Characteristics

[COOSEFAN]

I've been asked several times now about the similarities that the bucks we've taken have. I can see the similarities in my '07 and Craigs beast, but Shorty's '07 and my '06 are quite a bit different I think. All these bucks came from the same area and the one thing that hold's true in all the deer we see and kill out of there is the very small G1's! It is neat to see the differences and similarities in antlers from one small area though! (i forgot what a stud Craig's buck was until i dug this pic back up!!!)

 

 

Craigs beast....

 

 

 

My '07........

 

 

 

Shorty's '07......

 

 

 

My '06.......

 

[firstcoueswas80]

Long G2's and the antlers seem to grow 'forward'

[iwannakillsomething]

cool pix.

thx. for sharing!!!!

[billrquimby]

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Coues deer chapter in my book. The publisher expects to release it in late 2008.

 

 

During the many years I was a newspaper’s outdoor editor I hung out at Tucson’s taxidermy and blacksmith shops during the hunting seasons, looking for stories for my twice-weekly columns. Newspapers still published photos of hunters with their trophies, and I saw and photographed a great many Coues whitetail bucks local hunters took during that period.

 

For a while I naively believed I could tell where a buck was taken by merely looking at its antlers.

 

Southern Arizona’s whitetails are found on and around so-called “sky islands,” small but rugged and high mountain ranges that are separated from each other by wide valleys that usually are inhabited by desert mule deer. There is very little movement of whitetails from one “island” to another, so a case could be made that these deer, isolated from others of their race, would develop characteristics that are distinctive to their home range.

 

The tips of the main beams on many Coues deer taken from one mountain, for example, might come close to touching while the tips of the antlers of many bucks from another range, for example, would be much farther apart, or so I believed.

 

I thought I had stumbled onto some undiscovered natural history fact until I realized I was guessing the kill sites of only about half the deer I inspected.

 

Tossing a coin would have given me similar results.

 

 

Bill Quimby

[COOSEFAN]

Here are a couple of paragraphs from the Coues deer chapter in my book. The publisher expects to release it in late 2008.

 

 

During the many years I was a newspaper’s outdoor editor I hung out at Tucson’s taxidermy and blacksmith shops during the hunting seasons, looking for stories for my twice-weekly columns. Newspapers still published photos of hunters with their trophies, and I saw and photographed a great many Coues whitetail bucks local hunters took during that period.

 

For a while I naively believed I could tell where a buck was taken by merely looking at its antlers.

 

Southern Arizona’s whitetails are found on and around so-called “sky islands,” small but rugged and high mountain ranges that are separated from each other by wide valleys that usually are inhabited by desert mule deer. There is very little movement of whitetails from one “island” to another, so a case could be made that these deer, isolated from others of their race, would develop characteristics that are distinctive to their home range.

 

The tips of the main beams on many Coues deer taken from one mountain, for example, might come close to touching while the tips of the antlers of many bucks from another range, for example, would be much farther apart, or so I believed.

 

I thought I had stumbled onto some undiscovered natural history fact until I realized I was guessing the kill sites of only about half the deer I inspected.

 

Tossing a coin would have given me similar results.

 

 

Bill Quimby

 

That's what I was figuring Thanks for the small look at your book, would love to buy a copy when it gets published! JIM>

[billrquimby]

"Thanks for the small look at your book, would love to buy a copy when it gets published! JIM>"

 

 

Jim: I'll post here when it's available. Craig Boddington is doing the foreword. It will not cover my hunts in South America, Europe, or the South Pacific (the publisher feels there's less interest in those places), but the other continents -- especially North America -- are well covered.

 

It will be the 13th book (the first about me) I've written since retiring from my post at SCI in 1999. I hope the number doesn't mean anything.

 

Bill Quimby

[CouesWhitetail]

Looking forward to that book Bill!

 

Amanda

[azcouesandelk]

Just to bring up an old topic. I took some pictures of the 3 bucks my dad and I were lucky enough to harvest over the past 2 years. All these bucks were shot within 500 yards of each other. My buck from this year and my dad's 2 point from last year have some similar characteristics with the way there antlers are shaped and the way the eyeguards are. It is hard to tell in the picture but on both buck th right eyeguard hooks slightly forward and the left eyeguard hooks slightly backwards.

 

 

 

 

I to am looking forward to your book Mr. Quimby.