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Thats any awesome buck, congrats, Im just a little confused. New Mexico, Mexico or AZ hunt. January Rifle? San Carlos? or lucky raffle winner. Nice Buck, just curious what state.

welcome to the site Geno, I remember that day, one of the best elk hunts I helped with, and got it all done in one day.

How about the berger bullet in 168 or 180 grn made by HSM?

I just wanted to share a few of my trophies hanging in my game room that I took throughout the years. All taken here in AZ. The WT are from 21 and 6A, The elk are all archery bulls from 4A, the mulie are from 41 and 23, and the bear from the san carlos. Enjoy.

agreed, Utah does that for the premium trophy units, if drawn for the trophy elk or deer unit a resident will have to wait 5 yrs before he can apply for a trophy unit. They can apply for the non trophy areas or over the counter tags within that time. I wouldnt mind that here for antelope, early archery/rifle elk, and kiabab/strip mule deer. But then again G&F will loose out on money so they wont do that.

50 tags in 19B wow

Your probably right, but giving more than 20% of the tags for those units where only 4-6 people apply. Still is not right, frustrating waiting this long.

Well I hunted and helped friends on the 42 general hunt, and I got my buddy on his first deer ever. He took a nice 3x4, not bad for his first deer. I was holding out for a big boy, and passed on several small bucks including this one my friend took. Never found a big guy to go after, I will try again during the archery hunt. A week went by and I took my daughter in there for her Jr. hunt, and on our second day hunting, I glassed this 3x3 and we put the stalk on. Good thing for the rain and wind, it kept him bedded up in the same spot so that we could get within range. We got within 85 yards and he stood up, and she made a beautiful shot with my 270wsm, dropping him in his tracks. Enjoy the pics.

So are going to work for PETA now??? Or sierra club That stinks you have to sale some nice stuff

Everyone knows how tough it can be hunting elk alone without any help. So with that being said I had two friends hunting alone in two different units at the same time. One in 4a and one in 22N. My friend in 4a was going to have help on Sunday afternoon, but my buddie in 22N was solo the entire time. I went with my friend in 4a first and arrived in his camp opening morning and it was cold! 4 degrees so my truck indicated. This was the first time in 4a hunting rifle, most of my experience in there has been during the archery season. The spot I took him to was a war zone, road hunter after road hunter driving all the two tracks and shots going off everwhere. My friend told me he was looking for a nice 5x5 or better. As it started getting lighter I glassed a nice 5x out in the flats about a mile out. We decided to get closer for a better look, and as we approached closer some road hunters jumped the entire herd and spooked the bull out. That bull was shot by a young boy and it was his first. It was a nice 5x and good for him. That evening we went to a different spot to get away from some of the road hunting. We spotted a herd of 20 and another 5x was with the herd. My buddie told me he wanted to go for him. As light was fading we got within 460 yards, he took another look and decided to take him. His shot was true with his 308 and he got his bull. After we packed out the bull, which was easy due to the location, I headed off to 22N to help my other friend. I arrived in camp that evening and asked if he has seen anything. He told me no not even a cow. I asked what type of bull he was looking for and he told me anything better than a spike. He was wanting that tasty elk meat. I am use to glassing and the only spot I was familiar with in 22n was the control road. I know how crowded that road is with hunters, but I thought if I could glass one up we would be in business. That following morning after I arrived in his camp we started to glass the control road area and I spotted a 4x5 with some cows 3/4 the way up the ridge. I asked my friend if he wanted to try for him and I explained to him how difficult the pack out will be if he got it. He told me he was game. We stalked to withing 200 yards and his shot was true. This pack out was tough. He shot him at 1030 and we were finished with the entire elk and back at the truck at 8pm. Not the biggest bulls but it was great time hunting, except the cold. Enjoy.

great elk and hunt, yes it was cold during that hunt, very cold.

awesome, great bucks, the body on yours is huge,

How in heck can you tell with just the skull?????

Well I have been helping out a few of my friends the last 6 days of the 42 gen hunt and doing scouting for my daughters Jr hunt in there as well. Opening morning we glassed up 5 bucks, nothing bigger thatn a 2x2. The second morning 4 more bucks, one little fork and the rest spikes. The third day a decent 3x4 and a 2x2, but a failed stalk. On tuesday went to my honey hole I was saving for my daughter, and helped my friend take his first buck ever. This was his first ever deer hunt. A small 3x4, but he had a blast and learned tons. Glassed him up at 1300 yds and closed the distance to 230 when he took the shot. Good luck on the Jr hunt.

As one of the other members posted, its a lot tougher than the other Jr hunts due to the general season running 2 weeks before the Jr. My daughter had a tag in there the last 2 years, and in 08 she took a 3x3, and last year I scouted for her before the general season and saw plenty of deer and some bucks, but once her hunt arrived they were gone due to the general hunt. We did eventually on the last day glass a group of 5 bucks running together and she had one standing broadside at 350, but it was too far for her. She dosent like all the hiking but really likes glassing for deer, we have done that for both the morning and evening , then during lunch since everything is so close we hit Wickenburg for some chow. She has a tag this year also and I have been watching a group of bucks, but I probably wont be back in there scouting until after the general, and see what they do.

Did not get an elk, my friends had a cow tag, and it was a very small area to hunt in. I think there were approx. 80 tags, half were for any elk and the other half was cow only. With the small area to hunt in and the word out of the only water was on the west sunset mtns, there were plenty of other hunters in the area. We did glass up some big herds and some bulls, but all were across diablo canyon and were not in the unit. We still had a good time, and took care of some coyote problems.

Helped some buddies out on a limited opp cow elk hunt on the Hopi/Clear Creek Ranch hunt and glassed up these two guys. Enjoy

I have been scouting lately for the upcoming november hunts, general and youth, and have been seeing some nice desert bucks better than last year. Last week glassed up a herd of 8 running together. Just want to see what everyone else is noticing in the desert. I just hope is cools off a little, I dont want it to be 106 in November. Good luck on your upcoming hunts

keep up with the scouting the areas you mentioned are both good. I took my daughter in that unit on her first Jr deer hunt and we had a blast. The tonto rd area is good but lots of private property. A little south of tonto rd is ferguson valley rd. from that road there are plenty of small two track quad trails to get away from the private prop and will lead you into good glassing country on the national forest. On our scouts prior to the hunt we only found does but stayed in those areas during the hunt and found the bucks. Good luck, Jr hunts are the best.

I have used the 150gr ballistic silvertip to take bear, whitetail, muledeer and elk They have been the most accurate for my set up

I seem to find more or see more when scouting alone. I'll be doing some scouting tomorrow near winslow, east and west sunset mts. Scouting for some friends on their upcoming cow hunt. Its their first hunt ever. Was just waiting for the early archery and rifle hunts to end. As far as fossil springs tons of hippies checking out those blue/green springs. Must be something in the water.

They dont have one in there this year, after this archery hunt the next bull hunt is the november archery followed by the rifle bull hunt.

Buy the newer version, the one pictured runs 589, for 20 dollars more, you can buy the same rifle with the threaded barrel and the new triger that is externally adjustable. I just purchased it last month and it has the green ghillie stock. I just ordered my zeiss and waiting for it to come in to mount it. Im setting mine up for lets say the end of the world type scenerio, but will use it for hunting. I forgot to mention, it has a 1/10 inch twist and this rifle is a military/LE set up with the heavy 20in barrell, i would assume with that twist rate the heavier bullets, 168-180 will perform better at longer distances and less likely to tumble. My friend has the same version you pictured and he loves it, he uses it for elk and deer. He just put a middle end nikon on he tells me he likes it alot.

Buy the newer version, the one pictured runs 589, for 20 dollars more, you can buy the same rifle with the threaded barrel and the new triger that is externally adjustable. I just purchased it last month and it has the green ghillie stock. I just ordered my zeiss and waiting for it to come in to mount it. Im setting mine up for lets say the end of the world type scenerio, but will use it for hunting.

Dont apalogize about helping someone out who hasnt been drawn in 10 years. I think some here were upset at me because I did give some specific directions. If hackberry basin was such a sweet spot or honey hole, you would think I would have ran into another hunter there during the hunt. In which I didnt during the 7 day hunt. Oh I did run into one, the day prior to opener. Some times I wonder what the purpose of some forums are for. Just bragging boards, or to bloat how good you are? If you cant help someone out on here in the open, and only in private (pm) whats the point. Im just saying. Good luck on your 6A hunt. Im trying to save you some time, money, gas, and get you started in one spot were you can glass up some deer the day you get there, instead of scouting for days and hours without seeing anything.