Coues Deer Hunts with the AZ Ground Pounders Outfitters

We have guides and hunts available for the upcoming October and youth Coues Deer Hunts. The AZ Ground Pounders have guided or personally killed some of the biggest bucks in the past few years. We specialize in units 22, 23 and 24B.  Many of our Giant Bucks have been taken during the October Hunt, including 131, 120, 117 and 108 inch bucks in the past three Octobers.  We will take $250 off of any hunt if you mention our blog or Coueswhitetail.com. Please call 928-517-1337 or email us at azgp@live.com for more info or to book your hunt.

2011 131 COUES

2010 120 COUES

2010 108 AND 120 COUES

2012 105 COUES



2012 96 TWO POINT

2012 117 COUES

Jason Browning First Morning Archery Coues Buck

Jason Browning made the trip out from Las Cruces, New Mexico to hunt with the AZ Ground Pounders. After a 45 minute wait Jason made an awesome shot on a Pope and Young class Coues Buck. Congrats to Jason on his first archery Coues Buck.

Archery Coues Hunts

The AZ Ground Pounders have a few spots open for the upcoming Archery Coues Deer season. We have good bucks coming in to stands and we cannot wait til Friday. Call 928-517-1337 to book your hunt

Just checked the cameras and these shooters showed up just in time for Archery Coues Season. We have spots available to kill your pope and young class Coues Buck.

AZ Ground Pounders 100" Club

Draw results are out!!!!!!! The AZ Ground Pounders can't wait to start hunting. Looking back over the years we were putting together the AZGP 100 inch club.  If you like looking at big coues bucks as much as we do, you will love this post. Its almost time to get real Couesy again this fall.

ELK, ARCHERY DEER, LION AND BEAR HUNTS WITH THE AZ GROUND POUNDERS OUTFITTERS

The AZ Ground Pounders Outfitters have guides and fully outfitted hunts available for the upcoming Elk and Archery Deer Seasons.

AZ Ground Pounders are looking to guide any Elk Hunt in units 22N, 22S 23N, 23S, 3A/3C, 4B and 1. If you are interested in hiring a guide for your hunt please call 928-517-1337 for more information. Your hunt can be tailored to your needs and budget.

We still have openings available for the August Archery Deer hunts. With the season fast approaching be sure to give us a call as soon as possible to hold your spot. We have ground blinds and tree stands set up and we do offer spot and stalk hunts.

Bear opens in August in select units and we have spots available for spot and stalk bear hunts on some great bears. We do have long range rifles availible if needed.

We are always booking lion hunts and we usually start hunting around the first week of October until the end of April. We specailize in DRY GROUND LION HUNTS and have been sucessful on 49 out of the last 54 Clients.

Give us a call and we can get your spot locked in today.

AZ Ground Pounders Coues Deer Management

Many successful Coues Whitetail Hunters will tell you that the keys to killing good bucks are great optics, a sturdy tripod and many hours in the field behind their set up. While that is true many hunters do not manage the areas that they hunt. A Coues Deer Management plan allows bucks to grow from good into trophy class, 110 plus.  A Coues buck management plan consists of two key elements, buck selection and removal of predators.

Mature Coues deer have two categories of predators, hunters and natural predators- lions and coyotes. Hunters pressure the bucks a combined three months out of the year while a lion will kill a deer sized animal every week. Lions will travel great distances to find food sources. In order to maintain a healthy deer habitat lions must be hunted continuously throughout the season.  Lion hunting with a good pack of hounds is a great way to pass the time in between January and August Coues Bucks Seasons. Lion hunting is an adrenaline packed thrill ride that will provide excitement every step of the hunt and also relieves pressure from the main Coues Deer predator. Active lion hunters will also learn the area that they are hunting, revealing water and cover that cannot be found from a ridge, miles away.  Coyote hunting on the other hand does not take much by way of preparation or cost. A hunter can go anywhere in the West, set up a spot and call until a dog comes in. Coyote hunting is a very good way to practice hunting situations while increasing the chances to allow bucks to mature.

Buck selection, although not as time consuming as lion hunting is very important to Coues Deer management. By making a commitment to taking either a trophy buck or management buck, hunters will allow bucks to mature into the trophy class. This part of the management process can be controlled, to some extent by the hunters and requires a great set of optics and knowledge of bucks in the area. Many hunters feel that a shooter buck is any buck in the 90 inch class. In some cases a mature, big bodied buck may only have a 90 inch frame and would be a great management deer to take on an early hunt.  In an area with good genetics a 2 ½ year 90 inch buck may turn into a 110 inch+ trophy deer within a couple years if given the chance to mature. Not all bucks will become 130 inch giants with a management plan in place but many bucks have a great chance to reach that 100 inch mark that most Coues Hunters strive to kill.

By using the Coues Buck Management plan, the AZ Ground Pounders Outfitters have killed many great bucks in areas where the principles were applied. In October of 2010, Steel Armstrong took a 120 3/8^th inch buck within a mile of where a large Tom Lion was caught just five days before the hunt. The impressive 3x3 with eye guards was followed for two years and could have been taken when he was first located in 2008 as a 100 inch buck. In October of 2011, Bill Armstrong put the hammer down on a typical framed 131 1/8^th   4x4 buck in a location where four lions have been killed in a mile radius over the past 3 years. In these same areas bucks have already been located that possess the same genetic traits as the trophy bucks that were taken. In January 2012, AZ Ground Pounders Outfitters located the biggest Governor Tag Coues Buck in AZ History, a 133 inch monster in the same area where three lions have been killed in the past two years.   In October 2012 Levi Armstrong killed his 117 Coues Deer in the same canyon that Cash and Steel caught a  Tom 2 weeks before the hunt.

 Some may think that killing a great buck may be just luck and a perseverance but if you can find a great area and use the Coues Buck Management principles you will find that year after year trophy bucks will be found in your hunting area.