SunDevil

not sure if New Mexico still does it this way but they use to have hunts that were only during the week. Not sure if they were the first hunt or not but I think they were 5 day Mon - Fri or 4 day Tues - Fri. I would put in for that hunt. odds I am sure would be pretty good. bad thing is that hunters that can and do hunt during the week would be out there with you. compared to now when you rarely see anyone out Tues or Wed.

congrats on a fine buck. man those midwestern deer are big, have fat necks and big heads.

Scoutm was just saying on our Oct hunt how he mised the 10 day Nov hunts. I am torn because we always hunted the 10 day Nov hunt because we did not care for the limited opportunity/weekend warrior aspect of the 4 day Oct hunt but now that we have started hunting the 7 day Oct hunt we like being out in the middle of the week during the 1st hunt of the season after all the weekend warriors have gone home.

You DA MAN. yea the CRAZY MAN!!! that is pretty intense right there. and they call coues hunting the poor man sheep hunt. looks to me like you could go to BC or AK and not have any problems at all chasing sheep or goats. congrats on a successful hunt and on such a great buck.

given online draw this year, I am guessing end of week or next week. hope I am wrong but that is my guess.

way to go. good job and congrats on your first buck.

nice buck for sure. interesting to see what the lion did with it. coyotes would have feasted. thanks for sharing.

great job Jake! thanks for taking the time to share with us.

WOW that is an incredible buck. the length on the left G4 is probably what, 7 inches? crazy. thanks for sharing and congrats to your uncle.

great buck for sure. cool curve to his left mainbeam. congrats and thanks for sharing!

great job finding that buck and nice story. keep at it and share your love of hunting with your buddies.

great buck, especially in such thick country. it seems like it has been a weird year for velvet. lots of bucks taken in the oct hunts that still had velvet on them. seems like the bucks rubbed their velvet off 1 - 2 weeks later than normal. must be global warming. the buck I got still had some velvet on his antlers and his antlers were pretty light in color which I would take to mean he had not rubbed much on trees or brush.

wish I could find the article I read just last week on spike bucks. basically they removed all the spikes from a high fence ranch before the breeding season. the next year there were fewer spike bucks born. the avg number of antler points for the 1.5 year old deer the next year was higher than the previous year because the genetically inferior spike bucks were removed from the breeding population. they did acknowledge that they would have no way of knowing if this would hold true in the wild. comes back to the debate as to if a spike buck is just a young deer or a genetically inferior deer from an antler configuration stand point. I tend to lean towards the later.

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man - that poor little cute bull dog got taken advantage of. someone should have been looking out for her. where were her parents? I'm calling the news: "It's 10:00 do you know where your dogs are?"

wow - that buck is a stud for sure. Cody needs to publish his cell phone on the site so everyone can call him up and get help being put on bucks like that.

those are some nice bucks for sure. congratulations. good to see the whole family out together making longtime memories.

sounds to me like he was just practicing his shooting in preparation for a big buck or he was really holding out for a big one and just didn't want to tell you. kind of like when my hunting partner mysteriously misses javelina at point blank range.

heard it scored 113

pretty cool. I think the 8th picture is one of the better ones for judging him. I get 101. nice buck for sure.

neat that you found him earlier in the year and then were able to put a tag on him. looks like a 2x3 with a slightly interested Shih tzu?

what do you want for you zeiss scopes? is the 3-9 X 40 just a plain duplex reticle? thanks.

definetly some good bucks come out of the ag fields in Willcox. looks like you did a good job finding 3 of them. congrats on some nice bucks!!!

it is going to probably take a taxidermist 3 - 4 months to get your cape back from the tannery. then he will probably have a bunch of mounts to work on ahead of yours. by the time you need to pay up it will have been probably 10 - 12 months anyway. just stick $50 a month into a savings account and by the time it is ready you will have the funds you need. also, if you are anything like me or like most of us you probably have some extra equipment that is not being used that could be liquidated to help with the taxidermy bill. just put it up on the classified section or throw it on craigs or e bay. better to take your time, do it right, be patient but have something you will enjoy looking at.

great buck for sure! i've always been into good eye guards, 4x4s are not that common and you can't go wrong with nice mass like that. thanks for sharing.