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Fall/Winter 2010-11 Coues Whitetail Buck Contest
CouesWhitetail.com will again be sponsoring a COUES BUCK CONTEST for the sixth
year. The contest's purpose is to garner interest in the beloved Coues whitetail
and this website, and to share our hunt successes and pleasures from chasing the
gray ghost.
We are currently accepting donations for prizes. This can be hunting
equipment, books, or money to help pay for shipping the prizes to winners.
If you have something you would like to donate, please email Amanda
(amanda@coueswhitetail.com).
View current list of prizes and donations.
Eligibility:
This contest is open to registered members of CouesWhitetail.com and their
immediate families living in the same home (i.e.- husband, wife, son, daughter,
sister, brother). If your family members who are not living with you in the same
home, or your hunting buddies, are not forum members, please have them register
for the forums. You must be a registered
forum member before your hunt starts in order to
enter your deer in the contest. Deer must be taken legally
between August 1, 2010 and February 7, 2011 from Arizona, New Mexico and/or
Mexico. If you have multiple tags, i.e. from different states, you may enter
deer from each hunt.
Contest Categories (13):
Youth (ages 10-17) - largest Coues buck
Youth (ages 10-17) - smallest Coues buck
Archery- Highest P&Y gross Typical frame Coues
Archery- Highest P&Y gross Non-typical Coues
AZ&NM rifle- highest gross B&C Typical frame Coues
AZ&NM rifle- highest gross B&C Non-typical Coues
Mexico rifle- highest gross B&C Typical frame Coues
Mexico rifle- highest gross B&C Non-typical Coues
Smallest Coues buck
Best Field Photo of Harvested Deer (aka "Hero/Trophy" Photo) - Based on
composition
& quality of photograph, not antler size.
All contest photos will automatically be considered for this category.
This post may help with the taking of your photo:
http://forums.coueswhitetail.com/forums/in...?showtopic=3754
Best Spirit-of-the-Hunt Photograph- Captures the spirit and moment of the
hunt. These
may include photos of packing, hiking, glassing, camp, scenery with hunters,
etc.
(Field photos of harvested deer excluded).
Best Photo Essay of the Hunt- Best pictured story of the hunt with
numerous quality
photographs supported by a well-written story.
Best Junior Hunt Story as written by the Junior Hunter.
(Note: A buck may be entered in only one scoring category, ie. not in both
typical and non-typical)
Entry Fees & Prize Donations. There is no fee required to enter the
contest. You may wish to donate a piece of hunting equipment to the prize
packages. Prize donations are not required, but are appreciated. You may also
send a financial donation to help with shipping or purchasing of the prizes. To
donate monetarily, please send the money through the orange "donate" button on the
lefthand margin of the CouesWhitetail.com home page
and note it is for the contest. You may contact
Doug or
Amanda
regarding your donation. Prize packages, and the number of places, will
depend upon the number of prizes donated.
To enter your deer:
1. You must have registered in the
CouesWhitetail.com forum before your hunt started.
2. Post your picture
and hunt story in the
CouesWhitetail.com forum. If you have difficulty posting a picture,
this thread may help, or asking another member will certainly get it done.
http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=3721
3. Then, E-mail
Doug/Red Rabbit
the field photo of you and your deer, its gross B&C/P&Y score, and a link to the
story you posted. Amanda and Doug will post pictures on the home page and in
this contest thread.
If you do not post a
story, photo, and email the info to Doug/Red Rabbit, you will not be entered in
the contest. If you just wish to share your hunt but not enter the contest,
then do not send Doug your link, photo and score.
The contest will close
Feb 7, 2010. Entry photos with info/story must be posted in the forums and
received by Doug/Red Rabbit by Feb. 15, 2010.
Scoring your deer. Amanda has a nice "how-to" on the home page complete
with photos, instructions and downloadable score sheets. Again, the gross score
is needed for this contest. If the deer is a "spike, submit just the lengths of
the two spikes.
http://www.coueswhitetail.com/how_to_score..._Coues_deer.htm
Hope all of you will enter and have a successful Coues season.
Doug~RR
Current Prize list (this will be updated as
we get more items)
Thank you to all those who have donated!!
We really have some great prizes lined up this year!
Wild Heritage Taxidermy,
a sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com, is donating a shoulder mount to one of our
winners. The shoulder mount can be of an elk or smaller animal. And if you
want, you can even use this prize to get a life-size mount done of a
coyote-sized animal or smaller.
Weller's Wildlife Studio,
sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com, is donating a Coues Deer shoulder
mount. The photo here shows a mount they just finished for forum member
Jake (aka Tines) that scores 127 3/8.
Dan Lee of
Artist's Touch Taxidermy has donated $300 off a deer mount or $500 of an
elk mount. This can be applied to any type of mount but can only be used
by a new customer.
Jim White (Uni-Daptor) is donating one of his awesome
Jim
White tripod heads.
Ryan Deadmond (aka Youngbuck)
is donating a 65 quart Yeti cooler (retail value $329.99). Ryan is the
manager of Best Hardware in Apache
Junction, a current sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com.
Vortex Diamondback Riflescope - 4-12x40 donated by
Vortex with the help of Marshall McFarlane.
Vortex Diamondback 12x50 binoculars donated by
Vortex with the help of Marshall McFarlane.
10 day rental of Swarovski Spotting Scope or 15x56 Bino and tripod, including
shipping (retail value $240) donated by
Optics4Rent.com
Covert HR8.0
Trail Camera (retail value $250) donated by CouesWhitetail.com.
Sportsman's Warehouse
has donated $175 worth of Gift Cards. Plus
dozens of $10-off certificates.
Cameraland is donating an
Olympus
10-30x25 Zoom PC I binocular.
Framed Coues Deer print donated by Mike Grootegoed. This art is called
stipple or pointillism. There are millions of small dots that make up this
image of a bedded Coues buck.
Bear Mountain in Mesa
donated a free re-stringing of any compound bow with Winner's Choice string.
This is a high quality bow string!
 Jillian Whitten of
Whitten Gun Cases has donated
a gift certificate for a leather gun case with custom etching (up to $155).
The case can be etched with a logo or initials or an image.
 Jim Mullins (aka coosefan) of
Mullins Outfitters is donating a
complete
Kings Shadow Camo set. The set includes a hat, button shirt and pants.
Round Valley Arms (928-978-0058), sponsor of CouesWhitetail.com is donating
several knifes, soft gun cases, hats, shirts and coffee mugs with their logo on
them.
Complete Game Fresh system donated by
Trophy Bag Koolers and Marshall
McFarlane.
Brian Fish (aka Standman) is donating two $25 gift certificates to Bass Pro
Shops. And
Tony, Lauryn and Keevan Villegas have also donated two $25 gift cards to
Bass Pro Shops.
Arizona EZ Fletch Mini donated by
Archery Headquarters. New E-Z
Fletch "Mini" lets you fletch short BLAZER style vanes up to 2 ¼” with maximum
helical for more accurate arrow flight, specifically designed for shooting
tighter, more consistent groups when shooting with broadheads. The Mini is
perfect for carbon arrows, 5/16” (.3125) diameter or smaller.
 Craig Steele of CEI Outdoors
has donated 5 Outdoorsman's
Resource Guides. This is a great resource for finding almost anything
related to hunting, like archery shops, meat processors, game and fish offices,
law enforcement numbers, taxidermists, lodging and so much more. Check out
his website for more information.
Tommy Maldonado of Gila Wilderness Hunting
is donating a custom TOPO map 30"x30" of any place in NM or AZ.
Jeremy Browning has donated $50 off meat
processing at his new shop, Browning's Custom Meat Processing in
Payson. 928-978-3512.
Carl Pugliese (aka cpugsie) has donated
two packages of Rage KE 40 broadheads.
Tom Joiner (aka tjhunt2) donated a camo duffle bag and a pen made out of
antler (pen shown on top of bag in photo).
Northstar Video Productions
has donated two Vapor Trails and Whitetails DVDs.
Outdoor Experience 4 All
and Zeiss have donated a Zeiss Knive.
Monetary donations have been made by:
Josh Epperson (aka Grong) through his company
Nice Jons
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