Deserve2beworked

Takin it to heart. 5 days left. Want to loose that arrow. Good luck to ya'.

Thanks for the advice. Greatest website bar none. Always good advice and then the humor which is much needed at this point in any hunt. Guess I'll go with the advice given here, forget Rattle Snake, hunt Big Bugling All Day Lon Canyon instead. Where ever that is. Or maybe hunt, Come to Hoochie Mamma Canyon! If I find that one I'll have top buy a Hoochie Mamma. Seriously, thanks for the input. Hope I can help in the future.

Thank you. 6A has the "weak" rut rep. Just have to keep huntin. Nice 6x5 got waked by a vehicle on the Lake Mary Rd. Beautiful animal laying in the meadow rotting without a head. It was removed by AZ G&F.

Great comments on the rain. I'm camped on Interstate 229 off FS 3 at the end of the maintained section of road. The rain has finally slowed the traffic past camp to a crawl. Labor Day and Opening weekend we had to put out the "We have slow children, so please slow down" sign. We saw plenty of elk prior to Labor Day, but now they have vanished. Have heard only one bugle since the opener. Am walking 5 miles a day and the rain is good because every where is muddy, and now almost no fresh sign of elk. Where did they go? Higher in the pines? Lower beyond Horse Knoll? Even the Forest Fire Prevention guy who drives the forest is not seeing elk. One week to go, am hoping for a lucky miracle. Backwoods, what you seeing/hearing?

Thank You! Hope you continue the show throughout the summer.

I'm a newbie to this site, but not to bow hunting. Blessed with an AZ 6a elk tag this year. Am a 65 year old, retired school teacher, DIY bow hunter. For elk, that is a tough call, being solo, older, with a lost step, and still shootin fingers. But, I have a diminutive wife who will call for me maybe every 4th day, she runs the camp, and will pack! So, am essentially trying to spot and stalk an elk. Have used other sites, but this one looks so supportive, so I thought give it a thread. Have called twenty people via Huntin Fool about the unit, studied the FS maps, and MVUM maps. Know now there are lots of elk, lots of hunters, lots of hunter friends, lots of ATV's, and lots of roads. Know the unit is big with Pines to the north end and PJ to the south end. Also, know there are "tanks" through out the unit. I called F&G, but the lady would NOT give me the name of the Unit biologist or warden. Said there is unit info on their website. Just trying to gather every bit of info I can before August. Will blend all the thoughts and ideas together for the hunt. Plan on being there a week before the season to scout and can hunt the entire two week season. Can ya' help me with advice? Will ya' help me with advice? Thanks

LOL Thanks. I'll brace myself for the arrival of vehicles just prior to the opener. Will think, where will those bulls I saw last week go, when the fleet arrives? I hunted 21/30 Colorado last season for mule deer. Same exact scene, except when the mule deer left , they went to private property. And, they left on the opening day!

Bummer Dude! Friends of mine hunt deer and elk every year somewhere in Oregon on a private ranch. They shoot great mule deer bucks, good elk, and always throw in a few fishing trips on the lakes in the area. They hunt somewhere in east central Oregon near some town called Bend! How many new best friends do you want?

Thank you, Thank You. Great to see em. Will be interesting to see the drought effect.

Thanks Bow Hunters. Very positive, supportive, and helpful site. Thanks for the pm too. Will try to reciprocate best I can. I know Nevada. I did Colorado 21/30 last year, "The Books" in Utah the year before. I also know Unit 1 in AZ, but that place is like ducks in a barrel. I guided for caribou for six seasons in Northern Quebec, so I can help there. Hunted Hawaii for Axis and New Zealand for Red Stag too. Can help there. Also guided, just two seasons, in East Central Idaho for Elk, can help there. Spent six seasons in the Rubies of Nevada. Just so ya' know, haven't shot a rifle since 1969 and proud of it.

I won't pass that bull ever again in my life any where. Gettin too old and the opportunities to hunt are finite now.

Thanks azelkhunter69. Have just started map study. Using Google earth and marking areas. AZ new map site looks good but I haven't yet figured out how to label areas on the map and save them. Looking at the topo maps up close, the unit is getting bigger! And, the canyons deeper. Am also liking the idea that "all" of the elk are not in the pines, that some hang out in the PJ even in September.

Passed on this bull up close in Unit 1, AZ. Who is crazy now?

Thank you. Walmart P. Lot = 6a west, is that west of I-17? This overcrowding is so common knowledge. Wonder why G&F doesn't cut back just a little on the hunter numbers. Can't be just $.

6ANut, my favorite packer.

Thanks for the welcome guys, n gals. 6ANut, I did 32 years in the trenches. Front line teaching. The war zone. The place where without the tools you get carted away by the men in the white coats. Junior High, all 8th grade, 13 to 15 year old beings that know everything. Multiple subjects, mostly history, P.E, outdoor ed., math, drama, art. 15 years a basketball coach. A great career in a great rural district. Chad! Of course, I've got great notes from the call. Just looking for a pattern of maybe where to scout and areas to just plain avoid. I drew and mule deer hunt last year in Colorado 21/30 mule deer, bow of course, and my research worked, but I didn't plan for the hordes of people I was told I would experience. I didn't put huge numbers of people in the equation about where I should hunt. When you are 65 years old it is easy to have progressed from back country backpack hunts to back country hunts with my own horses, to atv's, to side by sides, all of which I have done. Now, my biggest foe is the PERMANENT CAMP! Takes two days to strike the camp! Ah, but the conveniences help me hunt two weeks straight, ie. home cooked meal, hot shower, comfortable, warm, and dry bed to name a few. Now the word in 6A is a lot of people. So, I'm just trying to get all the info I can. I don't want to set my camp at the area some have said is the "Walmart Parking Lot". One guy called an area the "staging area" for archery elk hunters in 6A. Ah, no thanks. 6ANut will post a photo of my favorite packer. Not going to your honey hole and if I do and I know it, I'll leave. Not going guided. Just going huntin'. Thanks for any tips.