Coues 'n' Sheep

+1!!!

Hahaha, yeah greaty job Stuffy! The picture don't help any from any angle. There is over 30" of mass, he is just a toad. 5X5. Just a super buck! Simply splendid. 2008 has been a great year for paps and I. Thanks for the comments. -Jeremy- I thought he was 6 points on one side?? And Stuffy didn't take the pics... Bobby did! Either way, it is your Dad's best buck and I couldn't be happier for him!!! Glad he got that guy on the ground before anyone else did!

Outstanding buck!!! Got love an inline typical like that!!!

Congrat on breaking a 100!!!! Sweeeet Buck, man!!!

Great buck! Congrats!

HaHa!! Now that you point it out..... I do see the likeness! Congrats on a real nice buck, Goodies!

+1!!!! Glad you got her straight, Kevin!

Welcome aboard, Johnny!!! Glad you made it!! Good luck on Thursday morning, Man!!!!

Buzzbait.... That is one helluva buck!!! My boy saw that in in velvet within a 3/4 mile of where Stuffy and Tigger found him! Way to get it done an a Great buck!!! Guys,the pics do not do this buck justice. This bucks Beams, Mass and Spread are at or just over 90"!!! ... and yes his points are short but he has a Bunch of them! And we can all give the camera guy crap for a while ..... cuz the pics Do Not show what a great buck this is! Congrats, John!!!!!!

Guess you figured out how to sign up.... finally! Hope you guys smoke a few Monsters mid-month!!! Glad you called the other day... Me and Jason are planning on you the end of the month! Jason says you are too chicken to brave the cold..... you better prove him wrong, Jake!!!! Later, Bud!

Way to go, Houston!!!! Helluva buck!!! Hey, man.... what unit did you kill that bad boy?????

Congrats, Jed! That is a great late archery bull!!!

Happy B-Day!!!!! .....You old Fart!!!!! Have a great day and don't start those 14 oz. curls, too early!

Smart guy! Let the wife "find" the side rack, so that she stays motivated to go to the woods with ya! I like the way you're thinkin'!!! Congrats on the find!

Helluva Buck! Congrats!

Awesome! Thanks for sharing! ...... and it looks like you didn't even need a "Golden Ticket"!

A huge congrats to you both!

Great pic, Tony! And Merry Christmas!

Jim, I quoted and "+1'ed", your post on that other thread..... and I am going to do the same now. Well put and well said, on both occasions! I think that we should not applaud a fellow hunter or give him an, "Awwwww....... I'm soo sorry for your mis-fortune." If it was bad choices that made the "wreck" happen.... Maybe the guy was very practiced at that distance, but the post sounded like the shots were fired on a "Wing and a Prayer"..... and if the guy who post truely was a very well practiced shooter, wouldn't we expect him to come back with some clarification to his previous post.... something that might make us all re-think or recant our responses???? We have all made mistakes in the field, and as Jim mentioned, "bad things can happen even to the most prepared and skilled hunter...." No one is perfect, but if that guy was expecting an "Atta Boy" Or a "Ohhh.... It's okay..." for making poor choices then I venture to think he should have told the story to his Mother, instead of us.

Way to go, Josh!! Love how you managed to drive everyone Nuts...... Congrats on the great bucks! Oh, yeah..... that sure looked like some fantastic country you hunted down there!!!! BTW.....Was Jake down there with Jim this year??

+1!!!!! I, too, have made an extra effort to say " Merry Christmas" this year in support of what this Holliday is all about!! Merry Christmas Everyone! .... and a Happy New Year!

I have been wanting to post this for a while, but have been slackin'.... I know it is not coues, but bone is bone... Right? It all started on Thanksgiving Day….. We all gathered around my big screen TV looking at video of bulls that my son, Colton, or I had videoed in the previous couple of weeks. Colton had found and videoed the same Thumper bull two weeks running in my nephew’s unit. And I had been watching a dandy bull myself in a unit that my hunters, Justin and his Grandpa (Bill) had tags. Our hopes were high and we were stoked to have a pair of “plan A” bulls like these two Jokers! As soon as the T-day meal was over Colton and my Bro-in-law (Larry) headed for their spike camp with their hunter, Larry’s son, Clayton. And lucky for me the bull we, (Justin, Bill, and I) were going to hunt was only about 45 min. from my house so we would hunt from home! Opening morning was abound with anticipation… and lots o’ fog!!! Neither group of hunters could find their bulls…. The elk were bedded by the time the fog lifted and the wait continued…. Both groups saw and passed on other bulls as the day progressed… but both boys were willing to wait. That evening my big guy showed himself, but was too far to try a stalk before dark so we waited and watched. Colton’s Thumper was a no show… but he and Larry knew the big guy was there…. somewhere. Day 2… By 8:30 am Justin had my big bull in his rifle scope at 185 yds broadside.... Justin was not comfortable with the shot and the bull bedded. We wait… As we waited… and waited… and waited…. I got Text messages from Larry. the boys are sitting on him 400 yds, bedded! Colton and Clayton had been playing cat & mouse with “ol’ Handle Bars” all morning and now Clayton had him in the cross-hairs of “the Tradition” and she was dialed at 400!!! Colton even got video of the bedded bull through my Huskemaw scope as Clayton sat behind the gun!!!! In my mind it was a done deal….. after all Clayton was sitting next to the Golden Ticket! …..And we were still waiting…… at like 1:40 pm, I get another Text from Larry…. BBD!!!! Clayton folded the bull at 400 yards! Larry said it was crazy to watch from over a 1000 yds away!! The bull just collapsed and then there was a BOOOOM-WHAACK! Whoo Hooo…. they worked their tails off for that bull and got to ground check him!!! Clayton, Larry, and Colton got it done in a HUGE way!! Clayton’s first bull and a whopping 368” Gross with over 10” broke off!!! His Handle Bar beams are 53+ and 55+ and Mass to die for!!!! Way To Go, Clayton!!!! Amazing Bull! Day2… continued…. Our bull never shows from the thicket…. We had a long and dark hike out of there without the bull…… Day 4… I find my bull again! Justin and Bill had to run home to Phoenix that day and all I could do was watch the ol’ boy…… I called Colton- “I need you and my gun (the Tradition) if we are going to get this bull killed tomorrow.” His reply- “I’m There!!!” Day 5… I felt that I knew where the bull would be but I needed Colton (the Golden Ticket) to watch the “back door” in case the bull was not where I had expected. At day light Justin and I had a mile plus of ground behind us and were perched on a rock outcrop, looking. Bingo!! There he was at 800 yds!! Justin and I made a move… 700….. 600….. 550…..525…. 500….. and the bulls were showing signs of hearing our progress through the 8'-10’ tall brush. Colton could see us but the bull was hidden from him in the cut below, and it was a solid wall of brush in front of us. At 500 I pulled out my Leatherman and cut a hole in the brush so that Justin could shoot through, as the bull started moving away up the other side of the cut below us. We dialed up 500 and Justin put it on him… and….. Missed! The bull Froze… and then Justin hammered him twice as fast as he could run the action on my ol’ 300 Wby….. Mortally hit twice the bull covered 10-15yds downhill before he crashed! And the Text went off my phone as fast as I could type: BBD @500!!! Whoo Hoo!!!! We got-r-done, too!!!!! Another well deserved bull! And my Golden Ticket was with me! Justin and I had pictures done and all the meat hung in the shade before Colton and his buddy Chris could even get to us. We shot the bull at 8:30 am and got back to my truck with the first load at 7:00 pm! Justin’s Bull grosses 344” with over 16” broke off! Another Fantastic 1st Bull!!! For all you Antler Junkies the right horn on this bull scores 170” and has 4+ broke off the 3rd! Well the first hunt was over and our group had scored! Two bulls whose combined gross was over 710”!!!! Colton still had one hunt to go!!! Colton’s other Dad, Mark, had the 2nd hunt in the same unit that Colton, Larry, & Clayton had hunted, so back to the “spike camp” they went….. They were looking for a couple of other Big Bulls that were in the area, but severely sloppy hunting pleasure in the final days of the first hunt left the big guys nowhere to be found… Saturday night I tried to lend a hand by over-nighting into a different glassing point hoping to turn up something they could not see from the other side….. Nada…. Where were the Big Bulls?? They stayed after it…. On Monday afternoon, Mark decided that he really liked a 6x7 that he and Colton had been watching all day and the stalk was on! They looped around and came out on a rock outcropping….. Mark Hammered his bull three times in a row at over 500 yds, all fatal shots! Then the work began! They got the first load back to camp that night and packed the rest at first light. What a great hunt! And Mark had the same Golden Ticket that the other two hunters had!!! I think that almost guaranteed him a good bull!!! Marks bull scores 330” Gross and has a ton of mass, with only a few inches broke off. Another great late hunt bull!! All in all… our little group was very blessed with three great hunts and three great bulls! A ton of time and effort was put into finding and harvesting these bulls. And for Colton, what an outstanding way to spend the first 2 weeks of December…. ground checking 1042 inches of bone with family and friends!!! He truly is the Golden Ticket of the late elk hunts!!! I really have to send a Huge Congrats to the handfull of people that were involved with these hunts! A fantastic time had by all, among Family & Friends and 3 Great bulls to go with them!!! NOTE: All these bulls were taken without the aid of radios, airplanes, or other “unethical” methods. You don’t need any of that when you have the Golden Ticket!!!

Congrats on the Badger!

+1!!!!!

Great story! Congrats on a well executed Double!!!