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HMMM, innersting! I hadn't kept up on all the mumbo-jumbo. Thanks anyway boys and girls.

Holy crap that buck on the left is awesome! Any better pics of him? Sheesh!

Interesting, I've spent most of my life in the woods and I've never seen a "herd of bears". The most I've ever seen is 3 together and that was a sow and 2 cubs. I've seen that several times but never a herd. You might want to pat down your buddy as he may have a crack pipe on his person somewhere. Just messing!

GOOD GOD is right!! ...dream a little dream with meeeeee. That side view of that right antler is sickening! If I was that dude I'd have that thing with me 24/7, the potential value of that thing is rediculous(although I'd never part with it if I shot it)! I'd like a chance at dealing with that kind of stress. YIKES!! OUCH!! Aye dios mio!!! WOW, thanks for posting those last few pics man those are awesome!

Manamal, In my experience with treestands I just use ones that I can strap onto a pine tree or just cut some limbs in a juniper tree somewhere, nothing too fancy but safe of course. In the summer I place them near water holes that don't get much human traffic, if any, and over salt licks. I'd say if you want to establish a salt lick for Aug/Sept then get out there now and get that puppy going. The longer it's there the more deer will know about it when it's time to hunt them. I don't use climber stands cause most all trees in AZ have way too many limbs in the way to get up at the height that I'd like to be at. I only have 2 trail cameras now and I put them in places that nobody would think to look for them. Maybe in a saddle or over a salt lick or a seep/spring. I get to worried about someone stealing them so I couldn't stomach them being in a high human travelled area. I usually have mine anywhere from 1/2 mile to 3 miles off any roads. The last bit of advice I'd give is that the more time you spend on stand or blind the more chances you'll get to see what's going on in your hunt area. A trail timer/camera should give you a good idea of what's going on and when though. That's my $.02, take it for what it's worth.... oh maybe $.05.

Thats it!! Sweet man that is so freakin cool. I kinda felt like that deer had to shown off a bit more instead of hidden in some unknown thread. Thanks guys. Good luck in the rest of January. I just got some pretty nice pics off one of my trail cameras of a nice 3pt buck. I'm just waiting for Amanda to give me the url so I can post them. Later and congrats again on one heck of a gorgeous buck.

BASS, they were taken during the Dec Coues hunt in 21. Jim took them right after that giant storm we had.

That is one heck of a deer az4life but I wouldn't buy any of the stories you've heard of it just yet. Looks to me that the antlers don't have the tine length and overall size to be near 288" but that's just my opinion. I'd sure be lobbing arrows, lead, rocks, bricks, whatever I could at that deer though. Killer drops!!! SON OF A-!!!!! Which talk forum did you get that off of?

That's awesome!! I videoed a buck real similar to that in 31 a couple years ago. What unit was that taken in? Look at the head on that beast! What a brute! Gorgeous!

I've seen a lot of Taxidermy work and the two best I've ever seen is Mark Plunkett and Dan Lee from Dewey AZ. The only drawback with Dan's work is that he's the only one that works there and the turnaround takes over a year and the cost is almost $700 I think. That's OK by me though cause I've had my 132" buck mounted by him and it is the best mount I've ever seen. I've got another big buck being mounted by him right now and I'm sure it'll take a while too, but the wait is worth it to me. Here's a pic of one of his mounts of a freakin HOG buck taken a couple years back that grosses 138" I think. I think his attn to detail is amazing. Like I said though, Mark is unbelievable too.

Interesting, I check my messages from time to time and they always say I have 0 messages. I went into my controls to change my avatar photo and found that I actually had 3 PM's in there, some dating as far back as Nov 7th but yet it always told me I had 0 of them. One of them was from you Amanda, I hope people don't think I'm rude cause I don't reply, I just never was notified that I had any PM's. The best way to get ahold of anyone is just a good ol' email I think.

Oh there's probably something brewing with those nutcases.

Unit 8 buck, NICE!!! Rifle hunting from a stand for Coues deer.... don't hear of that very often. Cool story and thanks for the pics man. What was that lady doing? Just randomly parked on a spot on the side of the road to read? Interesting. Thanks for the pics that is awesome.

Son of gun this is one heck of a awesome post Scott!!! Thanks for taking all of us hunting with you man that is way too cool. Congrats to 300WSM and his nice buck. Man that deer you guys got looks bigger than 92" in the pics. That giant buck thru the scope is AWESOME!!!!!!! You killed me with that one! It's awesome seeing a deer like that but even better when you get to take a little piece of him home with you in the pics. What a beauty! I hate the wind, have I ever told you guys/gals that?

Nice buck there dude! Freakin awesome actually! You gonna give some props to Andy or is he full of it by saying he sent you in there to hunt where he'd got pics of that deer hitting his salt lick? Just messing.

Send them pics to Amanda and post them puppies!!! Congrats man that is awesome. Clay does dang good whiteys too. Can't wait to see them pics man!

Splitting hairs now are we Treestand man? Amanda why wouldn't P&Y accept a freak head if I shot it with my rifle? Josh

Man that's awesome. Thanks for posting all them pics. I thought the comment your wife made about your "truck of death" was hilarious!! Must be a good lady. Josh

Thanks again guys. Hunterdude, happy birthday to you too. I hope you get a crack at that biggin, sounds like a freakin monster. Well the guiding has taken a hiatus since all this rain. I'm glad we didn't go out cause we'd be miserable today. Maybe if it's not flooding to bad manana we'll be able to give it a look on the last 2 days Josh

Since these aren't the best photos in the world I figured I'd post them anyway w/o sending them thru Amanda first. I'm going to look for the buck again tomorrow and hopefully get some better video and pics of this toad. I spotted him this morning with a friend of mine. I got the binos set up and quickly took about 2 minutes of video of him. As I was setting up my spotting scope the two does he was with got fiesty and hauled butt over the hill never to be seen again so I never got a head on shot or even a decent profile shot in film. He's a HUGE 2pt on the right, he does have a G3 but it's only about an inch or so and it looks out of place. I think his G2 on that side is around 9". The left antler has 3 fairly normal points, he's wide and freakin gorgeous. I think he's in the 105" class as is. The video is of course better to look at than these pics but you'd have to see it to believe me. Enjoy, hopefully I'll have some better pics manana. Josh

Hope you don't get washed away cause here in Camp Verde this morning the water is UNREAL! I'm glad I'm not sitting on a hill somewhere cause I'd be pissed and soaked. Josh

GAAAAACK!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!! That is so freakin cool I can't believe it! Congrats to you good sir. Gonna sit that stand again come the new year? Unreal!! Thanks for the pics, Josh

Glassed my tail off today and couldn't find the biggin from yesterday. Found this nice one though. I've got to guide a hunt for the next 4 days so it looks I'll be making tag soup out of my '04 archery deer AGAIN! Oh well, always next year.... a few more days that is! Josh

Well thank you kind sirs! I wish I coulda found the biggin but I didn't. I put a stalk on a 90" 3pt but got busted by the wind about 100 yards out. Maybe manana. Thanks again, josh