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For pre-hunt photos, the best attractant is a tag in your safe. But once season gets close and opens and you remove the tag from the safe and transfer it to your wallet, it quickly turns into a repellent.

Here is that bull i referred to. Hate when people post a story without a photo. Don't want to be that guy. You can see the arrow from the last shot still lodged in the spine. i think this in 2008 or 2009 and i was 23 or 24 at the time. 1st and only Archery tag. That tall piece of grass growing up in front of the near side 3rd point still bugs me. Not sure why nobody told me to take my hat off either.....

I was able to get my second archery bull this weekend and biggest to date. Opening morning my dad and uncle called in a 5x5 with split eye guards to 20 yards but I wasn’t ready to fill a tag this soon. Passed on a couple spikes at close range later that day. Saturday was very slow with only a couple bugles early in the morning. Sunday morning a bunch of bulls were bugling around us but not consistently. We saw a good 6x6 following a cow 200 yards away across a meadow. I tried cutting them off and got to 50 yards when a cow I never saw busted me. The bull started trotting off and my dad stopped him with a cow call. I guessed 60 yards and clipped a cedar right in front of him. Clean miss. We never got back into elk that morning and we headed back to camp. Around noon my dad and I decided to walk the ridge above camp hoping to find a bedded bull. My dad spotted a bull raking a tree about 100 yards below us. My dad stayed on top of the ridge cow calling and raking a tree while I snuck down there to 40 yards. I found a small opening to sneak an arrow through the thick timber and connected. He went about 40 yards and piled up in a dead tree. The swhacker went right through the middle of his heart. Always a fun time in the woods in September. Hopefully we will be back next year and will have more time to spend up there. Good luck to the rest of the lucky hunters with an elk tag in their pocket! Sorry about the side ways pictures. I can never figure that out.

I see signs in Apache County that read "Cattle Guard Bicycles Cross with Caution". It would be interesting to know what happened. People are really stupid I guess.

Back on August 11 I posted an interesting Buck we called “Socks”. We thought it would be interesting to see what he would grow into. This pic was on July 30 Here is “ Socks” yesterday September 15. He grew up in a big way!!!

Is she settling into her new place? Change can be hard.

Most of my friends who r die hard hunters are now divorced. So gotta walk that fine line

I got the opportunity to go on a friends archery bull hunt. First time for me to do this, tag along and help out. I learned alot but this was one of the most epic hunts I have ever been on. It was a ton of fun chasing bugles through the forest and watching them rake their racks. This one was the 3rd attempt to get on a bull. This time I dropped him off and drove around a mile on the other side where the meadow was because I knew he would chase them out of there if he spooks them, so I can get eyes on them if they ran out and radio in. Not long I got the radio and he said he stuck one. Drove back to the old logging road and hike into him. My buddy was worried about his 55 yard shot and showed right where he shot him. I looked down the narrow corridor of trees about a 100 yards down and the sun beaming on the body and antlers and said "dude your bulls right there" Hugs and congrats happen! Man that was fun!!! Sad its over. Gutted it out and drug it out into the open for some nice pics.

If this guy makes it the next couple years he may have some pretty cool looking antlers....... We all know that cows fart, but I have proof..........

my friend shot one in the face this weekend. at least it looked like it was in the face. decent blood for a minute then nothing

BLM had to add those “not a paved road, travel at your own risk” signs a long time ago because of a similar incident. The gov. got sued. It sucks that people’s actions cause restrictions and more regulation ($cost) but that’s the beauty of America I suppose.

Yep, people fall into the Grand Canyon too.

These days, as many cartridges and rifles you can afford.

Most of those photos are 20years old hand have not seen the light of day in years

Let’s not go dove hunting together. Lol.

There's not an animal in Arizona that I would feel nervous about shooting with my 28 Nosler.

I don’t know...I was thumbing through some old picture books at corner archery a few weeks ago. You’re on every other page.

My only archery bull was a nightmare. I put a Montec in the "12 ring". Complete pass through, right at crease of shoulder, about 3" below center. He walked about 100 yards and laid down in the middle of a meadow and stayed there for about 2 hours. Got to his feet, walked over to a fence and jumped it. Could not believe what i was seeing. At that point i decided i needed to get another arrow in him. Snuck around and found him bedded a hundred yards or so from the fence he jumped, behind a dead log with his neck and head exposed looking at me. I took the only shot i had and put one through the neck. Complete pass through again. The bull hopped up and ran off like he wasn't hit. Gave it another hour or so and started following the blood trail, or lack there of. Found him bedded again, probably 200 yards from his last bed. Snuck in close, straight above him and put one right behind the shoulders, through the top of the spine. The broadhead stopped in his brisket. That shot anchored him by breaking his spine. After that shot, a HUGE amount of air was blowing out of his body and he deflated like a balloon. About 3 hours and a quarter mile he made it without lungs. When i gutted him, the first shot was dead center through both lungs but they didn't fill up with blood like they should. The air escaping from the holes in his lungs filled up his chest cavity like a balloon is why it all released after the last shot. He was a big, tough bull (374" if i remember correctly) but man, it was a rodeo getting him down.

Damm right it’s about to get worst my oldest just turned 10 and has two tags

Didnt mean to hi jack your thread...I was too lazy to start a new one.

Most of the guys that I know that live in the woods are divorced and unemployed.

just go to the nasty canyons...the big bulls are looking to get away from the cows and just recover...get a decent set of glass and MUST GET TRIPOD...sit your butt on a lookout and glass glass glass.....on the late hunt if your spot a bull he will not move much and you can develop a plan to move in on him....fossel creek, wet beaver....they will both have big bulls in them....you just need to find them and have a good pack to debone and haul out the meat, cape and rack....You might want to precoordinate with someone that has mules to help haul it out...

Wife has Muzzy Bull hunt ends Nov 22 hit me up then and ill pass on info !

Well, I got my antelope opening day, which was nice because I had the rest of the weekend to get ready for my elk hunt. I started in an area I had located a couple decent bucks but didn't turn anything up so started exploring some new country. I was glassing into a giant flat off of some really cool painted desert stuff and found a nice buck chasing a doe way, way out there and moving away fast. From my maps, it looked like I could get to a road that would take me closer, but ended up hitting a locked gate in the middle of nowhere. It looked like if I went far enough back around, I could get to it from another angle, but I decided to take a little two-tracker that looked at the flat from another direction. As soon as I got my tripod up and started glassing I found another buck, all alone about 1.5 miles out. Well, a buck right there was worth going after rather than trying to make a 20 mile loop to get on the guy that was moving fast in the wrong direction, so I started my stalk. I picked out a "knoll" way off in the distance that would at least tell me how far out in the middle of the flat this guy was. It turned out that knoll was much bigger than it looked from a distance - ha. So I worked my way off the red dirt hills to the edge of this huge flat. It was weird because it was really hard to navigate around in there. lots of dead-ends, up-and-down just to get to get off the hills and into the edge of the flat. I re-located the buck but he was still so far off I couldn't get a range from my sig kilo. Over 1000 yards still. I started working out a plan, and this guy just started trotting toward me. I got my first range at 643 yards, but it was clear he was going to do all the leg-work for me. There was a little ridge out there I didn't even see from up top, but once at eye level, he dropped behind it giving me an opportunity to make a move. There were almost no trees or bushes, so this was just what I needed to close the distance. As I got closer, there was a little run-off ditch I could use to stay low, but I knew once I came up out of it he'd be pretty close. Turns out, closer than I expected. When I popped up and started looking for him I expected him to be 200-300 yards out still, but he was withing 100 yards. I dropped back down and dialed my scope back down to the lowest power, then came back up to my knees. He was about 80 yards with his head down. I raised back up and shot him off-hand. He dropped right in his tracks. Doesn't get much easier than that - well until the pack out. Once I had him quartered and stuffed in my pack along with my gun, two pairs of binos, a tripod, etc. I could barely take more than a few steps in the sandy soil uphill toward the truck. I ended up having to leave half the meat and his head, and come back for them after getting more water and some food in me. Really kicked my old butt, but I manged to get him out.

I sent you a message. I dont have a problem with it as long as no one is asking for coords. You can find good bucks in most units.