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My daughter was able to kill this coues buck this morning on the youth hunt here in SW New Mexico.

Just a reminder for all the late hunters - check those monitors - when running your heaters in this cold ! I needed an antelope cape for a replacement from one of my clients that ruined his this year - and I’ve got a good friend in Wyoming , that has a good friend that’s a taxidermist there , so I reached out to him this week to have him ask the guy if he had some extras - and he Informed me of the very sad & tragic news that his buddy and another friend had went on a hunt a few weeks ago and went to bed that night and neither one ever woke up …. have fun on your hunts , but most importantly make it back to your families ! Good luck to everyone !

With a little imagination, this could be quite the story. But, the truth really isn’t that interesting. We were hunting where we had been, for a ram that we had seen previously. From my understanding, the other group was doing the same a few miles away for a ram that they had seen. While trying to relocate our ram, we stumbled right into the ram that we killed. According to the other group, it is the ram that they had seen previously. I’m not sure what we would do differently. When they came to our camp, we gave the other group info that night on where to hunt for the ram that we had been after, which is a heck of a big ram. If anybody that was actually there feels that they were wronged, we haven’t heard about it. I hope that clears it up. -Riley Pearson

Absolutely not. They wouldn’t do that. The ram moved and they lost him. Our guys found him and shot him. Then we told the other hunter about another big ram we had seen which their hunter shot.

My daughter turned 10 this year and was time to get her hunting big game. She got her first javelina in February. After that it was time for the fall draw. We were hopeful she would draw an early rifle tag. My Dad, wife, and myself all drew deer tags and she didn’t draw to our surprise. I was able to get her a leftover muzzleloader tag after the fact that we made the best of. She missed one buck the 2nd day we were out. The following day she passed on a couple 2x2 bucks. I found this buck shortly after bedded and the pursuit was on. Took us 2 hours to get up to the buck and get her in position for the shot. She killed this buck at 190 yards. Broke his G2 tumbling into the canyon below. She was a trooper and got herself a great first deer.

Well my best friend Waldo called me on the last evening to apply . I told him with only having 8 points just apply for the units with the most tags. The results came out and he had tag number 5 for unit 45C . I quickly called Eric Hunt with Arizona Desert Outfitters. It was a no brainer Waldo hired him for this once in a life time hunt. Our guides on this hunt would be Bryan and Riley they had spent a lot of time in this unit and there knowledge played a huge part in Waldos success. A few days before the hunt they sent a photo of a giant ram they had found. Well as rams do he disappeared on them we got word they were out in full force trying to relocate him. On our drive down we got word that they had not been able to relocate are target ram but had found even a larger ram. Waldos luck continues ,opening morning found us on a 2 hour hike to get to the ram. Riley had found this ram Thursday afternoon watched him till dark then spent the night out there with him so he could keep eyes on him. Luckily the ram stayed in the same area so once we arrived Waldo made a great 400 yard shot and was done by 7:30 opening morning . Cant thank Arizona Desert Outfitters enough special thanks again to Bryan and Riley

Dang Gina!!

On crispi website, I just bought some Nevadas for $100 off …I think that’s a good deal ..

I'm still processing so much from the last several days and there is so much to celebrate and honor. First and foremost, I'm still so thrilled to be able to hunt with my daughter, Sydney, again and to have both Syd and my son, Jacob, with me. We couldn’t get Sydney’s tag filled before she had to go back to UofA and that’s my one sadness. However, after her taking several years away to find herself in life, I was beyond thrilled that she wanted to deer hunt again and I got to be with her. It was a very strange feeling to be the center of attention for filling a tag after Syd left back for school. My buddy tagged out on a nice Coues buck Sunday morning, and we shifted focus Sunday night and Monday morning to finding me a buck I'd be happy with. We traveled deeper into a spot Sunday afternoon, and we weren't disappointed. I knew where I wanted to be Monday morning, if we didn't find something Sunday night. I ended up glassing up a young-ish 2x2 with about 30 minutes of shooting light left. It was a legal buck, and I could fill my tag on a Coues buck for the first time since 2005. He just didn't make my heart sing and I didn't really want to kill a young buck just to fill a tag, no matter how much I wanted meat in the freezer. I hem-hawed enough to waste shooting light and the sunset decided for me for the night, anyway. As we were packing up and heading back to camp, I got a text from another dear friend who reminded me the next day was Veteran's Day. That kicked a dust storm of emotions I wasn't expecting. I knew I had to do something to honor dad and his buddies, so I knew if I saw that buck again, it was my sign from God, dad, and Goose. It was hard to get up Monday morning, but we got up and hit our spot early to make sure nobody beat us there. We finally glassed up my 2x2 from the night before, but I realized in the daylight, he just wasn't what I wanted. Right around 0815, I glassed up a buck, but couldn't make out any detail. Christian told me I needed to shoot that buck, so we got everything set up for a longer shot. Jacob was amazing at calling out scope adjustments for me while Christian was ranging. It was a group effort keeping me calm and steady and I appreciate everyone involved. It turns out my scope, rifle, and I have some issues we need to resolve, and I missed more than I want to admit, but I finally connected. It also took more shots than I want to admit, but I finally put him out of his misery and took my biggest Coues buck to date (76-7/8"). There was absolutely nothing flat about where he was and one of my shots was prone laying uphill. I'll let you figure out how many times I kept sliding downhill. We had work to do, and I appreciate everyone's help in getting great photos and the deer field dressed on a steep hill. I managed to keep all my emotions in when I recovered and tagged my buck. Back at the UTV was a different story. I had finally met my last post-surgery recovery goal from two years ago. Challenge Accepted Day ~800 and I packed out most of my own deer down a crazy steep, loose-rocky hillside and I felt strong and steady doing it. I sent a text to one of my dad's buddies that I'm close to and that's when the emotions overtook me, and I had to step away. I did my best to honor my dad and the rest of Task Force Black from Nov 11, 1967 on Nov 11, 2024. Sorry for the sideways pics, I never can get them rotated correctly.

ASU almost blew it yesterday but that was a good win. 1 win away from the Big 12 title game. Its all on the kitties to try to ruin the devils season.

After a couple missed opportunities Friday and Saturday, a buddy’s son spotted this guy bedded at 288 yards. My son decided it was the deer for him and the rest is history. Fantastic hunt and experience. Couldn’t be prouder

You sound upset

Good reminder for late hunts! But, monoxide, not dioxide. Neithers good for ya

not reading that wall of text 9-2 idiot pick one

Yeah 2 things that 4th down and honestly as out of line as it was I wouldn’t have scolded scattebo for signing that football.

Cope

dudes probably been drinking all day watching football is what I was thinking.

We did absolutely nothing wrong. We parked hours before daylight and hiked for hours to get to where the ram was. We saw absolutely nobody why we were in the field. Whoever SpotNStalk is wasn’t even there so he’s getting secondhand knowledge from the other guide and hunter . It just really crappy that somebody’s trying to make it sound like we did something wrong instead of just being happy that Waldo killed the ram of a lifetime. It’s kind of funny that the Hunter and the guide and a bunch of their people showed up at our camp that evening to take a look at the ram and it seem like everybody was getting along, but somebody wasn’t happy that we killed the ram instead of them

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A few years ago I had a flat tire by Table Mesa. It was my second of the trip and no spare left. While I waited for my son to bring me a spare I hiked around the edge of table Mesa close to I-17. I found muley tracks that were bigger than my 300 Wby cases. Fresh pellets and all. There was a big bodied bruiser in there somewhere

I don’t think you know what salty means. yeah, I just didn’t want to derail the OPs thread and their awesome ram that they earned.

Good to hear. I know that even on regular hunts competition is fierce and sometime ethics aren't what they should be.

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190AF6FE-A47D-4F59-96CC-D63A33C13729 (2).HEIC EFC54FB3-0066-43EC-BBCC-F5660BC58FE0.HEIC WELL, I'M GLAD I CAN SHOOT STRAIGHT BECAUSE I SURLLY CAN'T PUT A BEENIE ON STRAIGHT. I GOT THIS 6X6 WITH MULTIBLE BREAKS ON THE VERY LAST AFTERNOON OF A LONG HUNT. PRETTY TIRED. SEEN ALOT OF SMALL ONES. 2 QUALITY BULLS BUT COUDNT GET A SHOT OFF. ALOT OF HUNTERS DISTURBING THE AREA. HAPPY TO GET THIS ONE WITH MY BROTHER AND HIS SON. THATS WHAT IS ALL ABOUT. IMG_1503.HEIC ELKMARCOJR.HEIC

Dumb post. But if we lose 103 - 47 to Duke like ASU did then I will agree with you. Congrats on your football team. They are playing really good. Hopefully UofA can keep the territorial cup here in Tucson.