Coues79

Apps. down for the Dec. Coues Hunt? Man, that would be pretty sweet. I can see Mr. 125" in my sights right now.

I could look at pictures from up there all day long. I'm enjoying getting to see some pic's of your time up there. I agree. Keep them coming!

Just checked my online CC acct. and it has posted as well. Weird thing is, my available credit increased from what it was. Don't know whats up with that but oh well. I printed a copy of the transaction just incase there is a question that arises.

I have thought the same thing too, but, when you look at it, there are over 1400 registered members on CWT.com now. That's a lot of opportunity for people to draw tags or know someone who drew a tag. It looks like after 4 years of putting himself, his wife and his kids in, my brother will finally be able to give his daughters a chance to go elk hunting. Don't know when or where yet but who cares. It was getting pretty old for him to have to tell his girls that they didn't get drawn AGAIN. They had two hits on Wednesday. I don't know if they have had any more since then.

Way cool!! It's good to see those killin' machines hit the dirt. Congratulations.

I had a chance to thank Amanda at the expo for the prizes that my wife recieved. The wife was all pumped up about the whole contest. It was very cool to see her get so excited over something that I was able to introduce her to. Thank you Red Rabbit for getting everything taken care of. Thank you again Amanda too.

Looks like it will be next week. maybe. My card says that the transaction has been charged and approved. It will post in around 5 business days from Wednesday. Wonder when they are gonna start loading results into the database?

I'm saying Wednesday the 21st, 2:30 p.m. That'll give them time to reboot the system before closing time. Doesn't it always seem to crash at least once right when they post results?

Well just thought I'd check the good news from everyone one last time before heading off to bed. Looks like this should be a great fall for a lot of folks. I just called one last time to the CC company and still only one hit. Keeping the fingers crossed. A little off topic but I was down at San Carlos fishin for crappie today. It was pretty dang slow. Only caught 5 fish between the two of us. We fished for 8 hours too. Dang it. Don't know what was going on. With all of this nice warm weather I figured we'd tear it up. Oh well, it was fun to be out of the city and with some good company anyways.

Wow. An elk/ob-gyn certificated person. Now around these parts, that might actually have to become a new profession!! I thank you for the wishes I am very much excited about the little one. There are a few more important things than hunting and starting a family is definitely one of them.

I only had two bonus points. My father had 4. Since my wife and I are expecting in early October, I opted to again put in for a cow tag. I would imagine that hunt was the hit, since I put my dad in for 1 and 27 Early Bull. I've already asked the wife if I can go on that hunt if my old man draws it. She threw a big time "NO". FYI, if you're expecting right around a hunt, don't expect good news about being able to go. Probably won't happen. Oh yeah, just to let anyone know who might read this, I would definitely not miss a birth of my child. That comes first, but man, how hard would it be to pass up a chance to go on an early bull hunt in unit 1 or 27? After rereading this, man I hope my wife doesn't get on here and read it. I'll be in trouble.

$114.00 transaction from a phone in call from the AZGFD. From what the dude said, it was around 3:00 pm this afternoon. It's either my father or I. It's still real early on in the processing. I imagine they will keep hitting for a while. I still have one more application floating around so hopefully there is more good news to come. There's no telling how they are doing things. It may be alphabetical, it may be by hunt number, it may go antelope first, then elk, elk then antelope, who knows. I wouldn't worry about how they are calling. Just keep checking or wait until they are posted. Good Luck for everyone. Hope it all works out.

I second that. I can't wait for the day to get out of here too. As a matter of fact, my wife and I are considering Snowflake/Taylor as well. Good luck on the move.

RR, Thank you for taking the time and effort to put together such a great showcase of some beautiful bucks and some great memories. I know my wife will be excited. It puts a real good taste of hunting in someones mind when they see others take joy in their experiences. Not to take anything away from any other pictures, but I think the best picture on here is of Howard's (I believe coueselk) girl taking that great buck. What an awesome sight to see youth out in the field. Congratulations to everyone on a successful year.

That is an amazing coues deer. What a beautiful and amazing buck. Double Congratulations for taking such an awesome buck. No doubt about it, that's one of the biggest bucks I have ever laid my eyes on.

Nice Friggin buck man. That thing looks to be awesome.

Looks from your hat, you know a pretty good taxidermist. I assume Mr. Jensen? Will he be doing work on this big boy?

Nice buck Ernesto! You look like you're pretty stoked about him! I would be too. Great deer.

Wow! pretty heated topic. Let's hope the men that are in the running will do a good job.

Low deer numbers? Maybe a sign that the year to come may be a dry year not capable of supporting a lot of deer? I've been hearing the rut has been real slow too. It's weird because when my wife took her buck on the 29th of Dec., I saw a ton of activity. Bucks all over does. But then it just slowed down. Don't know. Maybe they're catchin' on that we'll slay em' if we see em'.

SWEET BUCK Man!!! Congratulations!!! He's a heck of a bowkill. He's a heck of any kind of kill.

What didn't work out for you? What didn't turn out? Are you needing help skinning the head out, or boiling the skull or what? -I always skin the head from between the ears, going forward to the nose. -A good sharp knife makes it real easy to do. -Once you get to the nose, just start skinning one side all the way down to the jaw. -Then do the other side. -Once you get to the bottom jaw, skin the lower part of the jaw, back towards the neck. -After that, or right at the beginning, (either way is fine) take a knife and skin as close as you can to the base of the antler to the skull. An exacto knife works really well in this thick skinned area. -Once the hide is off, take it to the pot. -Have a good pot that will allow the antlers to rest on the side, with the full skull immersed in water. Try and not to put the antlers in the water for too long. The water can take off some of the natural color that has been rubbed on the antlers. Let it boil for a couple of hours, repleneshing the water once it boils down below the top part of the skull. -Take it out and clean it as much as you can with a knife or some kind of scraper. -Pull the lower jaw off -Refresh the water with clean water -Repeat until you are able to get all of the meat and matter inside of the skull out. I put a little bit of salt inside the brain cavity just to help with the smell. Sometimes I am left with a faint odor a couple days later. -If any bones fall off, keep track of where they came from and you can easily super glue them back together. Hope this helps

Nice buck man. Congratulations.

My wife had the fortune of taking a buck on the 29th. It was the day after the storm. I saw a lot of deer and a lot of rutting activity. 3 nice bucks were tending does, doing the lip curl and the whole nine yards. The weekend before, there was nothing doin' in that same area for whitetail. We did see a nice mule deer with a decent herd of does. It sounds to me like it just must be spotty still.

Man that is awesome to arrow a bobcat. Not too many people can say that they have done that. Way to go!!