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Article: Buck light: why so many hunters are stalking the diminutive Coues whitetail. (Cover Story).
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- Sports Afield
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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THE COUES DEER (it's pronounced "cows," though no one does) is a subspecies of the whitetail, but hunting them bears the same relationship to whitetail hunting that stock car racing does to negotiating your way through the supermarket parking lot on Thanksgiving weekend. Forget sitting in a stand. Think of climbing 1,500 feet of loose, volcanic shale to glass with a 60x spotting scope.
Forget rolling farmland and hardwood forest. Think of using your Leatherman to pull cactus spines out of a sensitive and intimate portion of your anatomy. Forget thermal underwear. Think of shaking scorpions out of you boots in the morning.
Brad Ruddell, vice president of ...