elkhunter

I saw the picture of the buck you took this past season and it reminded me of a lion kill pick up I have, it's pretty close to your buck, big ole forkhorn

The biggest difference is that the Swaros are the best you can get...once you buy the Zeiss (like I did) then in the back of your head you'll always remember that you just don't have the best binocs available. So that's why I got myself a pair of Swarovski's this summer Right now my old man has my Zeiss and when we go out to glass, I notice a pretty decent difference between both binocs in field of view, brightness, clarity, comfort, weight and focusing easiness....we glass right at sundown so the brightness makes a difference in that case. But if it was midday there wouldn't be much difference between the bincos. Lets just say the difference between the Zeiss and Swarovski is the same as the difference between a 80 inch buck and a 95 inch buck...not much difference BUT you would much much rather have that 95 inch buck! The Zeiss would work best for people who are concerned about weight.

The roads are wiped out in my area BUT I LOVE IT, i say we need another 6 inches of rain....the wildlife is far more important than "hunters access" besides those quads go everywhere anyways

We got hit by a little rain storm yesterday and I headed up in hope of finding the bear and cub I saw a couple days ago and ended up with 32 deer instead and a herd of javelina, unfortnately it was low light and the pigs were in knee high grass and well over 1500 yards away it's kinda tough to view them but I atleast got pictures of 2 dink bucks and sunset pictures This spot ain't no secret so if you guess it right...head out there cuz there's tons of deer in this area and I can't hunt em here's the pics of the pigs...hope you can kinda see em with my markings The pigs were in the red circle in this picture

Tha dude knows everything!! I spoke with him and he offered glassing lessons to me as well and I asked him if he could give me the lessons in my unit during my Dec hunt....he turned me down but anyways a great guy...by the way does he still have the long hair?

I got one of them, they randomly selected people from the fall draw and sent out the survey to them...if you didn't get it then you didn't get picked no biggie

bout dang time!!! Yup he got himself a deer tag

You got yourself a nice gun, that's what I carry myself incase any illegals wanna taste lead!

I just talked to younghunter last night as he was in Anchorage waiting for his plane ride home. The dude's okay and didn't get mauled by any bears, he said he got falsed charged 8 times! Hope we'll get lots of pictures from him soon.

I just bought the newer Swarovski SLC 15x56 about a week and half ago, gotta love the feeling of new binocs

I came across a bear and cub today but that's in 35A and there's no bear huntin there, I was able to watch em 25 up to 60 yards away, i had the quad all revved up incase she decided I was some sort of intruder

I always hunted coues in the oak/juniper hills, but this year I'm off to a new unit. On my scouting trips we're locating most bucks in the mesquite flats and not too far from them are ocotillio covered hills. I read about bucks taken from these ocotillo hills, are they there in the october seasons just as much as they're there in december? Right now I glassed up a few bucks feeding on the super green leaves on these ocotillo, will they still be feeding on these leaves when they die off later into the fall? Thanks for any help, it's a whole new ball game for me in the lower desert areas!

I got the same tag as well, if you do your scouting and locate bucks early and be patient you'll have a good chance at a 90 incher. I've been doing mucho MUCHO scouting but I don't wanna give anything away! Mark Freeburg is the Game and Fish warden for 34A/34B, give him a call at 520 762 8172, he won't give you locations on the big booner bucks but he'll give you general areas to start scouting. Good luck dude!

I just talked with Duwane Adams and he said that the bucks antlers harden up approximately September 15th +/- a week

Down in South eastern AZ I'd say they are about 3/4 done growing, I see a couple of bucks that haven't forked their 3rd points and the end of their antlers there's bulbs. Give it a couple weeks and they'll be right at their peak I believe.

no need to be sorry guys, it was GREAT! I had ALOT of folks watching me, it was a mudpit wrestling show down in Show LOw at a camp I worked at, so I rode a bike off a ramp as hard and as fast as i could, someone mentioned I got atleast 5 ft of height and the landing crushed my knee, it was tight and i got a great scar and metal plate, makes me look tougher to those chicks In some cases it wouldn't matter about how good of a shape you're in...if you're in nasty shape you could spend all morning hiking one hill and you'll glass all day..which is what you should do!

tell me about it, even right now with the green leaves on em they're tough to find because of the lime stone background, hopefully the upgrade from Zeiss to swarovski will help me out a teeny bit

I JUST got this picture in, this is how I crushed my knee this summer, it shattered RIGHT at this moment!

I know these aren't "close up" pictures but they're pictures of coues deer neverless, most days i drive out for bout 5 minutes to a glassing point just to hone my eyes for the upcomin seasons, the bucks are finally starting to take up shape now 3 bucks in here A lone doe, caught her as she was just comin over the hill There's 2 does in here but only 1 can be seen Then the rain pushed us out

Good to hear! Thanks!!

I'm dealing with the opposite situation than most of you guys! I crushed my knee earlier this summer and lost 12 lbs of my precious oily muscles, but i've been back into the gym these past 3 weeks and gaining a FEW quarter pounds since then.

TOUGH hunt!! Lots of people, every year someone postes a buck from or near devil dog road but there's TONS of people camped out there during the season. Best chance is to get away from the crowd...seriously

This is taken after a monsoon storm, you can see the moon near the upper right corner

we can go all night on this topic, i give up....whatcha doing being a "loser" like me on here on a Saturday night at 9 20?

that really sounds like a serial killer's name right there... Tyler James Scott....well possibly a coues buck serial killer eh?