syd34 Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Noah (15) is an avid hunter and shooter. He's had two coues tags and was only able to fill one with a young spike. Since that hunt three years ago (first photo) he has dreamed about hunting coues and harvesting a mature buck. He has spent hours and hours developing a load for his Remington 700 .308 and practicing with it so he understands his limits. We started this season by scouting in an area we hadn't spent much time in previously. The area was very rugged and remote and we spent hours hiking back into it. We didn't see a lot of deer in the area but those that we did see were pretty nice. The second photo is a couple of the bucks we spotted, sorry about the photo quality. While the area held some good bucks, they were few and far between. The last few times we went to this area we couldn't even find any does. We decided we'd give it a try Saturday morning since we couldn't hunt Friday. After the long hike in, we spent hours on the spotting scopes and binoculars and only found one doe. We decided to make the hike back to the truck and go to an area where we usually see more deer. Later that afternoon we started our hike back into the second area. We spent a few hours walking up sone ridges and going from shady spot to shady spot to get out of the sun and try to spot a bedded buck. After a couple of hours and a couple of miles we found a lone buck slowly walking out of a canyon to a ridge line. We know we only had a minute or so until he would crest the ridge and drop into the canyon on the other side (3rd photo). I quickly ranged the buck at 441 yards and Noah dialed 3.1 mills of elevation into his scope. There was no wind so he held dead on at the buck that was quartering away. Once he was on target he took the shot. The buck jumped straight up and fall onto his left side and rolled into a little manzanita where we lost sight of him. Noah was shaking with excitement as he asked me if it was a good shot. We packed up all of our gear and hiked down across the canyon and up to the spot on the ridge where we last saw the buck. Sure enough, the buck was down in the tree where we'd last seen him. Not the biggest coues we've seen but a trophy none-the-less. We took a couple of photos and got to work skinning and quartering the buck so we could make the hike out before the sun set. 11 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
stanley Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Very cool!!! Awesome for Noah! Thanks for sharing with the site! S. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CatfishKev Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Awesome! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Red Rabbit Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Nice to read that goals have come to fruition. Congrats Noah! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
SO I HUNT Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Congratulations on a great buck and story... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Allforelk Report post Posted November 20, 2016 Awesome! Congratulations! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tikka Report post Posted November 21, 2016 Sweet congrats to the two of you... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
StraightTequilaNight Report post Posted November 21, 2016 Great buck. Congratulations! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mocha1545 Report post Posted November 22, 2016 Great Buck! Congrats to both of you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
trophyspike Report post Posted December 4, 2016 Hard work forever pays. Good job! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cola Blanca Report post Posted December 13, 2016 Great job, congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Game Planner Maps Report post Posted December 15, 2016 Couple of nice bucks, congrats! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Havasuhunter Report post Posted December 20, 2016 Very nice Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
