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Check out the link to see the Velvet Muley our hunter Chris Traver took a few days ago. Borderland Velvet Muley

Since there isn't a 36a coues tag in New Mexico, I assume his 36a tag is AZ, and the 27 is New Mex. Quite a year! Couple of great tags. You will find access to Skeleton tough. 27 means a ton of hiking. Good hunt. In response to your other post, the best time to be in 36a is the last week of the hunt. But, with a 27NM tag, I'd just head for AZ when your done. Pm me if you have questions on either hunt.

On the other hand, we sat a water source for 5 hours total, over 2 days, and had 9 deer come in, including 5 bucks. All in daylight hours. On sit was 3pm to 5pm, the other 4:30pm till dark. So, it depends on the "micro-climate" you are hunting. This particular area had be missed by the storms for a week or so. It was a hot and dry day. Good day for hunting water. A few miles away, the tanks were spilling over there dams, all the canyon flooded, and water was standing on the flats. Not so good for hunting water.

Good work! Awesome buck Cody! Love the hat

Fantastic bucks you've go there! You should screen in your patio, with "shoot through mesh"! I've got Ninja deer! 17 yards from the kitchen window, with a 1/4" drip line installed. A pile of spotted fawns this morning!

Not as big as most folks think. Some bucks will live their entire life, and never reach 100" of antler. I held a deer in Sonora that I felt was an absolute dinosaur, and he grossed 88".

Soooo...... you're comparing the Kofa's and sheep to coues deer now?? Your biggest "argument" was the impact that lions have on the coues deer population, not a "herd of like fourty sheep or so" in the Kofa's. Stick with the point you were trying to make The Kofa's are a unique place, far from "typical coues habitat". Comparitively speaking, substantially less small game animals to sustain a lions diet. So yes, one can easily see why a biologist might want to protect a dwindling sheep herd. It's clear what a lions main diet might consist of if 90% of it's available resources are SHEEP! But did we really need that explained??? Yes, on a rare ocassion, there might be a "problem lion" that needs to be discharged. For example: a calf killer, one that lives off of sheep or other a-typical behaviors. But it doesn't even take a book to understand why it needs to happen.... I've also got to make something clear. Nobody asked me to post this. I also don't think it's necessary to defend azlongears' comments. They were sound and factual. Like he mentioned above, we've got to think about what information we're spreading on the internet or around the campfire. It's obvious that there's a lot of misinformation being spread that "re-affirms" that hunters are "just a bunch of ignorant fools". Amen Tines! Good post.

Good work Rombo! Nice Bear!

I'm tired of Whitetail shows also. 3 Coues shows coming soon.... 2 rifle and and an archery coues/jav combo on Blacks Creek TV, Sportsmans channel. The first will air the last week of August.

Heat, I love the stinger also. Gonna run one through a deer in cali this weekend. Solid head.

Good Choice . Those are one serious head. I'm so tired of hearing mechanical broadhead stories, it turns my stomach. I don't even shoot Jackrabbits with those things. I haven't found a reason not to shoot a fixed, cut on contact, 2 blade head for any animal on the planet.

Get the game water book at the game and fish dept. It includes the entire state.

Prayers sent to the Yount family.

Just my honest opinion.... wind, Wind, and WIND. Very simple. Exposed skin, breath, hair, etc is just as bad as last weeks gym shorts. $900 in clothing is instantly defeated the moment you open your yapper. It only takes a couple of molecules....

Bow season starts next week for me. NorCal Blacktails! I'll be packing my ancient 2001 Mathews Legacy, GT Kinetic Pro's, and 125g 4 blade Stingers. It's slow, and there's no paint left on it, but it kills everything I point it at....

I looked. Can't seem to find it. Could you post a link or a source for this information. Or could one of the G&F guys on here comment on this? Anyone? Cw4192 seems to have the inside track here, could you help the rest of out? There are 3 G&F guys surfing this site right now, maybe one of you could clarify for us? A link maybe?

I just reviewed 20+ checks, and I don't think that's the case ( I wish it was!) Looks like they just put the name of applicant A and possibly just coded the check into the system. The numbers do not correlate with our applications numbers, and if they do, we drew 16 late december coues tags in a unit we did not apply for! Hahaha!

I looked. Can't seem to find it. Could you post a link or a source for this information. Or could one of the G&F guys on here comment on this?

What a desert Muley! Congrats! Would love to see field photos also.

I have an alaknak and bighorn from cabelas and a Montana Canvas 14x17, Davis Tent 12x14, and Gallatin 12x14 wall tents. The cabelas tents are very nice, but not even in the same ball park as the canvas tents, as far as being reliable and durable. They are all hot in the summer. The cabelas tents you could bake cookies in, but we only use wall tents on early hunts. With double doors and screens, you get good air movement, and they really act as big shade. The synthetic tents, with bathtub floors, are too stuffy for my taste. My alaknak collapsed from snow load on the side walls this season. The ground got soft and wet, pulled a stake, and we came back late and cold, to a wreck. It has slid down on my list considerably. I have also learned to dislike tents with sewn in floors. My $.02

Here's a few seconds of video from the fire last week. This is camera phone video, shot from a few miles away, across the highway.Murphy fire.WMV

I feel completely the opposite. I can see the entire fire from my backyard, from Ruby Rd to Tubac. I think its wonderful for the unit, and will open up some fantastic hunting. The Tumacacori's burnt a few years ago, very little fuel, and you probably won't notice after the monsoon season. The Atascosa's were hit a little harder, but they needed it. Besides, the fire left large swathes of untouched country. 36B might be the next 33? I think its a good thing.

36B is still burning. 36K acres as of now.

Had good luck with Jason Wright at Arizona's Affordable Diesel Tech. I believe he is on Broadway, and a hunter.

Berger VLD's specifically. What kind of velocities are you achieving? Any pet powders? Any cousers out there shooting this caliber?