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A precision rifle combined with accurate ammo and premium optics make tough shots doable. Even on tiny game like Coues deer.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A World-Class Coues Deer Offers A Challenging, Long-Range Shot In High-Wind Conditions. The Hunter Is Using Cutting-Edge Long-Range Shooting Gear. Should He Take The Shot?<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cOh My Gosh! That\u2019s a huge buck!\u201d My shouted whisper was snatched away by the wind, bouncing off a mountainside in Mexico a few seconds later. My friend and hunting buddy Jordan Voigt had just spotted a Coues buck across the bend of a jagged canyon, and it only took a glance through my binocular to see that it was a really good deer. Even at 514 yards.\"Take<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

We had started the day high on the same ridge, crawling out of our bivy tents at dawn and making our way Ninja-style to a little jutting point. There we settled in to glass miles of classic Coues deer habitat. The wind was strong, battering our backs and shoulders and creeping its cold fingers inside our collars and down our necks. We spotted a few does, which were holding tight to heavy brush and feeding on dry mesquite beans littering the ground under the older trees. It was the third day of our hunt. I had killed a great old warrior buck the noon before, and our plan called for us to exit the backcountry during this day\u2019s noontime so we could resupply, as well as join some friends for a traditional Argentinian dinner. After a couple days of freeze-dried food, that sounded like heaven in Coues country. We shivered behind our binoculars and huddled on rocky shelves below the rim of the cliff, trying to escape the brutality of the wind, telling ourselves that if we glassed just a little longer a buck would show itself.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Coues deer country is often rugged and steep. Stalking close can be done, but only rarely. More often long, cross-canyon shots are necessary.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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There were three of us on this adventure; myself, Jordan, and another friend and hunting buddy Natalie. This was Jordan and Natalie\u2019s first hunt for the elusive \u201cGrey Ghost\u201d, the diminutive Coues whitetail of the American Southwest. They (the deer, not Jordan and Natalie) have earned their nickname honestly, being some of the most illusive creatures alive to spot and stalk amid the cactus, dense brush, and hip-high grass of their native mountain terrain. They\u2019re tiny things, with a big, old mature buck tipping the scale at just over one hundred pounds. That\u2019s barely bigger than your neighbor\u2019s German Shepherd, and hunting the little deer calls for an accurate rifle and precise shooting. And more often than not, long cross-canyon shots.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The brand-new 6.8 Western cartridge is well designed and built for distance. It\u2019s an ideal all-around cartridge for western big game.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

RIFLE, SCOPE, AND AMMO<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan was hunting with a bolt-action rifle<\/a> chambered in the brand-new, cutting-edge 6.8 Western cartridge. It was an accurate setup, turning in an average group size of less than three quarter minutes of angle. Most of the 100-yard groups could hide under a nickel. Lightweight Talley rings mounted a snappy Leupold 2-12X44 VX6 HD riflescope atop the action, and a superb Javelin Pro bipod by Spartan Precision quick-attached to the forend via a rare-earth magnet. The rifle was zeroed at 200 yards, and a drop chart showing ballistic information and \u201ccome-ups\u201d for every distance from 200 to 1,000 yards, at average local elevation and temperature, was pasted to the side of the rifle\u2019s forearm. Jordan had used the rifle to ring targets out to six hundred yards and more the day preceding our hunt, and I had no doubt of his ability to place an accurate shot when the moment arrived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ammunition nestled in the magazine on Jordan\u2019s rifle came from the Browning factory, loaded with a new 175-grain Sierra Tipped Game King bullet designed specifically for the new 6.8 Western. The diameter of the bullet is .277, exactly the same as a .270 Winchester<\/a>. Long, sleek, and streamlined, the bullets sport an extraordinarily high G1 Ballistic Coefficient of .617. Starting downrange with a muzzle velocity of 2,834 feet per second, the round packs terminal energy and momentum far beyond any distance a reasonably intelligent person would want to shoot at a little critter like a Coues buck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo 4<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The best Coues deer hunting is often found while living from your backpack.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We finally gave up on spotting a buck from our windy point, and slunk back to stuff our bivy tents and sleeping bags into packs and swing them aboard sore shoulders. Determined to hunt along the way we stayed high, finally running out of ridge above a big bend in a canyon. We decided to stop and glass for a while, and I hadn\u2019t even found a comfortable rock to sit upon when Jordan hissed \u201cbig buck!\u201d jolting us into full-throttle predator mode. I put glass on the buck, gulped my heart back down where it belonged, and settled my spotting scope onto the deer to verify what a quick glance through my binocular had told me. Sure enough, the buck was a monster. Wide, heavy beams swept out and forward, with long brow tines and G-2s, 3s, and 4s reaching toward the sky. I never could get a perfect look at the buck\u2019s left antler, but if it matched his right side \u2013 and every glimpse I got said it would \u2013 we were undoubtedly looking at a record book buck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we first saw the buck he was standing broadside on a jumbled boulder face that a goat would struggle to maintain its balance on. By the time I set the spotter up and Jordan found a field position to shoot from the deer had walked under the canopy of a giant old oak tree that overhung the cliff side, stopping with only his right antler and shoulder visible through a hole in the tree limbs. He was quartering slightly toward us, but remarkably, we had a good shot at his shoulder and the vitals beyond. Jordan gallantly asked if Natalie wanted to take the opportunity, and once she\u2019d refused settled in behind his rifle. The distance was 514 yards. He checked his chart and adjusted the turret on his scope. His position was steady, but there was a problem:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The wind. The wind was ripping left to right, sweeping in jagged bursts up and across the canyon. I\u2019m fairly confident in estimating wind up to about fifteen miles per hour, and this air was maintaining significantly more velocity that that. The gusts, I surmised, were ripping through at 35 to 40 miles per hour. Depending on what the wind was doing at the buck\u2019s position, and in the 500-yard void between, the Sierra bullet would drift somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 to 11 minutes of angle. That\u2019s equivalent to between 20 and 55 inches. Jordan would have to make a long range downhill shot with a violently gusting crosswind at one of America\u2019s smallest big game animals. Through a hole in a tree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But this was no ordinary buck. It was the biggest Coues buck I\u2019d seen in my life; one that would very likely score well into the all-time Boone & Crockett record book. Would it be wise to push our luck? To try to make that shot regardless of the complications? We studied our options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Could we sneak closer? Coues deer are notorious for seeing any movement and just disappearing. This buck was across a canyon, with no good cover for stalking. Our chances of finding him again later were not good either. The forecast called for continuing wind through the day and following night, so we couldn\u2019t simply wait it out. We were between the proverbial frying pan and fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The author with a pack full of Coues meat and topped off with a nice set of antlers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

THE MOMENT OF TRUTH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Place yourself in Jordan\u2019s shoes. You\u2019ve drawn a coveted tag, flown to Arizona, worked your rifle out to long distances, and backpack hunted in the backcountry. You\u2019ve done everything you could to prepare for a tough hunt, and a tough shot, at a hard-to-find animal. You know your rifle, and are confident you can make a good shot at greater distances than you now face. And you\u2019re looking through the crosshairs at the buck of a lifetime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it\u2019s impossible to figure the wind. What is it doing at 150 yards? At 250? At 400? Will it remain steady long enough for you to squeeze off a good shot, or will it gust at the last moment, drifting your bullet an additional 25 inches? You just don\u2019t know. YOU DON\u2019T KNOW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you take the shot?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HERE\u2019S WHAT HAPPENED (TRUE STORY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan and I watched the wind. We tried to watch dust, cobwebs, debris, anything \u2013 to get an idea of what the wind was doing in between the deer and our position. We watched for any kind of pattern in the gusts. And then, agonizingly, we decided it would not be wise, or ethical, to take the shot. So we slid through the rocks and the ocotillo cactus and down the steep side of the ridge, trying to close to within 300 yard of the buck. If we could get that close, we could kill him. At 327 yards the buck spooked, bounded up his cliff like a mountain goat, and disappeared. Except from our dreams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We didn\u2019t get that buck. Nor, I believe, did we ever regret not attempting that shot. Passing was the ethical decision. Jordan did get a good buck a couple days later, with a first-shot kill at nearly the same distance. That day, there was no wind. But that is another story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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