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Got My Iowa Buck Back

AZHunter

AZHunter

Iowa Boy At Heart
About 4.5 weeks ago, as I was driving back to Flagstaff from a meeting in Phoenix, I get a phone call from Rick Whitaker letting me know that by the time I send him a check, my buck will be ready to ship and it was a couple of weeks earlier than he expected. Check went in the mail the next day, but with my work schedule the way it has been, coordinating a time when I was actually around made it 3 more weeks before I could get the deer. :thrwrck: So Rick shoots me a text on 7 May with the tracking number for FedEx and the tracking info says the package will arrive last Wednesday, 9 May with signature required. No problem, I know my boss will let me work from home so I can be there. To confirm, I checked the tracking info Tuesday morning when I got to my office and it says the package will be shipped that day sometime. A quick phone call to FedEx to try and get it rescheduled or delivered to my office tells me the package is all ready loaded on the truck and I'm basically SOL. Fortunately for me, I lost a "discussion" with my wife over hiring a cleaning lady and the cleaning lady was there Tuesday afternoon when FedEx arrived. To say I'm happy with the work Rick did is an uderstatement. Thanks to Wayne (Bowman) for getting me in touch with him.

Our living room is a completely open floor plan (both stories) relying mostly on ambient light from the big picture windows so I had to go up to the 2nd floor outside my kids' rooms to take the best photos.

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And a close up from below of the detail:

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I'm looking forward to having an elk to put next to it after this September and I'm getting motivated to get my Coue's whitetail mounted (just a skull plate plaque now) to keep this one company so I can have 2 whitetail subspecies on one wall.
 
Looks great! Inform your wife that one can never have to many mounts on the wall! I will be elk hunting in Northern NM this year....cant wait myself!
 
Very nice! Looks a little palmated on the driver's side. Bet there's not too many guys with Iowa whitetails hangin on the wall in AZ. I actually can't wait to burn my AZ max deer points so I can try for one of those Coues. Probably not many of those on the wall in Illinois!
 
Zim said:
I actually can't wait to burn my AZ max deer points so I can try for one of those Coues. Probably not many of those on the wall in Illinois!
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Zim, unless you have a specific Coues unit in mind, I know several underdrawn units that will not require max points for NR. There are several units in SE AZ, close to the border that have plenty of left over tags. You can actually get a left-over tag in those units after the main draw and save your max bonus points for a Kaibab or AZ Strip muley!

I've been talking about getting my Coues buck on the wall for about a year now, with my wife's support. After putting this buck on the wall, she looked at my Coues antlers and said, "but its so tiny, it won't look right." After I reminded her that, although they are both whitetails, they are still apples and oranges and you can't compare an Iowa whitetail to a Coues whitetail, she out it back in perspective and agreed that the Coues should be on the wall, too. Then she said, as an alternative, I should maybe just go get a bigger one! Hard to argue that! :way:
 
AZHunter said:
Zim, unless you have a specific Coues unit in mind, I know several underdrawn units that will not require max points for NR. There are several units in SE AZ, close to the border that have plenty of left over tags. You can actually get a left-over tag in those units after the main draw and save your max bonus points for a Kaibab or AZ Strip muley!

I've been talking about getting my Coues buck on the wall for about a year now, with my wife's support. After putting this buck on the wall, she looked at my Coues antlers and said, "but its so tiny, it won't look right." After I reminded her that, although they are both whitetails, they are still apples and oranges and you can't compare an Iowa whitetail to a Coues whitetail, she out it back in perspective and agreed that the Coues should be on the wall, too. Then she said, as an alternative, I should maybe just go get a bigger one! Hard to argue that! :way:
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What are the the hunt dates there for Coues? Do the OTC units have decent enough numbers? I'd like to meet my step-son down there some time for that. The later the better for a break fom Chi weather. Given the increasing pool size for NR, I get the feeling we're going to do the Kaibab. We'd likely never draw 13. I'm 52.
 
Looks great! That gets me excited...I've got two deer that I'm waiting to pick up from Rick. Shouldn't be much longer!
 
Dang nonresident hunters are going to be the ruin of this state! :D

All kidding aside, very nice mount and congrats!

You and I tried to work together on my NM elk hunt last year, thanks for the info. Things settle down at work in a year or so and we might try something again, NM or AZ, species to be determined. :D:way:
 
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Looks great. Rick mounted my 2011 deer and his work is awesome. I would recommend him to anyone and everyone
 
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