1. What is your name? How about your user name in the forum and how did you choose it?

Bill Quimby and BillRQuimby. I dislike pseudonyms.

2. What is your favorite part of CouesWhitetail.com (the forum, photogallery, recipes, hunt strategies section, biology section, etc.)?

The forums.

3. How did you first hear about CouesWhitetail.com? How long have you been a member?

I became member number 46 in June 2003, the same day Amanda’s husband called to tell me about the site.

4. How often do you visit the site? How much time do you spend each visit and what do you do on the site?

I spend too much time on the internet, and about a third of that time is spent in the CouesWhitetail.com forums. The other two thirds are spent on two African hunting forums.

5. Have you met any other members of the site? Who are they and have you become friends with them and perhaps gone hunting with them? Have you introduced some of your friends to CouesWhitetail.com? Have you attended any of the CouesWhitetail.com Get-togethers?

I’ve known bullwidgeon for a long time, and his grandparents are among our best friends. I had lunch with RedRabbit last summer when he visited Greer during an archery tournament at Sunrise Ski Resort. Have not attended any get-togethers, but it is only because there were conflicts with other events. It would nice to put faces to members’ user names.

6. How long have you been hunting Coues deer? Describe your favorite Coues Deer hunting memory.

I hunted Coues deer off and on in virtually every southern Arizona unit for close to four decades until heart problems that keep me from climbing steep hills or walking very far made it impossible to hunt them any more. There were many memorable Coues deer hunts when I still was fit, but I especially remember a buck that fell off a ledge and died in a tree. I described the incident in my book, “Sixty Years A Hunter” (Safari Press 2010). Also memorable were several one-day hunts with taxidermist John Doyle, the inventor of the “Moses stick” and the original pioneer in using quality optics to hunt Arizona game.

7. Do you archery hunt Coues or rifle hunt or both? Tell us about the equipment you use.

Can’t draw a bow now after a pickup truck fell on my arm while I was changing a tire on my desert sheep hunt in the Little Horns. Took a number of javelinas with long bows and recurve bows, and unsuccessfully hunted mule deer, pronghorn and elk with the same bows, but never bowhunted a whitetail anywhere with any type of bow. After realizing I wasn’t dedicated enough to practice regularly to become a skilled archer, I hung up my bows and went back to using muzzleloaders and rifles in every caliber from .22 to .54 before settling on the 7 mm Remington Magnum.

8. What other species do you enjoy hunting and where do you hunt them?

Have taken more than fifty different types of big game animals (including all ten Arizona species) on six continents. Enjoy hunting all types of big game, but heart problems restrict a lot of what I can do now. The answer to your question, though, is any type of antlered game. I’ve taken seventeen types across the U.S.A., and in Canada, Mexico, Spain, New Zealand and Mongolia, including three subspecies of mule deer, four subspecies of elk/red deer and four subspecies of white-tailed deer. I took some good heads before I ran out of space to hang them and outgrew the need to hunt for “trophies.” Now, deer is what’s for dinner.

9. Now tell us some more about yourself. Where do you live? What type of work do you do (feel free to mention your business so other members can help support it)? Tell us about your family.

Jean and I were married at age twenty in 1956 after knowing each other since we were toddlers in Yuma. We have one daughter and two adult grandchildren and now spend about five months at our little cabin in Greer and the rest of the year in Tucson. She was a secretary to principals at Amphi Public Schools for more than twenty years before retiring in 1990. I was the Tucson Citizen’s outdoor editor from 1967 to 1994, and an independent contractor editing and publishing SCI’s magazine, newspapers, and record books from 1983 to 1999, when I retired and began writing books with international hunting themes. There now are more than a dozen in print and another is in the works. Received the Peter Hathaway Capstick International Literary Award in 2003, and was inducted into the Arizona Outdoor Hall of Fame in 2007.

10. Is there something we forgot to ask? What's your favorite hunting quote? Favorite hunting book? Other outdoor activities you enjoy?

My favorite hunting quote is from Spanish philosopher Jose Ortega y Gassett’s “Meditations On Hunting.” He wrote: “One does not hunt to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted.” A close second is my own “I hunt because I must, and I will hunt until I can’t.” My favorite hunting books are Robert Ruark’s “Use Enough Gun” and Peter Capstick’s “Death In The Long Grass.” My “other” outdoor activity is driving back roads at first and last light at least once a week to watch elk near Greer.