mklong40 Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Hello Everyone. Long time follower of the website. Thought after a few years I should join up. Had a succesful weekend. My buddy and I headed to an area where we have tagged out 5 years in a row now with quality bucks. This weekend was no different. We had 2 tags. Started Friday morning at first light. While walking to our glassing spot we jump to bucks bedded down. One runs, one stays. I saw it was a quality shooter, so I shoulder my rifle and shot. He jumped and ran about 40 yards and dropped. My picture below is me with the LSU hat on. I wish there was a better story but it was a 30 yard shot. Started yesterday morning with a mean hike. We got to a glassing area. After 90 minutes of glassing a hill side I spot a group of deer on the opposite canyon wall. We range it at 500 yards. After watching the group for about 20 min. we see 3 bucks. 2 small 3 points and then a straggler who looks like a good buck. My buddy gets in position and we pick a clearing out to shoot. It takes about 5 minutes for the buck to get to the clearing. We range it at 375. The buck steps out, stops, bang. My buddy squeezes off his 300 WSM and the buck drops where he stands. The hard part started after that. It took 4 hours to pack him out.....not fun. We quickly scored them out....and we are not professionals in the scoring game but we are guessing mine will go about 91" before deductions and his about 87 1/2". His is bigger than this picture suggests....you cant really see how nice the spread is. Happy hunting to the rest of you. Good luck! Matt Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Distance Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Great job? Which unit again? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jeff Welker Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Congrats Matt on a successful hunt and two wonderful bucks. I especially like the mass of your Coues' rack. If you wouldn't mind sharing some specifics on your equipment (i.e. rifle caliber, scope, binos, etc) it would be sincerely appreciated. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mklong40 Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Congrats Matt on a successful hunt and two wonderful bucks. I especially like the mass of your Coues' rack. If you wouldn't mind sharing some specifics on your equipment (i.e. rifle caliber, scope, binos, etc) it would be sincerely appreciated. Here's last years buck taken out of the same general area. Weller's did the mount for my buddy. I am shooting a remington 700 chambered in 7mm rem mag. I reload myself. For Coues I shoot a Nosler 150gr. ballistic tip. I have a Luepold VXIII 4-14 scope. I borrowed some swaro's bino's 10x50's from a friend...without them, i doubt we would have seen the second buck. The second deer was shot with a weatherby 300wsm topped with a Leupold VXIII 3-9 (I think). He was shooting custom reloads tipped with a 180gr. Nosler accubond. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Nice buck, Congrats! Nice first post Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZBUCKEYE Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Great job? Which unit again? That is a good unit 33 or was it 36 maybe?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mklong40 Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Unit 36b.....We got a small area that we have been fortunate enough to avoid the crowds the last few years. It's a mean hike and maybe thats why we are seeing the quality we are. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Week'nd WaRRior Report post Posted October 23, 2011 Nice job peeling the backing off the tags. Nice bucks and Great pictures. Way to go!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mathews Report post Posted October 24, 2011 Good deal! Looks like you guys have quite the spot Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Catfish Hobo Report post Posted October 24, 2011 Congrats, Looks like the trip away from everyone and the work put in paid off in a big way for the both of ya. congrats to you both. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
