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Ya I don't think u can us an electronic call to hunt but not sure going to check regs and get back on that one

Going to be heading to unit 1 for spring archery turkey. The hunt is a late hunt and I have never hunted turkey this late in the year. I usually head to new Mexico for the spring turkey season which usually starts around april tenth and the birds are always fired up already. Seems like it will be late in season for some good calling. And the few times I get drawn in az which I feel the season starts to late in year as well is always a tuff hunt due to it starting in late april and the toms are hened up. Anyways was just wondering if anybody has had good luck this late in the year. Are the birds hened up or are the already serviced and the toms are lonely and out looking for the hens that didn't take? I always felt the earlier the better because the birds havnt heard much callin and haunt been pushed around. Any advice will help. My game plan was to set up a blind on some water and hope for the best got some good spots in unit one so I will prob just sit and call and wait. Thanks guys and gals and good hunting

This is my 2010 archery coues deer. I spent two years on this waterhole the first year it dried up the weekend before the august opener. Then this year it was full and I got my chance to fling a few arrows. Opening morning started off right away. I was in the blind for no more then 15min and a real nice buck came in. I don't know how big but it got my adrenaline going. I didn't have my window down on the side he came in on, so I had to try and lower it as slowly as I could. There were two other bucks with him and the youngest one picked me off and they spooked. The big buck ran about thirty yards and stopped. I guessed the range and let one fly. The arrow flew right over his back. It must have been a little closer than I thought. The rest of the day went well with deer hittin up the waterhole pretty much all day every thirty minutes or so but nothin came in that I had been seeing on my game camera the rest of the day. The following morning started off just as good with some 2x2s coming in and a few does. Then at about 1030 in the morning I had four bucks come in. There was a spike, a 2x2, and two 3x3s. The two 3x3s were definitely shooters so I decided to take a shot. The bigger of the 3x3s picked me off and spooked a little as I drew my bow back and hit my bow on blind. So I decided to take the smaller 3x3 of the bunch. This deer was just as much of a trophy as the other three would have been. Double lunged him and he only ran maybe fourty yards and took a nap. Check out my video at youtube.com. the title of the video is 2010 AZ Archery Coues Deer Hunt, here is the link

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Sorry about the three posts of same pictures. I sent from phone and I have no idea what happened

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I posted my hunt video and some pictures of this buck on you tube. The tittle of video is 2010az archery coues deer hunt. Video is a two and a half minutes long the shot is at one minute thirty second. Got over thirty minutes of video of different bucks and does but only posted the two minute video because loading the full video would take forever. Hope u guys enjoy. I sure do lol watch it everyday.

Thanks guys for the congrats. I worked hard for this buck and its nice to get a little feed back.

My opinion is if u stick a deer and can not recover it u should be done hunting for the year because technically u get to shoot two deer in one fiscal year instead of everyone else shooting one. It would be the right thing to do in my eyes instead of going out and shooting more. What if u make a bad shot on second deer u hunted and can't recover that one as well then there are two dead deer layin in the forest.

Was just wondering if u could have a deer scored after it has been mounted? I shot a deer this year in velvet and I got it to taxidermist asap. Didn't have it scored and now that I don't have it I have been thinkin about it all the time and would like to have it scored. Any info will help thank you.

i didnt have the buck scored. got him as quick as i could to the taxidermist. taxidermist said it was at least 90inches. dont think it hit the 100 mark. going to have it scored by pope and young when i get it back if i still can. does anyone know if i would be able to after mounted. i looked for some info on how to score in velvet and i dont think there is a 60 day drying period for the velvet deer or risrtrictions that i can find except there is a deduction for the velvet if i am not mistaken but not sure.

Was wondering if it would still be good to sit on water in january during the rut and maybe catch some bucks chasin the does to water?