CouesWhitetail

Hope you have another successful toy drive! I am so sorry you had to go through losing your son, but it's great you are doing something to benefit the kids at Phoenix Children's hospital. You might remember that we did a fundraising campaign her on CW.com a couple years ago and raised a couple thousand dollars for them. They are a great hospital doing some excellent work for kids.

nice! You should try your hand at adding them to the Trail Camera Photogallery on the new non-forum part of the site: www.coueswhitetail.com

I suggest you buy National Geographic's TOPO! program for AZ. It has all the topo maps for entire state and you can print them out whenever you want. You can add waypoints and plot out other info as well. Generally when you hunt you will only hunt a few square miles on any given day and you can just print that part out and take it with you.

Call Mike Leas....he has an RV shop up in Payson....he might be able to help....928-468-7878

Thanks for posting the links and info!

hahahaha....I am sure you guys didn't mind getting side tracked like that!

Randy Epperson....rimrock outfitters, a sponsor of the site....give him a call or shoot him an email. Tony provided the link above.

Awesome...

Info on our elk contest is here: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/2012/09/2012-13-elk-contest/ In order to be eligible for the big bull contest here, you just have to be a registered forum member before you elk hunt starts. Then after your hunt you must post your photo and hunt story in the forum and then email me the link to that post in order to be entered in the contest. Thx for your interest and good luck on the hunt! By the way, I am looking for someone to help coordinate this contest, so if anyone is interested, please email me!

Wow! Good luck on your hunt!

I have cleaned a bunch of skulls before and have found that maceration is a great way to do it. Just cut off as much flesh as possible and then put it in a five gallon bucket of water with a lid on it and let it sit for several weeks/months, depending on temperature. But as has been mentioned already, the real key with skull cleaning is degreasing and that's where you have to learn what chemicals to use and spend quite a bit of time on it. As far as beetles go, I have only heard that they are a pain and can be hard to keep alive and all. My suggestion is to use a professional...the time you save is worth more than the money you might save with your own beetle colony. Look up sponsor CMC skullworks for a highly recommended professional who uses beetles to clean skulls. You might even call him and see what he thinks about your idea to do your own colony. http://www.cmcskullw....com/index.html If you decide you really want to do it yourself, you can get a lot of great information on how to do it at taxidermy.net

You Sir are a retard! Just thought it was a funny picture, i'll pull it if need be or the admin can if they wish. dang, I wanted to see the pic. People take stuff way to serious and personal, getting offended by everything so the pic has to get deleted so as to not hurt anyones "feelings" Oh and I am half mexican and support this bill 100%. If you're legal you have nothing to worry about. If you're not legal than you are the problem. Go back. As far as profiling goes, who gives a crap. Of course they're going to profile. When probly 80% of AZ's illegals are hispanic (just throwing a # out there and probly on the low end) and your trying to catch illegals, who the heck are you gonna be looking at? It's pure common sense. If you're offended because they ask you then you again are part of the problem. The picture did not get pulled....it's on page 1 of the thread. I think it's a pretty humorous represenation of how some people view this bill, now whether it's an accurate depiction of the bill is up for debate.

Congratulations!!

Excellent video!! Congratulations on a fine hunt!

+1! Congrats to all you bowhunters! And thanks for sharing your adventures with us!

Pics please!

One thing I learned is that hunting slow isn't usually the best way to hunt elk. You generally will have to cover a lot of miles and it's very hard to get in front of them if you don't move quickly. So my advice, in addition to those ideas mentioned above is to be more aggressive than you normally are when hunting other game. Getting between the elk and their bedding areas is a great suggestion, as long as you keep the wind right.

Congratulations on a fine buck with a bow!

WoW! Great buck....congratulations! Looks like a perfect shot!

Ouch.....that's terrible.....I had my Jeep stolen many years ago in another state and it's no fun. We got it back eventually, some kids just took it for a rough joy ride. I hope you get yours back! At least the sticker will help make it noticeable!

Wow, way to go!!! Great buck and great story! I love reading your stories Tracy!!

Glad it worked out ok, wow, what a scary thing to have happen!

Very nice!

Awesome!! was it spot and stalk?

Yes, that was me!! I was up there on my church campout. Every year we do a campout there and hold the Sunday service at the ramadas. My fellow church goers were helping me fix my camper from the damage that bear did to it a month or two ago. I hadn't had a chance to fix it yet, but thanks to their help I am good to go! I wish I had seen you up there! I did see a father and his two sons, playing around with a couple bows, but it didn't look like you near as I could tell! They were playing with some of the kids from our church and said they were camped in the other main camping area there....maybe they were with your group?