true my actions for $300.00 a piece. so all in all your into a trued remington action for 650.

My suggestion would be get a gun built, get a remington 700 action send it to a gunsmith and have him blueprint the action and put a good quality barrel on like shilen, kreiger, or hart. then get a good rigid stock like hs precision, or manners. this set up with shoot 1/4Moa. Now for caliber i like the 6.5mm to 7mm. because of the high ballistic coefficient of the bullet. Right now i shoot a 6.5 creedmoor, 6.5X284lapua, and a 7mm rem mag. and all of them are capable of shots over 1000. Also long range shooting takes a lot of trigger time and knowing your gun, because, after all the gun cannot shoot itself.

I havnt been out to check my cameras for a while and was able to check them this morning. to my surprise this little guy showed up a few times. what do you guys think he will score?

i havn't personally had this happen to me but, i have talked to many hunters that did, my brother shot a bull a couple years ago and he said it was a perfect shot and we never could find much blood at all just a few drops at first we looked for him for 2 days and never found him, and like others said its a sick feeling. iv heard people make the suggestion that if a bull is hit a little high that it takes a lot of blood to fill the chest cavity up and start coming out of the wound and during that time you lose the blood trail. or the animal dies before the cavity fills up enough to trail. just keep your head up it sounds like you tryed your best there are a lot of people out there that would have given up long before you did. I talked to one guy this year and he said he shot three bulls and lost them all!! that made me sick to hear that, I asked him how long did you look for them, and his answer was 20 minutes! It was pretty hard to keep my mouth shut after he told me that.

got an 87 sami 6" spoa lift with 33x12.5, custom roll cage, 6.5-1 transfercase reduction, sweet little hunting rig.