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I have a bunch of elk and buffalo stew meat that I need to start cooking up and need a few good recipes. I am a terrible cook and figure it can't be that hard to screw up stew!! lol

I am sure some of you have recently received the email with an absolute monster coues deer shot in Mexico by the guys at Coues Country Outfitters. I was just wondering if anyone has any other info on the buck?? Because of the rules here, I can't post the pictures, but it's the biggest non-typical buck I have ever seen!! I can't even describe how big it is. If you know anything let me know. Thanks

I wondered when someone was going to bring that up.

It's the pressure that 5BN gets that's shuts them up. We hunted it several years in a row and it just got worse and worse as more and more people showed up in areas we hunted. On my hunt I heard 2 bugles in 7 days during legal shooting light. Bulls are still killable but for me part of hunting elk this time of year is getting to experience all the awesome sighta and sounds of the rut! So we no longer hunt there.

Great video! Sometimes the animals just flat out win, no matter how much effort you put into hunting them.

You guys can debate morals and ethics until you're all dead. No one ever agrees 100% with the way other people do things and no one ever will. Debating the law, however is another story. IMO there's no way this buck was legally taken outside the park boundary. This buck didn't live anywhere near the boundary. Those park bucks leave for one reason and one reason only and that's when they have ladies on the brain. I suppose my opinion doesn't matter much anyway. After all, it's not me that this guy is going to have to prove any legalities to.

Panasonic V700 or V700m. Internal memory is the only difference.

Marvin I believe it was killed last Tuesday or Wednesday.

It's been a couple weeks, but I wanted to share the results of our first annual Granite Mountain IHC Benefit Tournament. I'm not even sure where to begin. I've never been a part of such a crazy event!! We had high expectations for this tournament. Lake Pleasant is an awesome lake for a total weight or numbers shoot. A very rare monster can be found, but the overwhelming majority of the fish are under 10 pounds and there's LOTS of them! Check in and registration started like any other tournament. Guys and gals having a good time having dinner and sharing fish stories and a few cold ones! About an hour before launch time, however things got crazy! A wind storm blew in with a fury like we've never seen at this lake. 30mph winds kicked up 4-5 foot waves on the lake. We had all our boats staged at the ramp waiting to launch and it was a struggle for boats already on the water to get the heck back on shore! It was 11:30 before the weather let up enough that we could all finally launch. Then it became a mad scramble to find fish in horrible water for the now shortened 5.5 hour tournament. As you can imagine, the fishing pretty much sucked but we all still had a blast. Not one single shooter ever complained about the evening. In fact, there was a lot of smack talk going down at the ramp before we launched! Winning team ended up with only 17 fish and a touch over 100 pounds! 3rd place only took 10 fish and was well under 100 pounds. To put this in perspective as to how bad this is, we shot a tournament at the same lake in early June and 13 boats weighed in nearly 3,000 pounds that night!! All in all, though it was the cause that mattered for this tournament and everyone still had a blast!! We were able to raise a touch under $5,000 for the families of the 19 fallen heros! a HUGE thank you goes out to all the awesome sponsors we were able to line up for this event! We contacted every single sponsor of this site and were overwhelmed with the amount of support we were given. Here's a bunch of pics: Here's the sponsor banner. I have to give a big shout out to Jeff at NDesigns. He donated a dozen of the hats these ladies are wearing. We had a near disaster and had to switch banner companies 3 days before the tourney. In the madness we left the NDesigns logo off the banner! Our screw up and we feel terrible about it. Winner if the 2 bow package we raffled off. Yep that's me! First place: Team Swamp Donkey Second Place: The Kauffman Crew Third place: team Catalina Marina And lastly the final crew that stayed long enough to get in the pic. Several boats never even fished because of the weather. Thank you again to everyone who participated in this event!

Maybe he didn't leave the park. Well that's always a possibility as well.

He must have left the park cause I have pictures of that buck too!

You and me both! Good luck.

Well said Gino and Broc! I recently had the pleasure of spending a day in the woods scouting with Jay and his brother. Class acts all the way! Two awesome guys that share the passion just like all the rest of us. Congrats again Broc.

Sold. Thank you.

I recently won this bow at our bow fishing fundraiser tourney for the Hotshots and have no need for it. It's a fully set up brand new Left Handed Bow. I haven't even taken the quiver and paperwork out of the package. Asking $400 plus shipping or trade for a Leica 1600B rangefinder. I'll add cash of course. Here's a few pics. It's a trophy Taker drop away rest. Not sure of the sight. I'm guessing its a G5 sight. It has the light as well. PM or Email with questions please. Coues09@gmail.com Thanks for looking

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PM returned. Thank you.

Sounds good. Thank you.

It's possible the company who donated it will trade it but there's a lot of shipping charges involved so im trying to sell it first. I'll let you know though.

Length is 24"-28". Weight is 24lb-45lb.

http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/42045-granite-mountain-hotshots-banquet-aug-29/?fromsearch=1 Its been posted before by Steve Clark. You must have missed it.

We will be there for sure!

Thanks guys. I've never attempted organizing anything like this before. I did have a ton of help from my girlfriend Kaela and good friends Deason and Ashley. It was challenging to say the least. I learned a ton and will for sure change it up for next year. What made this event so great is the overwhelming support from everyone involved. All the teams were in the second I told them of my plans to make it a fundraiser. The Sponsors stepped up huge and donated a ton of stuff. We had a giant table of free stuff and and 30 or 40 items that we raffled off after the shoot as well. A special thanks has to go out to Bull Basin Archery in Flagstaff. Junior went above and beyond when he donated a FULLY LOADED Hoyt Carbon Element with arrows and a case. He also made a quick call to Hoyt and a fully loaded Hoyt Ruckus was in our hands in a week. Also thank you to PSE in Tucson who donated a PSE Barracuda bowfishing bow, and Catalina Marina in Tucson who donated a fully loaded G5 Torch ladies bow. There were so many sponsors who donated I can't even remember the final count and we appreciate it more than you all know! This will be an annual event for us as long as we can possibly continue it so look for the 2nd Annual Granite Mountain IHC Benefit Bowfishing Tournament early next Spring!

Man what a ride this tourney ended up being! About an hour before our launch time the winds kicked up and it got wicked out there! 30-4mph sustained winds generated 4-5 foot waves on the lake. We couldn't get our boats on the water until almost 11:30! Once we launched it was a mad scramble to find the best water and the fish. A quick 5 hours later we were all back at the weigh in talking about how awful the fishing was. Haha. It only took 148 pounds of fish to win and only 66 pounds for 3rd place! All in all, despite the weather, everyone had a kick arse time. We raised a little over $4700 that goes directly to the families of the fallen heroes. Here's a few pics: Sweet banner from Hitagap Signs. Mark does amazing work! First place team Second place team Third place team I was fortunate enough to win the bow combo package raffle!! And here's the whole crew with our take for the night. A lucky feller, and really cool guy, named Randy from Mayor won the fully loaded Carbon Element. From what my buddy told me his dad was pretty dang excited!!!! Thank you again to all who participated from volunteers to shooter to sponsors and everyone in between. We couldn't have done all this without you!

Empty milk jugs or 2 liter soda bottles. I line the bottom of my ice chest with them. Works great and you can re use them a few times before they start to leak. Occasionally you can find the 2 liters on sale for .99 so it's a pretty cheap alternative.