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How do you leave your own deposit on a scrape? Do you just pee on it? I've never thought of this before, has it ever worked for you?

How did they some one steal your bow? Either way it sucks that some people have to be such low life's to take something that someone spent their hard earned money on, I would call around to pawn shops and bow shops to see if some body has tried to come in and sell one, hope you get it back.

It all depends, I've found that some bucks will keep the same scrape for an extended period of time and I've also seen scrapes that any buck that's in the area will use to mark themselves. And if they are rutting where ever your hunting, a buck may completely abandon a scrape and just start a whole new one when they are done with the rut. Search the area and maybe the dominant buck will have more than one scrape you can watch. IMO all scrapes and patterns almost completely go out the window if they are rutting, but that's just my idea on it. I'm sure you'll get a lot of experienced hinters to comment on this with their own thoughts on it, you'll probably just have to find what works in your area.

Thanks for some good info so far, I'm looking at a few other cals and looking into the tikka.

Hunting coues deer with a bow is always a challenge whether you're doing a spot and stock or sitting in a blind or stand. I'm fairly new to bow hunting but have been rifle hunting for years, so I thought I would post this topic and see what I can get. Has anyone ever had really good luck or can swear up and down by the use of scents or calls while bow hunting for coues? I have gotten the attention of bucks before by rattling but its only happened once, so I thought it would be fun to hear some of your guys tactics and things you like to do that you would be willing to share.

+1, very true HAHA!

A friend and myself have been chasing coues this January and we have also found scrapes and heavy trails and sign everywhere but are having trouble locating bucks. We to have found evidence of rut activity at night and have sat in trees for hours not seeing anything where we had found fresh sign. I even found a monster coues and wasn't able to get on him so I backed off and didn't spook him and went back the very next day and never saw a single deer. All I can say is that's coues deer and even though we haven't strung anything yet I still love the excitement of how nothing can be happening and in a matter of seconds you're off to the races trying to get around on bucks and as quickly as it started it all just stops and your back to nothing again. Welcome to coues deer, they are a rush.

What a stud, awesome pics, nice to see public land hunts turn out deer like these ones, awesome.

AGFD is proposing a ban on baiting, hasn't gone through yet, although it appears the vote will take place this friday at the commission meeting. Ok, I'm a little off on my rules and regs, thanks for the correction Amanda. Haha oops

I heard from a buddy that azg&f put a ban on baiting, guess I need to be more current with my rules and regs.

Great job on two great bucks! Nice to see that stud come out of that unit, I recognize the area with all the fire scars and the mountain range in the back ground of the picture with the ford. Way to capitalize on what looked like a great hunt!

Isn't that illegal...Haha

Nice of you to post this, hopefully it gets back to its owners.

Great job to Garrett, congrats!

The December archery season started out with my friend and I hunting for desert muleys in southern AZ. My buddy is a huge mule deer fan while I haven't spent much time hunting them, I spend my hunting time going for CWT. So I took his word on where we should hunt and what bucks we should look for. On the very first day we were able to locate a couple nice shooter bucks and tried our luck at putting a stock on them. Needless to say we weren't able to capitalize on the deer and opening day ended with a long truck ride home talking about what we did right and what we should have done different. We were only able to hunt about once or twice a week due to work and the holidays coming up soon. So after the first two weeks we still haven't been able to put an arrow through any bucks but have been seeing good deer every time out. So we set out the day before Christmas to go back and try and find a buck we put a stock on the week before. We ended up finding him and from about 950 yards I took a picture of him through my sworos with my phone before we tried to make a move on him (picture below). So we decided to head down a wash and get around on him and let him come to us. We almost had got into position when a doe busted us and the buck soon realized something wasn't right and high tailed it out of the area. After having no luck chasing mule deer we decided to change our plan and try some luck at getting a coues deer. I have never successfully hunted coues with a bow but thought we would try anyways. After spending a day scouting an area I thought might be good we quickly found an area that was loaded with deer sign and seeing a few bucks we knew were in a great spot. We made a plan to come back in a few days and hunt the area hard and hopefully bag a nice buck. My friend was able to hunt the next day but I wasn't which is why we planned to go back in a few days, but my buddy decided to go out without me and try his luck. Sure enough I get a call from my friend saying he found a buck and stuck one the day before we were supposed to go out. I was pumped so I quickly drove home and changed and headed out to help him blood trail and pack his deer out. By the time I got out to the spot and hiked into him he had already discovered he had made a non fatal shot but was injured bad. We decided to pursue him and try and get another arrow through him. We knew where he was bedded and had a good route into him but unfortunately that didn't work out. The buck stood up and walked on us and made a big circle around close to where he originally shot him. After tracking him for about an hour we found ourselves right on top of him but not in a good shooting spot. Suddenly the buck stood up 20 yards from us and my friend quickly drew back, leaned around the tree and let it fly. We knew it was a good hit this time and gave him some time before we headed after him. We found him about 30 yards from where he stuck him and we were pumped. This was the first successful archery hunt I have ever been on and my friends first coues whitetail ever. The pictures aren't that good quality because I took them with my phone. Thanks for reading and hope you enjoyed.

Wow congrats! Awesome width on that stud, can't wait for the story.

Thanks all, we're heading back out on the first of the year to try and get my first bow kill, I'm extremely pumped and ready to get one down!

Couple of nice bucks, congrats and way to stick with it!

That is one of the oddest group of deer I have ever seen. Usually you might get a picture of one odd deer but to have that many deer with deformations and odd stuff going on, and all in the same area. I just don't know what to think about that. It's like "The Hills Have Eyes" part 3: Beware the wildlife. I would watch out next time you go out in the woods, you might end up getting dragged into a hole by some morbid deer. Haha that's my 2 cents 😜

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Yup haha, been a long day, I'm getting my units mixed up cause my buddy and I are chasing mulies in 34B, in the whetstones and out in the flats by the San Pedro river, haha I should pay attention more haha

First class act, very nice giving such a great tag to your son and then capitalizing on an even greater buck, nicely done and congrats!

I'm bow hunting with a friend in 34A almost every other day and were chasing mule deer but I know for the past week or so every buck we have found has been with or pushing does. Haven't seen any whitetail cause were running the flats in 34A but there is some rut going on in the unit.

My truck! I remember that cause it was the day before my b-day and I parked next to the green dodge. I have a habit of parking next to other dodge trucks haha, like to show off haha