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We have always said the same thing. 50" added is about right. Those late season archery hunts are not easy. Congrats on a great bull for any season.

Doesn't get much better than that for coues deer. Congrats on some great bucks this year.

The crazy thing is I have shot doves with a BB gun and killed them. I thought they were the sissiest birds I have ever seen. Never thought they could take a .22 round and live.

Any bull on the late archery hunts is a great bull. My avatar picture is a late archery bull and there was nothing easy about it. Congrats on a great bull.

How many do you need? I have a box I can sell you for whatever the face value is. I will be out in Queen Creek Saturday morning too if needed. Let me know.

I just bought an Igloo cooler for my hunt down south. I put three bags of ice in it along with all my food. I left Friday morning and came back the following Wednesday night and on Thursday when I unpacked everything still had about 1 bag of ice left. I will take that all day long. Just have a hard time forking out the high dollars for the big name coolers. My last Coleman cooler had the lid warp after about a year and was worthless. It still looked good though.

That is awesome. It took a lot of years for my wife to finally come to grips with what I love to do (just ask Chef, he can attest to it). Although I was kind of extreme when I was younger with everything I did. As long as you make them feel special they will put up with a lot from us.

Like a couple others have said it could be the scope. I would swap it out and try another scope or put that scope on a different rifle and shoot it. Start eliminating one thing at a time. Ammo would be another thing you could try different. Have you ever shot the rifle when it did group well?

Great well deserved buck. You put the time in and it shows. Who knows maybe that big muley will make till next year and you can hunt him again. Congrats on a great buck. Enjoyed the read.

Yes, but it was a few years ago. Don't know how to go back and find it easily. It seems that during the Oct coues deer hunt lots of people will hear the bulls bugling still but something happens between then and the archery hunt. They go silent for the most part. My bull bugled and it gave himself away. Took me a couple days to get him figured out but it worked out in the end.

Interesting. I came across some squash type plants down south a few weeks ago that had some sort of gourds on them. I thought they resembled pumpkins only yellow instead of orange. So I picked a couple and brought them home for the kids to carve. I wandered if they were edible too.

It has nothing to do with power or lack of power. It has to do with the performance of the bullet once it hits the animal. They do not expand and leave the same size entry and exit hole. It would be the equivalent of shooting a bow with field points instead of broadheads.

The bull in my avatar was killed on a late archery hunt and was running with some cows. It is all luck if you can find a cow that didn't take the first time around there will be bulls around.

I knew Chef would be quick to hop in here on this post. That is right up his alley. Looks pretty dang good. Were the pictures of the buck in another post?

Wow that is a cool looking buck. And big too. Congrats

I wonder how much all these different hunts have affected it to. There used to be one general hunt where I grew up and everyone went hunting. Now there are about five hunts just for deer in a lot of the units. So they are starting way earlier.

Great buck. Sounds like a fun hunt. How far did you pack in? And how long did you stay? I always think about doing a backpack hunt but wonder how far people go in.

When I hunted Mexico a couple years ago we watched coues deer feeding with cattle all the time. As soon as I spotted cattle I started scanning the area looking for the deer.

Happy Birthday Phil. Hope you have a good one.

I just put the leveling Bilsteins in my truck and love them. A lot better ride for sure. And it leveled the front end of my truck at the same time. I was due for tires so I just did everything at once.

I wear as little as I can when I hike into a glassing area because I know I will be heating up. I may be cold for a few minutes but once you get warmed up it isn't bad. Then once I set up to glass I put all my extras on to keep me warm. Edit : I was writing while firstcoueswas80 was hitting enter apparently.

Nice cat. Looks like the coyotes got lucky that time.

Wow, what an adventure. That is a trip you will never forget. Great writeup and photos. And a couple nice bucks to top it all off. Congrats

I 2nd what Lv2hnt said. You will be in good hands. They usually kill big bucks every year. And they know where they are.

Where did these videos come from? I can remember seeing this before. Just sure when or where. The best is "hey I like your hat but it isn't going to save you" in episode 4. On a side note I loved Grizzly Adams when I was a kid.