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My son, Lance, took this bull Sunday night opening weekend. First bow kill, first elk. He is addicted to archery hunting especially screaming bulls! Lance's shoots with 3G Archery JOAD club each week. It was clear these lessons allowed him to remain calm for a clean shot.

My 2017 central Az buck is all finished and home. Love it. Can’t wait to find another. 131 gross 127 net and all officially scored and submitted. Waiting for the 2018 season to end to see if this typical will receive any awards from B&C.

Hunted hard for 10 days. Was holding out for a 320+ but with only 4 days left and only one bull I physically saw that made that mark, I chose to fill my tag on this bull. Morning of day 10 (9am), he came in screaming and pushing his cow right to my buddy who was set up calling behind me. 30 yard broadside shot, the bull had no idea what happened. Good luck to those still hunting.

Well I was fortunate enough to draw another early bull tag this year. This year I would be chasing rutting bulls with a bow in hand in a unit I personally had never elk hunted before. My hunting partner and I spent a lot of time this summer running cameras and scouting with very little to show. About 2 weeks before season everything changed and the bulls started to move in. The hunt started off great with good rutting activity and several solid bulls to chase. Opening day found me in a pocket of 5 or 6 bulls tearing up. The bulls were very responsive to calling and several smaller bulls were passed. The second morning of the hunt had me intercepting my target bull and his cows. The cows passed by me at 10 yards broadside but the bull opted to walk right to me. At full draw the bull was staring me down at no more than 4 yards when one of his cows circled behind and winded me. The cow barked and the bull started to take off. I managed to stop the bull and guessed him at 35 yards with no tome to range and let it fly but he ended up being at 51. That night while heading back to camp I had a black heffer jump in the road in front of me. As I hit the breaks and tried to avoid hitting her my side by side decided to flip over. Miraculously I walked away with a bruised arm and a sprained ankle. I ended up coming home to recover and hopefully able to hunt again later in the hunt. Wednesday I was able to head back up and give it another go. With my ankle in a brace and immobilized as much as possible I was able to stalk a great bull but was unable to seal the deal. Thursday morning I decided to head to an area we scouted and saw several good bulls. We got in the area and had bulls sounding off all around us. We played cat and mouse with a group of 6 bulls that had 2 groups of cows. After calling to the bulls for 30 minutes while working in on them one of the bulls finally committed. The bull worked from across the canyon right to me. The bull was at 30 yards when I let the arrow fly. He started to walk when I released and I hit him a little back but still in the liver. I immediately started to cow call and the bull stopped at 20 yards. I was able to get another arrow in him and this time took out his lungs. The bull ran about 20 yards and piled up. This hunt definitely won’t be one that I will forget anytime soon. Can’t thank all the guys in camp enough for all the help and encouragement.

Nice bull congrats!

Stay overnight in that spot.

I have been after the same bull for the last few days he is in the same meadow every morning but I can not get close enough he has about 6 cows with him. I have seen a lot of deer antelope and a bear Three more days to go to find a bull

bump for one of the top five carry pistols!

did you go or what

Christopher Mountain in 23

How exciting to get him home!

Cool pics! Some fat smallmouth, nice fish.

Comerica park

Good to hear another hunter grinding it out. I been in 7E since day one, been really quiet until this morning (cooler weather). So been failing at some spot and stalks from glassing. But seems they are now more vocal, I was within 60 yards this morning of a bugling bull but too dark to see or shoot and they moved on. 3 more days!!!! I been down but not out.

Any of you collect prickly pears to juice? My husband and I went out last night and gathered several. He juices them and then uses the juice in an amazing BBQ sauce and also to make a Prickly Pear IPA (both of which I had yesterday from prior batches). We also use the juice in smoothies or in margaritas. We use metal tongs to pick them and desert broom branches to brush off the spines before putting them in a bucket. Perfect temps last evening and gorgeous almost full moon came up just before sunset. Made for a wonderful evening. tonight my husband will be brewing beer under the full moon

I was up in 8 two weeks ago and encountered the same mentality . A couple idiots in their RZRs passing everyone whether safe or not, then creating so much dust no one could see. I dont share the "outlaw the dang things" view, but some "law enforcement" that was supposed to come from our OHV sticker fees to GF would be nice. Idiots will drive like idiots whether on the paved road or dirt roads, UTV or automobile. Slap some fines on them and see if they slow it down. As Forest Gump's Momma said," Ain't no fixin Stupid".

Really where does responsibility lie, with the dead driver who killed everyone one else, I'm sick of stupid people trying to blame there stupid actions on someone else, the only one I feel sorry for is the kid who died, the adults well I guess life sucks. Them dumass people have been driving like idiots for years up there and everywhere. Don't blame me or anyone else for your stupidity.. Clean up the gean pool, they can all fly of the rim.. I want to no if the family will get fined for the fire that was started.. That would be awesome.. Anyway only my opinion.. Outlaw the dam things

Got my bull down Thursday morning. Was in really good rut activity the whole hunt.

Saw some pictures of a monster the Koury team got yesterday.

Well I know if you shoot a bull in the back of the head they die pretty quickly. My only archery bull hardly flinched when I shot him the first time. Just stood there for a minute or so looking around. He finally trotted off a ways and I decided to shoot him again but miss judged the distance. Arrow hit him right smack in the back of the head. The crazy thing is the arrow punched through his skull and lodged against his eye. You can see the arrow sticking out the back of his head below his right ear.

Can you donate it to another vet that can use it? Hate to see that tag not get used.

I have had good luck with RL22, RL23, RL26, and of course, H1000. My personal load is a 180 Hybrid over 69.0gr. H1000 @ 2996fps.

We're you trying for a reduced recoil load?