Flatlander

Twin Peaks on camelback, it's a family joint.

Stanley - you and your family are in the thoughts and prayers of our family. I am deeply saddened by your loss.

Thanks for posting. Hopefully some members can take advantage.

Perkinsville told me $1200 this year. I would have paid but I am in 19b

I just threw up in my mouth.

Used to be the archery guys couldn't hunt north of 89a. Since they changed that it's a whole different hunt.

+1

Anyone interested in a duplicate muzzy antelope tag ? ? ? (This is a joke, please think before responding)

Josiah do you have a lock on your top buck yet?

How was the Dec 27 hunt?

Not going to lie, I rolled my eyes when I saw this title. Then I thought hey Jay usually has good stuff and decided to check it out. That's a neat trick. I have been cutting them for years.

I carry 10's and pack 15's in the pack. I find 15's are just too unstable off hand. I would prefer to either have 8's for off hand glassing and 15's in the pack or have 10's and a spotting scope but For a lot of years I had only 10's to use so they had to be the everything glass. Then I inherited my 15's, so I've got what I've got. When I lived in ID nobody had tripods. It was totally unheard of. I could see hundreds of animals in a day there, and everyone just looked at you like you were from Mars as they rode by on horses

Good luck and feel free to ask all the questions you like.

It was 23

Finally, someone posts success pictures!!! Congrats, it's a great feeling.

Welcome to the site, the state and the highly addictive sport of hunting the gray ghost. - Gear; A pair of good tall in-insulated, gore-tex, leather boots will be your best friend. The very best bino's, spotting scope and rangefinder you can afford. High power optics are the standard in coues hunting and 15x bino's are standard issue. In my mind an effective coues two man team of coues hunters consists of one guy with 15's and one guy with a high power spotting scope. Coues hunters always mount their optics to a tripod. When it comes to tripods I like one with some weight to it so it can maintain itself in windy conditions and be less likely to topple over and damage your bino's. I also like mine to be tall enough to stand behind if necessary. This translates into a lot of weight, but that's nothing a good pre-season workout routine can't solve. You will want a pack with some type of frame. Badlands and eberlestock are probably the two most popular. I run a badlands 2200. The key is to have enough pack to carry a boned out coues complete (roughly 60 lbs). For breaking down deer you will want good sharp knives, the Havalon replaceable blade knives have become very popular in recent years. For a rifle, anything works but be sure you are comfortable with shots in excess of 300 yds. My limit is 500 and I am on the conservative side when it comes to coues hunting. Having a BDC type scope and angle compensating rangefinder are a very good idea. As far as strategy goes, there is really only one strategy for hunting coues with a rifle. Get up high and glass, glass, glass. After a few hours go to another high point and glass some more. Try to stay out all day of possible and keep your eyes in the bino's as much as you can. Coues are somewhat ADD and will get up to shake their heads or change beds, see what's going on, etc all day long so it's not uncommon to glass them up on the middle of the day. They love scrub oak and can be found at altitudes from 2500 ft on up but their densities are probably most hunt able in the 3500' to 5000' range. During the day glass in the shade of every tree on a hillside to pick out bedded deer. As far as pack out goes coues are pretty easy; break them down with the gutless method and then debone the meat. Stuff it in game bags in your pack and head for home. Game meat in AZ doesn't usually get to hang due to temps. Here is a video on how to do the gutless method that a sponsor put together. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WZsO4tsrKPw Good luck and thank you for your service. I wouldn't be surprised if you got some offers of help by some of the good folks on this site.

That bear definitely looks rubbed to me. He also looks like a complete porker, look at those rolls. What an awesome bear, somebody should go hunt him.

Those trucks are bulletproof. I owned 3 of them and wish I still had one.

Must. See. Pics.

I will be holding my breath that the bigguns I've been watching make it through.

+1 on more comradery (sp) going forward. I can hardly wait for folks to start posting success pics. Hopefully some bears and lope start popping up this weekend!

I was just telling an aspiring huntress about this camp yesterday. Great work Amanda!

Get to feeling better!

That's because it was an adult male coues deer.

Lark - Was that case prosecuted in New Mexico? Here is the history I can find: In 1998, two individuals pled guilty to killing a female wolf in New Mexico. They forfeited two rifles; their combined sentences consisted of four months in jail, six months of home confinement, six years with no firearms, six years of probation and 410 hours of community service. In 2008, after pleading guilty to killing a male wolf in New Mexico, a shooter was sentenced to one year of probation, forfeited his firearms and was fined $10. Two years later, the federal government prosecuted two more cases, both in New Mexico. One shooter was ordered to pay a $285 fine and $4,095 in restitution; the second was ordered to pay $275 in court costs and $1,000 in restitution. - See more at: http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-7298-canine-assets.html#sthash.An2uIcMW.dpuf Perhaps I should have said no one has been prosecuted in AZ.