GRONG Report post Posted June 16, 2014 It's been a while since I've had time to post a few pics from this past March. One early morning on March 3rd I went out to glass for bulls in a canyon in hopes of possibly finding some fresh sheds later on. I hiked out to the edge and before I set up my tripod I quickly scanned the slope below me with my binoculars and immediately saw a whitetail rack in the brush! I got the tripod set up and put the 20-60X80 Swarovski scope on it and at about 200 yards or so away it looked pretty cool! From the back it looked to be in pretty good shape and I couldn't really tell much about it but was pumped regardless. Not everyday I can go out and glass up a whitetail rack in the brush. I continued to glass and glass the canyon and never even saw an elk or a shed. Well I stood up to regroup and realized there was one little spot straight below me and to the right I hadn't looked yet. As I hand-held the binos I instantly saw an elk shed sticking up out of the manzanita brush. I got behind the scope again and realized I was looking at the left side of a full skull! 2 skulls in one sitting, how awesome is that!?!? So I took a few pics and tried to find a way off the bluff and head to the whitetail skull first of course Took me probably 30 minutes or more to finally get to it but boy was it worth it!! Soon as I picked it up and saw all the flippin drop tines I knew it was from the same buck I'd also glassed it's shed up and off of 2 years prior and about 300 yards away. Here's pics of that day as well! Both the shed and the skull are nearly identical in size The elk rack was just out of the bottom of the canyon and boy it was a mess getting there but worth it. No idea what killed it. It was tangled the manzanita pretty nasty though. 14 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
firstcoueswas80 Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Holy crap! Quadruple drop tine, how AWESOME is that!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Coach Report post Posted June 16, 2014 That WT deadhead is CRAZY. Turned it for ya. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
camoremi Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Dude that is awesome. Too bad it's a dead head be nice if he was still out their. You woulda been able to chase him in the fall Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
capoeirajosh Report post Posted June 16, 2014 WOW!! Really, like the look of that coues!! Great finds for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
scoutm Report post Posted June 16, 2014 So how would you measure that find...is if a 4x4 with drop tines or a 3x3 with quad drop tines? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kaffer62 Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Wow Josh. You sure know how to find them. That coues skull is unreal Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Apache7mm Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Double WOW!!!!!!!!! DAN Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Becker Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Double double drop tines!!!! That's a cool find Josh!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Couestracker Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Amazing finds! That whitetail rack rocks! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dustin25 Report post Posted June 16, 2014 That is a once in a lifetime coues.just incredible.hope he passed those genes along! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nighthawk Report post Posted June 16, 2014 That is one of the coolest drop tines I have seen. Dream buck!!!!!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
HUNTnTAT2 Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Congrats! Go buy a lotto ticket! What an awesome WT! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
