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quail are great to eat!! The quail species in AZ are pretty distinctive, but spend some time looking at photos of them to be sure you know what you are shooting. The gambel's quail are the most common and generally found in desert areas. Scaled quail are most often found in flat grasslands. The Mearn's quail are found in oak/grasslands and sometimes up in the pine country. Each quail behaves differently when approached too. The gambels flush fairly easily. The scaled quail like to run on the ground to get away. The Mearn's quail hold tight and explode from under your feet.

Congratulations on your buck! I am so glad to hear you are ok after that quad rolled over you. wow, scary stuff! Don't forget to enter your buck in the Coues Buck contest! They don't have to be monsters to win something! We have a smallest buck category and also will give a prize to some randomly picked people who enter the contest. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/Coues_Buck_Contest_2011/coues_buck_contest_2011-12.htm

Cool!! Congrats on the pig and I love the hunt diary...keep it coming!

I love it!! Thanks for starting a mystery DB! Hope to see the pic of you and your quarry soon

Very well written story! I loved it, thanks for taking the time to write it up and share your success with us! Don't forget to enter your buck into the Coues Buck Contest! http://www.coueswhitetail.com/Coues_Buck_Contest_2011/coues_buck_contest_2011-12.htm

Congrats!! Happy New Year to you and your family!

Bill's post just reminded me that these tacos make great left overs to eat out in the field while hunting. The refrigerated tacos were wrapped up in aluminum foil and tossed in our packs. We ate those tacos on our deer hunt for left overs and they are awesome when you are hungry while glassing! In fact we rarely made it past 10 am before we broke into the tacos!

Thanks Shelvin and Happy New Year to everyone! Hopefully it will be a productive and happy one for our many members!

Awesome!! that's just so cool! I would love to see it in person sometime! You have it up at the shop now for people to check out?

How come you guys that are seeing all these lions are killing any?? Just too far to go after? Or don't want to waste time on a lion while you are deer hunting? I know one guy in this thread said he wounded one, but sounds like no one else is even hunting them?

Taco Party at Scott's house!!

The original photo is a color transparency/slide. I scanned it into my computer and did some quick PhotoShop work to make the background monochrome. It is not my best effort as I was rushed at the time; however, I think it makes the photo look more interesting. My dad just laughs at all the camo clothing my son and I have accumulated over the years. He always wore some type of denim trousers with a plaid shirt - he still has taken more big game than my son and me. He tells me all he ever did was keep himself downwind as much as possible and the quarry really didn't care what he was wearing. His hunting buddy on the right was an USAF fighter pilot (flew F-104's) and shot his speed goat with .38 special S&W pistol. Dad said he would rarely hunt with a rifle and preferred the challenge of getting into pistol range. Both he and my dad shot on the USAF Rifle/Pistol team. They were very good shots with either weapon. Very cool. I just got the new Photoshop elements and it has some neat new features in that I want to mess with.

Ok, with more and more hunters trying their hand at long range shooting, I thought there would be some of you that have stories about missing a shot at a deer or elk because you didn't take into account the effect the steep angle had on your shot distance. If you don't already know, a steep angle (either up or down) will make it so that the distance your range finder might measure to your deer is not the same distance as your actual horizontal distance you should use for the shot. You can see a diagram of this effect and read more about it on the CouesWhitetail.com Shot Placement page here: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/shot_placement/shot_placement.htm Anyway, forum member Jim Boyd created a product that helps you measure the angle of the shot and then you use a table to calculate the true distance of the shot. Jim has graciously donated several of these items to CouesWhitetail.com and I thought it would be fun to give them away to people who share a story about missing a shot due to the angle issue. so the first 20 people posting a story about a hunt you have been on that was affected by a steep angle shot will receive one of these units made by Jim. It can be your hunt or a friend's hunt that you were on, but share your story about what happened and what you learned from the experience. This will be a great way to teach some folks about how significant it can be to know the angle of the shot. Thank you Jim for donating your product. Jim had a business making these, but he closed the business and has donated the extra inventory he had to CouesWhitetail.com. This is a great product for those of us who don't want to spend the extra money on an angle compensating range finder. just throw this in your pack and use it in conjunction with a regular range finder anytime you have steep angle for a shot.

Casey, we always make a lot because it's easy to eat a ton of these tastey tacos!! My husband said he never liked tacos before I started making them this way! It's making me want to go make some just looking at these pics! Amanda

do you want to do the whole thing? In other words do you want to fry the tortillas or do you want to buy pre-made shells and fill them? For tacos that I make from game meat, I usually use ground meat, but cubed meat would work if it's soft enough. Is it already cooked? If not, I would crock pot the cubed meat in a little beef bouillon (maybe add some green chilis to it)overnight until really tender and then use that for taco meat. I learned how to make homemade tacos from my buddy Scott and love them! I use garlic and cumin to season my taco meat, but Scott uses just garlic salt, so it's up to you what you season it with. You can buy taco seasoning at the store and just use that as well. I use the soft corn tortillas, put raw seasoned meat on one half and then put the tortilla in hot oil in a deep frying pan to crisp it up. Shortly after putting the flat tortilla with the meat in the hot oil, you want to use metal utensils to fold it in half like a regular taco shell. Once it's done to your liking, take the tacos out of the oil and let them drain on paper towels. Fill tacos with whatever you want. I use shredded cheese, chopped tomatoes, cilantro, lettuce and chopped onions. Taco sauce is nice too. Some pics: You can see a tortilla with the meat spread on it in the right hand side of pic. You can season the meat on the taco or pre-season the whole batch.

Cool photo! I like how you edited the colors. Was it originally a color photo that you turned the background to black and white or vice versa?

Congratulations and Welcome!! Great first post

Where do you like to go to have chorizo, brats, polish kielbasa or spicy Italian sausage made? I have my first javelina hunt in Feb and have been wondering about a good place to have sausage made. here are a couple that I recommend. Miller's Southwestern Processing. They make some great sausage and are a sponsor of CW.com! They are in queen creek and you can stop by and sample what they have to offer. http://southwesternprocessing.com/ Browning's Custom Meat offers 10% off for CouesWhitetail.com members, call Jeremy at Browning's Custom Meat Processing - 928-978-3512

Very coool Pixman!! I love that you are documenting the hybrids in that area.

Great lookin' buck!! and nice shirt!!! don't forget to enter him in the Coues Buck contest http://www.coueswhitetail.com/Coues_Buck_Contest_2011/coues_buck_contest_2011-12.htm

+1 looks like Walmart sells them online for $87

+1!!

I wouldn't wait for him to call you, give him a ring and get a date set up to get down there!

Wow! Awesome buck Brian!! Congratulations! I just saw the pic today since Doug posted the link in the coues buck contest. Stud buck!!!!

Gorgeous buck Casey!! Congratulations and nice shootin'!!!!!!! don't forget to enter him in the coues buck contest..... http://www.coueswhitetail.com/Coues_Buck_Contest_2011/coues_buck_contest_2011-12.htm oh and nice shirt!!