[OFD]

Thanks everyone

This is one we spotted near where I hunted .... I thought maybe it was mine when I shot but this one is like a 100" 4x4 View attachment 459605

Where is a 100” 4x4? In that picture?

 

[Rattle-m-up™]

@stealthycat , what are the farmers thoughts on the Coues deer in that area? Are they hated?

 

[TMHC]

Big Atta Boy! Way to stay after it!

 

[stealthycat]

Thanks everyone.

Where is a 100” 4x4? In that picture?

Thats what the guides said. He said mine was 85-90 and its a 93"

 

[stealthycat]

@stealthycat , what are the farmers thoughts on the Coues deer in that area? Are they hated?

I didn't talk to any but the private land we drove through had the most deer too. Its mostly cattle ranches ... a few corn pivots ... pistachio and pecan groves

They have javelina down low, I think they are the hated game

 

[bottomlands]

Thing is now I know a guy can do that hunt DIY

So at first light, the guide takes us to where he has patterned a group of 8 mule deer bucks

As you said in your first post, this is the thing about having a guide though.
Him haveing them patterned really helps a ton.
Doing DIY is what we do in Wyo and you do lose a lot of time finding the deer for that first stalk. Then again though, that's part of the adventure too.

 

[Punkinseed]

I need to take some time and score some of my deer.

Or just make em up

 

[stealthycat]

As you said in your first post, this is the thing about having a guide though.
Him haveing them patterned really helps a ton.
Doing DIY is what we do in Wyo and you do lose a lot of time finding the deer for that first stalk. Then again though, that's part of the adventure too.

Both are true .. had I killed a patterned muley buck you're absolutely right, guides help that much


Take 10 days, use mapping apps, Glass, find water holes etc ....DIY will work IMO

The place I killed my buck was 1st time in there this year, we put a blind up that morning . . Public land, we had seen 3 bucks over the mountain the day before but no idea what to expect that last day

 

[stealthycat]

Or just make em up

Yall are better than a P&Y official scorer ... that's ok too, to each their own

What did your Coues deer score?

 

[Punkinseed]

Yall are better than a P&Y official scorer ... that's ok too, to each their own

What did your Coues deer score?

Never kilt a Coues, but all my whitetail scores are made up

 

[stealthycat]

Never kilt a Coues, but all my whitetail scores are made up

good for you

 

[K-Mo]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

 

[mr4pt]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

Different species

about the same scores

 

[mr4pt]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

Hmm, now that I think about it I’ll be scoring all of my zone 12 bucks on the coues scale from now on. No longer letting 110” deer walk

 

[Punkinseed]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

Yea there’s pockets of em

Hmm, now that I think about it I’ll be scoring all of my zone 12 bucks on the coues scale from now on. No longer letting 110” deer walk

youve never let a 110 walk on purpose

 

[stealthycat]

a person can DIY hunt in AZ/NM
15x bino's are a must
a tripod is a must
camping on public lands can be done - be watchful of rattlesnakes at night, we saw quite a few


I would maybe go back in a couple of years

 

[Rattle-m-up™]

Back in the 50's AGFC imported some Coues deer to help dilute the Mule Deer genes that had been introduced in the 40s.

 

[Thenarwhal]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

I’ve killed a trainload of deer in Zone 12 and only a handful would score bigger than Stealthy’s Coues deer.

 

[Hivernan]

Back in the 50's AGFC imported some Coues deer to help dilute the Mule Deer genes that had been introduced in the 40s.

I heard the Coues genetics were dominant over the blue deer traits. That is why you don’t hear much about the blue deer anymore.

 

[Thenarwhal]

Aren’t Coues deer what they have down in zone 12?

I’ve killed a trainload of deer in Zone 12 and only a handful would score bigger than Stealthy’s Coues deer.