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hope you and all your families have a great day. Anyone with family in the services godbless. DONT EAT TO MUCH.

I hunted this unit last year and got skunked. I had never seen it so bad since I started hunting it over 30 years ago. I put in for it again to challenge myself to find a good buck. I did find a 180 plus buck about 7 weeks ago and spent several weekends trying to relocate him, but had no luck. I changed locations and turned up this buck 3 weeks ago. I only got about 45 seconds of footage before he disappeared. I came back the next weekend and couldn’t turn him up. About ten days ago I found him again, and got about 30 seconds of video before he melted away into one of his hiding spots. Opening morning found me and my son looking for another buck I had found for him, but that deer didn’t want to cooperate. We hunted all day and only found several young deer. Saturday I decided to go searching for the big 3, but he never showed himself. On the hike out, I found several lion tracks and figured he had been killed or pushed. Sunday the wind was gusting 20-30 mph and most of the deer I found were bedded, and also 600 yards out with no chance to shoot with the cross winds. The wind blew hard all day and we just couldn’t find much moving. Monday morning started the same with the crazy winds, but we had a plan to relocate another tall 3x3 I had seen several times for my son. On our way to that spot, I said let’s go take a look for the other big 3 and just see if he is up and moving. We were glassing from a spot that didn’t really give me the angle needed to see into his normal feeding area, but I wanted to at least try. I turned up one doe in a small cut feeding away from us. We kept glassing the area over and thought for sure there is no way this buck would be out feeding. I glassed for a while and was getting ready to move on and decided to glass below me. Standing in the open feeding was this buck at only 225 yards. I had just looked over this spot five minutes earlier. He must have been down inside a deep cut where I couldn’t see him before. I put a 168 ELD-M right in the pocket and he spun and dropped about ten feet away. While we were packing him out, we hiked down the same wash that I had used a couple days earlier. There were more lion tracks on top of my boot tracks. We scouted this area for weeks and kept seeing lion tracks in the road, but we were never able to glass him up. Unfortunately we never found a good buck for my son to shoot, but it was a great hunt and had a great time hunting with my son. David

I know we are right before the holiday and mid-season on a bunch of hunts, but there is an issue in Unit 3A that needs immediate attention. Below is a picture of the hunt recommendations for 2024 Elk and Antelope. Included in the recommendations is a modification to the boundary description for 3A that changes the hunts or area for draw tags to that portion of the unit within the Apache Sitgreaves NF. The remainder of the unit was converted to OTC at the insistence of the ranchers in the area. With the OTC designation, the Elkins ranch has entered into an exclusive access agreement with an outfitter who is selling OTC hunts for $10k. This privatization of hunting and commercialization of a public resource is not in line with the North American Model and is a disservice to all hunters. Please submit a comment to AZGFD to close elk hunting in the Zeniff hunt area until these ranches create a public access agreement similar to what other ranches in the state have done. Submit comments to: AZHuntGuidelines@azgfd.gov

Not bad for 75 !! One shot and done. Story to follow.

This is my dad's friend Aaron he's a Texas boy and married to my dad's old high school girlfriend. Aaron lives in Texas and put in for 40 years in Oklahoma for elk to never get a tag. This guy has a broken back and shattered a leg from falling outta a treestand. So getting around is not easy. Sat every day from the opener till yesterday . It was catching up to him so he stayed back in the morning. I went to see how he was at lunch and took him in to his spot. Had 4 bulls come in with just one cow . He made a great shot and she was rocking. The big bull still tried to hit it as she was clearing the dam for the water hole . Funny stuff! We saw turkey, deer,and elk come in .To all the 6a road hunters I say keep quiet and listen and watch and perseverance pays off .

I love dogs. Dogs have a spot in my heart. This does not mean that I want to see feral dogs running rampant in the forest. This is something some horse people can’t grasp. They can’t separate fantasies from reality.

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone.

Happy thanksgiving 🦃

Happy Thanksgiving

Got one on my ten point

Solid buck David!!! Nicley done.

Sounds tough man, congrats on a good buck.

VEry nice! Well done!

Nice. I love those ELD-M bullets.

Sold to springchicken Thx Jason.

Sorry can’t help ya with scopes - don’t know anything about them - but you won’t catch a big old male coyote in a Iive trap - they are to smart and won’t go in them - no matter the bait- I guess I shouldn’t say never , as occasionally it might happen - my buddy and I have probably over 40 years trapping between us and he has caught 1 young pup coyote in a live trap in all those years - that’s it just the one ….. bobcats no problem , foxes yes , even a javelina will go in them - but very rarely will a coyote go in a live trap . a coyote wants to see all around him and not be boxed in even the dirt hole sets the backing needs to be no higher then about his knees as he wants to see over the top of it and see all around ….. that’s just my 2 cents on coyotes and live cage traps…. how are you setting in “ clusters of 4” not quite understanding that ….. how big is your place - ? A few scattered around with different kinds of sets( dirt holes , trash mounds , T-bone etc …. ) and lures should get them ….. with coyote’s unfortunately it’s never a “one and done “ they will always be there - when you take out one , another takes his place , but you should be able to keep them in check ….. have you tried snares were they come through the fence ? I know they are a no go as well - but with your statement -“ by any means necessary “ …….. what kind of livestock are you talking about ? Goats , chickens , cows ? you do have to be careful with the traps if they are set in a pasture were your livestock runs - #3’s will catch and hold a goat or calf ….. ( I have caught my own calf before ) - so that comes into play as well….. anyway if you want to pursue the trapping angle more and need to borrow a few footholds to try I’ve got probably 200 you can come get a few to try out if you want to .

You might consider an AGM Rattler thermal as well. They are a great value and I've had nothing but good experiences with their customer service when needed. I picked up one from PredatorHunterOutdoors.com for a great price with a backup battery thrown in as well. Five year warranty & they're based in AZ.

Thermal is the best way by far. The ATN’s will work fine for what you need.

Your website says we can view 'wild horses'. That is a fact.

Green Chile elk burgers and roasted sweets....

At the very end of the video in the lower left-hand corner of the screen, you can see a tree get snapped in half. IMG_2639.mov

It actually hit my car. IMG_2640.mov

Seems to me you have 100% opportunity to share your views here and now. Let's hear them.

If you support feral horses on public land, then you’re not a friend of most wildlife managers and sportsmen. As such, I will never recommend your business to anyone…..and I let them know why. Several hunters/fishermen have already stayed other places once they learn of your skewed feral horse beliefs. I like domestic horses and folks who use them……having said that, I wouldn’t care if feral horses (vermin) died a slow and agonizing death on public lands.