GRONG Report post Posted January 16, 2012 Been hunting a lot lately so haven't had much time to post the goins-ons. Just after Christmas my buddy Jimmy May and I took off to camp for a few days. First morning out we hiked our tails off to a spot I've been wanting to check out for a while. We glassed a few bucks a long ways off and they were all ruttin their tails off. About 9 am this heavy buck Jim spotted had clashed heads with a lesser buck and they fought HARD for close to 10 minutes. I was able to get the last 5 minutes of it on video which was awesome! There was a smaller 2pt in the mix trying his best to be the biggest pest he could be as well. After a while Jim decided he'd try to get close and see what he could do. I gave him a set of rattling antlers too just in case. Jim got set up and the wait began. The heavy buck with it's doe hung up in some junipers a couple hundred yards away. That small 2pt kept being a pest till the dominant buck finally gave him a good run and pushed him away. When he did this the smaller buck came to the edge of the clearing. He had that, "Well who can I go screw now", look on his face. That's when Jimmy hit the antlers together for a few seconds. That buck looked the couple hundred yards across the open bowl towards Jimmy and here he came! He only paused one time in the bottom for a quick drink in a pot-hole and kept on coming. I was watching all this from above just a couple hundred yards away and was getting way excited! Finally the buck went out of my view into the big trees and it wasn't long after that I heard the hit and saw the buck run! It only made it about 30 yards before eating dirt too!! Jimmy said that he kept having to grunt at the buck to get it to stop and when it did it was at 20 yards! He made a great shot through the heart and tagged his first archery deer, a Coues buck no less!! Way to go Jimmy!!! Some other bucks we've seen in our days out so far. This is a big 2pt I thought would go close to 90" Here's a gorgeous 3x4 I missed a few shots at.... I completely WHIFFED the last shot he gave me at 30 yards! MORON!!! So embarrassing...... Here's another big 2pt framed buck. Wish'n someone would've shot a few big 2pts in there to get them out of the gene pool. He made for some good pictures though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted January 16, 2012 AWESOME!!! Love all the pics and nice tshirt pic! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apache7mm Report post Posted January 16, 2012 Awesome! congrats to the hunter on his first archery buck, and the rest of the pics certainly tell us that you have been busy!!! DAN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
echo co. Report post Posted January 16, 2012 Congrats to the hunter,awesome shot and buck look u like guys had a heck of a time Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bonecollector Report post Posted January 16, 2012 Awesome job. Congrats to the hunter on his first archery deer. Had to be exciting to watch the whole thing unfold. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
huntlines Report post Posted January 16, 2012 Congrats on the first archery buck. He made a great shot on him and the memories will last forever. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 17, 2012 Man that is awesome! I've only rattled one in before and it's awesome to see! Huge congrats to Jimmy, great job! JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZbowhntr Report post Posted January 17, 2012 That is awesome. Those are some great pictures too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tjhunt2 Report post Posted January 17, 2012 Congratulations Jimmy. That had to be pretty awesome to watch it all go down. TJ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coues 'n' Sheep Report post Posted January 18, 2012 Awesome & Congrats!! PERFECT shot placement!! Good work guys!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted January 18, 2012 I gladly volunteer to shoot big 2x' I like em!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigorange Report post Posted January 18, 2012 Nice deer. Congrats! Nice pics of the other deer too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
izquik72 Report post Posted January 20, 2012 I love it when a plan comes toghether. Great archery coues Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
