bigorange

Red jeep wrangler...definitely not a Cherokee or a Ranger.

Glassed up a red jeep with CWT.com sticker in 36A today while I was looking for muleys...just thought I'd say hi. Hope you had better luck than I did.

I've always really liked gadgets, especially hunting gadgets. When I first heard about the ArmourDillo, I was shooting with my friend Nathan and he saw me setting my bow on top of my foot instead of the ground...he told me I needed an ArmourDillo and showed me one. I immediately thought "Now why didn't I think of that?" This is a cool new gadget being produced by Hedog Archery, a Tucson company started by Nathan and Paul Lawson. If you live in Tucson or hunted archery elk in Unit 27 in September, you've probably seen Nathan's recognizable camo 4runner with Hedog logos on it. The concept is simple and effective. It's almost like a foot that goes on the bottom of your bow to protect your bottom cam from rocks, sand, mud, whatever you don't want to set it in. One of my hunting buddies calls it my kickstand for my bow. It's already gone from cool gadget to necessity for me. I've only had mine for a couple of weeks, but has already come in handy on a couple of stalks. I was able to set my bow down with minimal movement and lean it against my leg while quickly glassing with both hands..even with an arrow nocked. I always wonder about new gadgets on my bow adding weight, noise, vibration, etc. The weight of the ArmourDillos is minimal, no vibration, and it actually seems to help with vibration dampening. Check out www.hedogarchery.com to see this new idea. I've talked to Nathan about becoming a CWT sponsor, so maybe you'll see them on here soon too. I'll edit and post pics of my ArmourDillo soon...hopefully laying across a buck! Adding a photo...

Added a photo...hopefully will have a better one after trying to finish the season right. No effect on performance that I can tell. Doesn't touch the cam, string, or anything else and no effect on balance.

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Awesome buck...congrats! Lots of character...

Nice buck. Congrats! Good luck sticking with all coues next year...

Awesome buck. Congrats!

Nice buck and awesome story. Congrats!

Awesome way to end one year and start the next...Congrats!

Congrats! Sounds like an awesome week!

Nice buck and great job sticking with the stalk!

Nice deer. Congrats! Nice pics of the other deer too.

Out chasing mulies in the southern AZ desert yesterday...saw a couple does together and 3 bucks. Each buck was by itself. One was raking a couple of trees but didn't appear to be rutting.

Awesome deer. Congrats on the hard work and sticking it out to get it done.

A friend at work has hunted one of these hunts south of Winslow (at least that's where I think it was) He said it was hard hunting. There was snow so he was able to find pretty fresh tracks but never saw any elk. Similar situation, the ranchers in the area told him areas where they were seeing elk and definitely wanted them removed but he still didn't find them.

Awesome...congrats! I was in 36A yesterday too. Not quite as good luck for me though.

Glassed up a red jeep with CWT.com sticker in 36A today while I was looking for muleys...just thought I'd say hi. Hope you had better luck than I did.

Awesome! Congrats! I'm impressed that you could keep eyes on it long enough for your dad to get back with the rifle...that's tough!

I've used the Viper 15x50 for a couple years...love them. Carried them on harness for a long time and have just recently added a set of 10x42 to my optics arsenal so the 15x50 ride in my pack and see most use on the tripod. Honestly haven't tried the Viper HD, but I hear the difference is significant. If I ever upgrade from them it will be to Kaibab or some higher dollar glass. For the money you can't beat the Vipers.

Sounds like he may not have even known the buck was there and probably didn't realize you were on a stalk. Either way, it's public land hunting and that's one of the risks. I've read it on here and posted it myself...just be glad you have so much public land available to hunt. I grew up hunting with very little public land available and it can get tough to find good spots. And you ended up getting yours on a very different stalk...it just wasn't meant to be with this one.

Happy Birthday! Awesome way to spend it. Definitely a victory getting within shooting distance of those bucks!

Awesome buck! Congrats!

CONGRATS! I've been watching and enjoying your posts on here and it's clear your persistence paid off. Great job sticking with it and getting it done!

Good topic and agree. PM is the best way to go and consider sharing the unit or general area where you think the deer might have been killed. I got to talking to another hunter on here about my "white whale" last year and turns out he'd been after the same deer and had trailcam pics of it. Pretty sure that deer is still in the same area, so if I ever connect with it those cam pics will go in the collection. Also agree if you've been watching the deer you'll know it's the same one. Had a friend connect with one yesterday that he'd been seeing almost every day since New Years. Got to the point he knew it as soon as he saw it in the binos. It was a pretty unique old buck with great mass and palmated antlers so pretty recognizable. I personally have been trying hard to get it done this year and haven't taken a lot of time to study the bucks I've seen so far, just determine that they're "big enough" (and some days "any antlered deer" has been just that) and get after them.