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WAY TO GO MAN, CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Great story, thanks for sharing it!

What size? I've got a twin matress I'm not using.

The story was a little long but congrats on your buck anyways!

Exactly!

Let's have a little fun with this one. What's your best guess???

That buck is awesome!!!

HOLY BUCK!!!

Nice buck!!!

That's a great coues even if you've shot 1000 of 'em!!! Congrats!!!

That's one helluva story to go with one helluva buck! Congrats again Josh! I know what you mean about being sad. He's a special buck and a legend on this site.

Awesome Lance!!!

For those of you that were real close on him all I can say is, ''ARE YOU ON CRACK?'' If I had to guess on that picture I would have been in the mid 90's like a lot of you were. He definitely looks bigger in the picture than he is.

YOU ARE THE MAN!!! I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT BUT I WISH I COULD. CONGRATS ON A HARD EARNED TROPHY!!!

I told ya I liked this girl!!! :lol: What a firecracker!

I would guess older than that from the pic? Fantastic buck! Atta girl.

Both of you will never forget it. That' success in my book!

It only takes a second to change a bad hunt to a great hunt. Way to stick it out. Congrats on a real beauty!!!

Way to go Bret!!!!!!! That is definitely a buck of a lifetime!!!

That looks like a booner and then some!!! They don't make 3pts. much bigger than that one. Congrats on a buck of many lifetimes!!!

How was I cheating I was never told the score I was just guessing like everybody else! That's not what I heard???

Alright boys and girls, it's time to let the buck out of the bag. I just want everyone to know I didn't do this to make anybody look or feel stupid. I just wanted to show what you can do if you take the time to take quality field photos. We drug my buck up hill so we could get the skyline in the background. I have to give Jim all the credit, he's a master with a camera! Here's the breakdown... Main Beam (right) 14 6/8 (left) 14 4/8 G1 1 1/8 1 3/8 G2 4 1/8 6 3/8 G3 5 5/8 5 1/8 Total Mass 22 5/8 Spread 10 5/8 TOTAL = 86 2/8 (ACCORDING TO MY MATH) Don't believe me, here are some other angles... Well the pics won't upload??? Says ask the administrator to check the settings and permissions??? So for now you'll have to take my word for it. Some of you made some good guesses, but some of you were cheating (Christian, David, and maybe a few others) :P

Well Coosefan gave you the intro to this story in his write-up about his incredible buck he took on our trip so I'll skip to the hunt. Opening morning my good friend T-Bone and I woke up at 3:15am had some breakfast and were hiking by 4:00am. After 2 hours of hiking in the dark we sat perched on our glassing spot where we thought we would find lots of good bucks and no hunting pressure. To our surprise this plan did not go as expected. I glassed up a solid 90'' class buck but was unable to relocate him after an all day search. The sun set on our opening day and we set off back towards camp (another 2 hour hike in the dark). The second morning we went to a different spot because we saw quite a few hunters the first day even though we hiked so far. We saw a few small bucks and passed on a 75'' class buck. That afternoon was uneventful and day 2 came to a close. The 3rd day was supposed to be my lucky day because it was my birthday. We made our way into the bowl where Coosefan killed his buck last year. We picked the bowl apart all morning but didn't see anything spectacular. I was beginning to get a little frustrated with the lack of not only shooter bucks, but deer in general. I usually see an average of 25 deer a day. Here it was the 3rd day and I hadn't seen a total of 25 deer total??? It was miserably hot and the full moon was definitely not helping. I hadn't given up hope yet because every time we went back to camp we would see Jim's buck lying there reminding us that they do exist. It was still my birthday and I just knew the afternoon was going to turn my luck around. We jumped in the Rhino to head out and wouldn't you know it, it wouldn't start. I was not very happy and started feeling like my luck was going to continue to get worse. T-Bone went to work on the Rhino and an hour later had the faulty fuel pump fixed and we were off. It was too late to go where we had planned to go so we glassed closer to camp and turned up nothing. Day 4 would be the day that ended a 4 year drought on Coues bucks for me. After glassing into the late morning and starting to feel that familiar frustrating feeling a shooter stepped into sight of my 15's! As soon as I saw him I told T-Bone "I got a shooter!" With T-bone spotting for me I set up for the 472 yard shot. I squeezed off a shot and T-bone called it high. I adjusted and squeezed off another, "you got 'em!" He said the shot hit him a little far back so I got back on him and readied for a 3rd shot. I was now into full buck fever mode and T-Bone said "your shaking bad." I replied "I know I can't stop shaking.'' He tried to calm me down and I shot again, "high." A few more shots and a lot more shaking and the buck was down for good. The shaking continued as the celebration began. I haven't had buck fever since my first deer but I just wanted this one so badly that when he stepped out I knew what I had been dreaming of for so long was about to become true! Well here he is...

I don't know what's worse, that you would send your daugher out there wearin' that hat or that you sent her out there with a scattergun??? You really can be cruel sometimes.

HOLY (Coosefan edit here)!!! Those are some awesome bucks!!! Congrats to both of you.