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Got the only hit I cared about! My boy has his first elk tag, a junior hunt!

My wife and I headed out Thursday after work and got camp set up. When we were getting firewood I noticed a rather large camp a mile away. The camp had several tents and I saw a whole bunch of young kids and adults. Never seen a big camp like that during a javelina hunt. Opening morning, I started glassing at first light for bucks, saw some decent young ones. Folks from the large camp were set up at glassing spots all around us. Each truck had 2-3 kids in it, good to see. About 8:45 I finally caught some pig movement and my wife and I packed up and started to move in. We ran into a grandpa, son and grandson doing the same thing. I asked if they were going on a walk or putting on a stalk. They said they were going to make a stalk on the herd. Since they had a first time hunter, a 10 year old, my wife and I told them to go after them, good luck and said we’ll be watching the stalk from the glassing spot. They invited us to go on the stalk but I wanted it to be a moment among the 3 of them. We went back to the glassing spot and while watching them make a stalk, my wife spotted another herd bout 1000 yards away right above the hunters. It was cool seeing the hunters and slightly above their head in the distance was the second herd. After checking out the landscape and figuring out where the second herd was, we made our move. We came up above the herd and they were just bout ready to head down to bed. Our shots were much longer than usual, a whopping 230 yards. My wife shot first and that muzzle break rattled me a bit and her pig went down. I had to take a few shots to get mine down. When I approached my pig, she was still alive. I used my wife’s pistol to finish it off, At 2 yards I shot and the round was a dud, had no powder (no more speed reloading for me). I saw the bullet fly maybe 100 FPS and bounce off the pig. The pig opened its eyes and charged me a little and took off. I caught up to the pig bout 50 yards down and finished her off. It was a great morning, we ran into the grandpa later on and they were unable to harvest a pig. Wife and I camped another night and on Saturday morning, we saw the same groups of people making a few stalks and heard a gunshot when we were packing up camp, hope that kid got his first big game. First time my wife and I doubled up on anything, the packout wasn’t all that great carrying both pigs.

Was lucky enough to catch a lone javelina working through some cedars this morning. Had both kids with me again.

Dad finally got his antelope tag. 30 points for muzzleloader

My daughter got an antelope tag with 1 point. Every time I'm in her area of the house she says, "all it takes is one!"

You and az game and fish have that in common

Safford to Utah, the obvious answer is snowflake

I'm happy to report I'll be Elk hunting later this year. And what's even sweeter is this year will be my first full year of retirement so there will be scouting and hunting ad infinitum. 😁 Given how early it is, I might have drawn my first choice but I'm just thankful I drew this year. The G&F app should update with the tag info before the portal does but no idea when that will be. Eddie

FYI, g&f called me last week, because apparently they had received numerous complaints about me using an unauthorized weapon during the HAM hunt. The Officer called to inform me that I did nothing wrong and that my AR Pistol in the configuration shown in the picture is 100% legal! Of course I already knew that, but I did appreciate the call.

Ok here we go Junior and Dylan Archery cow 7e sept 12-25 I got 11m archery bull sept 26-oct 9

First applied in AZ in 1997 with hopes of drawing elk. Have applied every year since and have drawn strip mule deer and 2 antelope permits along the way. Finally drew elk and looks like I’ll be in 23N most all of this coming September.

archery pronghorn archery elk its a good year

😂, I put grandparents, parents, in-laws just about anyone with a pulse. Eventually they’ll all have enough points that I’ll start applying with them, drawing tags, point guarding their tags and then hunting every year for a good period of time.

Just hit for 3 6A early archery bull tags 👍🏻

Done. Two hits 135 just now

Wife got 8 archery bull and I got 8 rifle bull

No one could say it better then this guy!

I'm just praying for a sheep tag come June.

boom 2 elk hits

Dinner tonight, pan seared blue fin tuna, I caught, seasoned with yuzu furkikake, shichimi togarashi and 809 miso, with a soy and sesame oil dip.

Looks like 1 of the 2 boys drew a Youth Cow tag. Won't know if it is the 9 or 12yr old til they update the portal.

Got hit for 135 at 07:15 this morning. Not sure who it is for. My two boys, my wife, and I all are on different apps. I either got a 23n archery or a unit 9 muzzy or one of them drew early rifle in 23 or 1. I've put in for most of my life and none of us has previously drawn . No matter who drew, we are going to have a great time hunting.

Got a youth tag for my youngest , and either my oldest son or I got a tag. He put in for bull, I put in for cow.

I got an archery bull tag!!

Two elk tags for us, no idea what