COOSEFAN

This is the same window as before but with a different angle. I killed both of my bucks over the skyline in the background of this pic. This spot is where I'll be next year

Heck give me a tent and a porta potty and I'm there We don't need no stickin facilities <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That's what I told them!

This is one of the glassing windows we sat in. There's a tank in the bottom of this canyon and in one morning we had several 100" to 105" bucks go down to drink, several 80"-90" bucks and goulds turkeys. We also watched two huge bucks on the far right hillside fight and one rolled the other and chased him down the hill and past the tank. Both bucks were easy 100"plus bucks, our guide was hunting on this day and missed twice the bigger of the two bucks in the battle, but what an experience! My brother captured everything on tape as well!

I conservatively scored the first one at 97" and the second just under 91". I'll sit down and score them more accurately later, they are big enough for me! I thought about the double pedestal but this is the second and third coues deer I've taken to my taxi in less than three months!$$$$ It is an awesome place, I just couldn't imagine how many deer we didn't see because of the terrain!? We would only sit an watch one hillside because it was too thick to see anywhere else, and we would see a lot of bucks in just one hillside. They have two other ranches they don't hunt yet becuse theres no facilities yet, I couldn't imagine what those would be like.

Thanks for your reply's. This is the other client's buck. His name is Kevin from Iowa. His first coues hunt ever! I think that helps in holding out for a big buck, if you haven't even seen one before and you are used to shooting 170" easterns! This is a great buck and is hard to score becuase of webbing. I scored it at just under 105" but Antonio scored it at 99". I think everybody would score this buck differently becuase of the character issues. What a hog though! My brother was videotaping over Kevins shoulder when he shot this buck at 150 yrds!

Left to right is Antonio, Matt, me, Kevin, and Goose. These are the lion kills and our bucks. The rest of the sheds are in the house on the fireplace. There is only one "vaquero" , cowboy, and that is Jaime, that works the 25,000 acre ranch and he doesn't pick up any sheds or skulls and doesn't hunt for himself. This place is untouched and you'll never hear a plane, or other vehicle and it's like you took a step back in time before all that. The Goulds turkeys were everywhere and my brother was actuall videotaping some when a 90" class buck came up to within ten yards of him, with the turkeys still in the background, and stood broadside for the photoshoot! I'm doing it again naxt year but with my bow, can't wait!

I been messing around with my other flash card to get pic's of my second buck, I thought you guys would catch the title " Dos Venados" two bucks I took a million pic's, My brother took two hours of video, he got all three bucks getting whacked on tape! The other client shot one of those bucks that score doesn't justify, I'll post pic's as soon as I can, I have one pic showing the sheds but the lion kills were way cooler! Three of them each 100" plus! I brought two back with us, Nobody said anything about them at check points, and I'm having my biggest buck mounted as a pedestal mount off of one of the skulls on a table.

Now that I was done opening morning, and had five more days left, I wanted to go hunt again! I waited a long time for something that just happened in 1 hour, and I hadn't even begun to hunt, so after 1 or 6 cocktails that night I bought a second tag( my brother became there new "manager" over night because of his selling talent, he was relentless and talked me into it!) So on the third day we were set up looking at a few small openings on a pine covered hillside, watching "8" 90" class bucks with a few smaller bucks as they chased around and fought over a few does. I couldn't believe I was looking at that many nice bucks, a few looked close to 100" but nothing over. My brother had seen what he said was a muy grande taking his does over the ridge away from the other bucks, we couldn't get on it fast enough to see it and where it went had no vantage points so we waited and enjoyed all the other bucks running around. Our helper, Jaime, had said he found a big buck and motioned it was coming up from the bottom. Because of the terrain you have to be ready fast and make quick judgements, making you really rely on your spotters. Antonio picked him up in the binos and directed me where he was at. I found it in the scope and could see it was thin antlered but looked very tall off his head and had character,"good enough for me"! I ranged a clearing ahead of the buck at 404 yrds and held tight. He walked through and stopped. We all thought this buck was at least 100", I was looking through my scope and my brother is looking through the videocamera so I asked one last time if the buck is big enough and Antonio said shoot! I did and missed! The buck jumped and stopped. Now I'm shooting through pine trees and trying to calculate bullet trajectory through branches and finally dropped the buck at 364 yrds on my 6th shot! Just before I pulled the trigger on the last shot my brother yelled to wait and I then saw why, It wasn't as big as everyone had thought! Each time I shot I verified it was the same buck by his upturned right beam so I knew I was shooting at the right deer but at that moment I looked at my brother and asked if he's got em' on screen, he said yes and I finally dropped him. Score really doesn't matter too much to me, I love big bucks but I also love small bucks! I went to Mexico for the experience, to see eight 90" class bucks rutting on one hillside was worth every penny. My brother videotaped the other client taking an incredibly massive 105" on the 4th day and we went out every day seeing huge bucks doing what they do in a very serene, undistured environment. I'm overjoyed I harvested not one but two beautiful coues deer and enjoyed an incredible experience with my brother, and every last detail is on tape!

Great pic's Amanda! I love mass on couesies more than anything and he's got it! Beautiful buck, I would take a safe bet and say he's in the low to mid 80's. Great buck! JIM

Thanks to everyone for your advice, it was very helpful! I have yet to take a picture under 900 yrds and I think thats why I'm not getting results like I want. I think I'm expecting too much at that range?! I have been using at least 40X and mostly 60X on the few times that I have tried digiscoping. Those are some beautiful pic's HUNTER4LIFE and DAVID took! I'm not familiar with that camera David, I just bought this Canon G6 for my wife for Christmas and her mom bought her one too!! SCORE FOR ME! I got a new G6 So I'll eventually learn what works with this camera in particular. I'm leaving for Mexico tomorrow morning and I'm not taking my Zeiss adapter with me. I'm gonna try Amanda's way by holding it up to the scope, seems alot easier and she gets great pic's doing it that way too. Hey David, you need to go kill that pig rather than take pic's of em! Thanks again guys! I'll post my pic's of my 120+ mexico coues and his buddies in 9 days! JIM

That is one helluva trophy with a bow, even if it wasn't your first! The character alone throws score out the window and makes that buck a trophy! A big congrats to you, you deserve it! JIM

Welcome to the site! I love Reserve, NM. We hunt and guide in 16A every year for elk and spend alot of time in Reserve, some beautiful country! JIM

Congrats on your buck! I've killed many a critter with that exact muzzeloader. I love seeing the "old" percussion cap, scopeless, smokepoles still being used, great job! You are gonna love AZ, unless you dig ditches for a living , Welcome! JIM

You can see he's sleeping in that last photo and that his beams are both broken just after the G4's. This buck is 32-33" wide. These pics are the only decent ones out of the 100 that I took! Any advice on getting better quality photos? Thanks JIM

I just ordered mine, wish I had it right now though, I'm goin nuts, I leave for Mexico on Wed.!!!!!!!!! JIM

This is my '06 pig! We got in late and slept in just a bit on Sat., which was my "opening day" for pigs in 36B. I saddled up the quad and headed for my glassing points. Stopping at my first one I glassed up a herd before I even got off the bike. The pigs were spooked and I watched where they went over a ridge. I stashed the quad and took off running to cut down the distance while they were out of sight. I went up and into the same canyon they went into and relocated the herd of ten. I dropped all my gear off and started a 200 yrd stalk. The pigs were huddled under a mesquite fighting over the little shade it provided. I got to within 30 yrds and just stood there watching and enjoying the moment. I was trying to pick out the biggest one and after about 20 minutes they got up and started feeding off. I found the one I wanted and let it fly. I have bright cresting and vanes on my arrows and could see it fly center mass through the pig. There was alot of grass between us but I felt I made a good shot. My pig hauled out of there while the others fed around me at less than 30 yrds for a couple more minutes. I then snuck over and picked up my arrow, NOTHING!? It was dry and absolutely no sign! I just passed up every other pig thinking I stuck this one! I tracked him to double check and nothing. I think I shot through hair I guess. I then tried to locate the rest of the herd and found them farther down the canyon and snuck directly across from them bedded. I found the biggest and it was laying quartered away at 48 yrds on a rock ledge, and thumped him! He went less than 20 yrds before hittin the dirt! This is my 12th archery pig and I still get as pumped hunting them as I did on my first, they're a blast to hunt with a bow! I found a nice coues shed when packing out and it just topped off a great day! My buddy Craig had a pig tag as well so on Sun. we hit it hard, glassing several nice coues bucks and a huge herd of pigs that were kicked up by Border patrol as they escorted about 15 UDA's out of a canyon! We watched where the pigs went and figured they bedded. We drove as close as we could, after BP left, and hiked in. We sat down to try and relocate the herd when standing right where we thought they would be was another mexican fella! He was just looking around and then took off walking. We never found another pig. As we were strapping down our packs at the quads right at dark, 4 more UDA's came walking by in the wash, heading SOUTH? I yelled to them sayin that they were going the wrong way but to keep on going! They did and in a hurry too The coues rut is still weak down there but noticeable, the Mulies in the northern part of the unit are goin ballistic and we spent our last day watching some huge bucks ruttin' around, just too far for stalks or not enough light. The wind was to bad to try digiscopeing the mulies but I did get some coues pic's. The big one is bigger than the pic's look because the ocotillo behind him hides his length, His G2's are incredible and so are his beams, just has short G3's compared to his G2's, great buck though! He was about 3/4 of a mile out and the smaller buck was about 1/2 mile, both using 60 power for the pic's. Thanks for the B-day topic and reply's, that was really cool! Thanks JIM

That's a beautiful buck! Congratulations to you Shane! JIM

Awesome hunt so far!!! Best of luck to you on reaching your goal! JIM

Thanks and congrats on the laftover tag, I know a few that didn't even get one of those! There's alot of pigs in the unit but as with any unit and especially on later hunts, they can be very hard to find. I actually found alot of pigs off the main rd. south of Arivaca, " Ruby Rd." Just drive several miles south of Arivaca until you get into some of the bigger canyons and ridges and glass both sides of the road. Good numbers of pigs along there but scout it as best you can and be at a spot opening morning because alot of poeple will hunt along there as well. Good luck, JIM

Check out the white spots on the brisket of that big buck my buddy Craig killed in Dec. It was an older age class buck, and I have seen it before on another older deer so I figured it was an age thing? Is that an accurate assumption? Have you guys seen it before? How common is it? And by the way, those dang tail differences still have me perplexed! That seems to be the first thing I look for on coues deer now to see what color their tail is! In 35B I only saw 1 deer out of probably 50 deer that had a "red" tail, and it was the one we killed. All the others had variations of the salt n pepper color tails!? Crazy stuff, just adds to the mystery and allure of these little critters, any ideas about the white spots let me know, curious! JIM

Thats an absolutely beautiful buck!!!!! Congrats! I can't wait to see your other pic's and maybe a story!?! I leave next Wed., hopefully theres a weather change! I can deal with heat, but WIND BLOWS! Thanks, JIM

I jump on the computer whenever I walk by it to see if anybody posts any new pic's. I keep wonderin why there hasn't been many new bucks from the early Mexico hunts? Is it because most go down later in Jan.? I need to see some of those big Mexico coues you guys get, just to get a little more fired up for my hunt! THanks JIM.

By the way, I think that buck is 114" give or take 3" JIM

There IS NO WAY I would pass up that deer on any hunt at any time. ALTHOUGH, it would be cool to see him in two maybe three years! GO kill em' Justin!!! JIM