First Muley - Jacked For Sure!!!

[Coach]

What an incredible fall archery season this has been! Just last week I was fortunate enough to take my first ever archery deer, which was a great coues buck. Here

 

I was also fortunate enough this year to draw a Navajo reservation archery hunt. On the heels of my previous AZ success, I had high hopes. Unfortunately, the Navajo was really hit hard this year between light snow and light summer rains, so hunting was tough. I’ve been dreaming about this hunt for a long time and I knew there were good bucks around.

 

I got to the traditional camping spot and was met by a buddy from Texas shortly after arriving the day before the season opened. We set up the “big camp” for the rest of our party – 5 tag holders in all – and set out. This was obviously going to be an entirely different hunt from what we were expecting. There was little grass and the areas that had always been productive in the past were dead compared to previous years. We were seeing lots of does and small bucks but no mature bucks.

 

After covering hundreds of miles – literally - and shifting our tactics a bit, we finally hit on a bachelor group of good bucks. I was able to get a 55 yard shot on a good bedded buck and, frankly due to luck, made a vital hit.

After years of archery hunting, losing a good buck a couple years back and passing many small bucks, my dream of a “perfect season” are finally coming true. Here are some pix of my Navajo buck.

 

 

 

 

Next stop is a NM Muzzleloader coues hunt in late October that has the potential to turn a great Fall into a phenomenal Fall. Already this year my two oldest boys took their first turkeys, and my middle son took his first Javalina. I got my first and second archery deer – a great coues and a very nice muley. I thank God every day to be living out West and living the dream of being able to hunt, fish and live in the last true frontier. I’m also very lucky to have fantastic, enthusiastic hunting buddies and an extremely supportive wife to share these very best of times with – not to mention the extended CWT family to share each new hunting adventure with.

 

 

God bless,

Jason

[125coues]

congrats Jason, great buck and thanks for sharing the pictures, I bet it will be awhile before that smile comes off your face!!

[arizonaelitefreak]

wow man sounds like a great season so far hope your luck continues congrats on the great buck and thanks for sharing them with us!!!

[bobbyo]

Looks like your having all the fun this year. Nice deer. Congratulations.

Bob

[Coues 'n' Sheep]

Congrats Jason!!!

[bonecollector]

Congrats i hope just to bag one this year and you already have 2!

[bowhunter4life]

what a hunting time frame. congrats! that is awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

[CouesWhitetail]

Thanks for sharing your hunt with us, that's awesome!!

 

Good luck on the rest of your hunts this fall.

 

 

Amanda

 

[AZ RANGER]

Congrats on an excellent year.

[palivs2hnt]

Congrats on a sensational year thus far! Can't wait to see NM pictures...get it done!

[Coues Archer]

That is nice mature buck great job.

[Coach]

Here are some more pictures from the hunt. It was amazing.

 

Every morning, we woke to this...

 

Big Bry glassing..

 

Chad's Buck

 

Bryan got a good buck late in the evening, so he backed off and waited until morning. During the night, a bear found his buck and buried it.

 

Here's Bryan with his buck.

[willhunt4coues]

Congrats on that buck.....man you are on a roll.

[Guest 300ultramag.]

Jason,

 

nice buck/s way to get it done.. velvet bucks are solid gold!!

[AZWildcat]

Great story congrats!!