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Nice goat but that rifle SUCKS! I have a Weatherby you coulda borrowed... Bret M.

Al Miller and Tom Duke waited 12 years to draw early rifle bull in coveted unit 7B North. This morning despite lightning, rain and terrible weather Al and us went out and knocked this bull down at 178 yards with one shot from Joe Fanning's old 7MM Magnum. They had scouted the area alot over the last few weeks but had lost most of the bulls they scouted. Last night Roger Cook and I located 15 different bulls with 3 of them being "shooters". This bull scores 924 and three quarters on the Metric scale and that does not include over 152 decicentometers of busted off horn. It is the only 7x8 bull I have been a part of hunting and killing. I had to come back to work, but I have a feeling Tom Duke and the guys dumped another toad this afternoon the way the bulls were carrying on this morning. Bret M.

Thanks Danny, Awesome color on that bear too!! Bret

Excellent work on those mounts, they look very nice! Bret M.

Does this mean unit 28 closes Wednesday? Bret M.

12x50 Ultravids are the best all around binos in the entire Universe. This coming from a fool who owns 15x Swaros and 10X Leica Trinovids. My buddy has the Ultravids and they are SWEET!! Bret M.

Here is my first archery anything. I can't really see why all the goofballs down at the Archery proshops look down at you and treat you like a leper when they find out you're mostly a gun hunter. I have been on at least 4,724 tougher gun hunts in my short lifetime, and bunch of them were tougher elk muzzleloader and rifle hunts . I managed to miss two different "bulls of a lifetime" this week and saw a bunch of ginormous ones that put the slip to me or offered no valid stalk options. Of the two I missed, one was a little bigger than the one I shot last year and one a little smaller, both due to deflection from cr@ppy little shrubs . To be honest I didn't really practice shooting in/through/among the shrubbery this summer, and I guess I should have. When both of the big bulls that I missed came into range and turned broadside I was completley focused on them and not the little foliage in the way that was not in my sight picture at the time. I would like to thank my good buddy Bill "Pierre" Quimby who provided excellent lunches for me and firends and added alot of encouragement and couth to my hunt. My buddy Roger Cook who taught me that rutted bull elk really are like Javelina and can be run down and cow called into insignificant bow yardage. My family that manages to, and taught me to, kill elk like the black plague even in units that have no elk . And lastly, my buddy Brian Serna who busted his @ss and in the end his truck and quad helping me get a large bodied dead bull off of a cr@ppy nasty cliff in the middle of nowhere at midnight. Winches rule!!! Here is Brian and I after finding the bull dead on a cliff, and realizing we were pretty much chingered till about 03:30 in the morning with a packout job. Here is me trying to imitate my hero Chuck Adams. I just wish I had longer arms I scored him on via the Metric system and he scores exactly 724 Bret M.

2 stickers on the G1 on his right side... Bret M.

Thats AMAZING!!! Very cool.

36C sucks!!! Everyone will tell you to backpack up to the top of the mountain and act all John Wayne when you could hang out down low and find much bigger deer off the roads before you even get to the mountain range. On the early hunt if I hadn't been there before and not scouted other than internet stuff, I would shoot the first 90 inch gross deer I saw closest to the roads in what most people down there call CARP country.... Bret M

Jimmy bra, I was fixing to get you the story and all the pictures of this little teeny archery weener bull on Friday when I go back to work. I will be back up in the rock pile in 26 days or so trying to kill the tiny miniscule midget coues buck I saw in there during hog season. I saw Doug Hollywooding it on the Outdoor Channel stacking up hogs and turkeys like cordwood, you guys rule and are added on to my list of heros... Hopefully you'll come on down to the rockpile and we can wreck the hogs this spring... Bret M.

Doug, The bulls are seriously WILDLY RUTTING (fighting, breeding, bugling, and all that) up here where I have been hunting. I feel bad about tagging out early, but I was in a serious state of "being freaked out" after missing a TOAD on Friday and another TOAD on Saturday about 3 hours before I killed this one, I also knew I would be hunting solo after Sunday morning too. Taking care of big dead elk solo sucks, I know from past nightmares. Bret M.

Awesome bull! I think I saw your truck coming down the Mexican Hay/Big Lake highway 2 days ago, I hope he got a good one in unit 1. Bret M.

He was picked up by the Pinal County Sherrifs for pandering again. Lucky we ain't got the 3 Strikes law here like in California or he would be in the slammer for a long time, as it is he should be out soon, maybe around November or so depending on his lawyer !!! Bret

Just road hunt. Carp usually spend alot of time standing in the road, no matter what unit you have.

Great lowers, weak whaletails, that bull will score 330 gross though at least. Bass how many bulls have you killed and ground checked before? Your in for major "ground growth" and good suprises with that kind of guess.... Bret M.

That's a beautiful buck!! Congrats! Bret

Awesome! Donny actually hit something??!!! Send me some pictures of you got any! Bret M.

I am pretty sure he is busy being master guide and chief packer for my grandfather and great uncle all over the mountain chasing pronghorns and depredation elk this weekend. I will let him know you guys were thinking of him when I make it up on the mountain Sunday after I come off shift. Bret M.

There are lots of hogs all along the Gila River bottom, they are tough to glass but they usually go back and forth between the river bottom and the fields, they are easy to sneak up on or stumble upon depending on how you look at it . Bret M.

I was in 33 on Monday afternoon. The area is really green, water is coming off the mountain in every canyon and some of the weeds and grasses are 4 foot tall. It was tough to see deer where we were looking, but we saw a few. The mountain is greener than it ever was last year. 36A is good too, we killed some bucks there last year. There are coues deer everywhere in that unit, even in lower habitats that you may not expect to find them in hanging out with carps. Bret M.

That midget bear in the tree is one of the coolest pictures I have ever seen! Good photos Scott! Bret M.

Look at how UGLY that thing is. Big floppy ears and blunt carp snout and everything. I just don't see how anyone could shoot something so damned ugly and it being a Carp it was probably walking up the road when he shot it no less.... Poor ugly carps, no one takes pity on 'em. Bret M.

Might have, my truck was parked at the Mud Springs trailhead all afternoon, we got back to the truck after dark.... Bret M.

I was there Saturday. There was still one deer left that the lions hadnt killed yet. Bret M.