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Thanks for the info! How do you like your Sendero, how well does it shoot? I'm having a hard time deciding between a custom with PCR or a Sendero setup like yours....

Few questions if you don't mind: what is the brand of that break, it looks good. You happy with it? What did they charge? Did you have them do any other work? Thanks for any info, i have been following them for a while and I'm thinking of having them build me a custom.

thanks for the advice guys, i'll remember that for the future.

+1 for Vortex. I have the razor hd and the pst 6-24x50ffp and love both of them. oh ya, and their warranty

Great decision and great buck, congrats!

I'll have to take a look at that book. I'm a big fan of hiking in and putting my Vortex Kaibabs on the tripod and picking apart the area. I feel it is really tuff to glass without a tripod. The Kaibabs are my first and only pair of optics and I'll agree with you that they are more comfortable and let me glass longer than some of the less expensive glass...

Kinda funny because it was pretty close to the road, actually right where it ended. We were on a 4x4 road that was tucked way back there. We didn't see or hear anybody all day. I think what really helped was being away from the crowds, I am a big fan of that!

Here are some pics, ill add the video when i get it done....

First of all, thank you to all that offered advice and posted to this thread. Although there is no absolute, it is always interesting to hear what works for everyone! So one of my best friends, he is more of a brother to me since we have been hanging out since t-ball, and I drew a rifle whitetail tag for November 30 through December 9. I was pretty excited since we didn’t get drawn for elk this year and it was my first time ever being drawn. We start hunting opening morning and hunted hard for three days and didn’t turn up many bucks. My friend saw a doe and button buck opening morning that were about 50 yards from him, but that isn’t quite what we wanted…….Opening day we also found around a dozen doe on a hillside that we were able to glass from the road. Since we found so many doe we thought we would have to see a buck somewhere close to them. Well the next day we found a little forky where we saw all of the doe and while my friend was trying to find him in the riflescope another hunter shot at the forky before we could. Then they shot again. We were pissed at being so close to filling his tag and it not happening. The other hunters were on the same road we were on just around the bend where we couldn’t see them but could hear them talking a bit. We ran into them later and found out they missed both shots. We stayed hunting that mountainside for the next two days and didn’t see anything but the same dozen or so doe… Both of us had things we needed to take care of so we headed home on Sunday night. After replaying the 3 days of hunting in my head, not seeing hardly any bucks, and being frustrated I decided to make this post looking for some advice. We went back out Wednesday afternoon and hunted that night and all the way through Saturday morning. My friend stayed on the same mountainside with all the doe while me and my brother in law took some advice and hiked in away from the roads, which put us on the backside of the ridge where the doe were. We thought the hunting pressure would put us in a good spot for some bucks but again, nothing but doe. After being 9 days into a hunt and hunting for about 7 of them I found myself sitting at home frustrated. Frustrated because we had tried everything and nothing was working, and also because we knew of others hunting the same area were able to fill their tag. Of course we were happy for them but I was frustrated. So Saturday night I called my friend and said hey, tomorrow is the last day, let’s make a day trip of it and throw a “Hail Mary.” Let’s hunt another part of the unit and switch up things. I was sick of where we hunted before. We did it and it worked! We went to another popular area but only saw a few camps and didn’t see anyone where we went. We were driving down this FS road and I was telling him we were about 3500 feet and I thought we would start seeing more Muley than whitetails and that’s when he said “Stop, there are two deer in the road.” We both jump out and he sees through his scope they are doe, but they were whitetail. We decide to start glassing for some bucks that should be near. A minute later I found two bucks pushing a doe but we lost them over a ridge before we could get a shot. I looked at the map and saw a nob that would maybe give us a view of the backside of the ridge they went over. We got to it, hiked up, and within minutes found them. I set up to shoot and they were 810 yards away. It was 2pm and there was no way to get closer so I dialed the scope and sent it. I missed the first two shots for not holding for enough wind but got him on the third. At the time we didn’t know I hit him with the third shot. He didn’t go down but I was out of ammo since I was shooting at some rocks a few days before. I told him to get his gun and to shoot him. He missed the first shot because of wind but then connected and the buck bedded down behind a bush. I stayed on the binos watched the bush he was bedding behind while he hiked 40 minutes to him. He found him dead behind the bush and then I packed up and hiked over too. Once I got there we were looking at the blood trails and found a trail that lead to a pool of blood in the area where I took my third shot. We figured that I hit him and we just didn’t know it. Once I realized this I was pumped, we both ended up killing the buck together! This is pretty fitting for us since we are pretty much brothers and do everything together. For being the last day, and only hours left in the hunt, and both of us being part of this buck, I wouldn’t have changed this or had it end any other way! One thing I did learn was to always have a full box of ammo with you and to buy a wind meter for those windy days!

I'm working on it right now....

Well everyone we got it done! Last Sunday is when our hunt ended and we killed a 3x3 that afternoon. I have been busy this week and haven't had time to write up how it happened but I plan on doing that this weekend. We have it all on video too so as soon as I can put all the clips together I will post it as well. Thanks again to everyone who shared their opinions and how they hunt, it has been fun to read and talk with my buddies about all this!

Just wondering if there will be any Black Friday deals? Just a thought!

thank you!

Just tried to PM Amanda and it says she cannot receive any new messages. Any other way to contact her?

Thanks bonecollector, I'll try that.

Thanks redman, I appreciate the advice. This is pretty much what I thought. There are no absolutes, but I feel the further away from everyone the better.

Amanda, This is great to hear! I have been hunting since last thursday and just saw this. I will be going through Globe tomorrow to continue my hunt, is there any way that I can purchase the Jim White pan head and pick it up on my way through? It may be a long shot but I thought I would ask! And thanks for the Anniversary Sale!

that's what I was thinking, thanks for the advice!

thanks for the info desertbull.

I've been in 24a and haven't seen much activity, about 20 doe, a forky, and a button buck....hopefully this week gets better...or maybe I need to try a new spot...but I feel like its tough to move seeing all the doe...I would think there would be some bucks around the doe

Good luck to you guys! Been in 24a and have seen 20 doe, 1 forky, and a button buck.....hopefully the rest of the week gets better.....

great to hear Amanda, I could really use a Jim White pan head and just need a little something to push me over the edge!

Maybe cyber Monday would be more fitting for the CW Store, since it is online? Maybe free shipping, free xyz with purchase, or 10% off etc.....just an idea but i know that at the end of the day it is still a business, and a small local business....which I would love to support!!!!

Thanks for the replies, you all have great points that I agree with. It is good to hear what you have said because it confirms how I felt about the hunt. Being new to this and not seeing muleys and seeing coues you kinda start to doubt your methods but it sounds like we just need to keep doing what we were doing.

Just got back from my Brother-In-Law's muley hunt in 23 and we didn't have much luck. We hunted there for 3 full days and didn't see but 2 muleys. I glassed a coues buck opening morning at 437 yards that i think was with another buck but we could only see its rear end because it was bedded in the bush. This was at an area between black mesa and aztec peek. The next day on black mesa we walked up on 2 muley bucks that were bedded down right at sundown but they took off and we couldn't get back on them, especially without any sun. We were primarily hunting on top of black mesa and around coon creek and we had no problem seeing coues. My buddy glassed a couse buck and doe on top of black mesa at 351yards. We saw plenty of sign of deer on top of black mesa, a buck and doe skull and backbones that some coyotes got (looked like coues), one shed from a coues, and plenty of bedding spots. We were only familiar with that part of the unit and so we hunted there all three days, especially because of all the signs of deer. My question is, are there many muleys down low this time of year or are they in the higher elevation? We stayed low and glassed in the rollers but only saw coues. What have others seen and what do you recommend to get on some muleys? I hope some others that were out there had better luck, but from looking at their camps and driving past them it didn't look like it....I believe we had a tough 3 days seeing much of anything was because of the moon being almost full every single night we were there! Do you think the moon has a large part of bedded bucks during the day? Regardless it was great to get out there!!!