CouesWhitetail

Thanks for all the kind replies! I had a great hunt and am looking forward to resting my tired legs for a bit! After getting my buck, we backpacked in after a big buck Scott saw, but we really only had one morning up there and it was blowing like crazy so the big boy didn't show himself, so Scott and Trent came home empty-handed. But we had a great time and made some great memories! I will write up the story of the hunt soon and share it soon. Amanda

+1 Congrats on a great buck!

Awesome!

Wow, great looking whitetail bucks!

Very nice bucks! Love the dark antlers and your wide but is neat too! Thanks for sharing the hunt! Awesome bear!

Looking forward to the pics! Have a great time!

Awesome buck! Post the story too!

Thanks to all who participated in our 1st ever trail cam photo contest. It was a lot of fun! And the winners are..... (winners please email me at Amanda@coueswhitetail.com with your forum name, real name and mailing address so I can get your prizes to you). Best Coues: There were 255 votes in this category. GotCoues won with this photo of the big palmated buck. He got 76 votes (29.92% of the vote). GotCoues wins a Covert HR8.0 Trail Camera. here is the photo: Best Non-Coues photo: There were 186 votes in the category. Jigger won with the photo fo the fighting bears. He got 52 votes (27.96%). Jigger wins a "Badlands Reactor" pack. donated by sponsor Payson Outfitters! here is the photo: Funniest Trail Cam Photo: There were 209 votes in this category. Bowhunter4life won with the photo of the cow elk sticking it's tongue out. He got 91 votes (43.54%). Bowhunter4life wins a Havalon Knife. here is the photo:

P.S. love the hockey theme doug! Thanks for posting pics for me. Have to learn to do that from my droid.

Thanks everyone. I am typing this from my sleeping bag on a big mtn. We climbed 2000 ft to get to this spot. We saw scotts big buck this morning, but too far to get to on time. Only a small buck showed itself this evening. Tomorrow is the big day....hopefully I will have pics of a great buck to share.

I was out handing out some Prop 109 stickers and signs when I saw a truck on a lift at C&M service station. The truck had a CW.com sticker in the back window and I went over to introduce myself. Got to meet Shawn Cole (sp?) who unfortunately was having some AC troubles. Luckily they stopped at a great service station and they were being taken care of. Thanks Shawn for taking some stickers and signs to help support Prop 109!! Hope you get on your way soon. Amanda

Devin's phone number: 520-282-3444

Go get 'em!! Gorgeous buck!

Don't forget about the recipe page on CW.com...there are some good ones there for backstraps that could apply to tenderloin as well. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/recipes.htm

That's a nice plaque you made. Tell us more about her. Was she your friend or a relative?

They may have stopped giving out the lion tags with the big game tags. Used to be included, but sounds like you are out of luck. If they are not included, then like they told you, you have to buy a lion tag and then pay a daily fee to hunt. When were you told that your deer tag included a lion tag and was it by a SC Dept employee? As Coach alluded to, things can change fast out there and you can hear different things from different people. You might call again and ask.... or check their website for regulation info. They might have a notice on there about the change in tags.

Wow, nice buck!

WoW!!! Great looking buck, Congrats to the hunter!

Awesome buck! thanks for sharing it!

Awesome! I just got back from NH and Maine and it was moose season, saw a few go by in the back of pickups! Great eating!

Thanks for all the great birthday wishes!! I was on vacation out in NH/Maine for the last 10 days, so just saw everyone's posts. I had a great birthday! I will share some great fall color photos in another post about my trip! The scenery was spectacular!

Awesome, thanks for getting his cam back to him.

I had the pleasure of going up to Young last week for a workshop and was invited by Dale and Heather of Wild Heritage Taxidermy to come on by and see the shop and stay for dinner (thanks Dale and Heather!). Anyway, we had a great dinner but what I wanted to share with you was some pictures of Dale's work and also to let you know that Dale has entered a taxidermy contest that is coming up in a couple weeks in PHX. Dale has decided not to do a "show piece" just for the competition. Instead he will be using the work he is doing for some clients. This should be a true test of his "everyday" taxidermy skills. If you can win using your everday work, then that reflects very well on a taxidermist. Dale is still working on the pieces as we speak! He has some great ideas for them too and I can't wait to see the results. Dale spends a lot of time customizing forms for his customers. One of the mounts he will enter is a giant black bear for which there was no skull form large enough. So he had to make the skull much larger than usual to match the clients bear. here is a pic of him holding the skull form that he modified and he and my hubby are looking at the bear form and talking about Dale's ideas for the mount. Here are some mounts he has already completed but I don't think are going in the competition: and here are some forms he is customizing: a coati form And here is a pic of Dale and Heather with a lion that is going to the competition: Info on the competition: The Arizona Taxidermy Artists Association will be having its annual competition June 10-12, 2010. It is open to the public from 8am - 4 pm, Sat. June 12. It is at the Holiday Inn Phoenix West @ I-10 and 51st Ave. For more info: http://www.taxidermyataa.com/ If you can go and support Dale and Heather, please do! We may even have some of our other taxidermy sponsors entering the competition. And of course you will see some great taxidermy work, so this might be a great way to find your next taxidermist

Christian Williams (aka Stalkincoues, and the creator of the Range Snap) asked me to share some trail cam video of an elk they call Brutus. He is hoping to get this very nice bull during his archery hunt right now. Look at the neat nontyp points he has. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/video_clips/...y_wallowing.ASF http://www.coueswhitetail.com/video_clips/..._front_view.ASF

Butters sent me this one: