JLB

Very nice deer two years in a row. Congratulations on the successful hunt. Nice write-up as well. Still working on mine.........

Congratulations to both of you. It will always be a great Father-Daughter trip. Awesome deer !

Very nice! Congratulations. They always say that the work begins after the shot. That is always correct on Coues deer.

Congratulations on the first buck. The second one might be harder to take than this one.......haha.

I am in agreement with all the comments about practicing and knowing your gun and loads for long shots. The 270 can easily kill a deer at 500 yards with a good shot, but to ethically make a long one-shot kill, you should make sure your rifle can consistently shoot one inch groups or less at 100 yards. I shot a remington 270 for years and the longest Coues shot was at 450 yards with a 130 gr handload that caught the deer in the center of the chest. That was taken from a great rest and before range finders (yes, I am old - I ranged it on a later hunt). If you can hold a 3 inch group at 200 yards, that equates to shooting roughly a 7 1/2 inch group (or worse) at 500 yards. Coues deer are very small from the backbone to the breast when standing broadside (approx. 14 inches). My advice is to do things to improve your groups to under an inch at 100 yards if you can. Maybe glass bedding the action, having a little trigger work done, free floating the barrel, adding a bipod, etc. Then practice, practice, practice. You must remember that the rifle range is the best rest you will ever have to fire your gun. In the Coues world, most places are steep up and down and you rarely have a good solid rest. This, plus adrenaline and being out of breathe causes a lot of misses at long range. I would hold your range to under 300 yards until you tighten the groups a bit. Remember, you want to make a good kill shot, not just hit the deer in the lower leg and have a wounded animal to chase. Hope this helps.

That is a prototypical Coues buck. One everyone imagines when you talk about going hunting for them. Congratulations on a 100+ deer. That is a real trophy.

Nice deer guys. Everyone who hunts Coues deer from the ground have sore legs. Congrats.

A few years back, I spotted a muley doe feeding and working her way toward me from several hundred yards away while glassing a canyon. What were the odds that she would come very close to me? Pretty high in this case. She wound up feeding all the way to me and stopped when her nose hit the end of my hunting boot. We were eye to eye at 3 feet away. That was an interesting moment. I finally had to blink and it was all over.......