lionhunter Report post Posted January 1, 2023 I started out this 2022 coues season in Southern Arizona with several goals in mind. 1st was to get my best friends' future son in law his first buck, 2nd was to help all 6 tag holders in our camp ger a buck, and lastly to harvest my target buck that we found sheds on last year. Like a lot of you, it seems like I spend more of my time helping other hunters hunt than I do hunting for myself. November started well with Helping My buddies" Son in law harvest his 1st. After locating several bucks he harvested this one with a one well placed shot from his 6.5 PRC at 480. The next morning we glassed up 3 more bucks and after a several hour stock and relocate My best buddy and my youngest son harvested 2 more bucks with 6.5 PRC at 730 and 686. On to December...... We returned in December. Our first task was to get my Nephew Cody a buck. He has already killed a 103, and had limited time to hunt. We glassed a smallish buck on the first evening and he said he was stoked to harvest the buck. He shot it at 660 yards with his 270 wsm. Now it was time to start focusing on the two remaining tags we had left, and for a change one was mine. On day 6 I located a buck with some real potential. He had huge eye guards and was a supper classy looking dear. After looking at him for over 20 minutes I decided to let my buddy shoot him because he just wasn't what I was after....... And he MISSED at 259 yards!!!! We came home for work for 4 or 5 days and man did he get roasted for missing. I told him that if I ever found that buck again, I was going to shoot it. Well 6 days later I found him again. We hiked into a bad canyon and got within 196 yards from him bedded. I laid down to shoot the buck and said, "come shoot this thing" he is still not what I am after..... This time I made him shoot my PRC and he did not miss! The eye guard buck that we named goal post was dead... It scored over 100, and is Chaffee's biggest buck. Now here is where the story gets even more crazy. Several days late while trying to turn up my target buck, we were driving into a different spot to hunt. A guy starts honking behind us and pulls us over. He explainded that he had a Jr. hunter with him that only had one day to hunt.. He stated that the kid was willing to take any 2 point of better. We took his phone number and told him we would call him shortly as I truly wasn't going to shoot anything under 110. Fast forward about and hour and I glass up two bucks with some does. The bigger buck appeared to be an 18 inch wide 2x3, and I couldn't see any g1's.. So I call the Dad with the kid to come shoot it. To make a very long story short the kid missed him twice, and we ran out of day light. They were both extremely grateful for the opportunity to try on that buck. The next morning my buddies and I hiked into a different canyon and glassed until 2pm. We looked at over 15 bucks , but could not find what I wanted. We had planned to stay there all day, but at 2 oclock I got on the radio and said, "change of plans, let's go back where the kid missed the wide 3x2, I want to make sure there isn't a bigger buck in there. We drive to our new location, and hike about 2 miles into our spot. Within 10 minutes I glassed up the same buck that the kid had missed the day before. But this time my buddy Jay had his BTX.. He took 0ne look at the buck and said, "you are studpid if you don't shoot this buck!" I said, no, I don't think he is what I am looking for. They talked me into going to take a closed look. As we got to 700 yards, we could tell he had 4 plus inch g ones, and was 18 inches wide, then at 410 yards his 2 point side suddenly had a 3rd point.. After doing some quick math in our not so smart heads we had this buck at around 112.. Again Jay said, IF YOU DON'T SHOOT THIS BUCK YOU ARE AN IDIOT. Well I decided to shoot the buck. He ended up having way more mass than we thought and scored 115 7/8.... yep, I tried my coues 2022.mov my best to give 2 bucks over 100 to someone else...... lmao enjoy the video and pictures. Whitey short take my coues 2022.mov short take my coues 2022.mov Chaffee_coues_vid_22.mp4 my coues 2022 2.0.mov 15 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lionhunter Report post Posted January 1, 2023 not sure why it will not let me upload my video...??? short take my coues 2022.mov my coues 2022.mov my coues 2022 2.0.mov 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gonhunting247 Report post Posted January 1, 2023 Wow those are some great deer, good work. That's an impressive season, congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesPursuit Report post Posted January 1, 2023 Big congrats to a valued CWT member on a big year. Well done on all accounts! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PRDATR Report post Posted January 1, 2023 That's pretty darn awesome. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Redman Report post Posted January 1, 2023 thanks for sharing - awesome hunts- loved the part with the youth - too bad his missed. Congrats on a heck of a buck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CatfishKev Report post Posted January 1, 2023 Solid year congrats. Also kudos for trying to help the kid. Good karma Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mocha1545 Report post Posted January 1, 2023 Great year. Good Karma helping the kid and his Dad. Congrats on a very nice Buck! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
OpticNerd Report post Posted January 2, 2023 Wow! That's an impressive season. You n your crew did an awesome job putting down some great bucks. That 115 is freaking sweet! Congrats and thanks for sharing! You happen to have a pic of your target buck's shed? 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couzer Report post Posted January 2, 2023 Epic man!!! Congratulations! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
zackcarp Report post Posted January 2, 2023 Now thats a lot of fun. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHT_MTNMAN Report post Posted January 2, 2023 What a great year and some stud bucks!! Very cool, congrats to you and your family/friends. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Westerhunter34 Report post Posted January 3, 2023 Some awesome bucks, congratulations to everyone who harvested! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cohntr6 Report post Posted January 6, 2023 Heck of a year for you and company and holy eyeguards! Congrats! Jeff Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AzRaised08 Report post Posted January 6, 2023 Sounds like a fantastic season of hunting for you, your family, and friends! Very nice of you to help out the young one and give him a chance at a grey ghost. Congratulations to you and all the successful hunters! Thanks for sharing the story Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
