AZ Coues hunters headed to Colorados GMU 74

[TyThur111386]

[TyThur111386]

[Outdoor Writer]

9 hours ago, TyThur111386 said:

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So tell us a bit about the hunt. Did you wind up backpacking in? Where about did you hunt?

[Bowtechian84]

On 10/30/2019 at 5:54 AM, Outdoor Writer said:

So tell us a bit about the hunt. Did you wind up backpacking in? Where about did you hunt?

Hey guys, I just realized little brother had a thread going .. I was jumping on to thank Jay Scott Outdoors .. I no sounds cheesy... but I work a lot of hours and I had to of listened to every pod cast related to Colorado or high country Muleys at least twice, my brother had ta’of gotten sick of me calling acting like I knew what I was talking about , only because I’d been getting pointers from the man himself and some of his awesome guests, the things that they share is nuts .. not how my old man was when I was growing up , we kept to ourselves, but times have changed and I think it’s pretty cool , so much info to our hunting community can only help for trips like the one I just got to take with my brother. Once it was a dream, Now just another awesome memory of what we love to do in spending our time off from work and family In the beautiful outdoors.. Gods Country.. Huge thanks to Jay and his podcast guests ,  If you’ve never listened to his podcasts I highly recommend. To answer your question Outdoor Writer we stayed up on top between 10.5-12,000 feet. Despite what the locals were saying we were in does, forks and spikes every day along with lots of does with fawns...  We just couldn’t leave them knowing the bucks had to be close. It snowed and rained daily .. highs of 14 degrees and the wind blowed what felt like 30 mph literally everyday, all day  .. but..  we stayed after it cause that’s what ya do right?? never slept in and hunted till dark everyday. Drove back to the camp daily though , I wasn’t sleeping on the hill, my Phoenician butt was froze all day everyday. By the 5th day the locals were popping up on top and we no longer had it to ourselves.. little brother was tagged out quick,  he don’t mess around .. he really is modest , guys a killer .. I’m was so frikn proud of him .. it wasn’t the first hour of the first day when I got word he smoked A solid buck..  one an done .. so FF now it’s been on me and the weather was trying to get to me .. we’re on day 6 now when all the sudden the wind just stopped, first light.. I’m hiking into a spot I had a hunch on , it was exactly what I’d been hoping for so I hustled to where I wanted to be and sure as heck threw up the 15s .... 5 bucks , 2 shooters 400 yards and I was dialing... the wind picked up just as quick as it had stopped . I needed to move . The bucks were headed back down to bed as soon as it picked up , I dialed to 300 and thought if I can get to 3 I can make it work.. Started to crawl so I wasn’t exposed to the three small bucks still up higher,  with the wind covering my noise I was able to flat move , got a range..  I was right at 330 yards .. good enough set up and had a tight hole where the 2 better bucks were working towards, the crabby 4x stepped in my lane and I Poleaxed him .. I was done , it happened so quick and I watched the big 3x3 run up the hill to the other 3 small bucks ... questioning if I’d shot the right buck , he was solid .. not real tall but had some mass , but , it is what it is and I couldn’t be happier with our first Colorado hunt .. my first rifle mule deer tag I’ll add. So I’ve been hunting with my dad since I was aloud to tag along .. I was 9-10 I guess .. it’s been something inside of me I haven’t been able to control since I was a boy and I hope It's always that way .. My dad doesn’t hunt mule deer , never has and has no desire to he’s a whitetail deer hunter .. just how he is and how I was raised, not that I never got an itch for a muley I’ve chased them with my bow but I just couldn’t ever pass hunting WT .. just not worth it to me , I flat out live for my coues hunts every year.. so when we got this idea to draw outta state muley tags and still get to hunt coues, I could give that a go.. and honestly I hunted these high Muley’s same as I’d hunt our deer at home .. hike and glass... so our whitetail hunt kicks off after thanksgiving and starting to get pumped!! Sorry for the novel fellas but it was awesome experience.. oh and to be honest he eats great! Happy hunting friends and congrats to all the guys done already .. I’ve seen some toads this year hoping we can add to that bone pile 

god bless! 👊🏼😎 

 

Edited November 4, 2019 by Bowtechian84
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[TyThur111386]

On 11/3/2019 at 9:39 PM, Bowtechian84 said:

Hey guys, I just realized little brother had a thread going .. I was jumping on to thank Jay Scott Outdoors .. I no sounds cheesy... but I work a lot of hours and I had to of listened to every pod cast related to Colorado or high country Muleys at least twice, my brother had ta’of gotten sick of me calling acting like I knew what I was talking about , only because I’d been getting pointers from the man himself and some of his awesome guests, the things that they share is nuts .. not how my old man was when I was growing up , we kept to ourselves, but times have changed and I think it’s pretty cool , so much info to our hunting community can only help for trips like the one I just got to take with my brother. Once it was a dream, Now just another awesome memory of what we love to do in spending our time off from work and family In the beautiful outdoors.. Gods Country.. Huge thanks to Jay and his podcast guests ,  If you’ve never listened to his podcasts I highly recommend. To answer your question Outdoor Writer we stayed up on top between 10.5-12,000 feet. Despite what the locals were saying we were in does, forks and spikes every day along with lots of does with fawns...  We just couldn’t leave them knowing the bucks had to be close. It snowed and rained daily .. highs of 14 degrees and the wind blowed what felt like 30 mph literally everyday, all day  .. but..  we stayed after it cause that’s what ya do right?? never slept in and hunted till dark everyday. Drove back to the camp daily though , I wasn’t sleeping on the hill, my Phoenician butt was froze all day everyday. By the 5th day the locals were popping up on top and we no longer had it to ourselves.. little brother was tagged out quick,  he don’t mess around .. he really is modest , guys a killer .. I’m was so frikn proud of him .. it wasn’t the first hour of the first day when I got word he smoked A solid buck..  one an done .. so FF now it’s been on me and the weather was trying to get to me .. we’re on day 6 now when all the sudden the wind just stopped, first light.. I’m hiking into a spot I had a hunch on , it was exactly what I’d been hoping for so I hustled to where I wanted to be and sure as heck threw up the 15s .... 5 bucks , 2 shooters 400 yards and I was dialing... the wind picked up just as quick as it had stopped . I needed to move . The bucks were headed back down to bed as soon as it picked up , I dialed to 300 and thought if I can get to 3 I can make it work.. Started to crawl so I wasn’t exposed to the three small bucks still up higher,  with the wind covering my noise I was able to flat move , got a range..  I was right at 330 yards .. good enough set up and had a tight hole where the 2 better bucks were working towards, the crabby 4x stepped in my lane and I Poleaxed him .. I was done , it happened so quick and I watched the big 3x3 run up the hill to the other 3 small bucks ... questioning if I’d shot the right buck , he was solid .. not real tall but had some mass , but , it is what it is and I couldn’t be happier with our first Colorado hunt .. my first rifle mule deer tag I’ll add. So I’ve been hunting with my dad since I was aloud to tag along .. I was 9-10 I guess .. it’s been something inside of me I haven’t been able to control since I was a boy and I hope It's always that way .. My dad doesn’t hunt mule deer , never has and has no desire to he’s a whitetail deer hunter .. just how he is and how I was raised, not that I never got an itch for a muley I’ve chased them with my bow but I just couldn’t ever pass hunting WT .. just not worth it to me , I flat out live for my coues hunts every year.. so when we got this idea to draw outta state muley tags and still get to hunt coues, I could give that a go.. and honestly I hunted these high Muley’s same as I’d hunt our deer at home .. hike and glass... so our whitetail hunt kicks off after thanksgiving and starting to get pumped!! Sorry for the novel fellas but it was awesome experience.. oh and to be honest he eats great! Happy hunting friends and congrats to all the guys done already .. I’ve seen some toads this year hoping we can add to that bone pile 

god bless! 👊🏼😎 

 

Its took me over a month to read that comment but im pretty sure Big bro covered most of it. 😂 

 

but all joking aside we have been very blessed this season. I managed to smoke a solid high country Colorado Mule deer, filled my white mountain cow tag and just finished tagged out on a great southern arizona coues deer. I have over 200lbs of the best meat a man could ask for. That should hold me and the family over for most of the year.