my cousins 2013 archery coues deer

[couesdeerhntr]

my cousin has had a tough few years with me putting him on eight different bucks and nine misses he finally made the 10th shot count and got it done. my cousin is a great shot with a bow but when the deer came into shooting distance buck fever just took over. He has had some nice deer to shoot at and finally got to put a notch in his belt with this buck and his first big game archery kill. We actually started off the day hunting mule deer with no success except for seeing a big herd of javelina. We decided to go to a spot where we always see a good number of deer not always a lot of bucks but they are there. started glassing at around noon with not much moving except seeing some more javelina. at around 2 pm the deer started moving and we started picking up a bunch of deer. my cousin and i always make it a competition to see who spots the most deer and who will pick up the first buck. i was picking up all the does and he was finding nothing and was getting frustrated. he then turns to me in frustration and says you might be finding all the does but i am going to find the first buck which i laughed and said i hope so because that is what we are here for. no more then two minutes later he says "I found a buck!" I didn't believe him at first since he had just said that but sure enough there he was. i pulled out the spotting scope to get a better look and to my amazement there were actually two other bucks with the one we had spotted. we made a game plan and decided to make a stalk on them. we get to to where we had last seen the bucks and got to fifty yards of them but there was no way we could get a shot due to the thick brush so we tried to wait them out but the good old wind decided to swirl and we got busted. happy we had stalked in so close we chalked it up as a good experience and decided to walk a ridge line for the last few hours. got on top of ridge line a glassed for a while and decided to call it a day. as we were heading down hill into wash to head back to vehicle i looked across the wash and on the other side at about 150 yards i saw a deer bedded and picked up the glass and saw it was a buck. he had spotted us but didn't seem to worried about us. i decided to head down in wash a different direction out of the bucks view to get to bottom of wash to make a stalk. got to the bottom and had my cousin and i take our shoes of for the stalk. got to 70 yards of the buck and he was still bedded and we could only see his head. he had no clue we were there and we closed the distance to 50 yards. had my cousin get ready for the shot and i was going to try and stand him up but before i did anything the buck stood up and gave my cousin a broadside shot. my cousin drew his bow back and let the arrow fly. as arrow was in flight i heard it clip a branch but then i heard the great sound of the arrow hitting its mark. since my cousin has had so many misses he was not confident he had made a hit on the deer but i was sure he did. we got to the spot where the deer was and sure enough we had good blood with lots of bubbles in it so i thought he had made a great shot. We decided to wait a while until we only had a little light and went looking for deer. followed blood and after about 50 yards of following blood we bumped him and deer took off. i was shocked. decided to come back next morning to find deer. came back the next morning and found deer about 150 yards from where we bumped him and it turns out that the branch the arrow hit deflected to arrow and hit deer in neck. that why so many bubbles in blood. but man were we excited that we had found the deer and i was so happy for my cousin for finally getting his first archery kill and hopefully there will be many more to follow. the deer was a three by one. the deer was shot on saturday december 14 2013

[joey lvr]

Congrats to your cousin. About time someone post some archery kills.

[az_shooter]

Congrats to the shooter. Definitely nice to see that someone is having some success in the archery season!

[Xforcebaby]

Freaking awesome. That is a really awesome buck. Looks like you had an awesome time and thanks for posting awesome pics.

[Eagle mountain ranch]

Heck ya a deer with a bow .. Congratulations !!!!

[Matt Meyer]

Congrats to your cousin. Nice deer and some mighty fine eating too

[bonecollector]

Congrats to you and your cousin. Way to hang in there.

[randyolson]

It's always a major feat getting your game with a bow!! Congrats on the harvest of your deer!

[ElkyG]

Congrats to your cousin on his first archery deer

[bojangles]

cool.