Coues 'n' Sheep

Jason..... 'Bout time you posted those pics!! ....Man! The head on that deer is as fantastic as the horns!!! It sure will be an awesome mount! Congrats to that hunter on an Outstanding Coues deer!! G

If you can't find anyone down that way, shoot me a pm and I'll give you a guy that is really good in the central part of the state. CnS

Your thinkin' of a different Scott there, TJ..... better double up on the Ensure this week! Happy Late B-day Scott! We have missed your photo stories of late... where you been hiding??? CnS

There goes any sheep that might be left in there!

HaHaHaha..... "Here kitty, kitty ,kitty..... I got you a bowl of milk...." Just funnin' Casey..... Gotta give a big congrats to Dogman68..... What a Way Frickin' Cool Grand-Dad!!!! CnS

Guess I'm just Photogenic.... ....Troy, I know you don't know what that means..... ....It is Austrailian for Handsome Devil...... Lance, it was good to get to meet you, too..... and everyone else as well! The show seemed less ( and smaller) than last year, to me.... anyone else feel that way?? CnS

No your not cuz I am taking your new boat out that's parked in MY yard! Better tell your wife that you have to make new plans. Good thing dry-storage for a boat is cheaper than hunting Cabin Rental fees! I'll be getting Her boat when I'm darn good and ready, Old Man....... Bah HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!

+1, Josh!

BUMP.... Still for sale..... lots of interest and no $$$$....

Wish I could go..... but can't. I'm takin' my bride to the lake for the weekend.... it is what she wants for our Anniversary. Have a great time ya'all!

Bring your optics you will see sheep and Coues deer from the the ranch if you are looking hard enough! Have fun it is awesome in there! BTW.... that is a Mathews!!

Well now....you can't just say something like that without filling us in on the story! Amanda You asked for it! My personal photo shows it, but below is a short recap of the most important hunt of my life. I wrote it back in January 2002 and now rereading it, it is probably pretty poorly written, but it is all that I have...... and the fantastic memories & that Fabulous mount! I spent time all up and down that Arivipa Canyon and the surrounding mountains and feeder canyons. Brandenburg is an amazing place that holds more desert bighorn history than almost any other mountain in the the state. I was blessed to hunt for them there. ONCE IN A LIFETIME By: Gino Wullkotte The summer afternoon that I pulled the 2001 Arizona Game & Fish draw results up on my computer probably changed my life forever. Not to mention the bruise I put on my head when it came in contact with the ceiling... I stared at the screen with a dumb look trying to comprehend why I suddenly had no bonus points for desert bighorn. When it hit me, I hit the ceiling. I did it! I drew an AZ sheep tag and it was the one and only Aravipa tag! Honestly I don't know if I was the most deserving, but I'd like to think that I was the most grateful recipient of this prize. Well, the hard part was done, I had the tag! Now I had to prepare and set my goals for the hunt. My first goal was to try and harvest my ram with a bow, second was to try and harvest the best Class IV ram I could find, and finally have the hunt of a lifetime. I spent hours upon hours on the phone to anyone who had any info on sheep or about Aravipa. I obtained as many maps of the area as I could and began to draw a mental picture. I then began making overnight trips to different parts of the unit to learn as much as possible about its geography and were I might find sheep. I put in six weekends total (with the help of my son [Colton], brother-in-law [Larry] and friend [Rick]) and there was nothing overwhelming about my progress. My first two outings produced four sheep, one small ram. The third outing things began to look up...22 sheep. Then I began to formulate my game plan to look the hardest where I was seeing the least numbers, hoping to find a lone monster, but none materialized. I then made up my mind to concentrate my hunting efforts in the areas where I had been finding sheep. Two days after Thanksgiving I rolled into Klondike, AZ and set up camp with the help of my wife and son at Four-Mile Camp Ground. Sunday morning my family left me alone to scout the week before the hunt. This would be my home for a while. By Wednesday night I had seen 14 different rams and was keeping tabs on four class IV rams. My brother-in-law arrived that night and I filled him with chatter about my adventure thus far. Then I told him of my problem.... the largest ram was not the ram that I wanted to spend the rest of my life looking at on the wall. As luck would have it the ram that tickled my fancy was one of the smallest of the four rams. By Friday morning we had video of each of the four and I was hooked on the ram with the really long left horn. That morning we relocated the ram and then returned to camp to practice with my bow. That afternoon Tina (my wife) and Colton arrived at camp as we prepared for the next mornings’ adventure. Grey light December 1st found us on a ridge top looking to the west. It only took minutes to confirm that my ram and his group were not far from where we had left them the morning before. By 7:15 AM I was standing directly below my ram at a distance of about 500 yards. I wanted to make my stalk alone, so I parted ways with Larry and Colton. The first 200 hundred feet were straight up a sheer rock face and I reached the top of the bluff some three hundred yards down the canyon from the sheep. With the wind in my favor, I planned to circle in above were I had last seen the sheep...and hopefully cut them off. An hour had passed since I had left the bottom of the canyon and I new that the sheep had to be very close, but didn't know which direction to look. I had an arrow knocked, and was as tight as my bowstring as I proceeded toward where I had seen them last. Where were the sheep? Did I spook them without knowing it? I was almost to a point of thinking that I had lost them when I peered over a bush and saw my ram looking directly at me! I froze while my mind raced to evaluate the situation. Directly below me at a distance of about 40 yards was a ewe, my ram and the other respectable ram with him...and I had no shot! He moved slightly presenting me with a broadside but the bush was in my way. Options?.... Draw, stand, and shoot. As I drew my bow the ewe bounced out about five yards pushing my ram away! He stopped, quartering hard away and I stood up. As if on a string he turned almost full broadside and I felt my bow jump to life. The arrow flight seemed very slow as I watched the broadhead find the mark and the fletches disappear.... then the arrow sailed off into the canyon below. My arms waved in the air as the sheep scattered.... My hunt of a lifetime was done...it was 8:24 AM.... but in my mind every minute was an hour and my 18 days of scouting brought it all together. About twenty minutes later I stood over my awesome ram not 90 yards from where I hit him. It was all perfect.... as it should be for a "once in a lifetime".

Wish I could go.... I love that piece of country.... it changed my life forever.

Get a rope, boys..... I say we fix'em right! You can count me in for the boycott if they get thier way!!! Let's put that dang Glendale store out of business.... bet they will think twice next time, if we do that! Hey Cabela's..... Quiturbellyacting!!!!

The 15's you looked through were 15x50 Okay, well then I was not at all impressed.... sorry.

Ol' Huntn coues asked me to check out the Vortex line at the ISE show.... He was thinkin' they are equal to Swaro quality. My $.02 was.... I would use the 12x before the 15x just because of the light gathering ability. Not bad optics for the price.... but by far,not Swaro or Lieca quality. IMO They need too make that 15x in a 50 or 60 mm objective lens..... that might help a bunch. I'm not trying to offend, just making a personal review. Thanks, CnS

I think Browning makes a reasonable kids bow that has a Ton of adjustment..... or they did. Whatever you choose will probably still be a touch to big for him, yet but if he wants it bad enough he will stick it out. I bought a womens bow that was way too big for my boy when he was 10. He wanted it sooo bad! I started him at 5 yds and told him that I'd come out and wtch him any time but, that he had to put 4 arrows in a row in a 4" circle before he could move back 5 more yds.... He shot and shot and shot....... he got all the way out to 25 yds in a year & a half and then I bought him a really good kids bow. He had his first archery coues and archery antelope on the ground at age 12 . Problem was that first big bow taught him bad form and he was 18 before we got him to change his form.... Best of luck! Gotta love it when the kids show that interest!! CnS

Dat's 7.50 doofus Still $$$$$$ to them!!

Come on.... at $5 per application..... all that Commision is thinkin' about is $$$$$!!! Rules is Rules, and even the big dogs should have to follow the RULES!!!!!!

Your just missing a can of Cope and you'd be the Real ATF!!!!

I have been looking at this http://www.federalpremium.com/default.asp?...;s2=1&sec=4 and I think the number 4's look a little small. would like to shoot BB, BBB or T, but all I have found has been steel and I dont want steel, I want lead. I did just order a super full choke though! Um... the way you shoot.... shouldn't you get a modified choke for it....

Who said it went for $250??? I LOVE the J107! G/H has the J105... I have seen it in action it is a great pack, too!! Snatch it up boys! (or girls)

I really think that none of us can actually imagine the roller coaster of emotion that goes with harvesting any animal of this calibur. Having been in the front row and witnessed the wild ride that my friend has been on, has been the greatest and yet frustrating at times. To harvest this deer was, to say the least, the happiest day of his hunting carreer.... and he has worn a "perma-smile" everyday since. However, to watch the Cabela's guys mis-score it was fustrating and then watch a very qualified guy rescore it was great! The mathematical error could have happened to anyone, it is a shame that it happened in front of so many people at the ISE show. Jeremy called me about 30 minutes after we had all left the show and stated that he found an adding error on the score sheet and that he would contact the SCI fella that scored it on Monday and straighten it out. We were all disapointed that so many people had been misled about the score..... I think for Jeremy it was a point of not wanting people to think that this awesome and amazing deer had a number attached to it that was a lie. If the rescore had been less than the first go round he would have still been just as happy to feel like he got the right score. This buck deserves the true score, what ever that might be, to be published in every record book that it enters. I feel bad.... it was me that pushed him to enter it into ALL the books. If it were up to him it might have been entered in the P&Y book. It is a shame to think that with out Jeremy's efforts to attain a True Score that this buck would be entered in a place that he did not deserve (and it was for a period of time smaller & bigger) . Jeremy doesn't give a rip what that buck places in the book... 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc...... just so he places where he belongs. Of course that 1st place ranking (and the probable #2 P&Y ranking) is GREAT, but for him having that buck on his wall is most important. And sure he was ticked when he saw Cory's post, I would have been, too! Cory didn't need to be the class busy-body and say anything about score. The rest of his post would have easily stood alone and expressed a very nice message. Time and again Amanda reminds us not to post things that are not ours to post. I can think of atleast 8-10 other CW.com'ers that new the "134 score" and didn't post it out of common courtesy. If it was your buck (haters) I think you might be defensive about it, too. Gino

Hey, all you long range shooters... here is your perfect (& affordable) practice tool. I bought the stainless and fluted version of this pistol and put a turreted Leupold on it last year for long range practice. Then I won this beauty and have not even opened the box until today. I'll call a friend tomorrow to get the exact value and then I'll post a price. If you are interested just let me know. Thanks, CnS

That bronze is awesome..... my congrats to the artist and the new owner of that fine piece!! CnS