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congrats, your right I think I have more fun and excitement helping someone else get their animal more than myself.

No, rut in the low desert for mulies. Last weekend spotted3 group of does all alone, and one group of 4 bucks still running together. I think it wont start until late Dec or early Jan

Great, buck, my daughter also has the 42jr hunt and so far all we been seeing is does, a bobcat and a lion and few coyotes and foxes. We were out yesterday morning near aguila and found 9 does, no bucks yet. Opening morning last week just does as well, we tried near the hasayampa wash near wickenburg, nothing. Going out tomorrow for one last chance. Congrats on a nice buck, the jr hunts are so fun.

I found an old predator trap, this September during the archery elk hunt in the flats near winslow. Its all rusted out but was able to see, Property of The United States Govt. Any ideas how old this may be? Any reasons why it would be labled Propert of USG.? Wonder how long ago they were doing trapping.

is that still ongoing, this thing looked like it was 50 years old or so.

I took this buck a few years ago hunting the deser flats. He measured 30 inches wide, and he is only a 2x2, old buck probably age range of 10yrs or so.

Well I didnt think I was going to do any type of whitetail hunting this year. Howvere I was able to get away for a day to help a friend of mine on opening morning in unit 21. He never hunted this unit, and as any central or northen units the whitetail are held up in pockets, so never hunting the unit would be tough for him. The good thing is that I and some of my friends have killed several bucks in 21 over the last 10 years. The bad thing I have not been hunting this unit since my last kill in there in 2004, nor have I scouted that unit since then. I told myself I would never take that rough road again. In '04 I took my truck in there and tore off skid plates, one of my buds bang up his rear axle and tore off a nerf bar. It takes 3 hours to go 7 miles in a truck or jeep, and on a quad it takes an hour, and even on my quad this trip I would bottom out on lava rock. Ok on to the hunt. I took him back to a great spot and at first light, I found a couple of mule deer. I was kind of concerned because I never seen mulies in the spot, ohwell I continued glassing and found 6 more mule deer, all bucks 3x3 or better, some were even fighting each other. Continued glassing and found 3 more mule deer bucks, these guys were big and running together. 9 mule deer bucks all on the same ridge. I asked Rob, are you sure you have a whitetail tag. Even he was wishing he did. So we decided to move over a ridge where I know there should be some whitetail. We got to this ridge and spooked up a whitetail doe. Well that was promising at least there were still whitetail in here. NO bucks at this spot, only a nice bull elk and some turkey. I decided to glass the ridge with the 9 mule deer bucks, because I always have seen whitetail bucks on that ridge, and wouldnt you know it, I found three whitetail bucks running together, between the herd of 6 and 3 mule deer bucks. We watched them for awhile and wathced them feed over the ridge. I knew exactly where they were heading. To their bed. We head out to the bedding area about a mile away from our glassing point and had to manuever around the mule deer, but we got it done. We got within 150 yards of the bedding area and the bucks stood up. Two ran off and one stayed and watched us. Rob took a shot and missed. He shot over his back. He shot two more times as the buck never ran off, he just walked between some dead junipers. His othe two shots hit the trees. The deer went out of sight behind some junipers. We walked over to the last spot he was at and I looked ahead and noticed the buck standing broadside at 40 yards. Rob was behind me and I motioned him to get over here, the buck started trotting off. I whistled and he stopped again. Rob shot, and hit him, he dropped and the shot was only 46 yards. He was stoked, this was his first buck ever. It was a fun quick day hunt, and I was glad I was there to see Rob take his first deer ever, and it was a Coues.

Well, any other success in unit 21, whitetail or muley. Lets see them

I love my geovids had them for about 5 years, but just remember these glass are not lifetime warranty, its only for 5 years due to the electronics. I was kinda shocked with that due to the price, but leica told me that a 5 year warranty is way more than any one or two year warranty for any other electronics. However they did advise me that if anything happened to the glass, it would not be much to repair, however they could not tell me the same for the electronic portion after the 5 year warranty. Something you may want to think about

a few pics of bulls hitting h20 at night, bummer

Try the Kirkland Jct and wagoner rd are at the s/w end of the unit, lots of area to glass all day.

azhtrgirl is right that unit can be rewarding, I was fortunate to find two nice bucks on opening morning last year, and it was the first time hunting that unit. Good luck on the hunt

Just pulled my camera yesterday, and noticed treestands and salt set up on the H20, If anyone knows these guys, give me a PM, just wondering if they were setting up for archery deer, or getting ready for archery elk. Unit 4a

[a ttachment=17274:DSC02772.JPG]Recently got my mount back from the buck I shot last November, 6A. Kruegers Creation did the mount. Good luck to all on the upcoming hunts, no deer for me, but my daughter drew a Jr. tag.

What the heck is going on with the weather, 113 this week!, its horrible. Makes me wonder if the elk will be vocal during the archery hunt? Will we be sitting on water all hunt long, spot and stalk, hopefully they will be vocal and we can have some calling activity. What do you guys think, will we have a good vocal/rut activity for this years archery hunt? Only 14 days away.

yes they were, but didnt the hunt last year start a week later, or at least 5 days later?

No problem, I'll take some tonight. I just moved into a new home and trying to arrange the game room. Its no fun trying to hang elk up by youself, plenty of nicks in the dry wall that need to be patched.

106 & 5/8

I just spent the last 11 days hunting bear, all around the maylay gap area, Freezout Mtn, BS tank, grapevine, tank, cox coral, Harrington, and Mcdonald tank ect did not see one single elk in the maylay gap area, seen plenty near dry lake, black mesa, and soldier hole, but those areas are not in the Maylay gap, good luck on the hunt.

I helped a friend out in 2005 on an Oct L/O hunt in 22 matazal hunt for any elk. We called in several nice bulls, and they were still responding to cow calls when he killed a nice 6x7 on Oct 23.

Shot this guy last year on opening morning, Nov hunt. First time hunting this unit and only scouted a few times. The buck scored 106 5/8 and I just got him back from the taxi, and put him in the game room.

the hoochie momma worked great the first year it came out in 2002/2003 and bulls responded well to the call, ever since then the bulls got call savy to the hoochie momma and have not used it since, Hyper lip single with or without tone converter is the best, I have only used primos calls, me personally they sound the most realistic.

I have 4a bull, but crittergetter does, you might hit him up for comment, I know he has been doing some scouting but finding an area with bulls was becoming a chore.

Yes I used the bungee cords, and i wasnt worried about someone messing with it, if they did they would of got pricked pretty good

No deer or Bighorn for me, but my daughter drew a 42jr tag. Oh well, cant wait for my archery bull 9/11 is almost here.