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Looks good guys!

Congratulations on a great buck! Good luck on your elk hunt, hopefully you'll have the same results.

Dang nice looking buck and great job with the pictures. That left side does look interesting and possibly no eye guard on the right?

Great bucks! Congrats to all.

Happy to hear you had a great time and congrats on a great buck!

Very nice buck, congrats on a great solo buck, thanks for sharing your hunt with us.

Happy Birthday Brian! I hope you have a great day with many more to come.

Had a tough hunt down in Southern Arizona this year but we had a very good time none the less. Didn't have much luck this year with trail cameras but had a couple good bucks spotted from scouting trips. The first choice buck couldn't be found the three days prior to season or on the opener so I opted to try another area that has treated me well in the past. Jim (Rut) and I found three bucks with one of them being quite nice right at first light. Spotted Buck. By the time I decided that he was a buck that I wanted to try and take he was out of range and we watched him feed over the hill with his buddies. The third day Jim, Stacy (So I Hunt), and I went in and set up only to have another hunter come in behind us and shoot the buck from the day before, but instead of heading to another area we stayed put and hit the glass hard. We were seeing numerous does and fawns and knew it was just a matter of time until we found a buck. As the sun started to sink behind the mountain I spotted a nice three by feeding down the ridge. With some work obligations that needed to be taken care of and also with this buck being a bit bigger then Stacy’s last buck he decided that he would close the gap a bit and try and shoot the buck. Stacy got set up at a distance around 368 yards and before long he had anchored his biggest Coues to date. Stacy's Shot Jim and I spent the next couple of days trying to locate the big buck that we knew to be in the area without any luck so we decided to head to the top of the mountain and glass back down the canyons and draws. Jim spotted a good buck feeding on a ridge around 900 yards away and we watched until he bedded down. Buck Spotted On Ridge Jim stayed behind the scope and I started the stalk. I was able to get to 381 yards before I ran out of cover and got set up for the shot. I got set up and made what I thought was two very good shots. Even though Jim had a different angle and was along ways off he still managed to get the shots on camera. First Shot Second Shot I bailed off the rim and crossed the canyon to reach where we thought the buck would be all though I must have missed as I couldn't find any blood and tracked the buck for a very long time until I finally ran out of sign. After slowing down the videos and playing them frame by frame you can see both shots were clean misses. The next two days were spent trying to find the buck without any luck so when I found this buck I didn’t hesitate to take him at 318 yards. For as dry and hot as it was this year I am very happy with the outcome! I got to spend another hunt with great friends and family eating wonderful food and enjoying the great outdoors! I can’t wait to get out there and do it all again in a month down in Mexico!

Thanks Cade, Good luck to you as well, can't wait to see some pics of your Mexico hunt! And thanks to everybody for the comments and well wishes for my Mexico hunt.

Nice buck, cool left side! Congrats to him.

Congrats on the successful hunt and welcome to the site!

Congrats on taking a very unique buck! Looks like your hard work paid off.

Tammy and I voted for you Marcy! Good luck in the contest and congrats again on a whopper coues taken over in New Mexico.

Congratulations on a beautiful buck! I'm with Gino on this one and think he'll go in the 105-109" range. Regardless of score he is an awesome buck.

I personally use a Vortex Viper in 4x12x40 on one of my coues guns and the Bushnell Elite 4200 in 2.5x10x40 on another. I find myself constantly cranking both scopes up throughout the day but then starting out and finishing on 6 or 8. I very rarely find myself wanting more and feel that the quality of the scope is more important then the power of the scope. Just my $.02

Congrats to all involved and especially the girls for anchoring a couple of dandy bucks! Thanks for sharing them with us.

Boomer bucks! Really cool killing a buck that big but to kill him on your birthday is just the right kind of icing on the cake! Congratulations on some great bucks and good luck on the rest of the hunts, looking forward to the pictures from them already.

Good luck on your hunt Brent! I'm sure regardless of the outcome of the hunt you'll have a blast! Be safe and take a lot of pictures.

Congrats on a neat buck and a cool story. Sweet shooting too, you guys rock!

Very nice Doug. Awesome pictures and great write up of the hunt. I'm sorry you guys didn't get a chance to connect with a buck, dang "lucky bean" residue!

Very fitting title and absolutely an Arizona treasure, great buck!

Congrats to Randy and you Christian on a very nice buck! Way to get 'er done in short order.

A huge congrats to you on a great buck! Wonderful job on the story with the pictures really helping me feel like I was right there with you. Congratulations again on a true trophy.

Freak of nature for sure! Great bucks, thanks for sharing and good luck trying to decide which one of them to go after.

Very nice bucks! Great write up of a very cool hunt. Looks like some pretty rough country.