CouesPursuit

Pioneer Pawn in Mesa is $15. Excellent transactions there.

I have a couple young shooters I would like to help outfit with a youth model 20 gauge. Pump or semi, good condition, shortened/modified stock LOP OK. Local inventory is decent but does anyone have one laying around from Phoenix to Payson for a good value? Please pm me. Thanks!

Nice paint job!

I did say yes to both pm and text. We just weren't in a hurry.

Do and share some of your research before asking for advice. Post back with the results of a hunt or tactic after receiving advice on the site. Be constructive more often than not. Keep threads on good topics on topic. Use some punctuation. Don't chit on someone's classified ad, send a pm, unless the ad is about selling puppies with no pictures.

Sandbagger! Nice buck and shot!

Guess you didn't see this thread was about purchasing a tag, not a license.

How about some coues deer posting! Finally got a late tag in one of my favorite units. Opening weekend had several easy passes and I had time to get a few in the spotter. With the big guys absent, the small 3x3s were bachelored up with lots of sparring. The mulies were solo. It looks like 3 more days of weather and a full moon coming just before Christmas. I can't stop thinking about where I'm going back when vacation starts next week. 🙃 Anyone else??

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I had a rifle with me for 30-35 consecutive days in the field in 2021 with 600 yard confidence, then this happens my first day out with only a bow in 2022. One can only laugh.

Is there anyone with better video software than I that would be willing to download the videos and combine them in order? Or recommend a free/low cost video editing software that I could get started on? Thanks!

I've got my opinions on ethics, spirits and laws but whatever weapon someone chooses, I hope people consider that sneaking into the herd is part of a javelina hunt. Getting to 5, 15 or least under 30 yards for every kill shot is beyond doable.

I had only a bow in my hand 580 yards away. I found the doe and buck bedded at 7:04 AM. They were in an extremely killable position but I just got done processing my last deer a few days ago and decided to stay put. When they got out of bed at 7:50, I started scanning around them and saw the lion broadside just 50 yards upwind. Initially, it looked like it had no idea the deer were there, then they started feeding towards the lion and I started the swap to my spotting scope from my binoculars. Once I started filming, I immediately focused on the deer for a while thinking I was going to get an attack on camera. The lion was within 25 yards or so on two occasions, but it was like he/she knew they weren't close enough and tried their patience. I swear it was like the deer knew it was there and just maintained their 30 yard barrier and fed away until ultimately flagging, blowing and weezing a hundred yards over and slowly away. Eventually you can see the lion kept its pursuit but the coues deer had the upper hand this morning. Like so many encounters, if only the stalker saw the coues deer sooner.

Nice work, Evan. This is one of the three main reasons I bought into shotshell reloading this past year, it is tough to find lead BB loads for coyotes anymore, in stock or manufactured. That and the price is unbelievable when you do find them.

Welcome to the group, Comanchero, and please keep shooting them coyotes!

Coues deer are so amazing in so many ways, highs and lows that can only be explained by those in the pursuit. It wasn't the biggest buck on the mountain today, but this buck was the most dominant. I received the rut experience I was after, all under 400 yards. This guy beat the tar out of a 3x3 that was reasonably larger. I've yet to see and shoot a 4x2. With the weather rolling in, I couldn't help but shoot this buck on the stalk to more distant, far away action, and I couldn't be happier with December 2021'

Way to get the family involved on a Christmas buck, congrats!

Congratulations Zack, and that's no carp! Nice buck.

Lots of javelina and does today, both coues and mule deer, one doe had a little buck following her for 5 minutes and they went their separate ways. Rut is non-existent at the moment, I'm looking forward to next week.

16 does within 600 yards this evening, not a spike! Quick snaps with the 10xs.

Depending on where you hunt, you may have made a very good decision! Congratulations on a nice buck! I will be washed out of the hunting grounds I know best before my coveted part of the hunt even begins.

Excellent! Looks like you had all day to pack out and celebrate!

I would definitely have shot him bedded if I wanted the hunt to end. Given I've applied for this hunt for 13 years and this my first time with the tag, I definitely did not want it to end on day 2 of a 21 day hunt. I'm also looking for something a little more like this..

Found him at noon, I didn't think he was alone and the setup was solid so I gambled waiting him out at 500 yards for a few hours. At 3:30 on the dot, his clone gets out of bed just above him, impossible to have been seen. The pressure and frustration of having to glass these little bedded coues bucks is one-of-a-kind. Every day I was on bedded deer - they got up at 3:30. One of the mulies stretched at 2 and laid right back down until 3:30 also.

To the December rifle tag knowledgeable, what behavior have you experienced throughout the 3 weeks and what do you think explains it? Even if the rut isn't kicking off, it has always seemed like mid-December was a period of increasing day activity for deer. Even last week after the .5" rain, everyone was bedded down by 9am and it felt like an October hunt searching for bedded bucks!