Coues 'n' Sheep

Way to go, Troy!!!! Great first deer... and great coues buck! You are quite the hunter for your age!!! Mike and Mike were at my house the other night talking about you, and I guess I never realized just how young you are!! I love seeing young kids having success in the field!!! My boy had his first great year of bow hunting at age 12.... Coues, Piggy, and an Antelope.... and man how it changed him as a hunter.... success breeds confidence in the field! You are off to the races!!! Congrat Young Fella!!!! Keep after it!!!! Way to Gooo!!!!!!!!

Great story and Fantastic Ram! Congrats!!! When and if I ever get to draw a NM Rocky tag I hope I can do as well!! Congrats again!!!

That is what you get for going hunting while the rest of us were at work!!!!! Great story.... That would be an awesome memory.... even better if you could have tacked his pelt to the barn wall!!! Yeah, I just don't understand why they don't allow archery deer and archery lion to open on the same day, not to mention bear and lion on the same day.... not uncomon to call in a lion while calling bears. AZGF... not thinkin' about how to best keep lion numbers down and deer numbers up!

Huskamaw Optics!!!!! Dispite the "Nay sayers".... those guys at BOTW are great to work with and they know what they are talking about! They send you a scope... you mount it.... you pick or determine your load.... you do the required shooting and send them the datathey request.... they send you the custom turret calibraited for that round of ammo for your gun.... all included in the price of the scope! You can call them at anytime with questions and Arron or one of the other guys are always ready to help, and if you decide to change ammo..... just do the requires shooting again.... send them the required data and they will send you another turret and as many turrets as you want for a reasonable $$$$ amount!! I Love this scope on my 300 Wby mag.... it makes it fun to shoot, and very precise. It is set up for the sub-1000 yard hunter.... not for a target/bench shooter like most of the other scopes out there. Oh, and they are.... or were still cheaper than all or most of the comparable scopes on the market. Great product.... they make it easy on the hunter with limited time, too! The glass is clear and bright, it comes factory equipt with a zero-stop, the side paralax is sooo precise at 400+ that you could actually use it as a range finder, and like I said the customer service has been great with those guys. Good Luck!

Well, I as very fortunate to get tape a Great buck for Bowhunter4life (mike) yesterday!!!! What a Deer Mike!!!! Congrats!! I also know that a friend of Mike's took a good buck as well....(post it up!!) And ol' Hunt'n coues (Troy) dropped the hammer on his second ever Coues Deer!! Considering that he had 5 rifle carp deer tags to fill at his house.... this was a great way to start the hunting season for him!!! ..... I'm gunna let the boys post their own pics and stories but since I know neither of them are at home, I atleast thought you all should know that there are some more bucks on the ground!

Now, Bill...... There is no way you can compare Pig to Bear! Bear is one of the best meats there is (if prepared right)..... I have never had "bad" bear meat, but it has always been pitted. My Deep Pit Bear is party favorite at Thanksgiving! I intend to try a spring pig that way this year, if I draw a tag.... if I can't make pig taste good that way then it will be Denmark meats for sausage!

Heck, it almost as fun talking about the story the day before....as it was to read it!!!! I knew "about" what he was going to write and I still almost fell on the floor laughing!!!!!

Friday was my Wife's first day ever archery deer hunting and sitting a ground blind.... She is a very confident and profitient rifle hunter with many critters under her belt. But she had no idea what a step she had taken picking up the stick and string for the first time just a month ago! About 8:45..... Two incredibly tall coues bucks come walking in to the dirt tank. The first to hit the waters edge is a Great buck that at first glance is easilly over 90" and the second a super tall fork with eyegards. (I had to look twice to make sure they were not mulies!) As the bigger buck dropped his head he was at 23-25 yds and my wife knew that.... as she drew her elbo was hitting my chair ...... I grabbed the chair to move it and the noise spooked the buck out to about 30-31 yds..... and the she did not account for how much he moved in her shot and missed low.... giving that buck an arrow "slap" to the bottom of his rib cage... After he ran out, the smaller buck came in and stood for ever at 15 yds but, we wnated to check the arrow for sign before we made any conclussions..... after the forky left and about 30 minutes of waiting, the examination of the arrow found it to be free of sign... a miss. Back into the blind and back to hunting.... 9:50 a 4-wheeler motors past.... At about 11:00 my wife starts getting restless... " nothing is coming in" and "she missed her one chance"... I tell her lets hold till noon and then go if she wants..... 11:30.... "Big Buck!" she whispers and The Fever was in her voice! The wide, heavy, mature buck walking straight at us drops his head to the water and she draws..... No shot.... "What do I do?" she says. "Well if you can thread it right between his shoulder blades..... but it is not a good shot..... it is up to you," I say. "Nope, I'm not comfortable with it," she grunts, "But I am getting tired of holding and am shaking real bad!" "Let down, can you let down?" I say...."Thuuu Wack!!!!!" The whole blind shakes! As she let down she hit the trigger sending the arrow off to the depths of the pond! Now she is a mess!! The buck is standing at 30yds wondering what the heck was that!!!! She nocks another arrow and I stop the buck at 40 and she sticks the arrow in the ground at his feet.... and he speeds away. Out the blind she goes.... Cussin' and a Swearin'..... " I suck at this!! I ain't doin' this any more!!! That was Pathetic, I Suck!!!! I can't believe that I just blew it on another Big A$$ Buck!!! That is Two.... I blew it on Two!!!!" ....... so this goes on for a while..... I of course, am just calmly collecting my things saying, "It is alright Honey".... and smiling.... Cuz in my opinion.... if you have never had a "Melt Down" while bow hunting you haven't hunted very much..... So we headed for the Ranger....... My buddy, Troy, was contacted by phone and he came up from his "Doe Blind" to the "Buck Blind" for the rest of the days hunt. By 4:10 PM he was calling me with a Buck on the ground!!! Congrats Buddy!!!! ..... In the mean time I spent the rest of the day consoling my wife about the "Madness" called bow hunting!!! She is very hooked on bow hunting, now after one day, but her confidence and Very bruised pride has kept her out of the blind since. She plans to get back in as soon as she is back to confidently shooting 3-4 in. groups at 30-40 yds. I am proud as heck of her.... but she just does not think her misses are anything to be proud of.... I say, "If your not making Mistakes you are not learning anything!" She had more opportunity at Big bucks in one day than most get in a whole season..... and she walked away with bag full of leasons on how to be a better bow hunter..... all on her first Ever bow hunting day!!! She has never been that close to a Coues deer while hunting and what a Rush that is! It was a Great Day of Hunting IMO!!!! She, too, is starting to understand that.....

I was wondering if there is a hunting story competion this year on CW.com???? If so I nominate this one to be the Winner!!!!! This is by far your Best Post EVER, Troy!!!! Again, Congrats on the Buck! I know how hard you have hunted these past few years!

I have never been able to figure out how to keep both eyes open!! I just keep the left one closed..... and make the best of it!

Dang!!!!

Dave, Sorry for your loss and for the loss that Bill's familly is suffering. My thoughts are with you all.

Would I be too simple minded if I mentioned........ 'No Brainer'......... or.......... 'Not good enough' Actually... I guess.... sometimes I'm right..... sometimes I'm wrong.... Really.... I'm not joking!

Holly Cow!!!! I frickin' love that last pic with all those does packed in there!!!!

Pretty well shot out... and deep.... cat claw.... Snakes..... lots of cats..... Screw that!! I'm going to unit 32!!!! More and bigger deer!!!!!! Just my $.02.......

That is a great buck!! Congrats!!!! Were you selfguided??? Congrats on a Fantastic deer!!!

HaHaHaHa!!!! Yes Denmark does a Great job!!!! I knew you would tell him that so that allowed me to be a Smart Apple!!!!

Dig yourself a pit..... build a fire....... when it is all coals.... drop the piggy in for 6-7 hrs..... pull fthe piggy out.... throw it away and Eat the Pit!!!!!!!!!

Just a couple of pics from the last 2 weeks on my camera..... These are just a couple that I thought were cool.... not the big stuff but cool pics anyhow. The camera was still on the tree and I got some lazy Rhino owners on there driving around the water and waving at me!!! Atleast they left the camera alone.... My buddy had a camera Ripped Off in 19A this week.

Geezze..... I think that buck is famous or some thing.... I swear I have a pic of that same buck on my phone from someone elses camera!!! Might be a different buck, but the right side is Identical!! How you get him Jeff.

Congrats, Devin & Jody!!!!!!! Chris has been telling me that you are Wicked Awesome on big Coues, Devin.... and you are sure proving it again with this Monster!!!!! Way to git-er-done in a huge way Jody... 45 yards.... spot & stalk!!!!! That is amazing!!! Congrats, congrats, CONGRATS!!!!!!! How about a step by step story... to gop with that buiser buck!!!!!

Whooooooo Hooooooo!!!! Way to go Boys!!!! What a Toad!!!!!

Replied to your PM, Dan.

Great story Jimbo!!! Great bull!! The pics, really show what a cool bull he is! Congrats again to Mr. Dunn!!!

So what do we call your rifle for short???? How bout....... Envy!!!! Sweet rig!!! Love the stock, my friend!! Enjoy!!