Coues 'n' Sheep

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A3 Trophy Hunts No one outfit in AZ put more Giant bulls in the salt than A3.... and that includes in central AZ. The year around hard work and dedication by Team members creates a family style network that is impossible to beat. Check them out... ALL the bulls on this flier were taken in 2013!!! Hard to substitute hard work!!

They were bought new less than a Year ago... and in new condition.

Hmmmm.... so if government resources or government dollars are utilized for "Data Collection" it is "Progress!"... If an innovative individual is willing to dump those same resources and dollars into "data collection" it is a perversion? I like it! Get the stake, rope, and starter fluid! We gotta burn these SOB's at the Stake and stamp this $h!T out before we have another epidemic like baiting!!! Bah Hahahahaha.... Are you guys Kidding me!!!??? I am calling BS on this even being productive enough, unless you just love flying lil' remote control toys in the first place.... LOL!!! And once again we are indeed pointing fingers (again), the dividing & conquering continues... Carry on...

If you are a newbie to 23 the stay north... the further from the Rim you get the lower the bull densities that time of year and more abusive the country is on you and your gear... looking for glassing points now for a late hunt is a waste of time... the elk are already in their summer grounds. Good hunting...

WOW!!! Soooo that is how they did it in the ol' days, eh?!!?? That is cool! Nice work Pal! Thx for sharing that one!

If you re-bleed your fuel pump it will re fire right away... that cost me $125 to figure out the first time...lol.

Mine would only do that after a long pull in warm weather, TJ... and now no problems since I added the extra pump.

Also the impeller driven "fuel pump" often becomes too weak to deliver consistent fuel. I added an inline pump just above the tank and it made all the difference.

I am pretty sure I have a box of shells for this gun, If so I will give them to you mike, or whoever buys the gun...

My Bride drew one of those $90 permits for 5B.... Oh yeah!

Now I am not an alarmist but wanted to bring this up..... Some friends in Central AZ have come upon two bulls (at different times/locations) that appeared paralyzed in the hind end and no signs of being wounded. This was in just the last couple weeks. They have alerted AZGFD and it is being looked into. I was wondering if anyone else has seen anything similar while in the elk woods this spring?

I have a dewalt 12" slider on a fold up stand, w/ supports... it rolls like a dolly when folded up... I is not any where near new but I just don't use it anymore... Been a great saw and I should keep it but could use another genny.

I have the same model in a 7mm Rem Mag, NIB... Interested in a straight across trade?

I will trade you the same exact gun in 7mm Rem NIB....

Well, Mac.... I think I saw you live back east? We certainly have different landscapes from East to West in this huge country and therefore different hunting strategies. I personally have taken Coues deer at 12 yds and at 420 yds... and been involved in the taking of several bucks over 5-600 yds here in AZ. There are many reasons...and I will try to share a few: First let me say that my biggest Coues was taken at 12 yds and grossed just over 109" P&Y. In Coues deer hunting you have choices... lots of choices: in taking device, equipment, method, and habitat. There is something for EVERYONE... and lots of opportunity!! If you just want to hunt coues and don't really care about "inches" or Age Class then your options are almost limitless. However for some others (I fall in this group) the desire to consistently find and harvest some of the Largest Coues deer bucks that public land can offer is an addiction... and therefore we use every possible advantage we can to not only find, but also harvest these "Ghosts"... I have been blessed to aid in the "ground Checking" of more than my fair share of the Giant Public Land Coues Deer (as a guide, friend, or navigator... always the Bridesmaid and never the Bride.... and someday it will be my turn to be the tag holder with my face next to a Giant). Just last year I held a mid 140+, a low 130+, and 117+... all of them were in my glasses when they hit the dirt! What a rush!! All were taken at yardages between 350 and 600 yds and you were not gunna close the distance without wings. We were not hunting these bucks by chance... we were hunting there because we knew what we were looking for and you have to kill the Monsters where you find them. I have been hunting one particular buck with a bow since 2010 and still have not seen him on the hoof, my wife missed him at 25 yds in 2012 (the only time he has been seen)... and this year if he still lives (Pray that my TC's show me he is) I will try to draw an early gun tag and hunt only him... and if I do draw I will have to hunt him at long range with a gun because I there is no getting close and I have yet to see him while bow hunting. So I will modify my plan of attack to try and take this (now) Old buck before the lions or winter gets him. It is truly about choice, and personal preference... I love to win and I love chasing these wickedly crafty deer... but if you plan to win consistently on big deer you have to broaden your horizons and play the whole field not just one position (baseball metaphor). Good Hunting.

The middle part of Oct. to the first part of Nov. should be good for rut and bigger rams showing up with the ewes...

Thank you. Was fun to share...

Big Thanks to Amanda & CW.com as well as to all who voted for my "Dancing Bears" series this year! I received my new Camera today and hope to get it into use very soon! Cheers!!

Jim White was a true and genuine man... as many have said his Contributions to Hunting were great but over shadowed by his kind and generous ways. He always took the time to make each person he came in contact with feel special and your concerns were his concerns. I for one always looked forward to his cheerful Smiles & Chuckles and his positive out look. You will be missed Jim... Thank you for all you were to each and everyone who knew you and for being the pillar, contributor, & role model in the hunting community that you were... God Speed to the Happy Hunting Grounds and Rest in Peace, my Friend... To the Wife and Family of Jim.... Thank you for sharing such an inspirational Man with us all. We are truly sorry for your loss, your loss is our loss, and we genuinely share your grief and Pray that you may find comfort in each other and in our thoughts and prayers in this time of great sadness. Gino & Tina Wullkotte

I got another one... LOL... Public land Sharing... I love it!! This is an example of holding to your plan, and just plain hunting as hard as you can. If you don't panic you, can and will, more often than not Win on public land if you know the country you hunt. Was with a hunter opening morning of a late bull hunt.... we are driving (well... Hauling Arse) down the dirt roads... way before light and I catch up to Two large pickups... they are slower than me because they are bigger trucks in the snotty snow and mud... they won't let me by so after several "Y's" in the road it becomes obvious that we are ALL going to the same place! LOL This should be fun I think... At the end of the road (mind you we have been bumper to bumper all the way in)... we park and before I can even shut my truck off 6 guys literally leap out of those two trucks and Sprint across in front of my truck! Now I am chuckling again and my Hunter is like, "Oh My God!"... I tell him not to worry... there is a Ton of bulls and a ton of country out there and it is still over an hour till shooting light... As we started up the mountain at our pace for the long 45+ minute climb I can see their headlamps below me skirting the Mountain... I am still chuckling cuz they are still trotting...LOL. We get to my targeted rock pile as quietly as possible just at Grey light and there is no one there so I know that the other group is somewhere below us but I have no Idea how far but I assume they are on one of the other rock piles much lower on the mountain... We start to glass and I can't find the 2 bulls we are looking for... but we see a good bull right in front of us at about 400 yds and we start talking about him... I tell my guy he is, "Not the bull we came for... Probably 345-350ish"... and the other bull, "if he shows" is likely better..." His Son was with us for only the opening morning hunt so he says it would be, "be a perfect hunt if I get to share it with my Son..." So I say, "Let's get Bloody!" He puts the bull down and that is when we learn the location of our sprinters because they started throwing lead at some bulls that are at least 650+ yds from us... they were bulls we weren't interested in... but they were a Long ways from those guys and I think took a while to walk a fatal shot into their bull... but the too got their tag filled. We sat our ground watching where our bull disappeared in the 7' tall brush waiting to be sure that he was down for good and not wanting to be in front of any other hunters... we just waited... Pretty soon the other guys came up and talked to us as they made their way around to their bull and then we shortly followed in the recovery of our bull! In the end... Those guys killed and were happy with their hunt... the next day they repeated the process and killed another bull from the same spot! And stopped me on the road after I finished packing out the rest of our bull to show him off. I had purposely waited late in the AM to head in there out of respect of other early AM hunters and packed out mid-day... which avoided any chance of me screwing anyone up... And my hunter was happy with a bull that he had scored (by a B&C measurer) at 352"+ green and he got to share the day with his Son... It was as perfect as one can hope for on public ground with lots of tags and lots of pressure. There was no ugly-ness, I conducted myself in as clean and ethical manner as possible.... and other then how comical it started I never saw another hunter till after all the smoke cleared... I wouldn't miss that kind of adrenalin rush for anything! Good Hunting! Here is a pic of the bull we killed that day...

I remember a bull we killed a few years back.... I had been watching this bull for a week or so every day... never saw another person. Opening morning I was sitting on a rock that gave me best angle to kill the bull... and two other hunters walk up on us... they start telling me about all the giant bulls below us that they had been seeing for a month. LOL... I told them (In my opinion) there was only one bull worth packing outta there and I thought he was possibly over 350... they insisted there was a 400''er and several 350's... anyway they sat with us, but we were fogged in. we were watching a bedded and broke 330-340 bull right below us and talking back and forth between my hunter and I about his size and that it was opening day and that he wasn't that big... All the while these guys still hadn't seen him... finally knowing that we weren't gunna shoot him and that our bull wasn't near him I ask the guys if they wanted to shoot this bull? They look at him and call him one of the "bigger" bulls they had seen in there and ask me how big? So I give them my opinion and they pass. LOL. Not 15 minutes later I hear them whispering back and forth and point like they are plotting a way down... so I ask if they are gunna go after the bull and they say no that they are planning to hike off below the fog and set up on rock pile below. I asked them if they had ever tried that before and they said no. I told them that if they tried they would blow the bull right below us out and likely run him right past the others we couldn't see and it would be game over. Not to mention that there are some places that are stupid to go unless you are forced too, LOL! I explained that I had been to their planned vantage point before and about the brush, winds, and view in detail to them along with my true opinion that I would not undertake their plan if they begged me to....They took my advice and chose to rim around... we never say them again. That evening right at dark that big bull stood right where I had expected him to be and those guys would have blown him out. The next morning we were on the bull at daylight and my hunter got bull fever and locked up tight as a drum with the bull in his scope at 168 yds and we blew him out!! dang!!! Well it took me 3 days to find that bull again, but when I did I was all alone (my hunter had to run to Phx for the day on business)... I was sitting on the same rock I had been opening morning and I had a Very talkative DYI guy sitting literally Right next to me with a gun and a tag when I spied the bull a mile away up feeding in the Wide Open!!! I about had a heart attack... but calmly kept glassing... and soon found myself videoing a bull in the opposite direction! LOL!! I stayed a little longer that morning and followed my new comrade all the way out of the woods that midday just to be sure he wasn't "playing me".... I am chuckling out loud as I type this... We killed that bull 40 minutes after daylight the next morning... all alone in the woods a Long way from where everyone was looking for him... He taped and 346" broke and over 366" with the tines repaired... We had hunters near us or on top of us almost every day and killed on the 6th morning of the hunt... and we killed one of the largest bulls taken in that unit that year that we know of... gotta love Public Land Hunting!!

I saw this piece in person and it is Unbelievable!! It might be one of the best bear mounts I have ever seen... you can walk all the way around it and it does not have a bad angle or anything that wouldn't fool you into thinking it is Alive!

I've sat on the same rock with many folks that I wasn't hunting with... no one can see it all and if they can out glass me and get to the critter first it is a free country (still)... Just cuz you are the first person on the rock overlooking 1,000 (or 10,000) acres doesn't mean you are gunna shoot every animal there... Whether they choose to approach me or not only dictates if we are gunna work together or parallel; and has nothing to do with the outcome of my hunt or theirs if we conduct ourselves with class. I was with a hunter in the late bull hunt... the tag holder was limited on his ability due to a recent surgery that nearly prevented him from hunting at all. I glassed a bull up under a bluff that I would have thought would have hunters on it, but didn't see any so told the fellow, "Lets try... if no one shoots him before we get there then we can make our play." Thirty minutes later we are rolling down that 2 track out to the point... I stop way back not wanting to warn the bull. we wall half way out to the edge and I spy a truck... "Crap, bet we got beat." was my comment. I told him lets just ease out there any how right above where the bull was an take a look. We sneak out there expecting at any moment to come up on the other hunter but don't... we get out to a rock and start glassing, picking up the bull in seconds bedded in the wide open as 380 yds (straight down)... we set up kill the bull and never saw another person till we started off the only trail down and there stood a guy glassing. Turned out he knew the guy I was with... Was supper cool! Offered to help us pack but we declined as he was running out of hunting days. He even threw in a joking "Can't believe you shot that bull out from under me! HaHaHa..." In the end the bull showed in a spot he had glassed the previous day with out seeing a thing and he said, "That is why it is hunting." I once had a WM walk right up on a rock pile with me and 2 clients, his wife also had the tag and he flat told me he didn't care if I minded... my clients were rattled but it didn't change the out come of our morning hunt... They both still killed bulls, just not that day...LOL. In the end.... I will respect anyone in the woods that shows me the same. But if you are gunna hunt where I wanna hunt then you better out glass, out run, and out hunt me... and I will respect you for it... IF you can get it done with out being a Douchbag (LOL). Sit right next to me if you want, it is all a game... honor the game, hunt harder and cleaner. Cuz that is Cool! I respect Clean Results!! I have been the first to walk up to a guy after getting beat and give him a nod, a wink, and a "Nice job, Man!" But I have also been the first to get threated or MF'd for out hunting others... I don't lose sleep over it.... we are hunting public animals on public ground, so we are bound to rub shoulders... don't panic, don't get mad... stick to your plan and hunt harder! Good Hunting!