35B Dec. coues

[COOSEFAN]

Unit 35B is a tough unit to trophy hunt, especially when there is no rutting activity and it's extremely hot! We hunted the same area we killed Craig's 108" and found another buck, not as heavy but as long, wider, and had a 6" extra coming off the back of his left G2! We set up to shoot just as the buck went behind some trees, and sat on him from 8:00am till dark, with nothing coming out! We hiked in way before light and sat and glassed for him for the next two days and only found a couple small bucks and three does. The country is extremely thick and rough and Steve was getting tired so we went to an easier area and glassed up this buck Thurs. pm. Steve stalked in and decided it was the buck for him, the shot was 230 yrds and couldn't have been a cleaner kill. Steve is 66 yrs. old and worked his butt off with me and stuck it out till the end, glassing for days looking for one buck and seeing very few deer for the amount of glassing we were doing. This definitely isn't the deer we were after, or had the score we were trying to beat, but this deer couldn't have went to a more deserving guy! Steve was extremely proud of this deer and worked very hard for it! Congrats, Steve, on a beautiful coues! JIM

[coues4x4]

You could'nt have said it better.Thats a mighty fine deer! Congratulations Steve on what sounds like an awesome hunt.

[WHT_MTNMAN]

very nice buck, good work

[DEERSLAM]

That sounds like a great hunt- hunt hard, glass hard, clean kill, nice buck and a happy hunter

Congrats to you COOSEFAN and to your hunter.

[JACK]

I HOPE I AM ABLE TO HIKE THOSE HILLS WHEN I AM 66. GREAT JOB. 35B IS NOT AN EASY UNIT. HOW MANY DEER WERE YOU GUYS SEEIN?

[az4life]

Cngrats to you and Steve! Nice story and did you ever notice so often the big wiley ones know where to be that hunters cannot get to during season. Backup plans are often all we can do. Take that one anyday though.

[bchoitz]

Congatulations Steve and Jim! I was wondering how your hunt was going.

That is a beautiful symetrical buck, and as you have said, that is not an easy unit to hike in. At 66, I hope I will still be able to hunt those hills as well.

Bret

 

God bless you all, and Happy new year!

[Guest Ernesto C]

Yea baby that's the way to do it!!! A BIG congratulations to the both of you.

[COOSEFAN]

I HOPE I AM ABLE TO HIKE THOSE HILLS WHEN I AM 66. GREAT JOB. 35B IS NOT AN EASY UNIT. HOW MANY DEER WERE YOU GUYS SEEIN?

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Thanks for the reply's, We were averaging only about 5 deer a day! But, of those five, were usually seein' two or three bucks a day. Most were in the 70" class but in two small canyons we found three bucks with the smallest one being 108" that Craig killed. We almost got the third one on Tues. am but the buck did that disappearing act for us. The small canyons are extremely thick with tall grass in the few openings that swallow up bedded coues! I have never seen three huge bucks living in such a small area together like I did in this spot. I know the remaining two bucks are still there, we never spooked them, and there were no other poeple in that area, it's just so dang thick, hot and no visible rut yet! Hopefully next year I might have my own tag and some ruttin' weather to go with it!. Thanks again, JIM

[GRONG]

Dude that was sweet!

[Red Rabbit]

Jim,

Thanks for sharing your hunts with us this season. Sounds like Steve is steadfast in the hills. He can probably attest that hard effort puts many inches on a rack and engrains the memories deeper into the cortex.

 

Doug~RR