COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 1, 2007 I'm back, computer's still crashed and will be for some time, but it gives me a reason to visit Pops more often in the meantime. I had one last hunt down south and Casey (firstcoueswas80) and Christian (younghunter) came down to help me with the hunt. I had hoped the weather would clear up and the rut would pick up but neither happened for the first 3 days. We hiked hard and glassed even harder never coming up with any shooters the first 2 days. The wind was fierce and blowing in all directions most of the time making it difficult to glass the areas we needed to glass and it got downright frustrating! When coming off a hill, Troy fell and his rifle hit fairly hard so we shot it that evening to make sure it survived the fall and found out the bolt would not close no matter what we did! Luckily Casey was with us and his family was gracious enough to let us come over and work on it and his dad even let us borrow his gun as a backup! We got the gun fixed and dialed in and the hunt was back on! The third day finally dawned calm but the clouds were hanging too low to glass most of the country so we headed down to another spot in the lower country. We glassed up some smaller bucks and decided to head back up to our initial glassing spot because the clouds were starting to lift so we hiked back to the truck. At the truck, Christian spotted two Coyotes on the ridge at 450 yrds....perfect opportunity to make sure the gun was on! Troy smoked the lead dog with one shot and our confidence level was at an all time high, all we needed to do now was glass up a shooter buck and Troy will lay the smack down on em'! We jumped in the truck to head to the first spot and drove down the road 1 mile and Christian spots a deer about 150 yrds out the window! He noticed it was at least a decent buck but it was in thick brush and hard to tell how big, so I had Troy get out and get his scope on it. As soon as I acquired him in my binos it was a no brainer..."KILL IT"! Troy shot a split second after I said that and the buck went down and then back up again just as a 90" class buck stood up with him! Troy held off until he had a clear shot at his buck and he took it putting him down. The 90" buck walked around Troy's buck checking him out before trotting away! I have never had a hunter tag out on a critter spotted from the road before but I figured it would happen sooner or later.......I guess you gotta take em' when you can get em'.....especially when they are as big as this one! The nice thing was that it wasn't the first day, we already had sore legs and eyes from several days of hard huntin' and Troy had seen alot of country and critters before tagging out. Casey had volunteered to pack out Troy's buck if he got one and I hoped we would kill one several miles and canyons away from the road so we could watch him sweat, but luckily for him, this was 100 yrds straight down hill! Casey and Christian are class acts and are fantastic Coues hunters, Casey whips up a mean dutch oven peach cobbler and Christian has permanent Swarovski eyepeice indentions around his eye lids It was a team effort and everything came together with an incredible buck in the end, even though it couldn't have been any easier! On our last day there, Christian volunteered his glassing abilities to help out a friend of ours and he glassed up a pretty 3x3 on the highest mountain around and they hiked up there and got em'! This was our friends first Coues and they both had huge smiles and very sore legs when they got back to camp! Christian will post some pics when he returns I'm sure. Thanks again boys.....it was a great year! JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CouesWhitetail Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Awesome! Nice teamwork guys! Amanda Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Had a blast!!! dont forget about that lion takin a poo right next to where we were glassing..... what about my pin point accuracy with the XD-40!!!! Troy was a heck of a guy and deserved that buck! i cant wait to do it again as i had a blast! Jim, maybe we can get together and do some archery pig hunting! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Had a blast!!! dont forget about that lion takin a poo right next to where we were glassing..... what about my pin point accuracy with the XD-40!!!! Troy was a heck of a guy and deserved that buck! i cant wait to do it again as i had a blast! Jim, maybe we can get together and do some archery pig hunting! Oh yeah.....I forgot....we had some doves bust out behind us just before we headed back to the truck on the third day, and as we walked back through that spot on our same footprints from when we hiked in, there was a REALLY fresh lion track in the mud! Troy has killed several lions otherwise we might have called in some dogs! And there are no safe jackrabbits when Casey has his "pea-shooter" out! P.S. I have to go back down there now because my trailer is still sitting at the steakhouse in Amado! It has a flat tire and a snapped leaf spring, so I'm sure (i hope) it's still there! JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
az4life Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Super buck! Great story and sounds like a great time was had by all! Wish I was there! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Jim, if you need i can go down with my grandpa and we can take a look at it and prolly get it back to my house. let me know when you go get it and i will go with you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 1, 2007 It will be a while before I'm back on here, so good luck to any archery pig/deer hunters goin' out this month! Troy's buck grossed just over 100" and has a 15 1/2" inside spread! We also noticed ( and I can't believe I forgot to take pics) he had a funky tail....it looked like a normal WT tail at the base, but got narrow and had a black tip just like a Muley! Hopefully Casey or Christian got pics? Troy is having this buck mounted lifesize because of his unique traits.......it'll look awesome i'm sure! Thanks, JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
COOSEFAN Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Jim, if you need i can go down with my grandpa and we can take a look at it and prolly get it back to my house. let me know when you go get it and i will go with you. I'm gonna try and find another spring, I will call ya before I head down, I appreciate it! JIM> Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
GTT Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Great job you guys, what a beutiful buck!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PRED8R Report post Posted January 1, 2007 Nice job, nice deer. Thanks for sharing. As far as the easy shootin' from just off the road, heck i'd rather be lucky than good any day of the week. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
WHT_MTNMAN Report post Posted January 2, 2007 Great job and a very nice buck Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
shortpants Report post Posted January 3, 2007 Excellent job guys! It was a great year for us (Mullins Outfitters) thanks to our great team effort. You guys sure got it done. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
azyoung Report post Posted January 3, 2007 Congrats! real nice buck azyoung Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stanley Report post Posted January 3, 2007 Outstanding buck! Thanks for sharing. Christian helped my son and I on his 36A Junior hunt this past November, and he is a maniac behind the binos!!! S. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
