sneakem33 Report post Posted yesterday at 05:07 PM It was a tough year to be a coues hunter... managed to scrape out a decent buck, thought I would share. 20 1 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZCoueser Report post Posted yesterday at 06:23 PM Looks better than decent to me! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Savageman2506 Report post Posted 22 hours ago congrats, nice buck 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ernesto C Report post Posted 22 hours ago Very nice! Congratulations! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bigbuckfever Report post Posted 21 hours ago That's a nice one, congrats. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
AZbowhntr Report post Posted 16 hours ago Looks like it is a tough year to be a decent buck. Congrats on a great buck. Would love to hear the story. Given the picture it looks like it was spot and stalk. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sneakem33 Report post Posted 4 hours ago 12 hours ago, AZbowhntr said: Looks like it is a tough year to be a decent buck. Congrats on a great buck. Would love to hear the story. Given the picture it looks like it was spot and stalk. Yeah... I'm a spot and stalk guy, would be a bad year to sit water and I don't like to sit either. I had a late rifle coues that I hunted after Christmas, super tough, no deer movement and could never turn up a mature buck so I ate the tag. Started the new year with archery, tough go with the moon, temperatures and rain. Seemed as though there was rut activity throughout the hunt in every unit I hunted but the movement was less than an hour a day. As the hunt progressed, deer movement increased, but the deer were really spread out with the abundance of green forage everywhere. By the end of the hunt bucks were rutting hard, but they were locked down on a hot doe and were tough to turn up unless it was early and they were running or chasing off other bucks. Most bucks were still in heavy cover including the buck I killed. Just happened to watch him run a smaller buck off and return to his doe, I crept in the thick crap with him and snuck an arrow in... toughest year I've had for turning up good deer, so I feel like I was fortunate to have killed. Only saw 1 really good buck, 100+, and maybe 3-4 in the 80-90" range in 22 days of hunting. Quality and population has been trending downward for the last 10 years for sure IMO... 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
