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MY FIRST KAIBAB HUNT

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Spoke to seems like all five thousand hunters up there in 12A-East. There were a billion of them for sure.

All told the same story, no bucks, lots of does. . . .

 

I heard the guys across the street in 12A-W dropping the hammer every twenty minutes every day.

 

So I decided that I should not pass up the biggest buck I'd ever seen (with a tag in my pocket)

 

I don't imagine he is very big by Kaibab standards, but he is a brute in my eyes.

 

I popped him in the bottom of a canyon (the only canyon that I found green grass in)

he was with four other bucks, all small guys. I hit him with my 7mm Rem Mag at about 200 yards with one of those Copper bullets that were all suppoesed to shoot up there these days. He dropped in his tracks!

 

I can't believe how big his body was. . . 220 lbs! What a hog! They don't get that big down here where I hunt em with my bow!

 

Anyway I am excited to death to show off my first ever Kaibab buck. Yeah he's not the biggest one, but he's in the freezer baby!

 

Thanks for lookin.

 

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Very nice Buck. Congratulations for finding one of the few....

With all the other hunters seeing nothing you did good!

He does look like a big bodied deer!

Kaibab was loaded with hunters eh? Go figure.... :lol:

AZGFD must have looked that unit over real close and determined it was

Ripe for more opportunity!

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Congrats on a nice buck. Looks like he has been rubbing on some of those charcoal trees up there. Were many hunters in the Warm Fire burn area, or did it seem most hunted further south of the burn?

 

Doug~RR

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Great job!!! Were the deer coming off the top yet?

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Great job on a great buck on what sounds like a tough hunt. Congrats to you on a successfull hunt.

 

Phil

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Thanks to all for the kind words. Truth be known I am awful excited!

 

I saw a lot of hunters in all the spots, but most of them in that burned out area.

 

Can't wait until next year! Gonna try to go bigger!

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