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Nice! I got my first one too. Takes a load off doesnt it?!

Sorry it took so long, here is a couple more:

Dude, just get some glasses or contacts! Your not getting any younger!

Dude, Hello! You didnt say you got on this website much. I'll talk to Monica.

I'll be up in 27 or 1 on monday or tuesady! Cant wait

Hello all crazy desert dwelling whitetail fanatics!! My 1st post: I am from Colorado and have lived in Safford/Thatcher (SE AZ) for the last 18 months, it has been an adjustment but getting out to hunt helps. Well last fall I drew a whitetail tag in unit 31 for the late october hunt and scouted a decent spot that was consistant. I blew it opening morning by spooking 2 nice bucks and spent the next 4 days of hunting and cussing the hot AZ weather. I only saw a few more deer over the remainder of the season and went home empty handed. Oh well that is hunting and there is always next year! Wait you all have a bow season that is split up and the 'late' bow season just might be worth it. So I bought a tag (s) and a friend let me in on his honey hole and I hunted the same spot from a few days before Christmas to the end of the season (Jan. 31, 2008). I figure I put in close to 25 days (outings-either a morning or evening hunt or both as I live in Safford and the spot is less than 30 minutes away) and I SAW DEER EVERY TIME I WENT OUT! Granted it may have been only a few does a few times but since bucks were rutty from my 1st outing to about Jan. 20-23 I saw groups of deer most of the time. This place was consistant to say the least!!! During the bowhunt I glassed more than I have ever glassed before and started to pick out the tiny deer better in the mesquite, prickly pear, long grass, catclaw, ocotillo, and occasional juniper (lol- to name a few of the pokey plants around here!). Occasionally I would make a stalk when I thought it would work (it didnt) but most of the time I would GLASS. One day I had a buck following a doe below me (only 50-60 yards!) and watched them until they bedded, made a stalk, spooked them and missed THE shot (the buck briefly stopped giving me a shot). I am always looking for sheds and have not found a single antler during my hunts which perplexes me. At the end of the archery hunt I had a tough time finding bucks and was puzzled as to where they went. So here are my questions for the experts here ( I consider you all experts because I am new to coues and have one season under my belt): -----I assume coues (as well as the mulies) are shedding as we speak, in this part of the state, right? ----- If not, when? -----Do the bucks go solo or bachelor group back up after the rut? -----are the bucks in the roughest/thickest part of their little homerange or do they move? ------if they move, how far do they go from where they would have been chasing does a few months prior? -----how much shedding pressure is there in the Safford/MT Graham area ( I imagine only a few will be able to answer that question)? -----thanks!!! I havent given up on hunting whitetail in case ant of you are wondering!

Thanks all Yep I work in Morenci though, it would be nice to work at the Safford mine.

Thanks for the picture hunt coues. Let me put a newbie field judging guess on that buck....100-105?

NO immediate relation to the Hatch brothers that own the dodge dealership, but I am sure there is somewhere down the line. I come from a Vernal, Utah line of Hatch's So it sounds like it is time to get out and look for bucks and pattern them for a little better chance of picking up their sheds. Scott, do you work for PD (FMI)?