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Great and capable cartridge for sure! I'd like to get my wife one. She currently shoots a Savage 110 7 Rem Mag with a few bolt-ons, and she loves it, but I think she would like a CM even better.

Had a fantastic hunt! It was tough though. Although there were a few, not many cows were taken while we were there. We had a shot early in the hunt but had some scope difficulties and couldn't close the deal. After those shenanigans, we hunted hard putting in mile after mile hiking all over the mountain. Although we didn't see many cows, there are definitely elk in the "green" areas and timber and our bull count was up to 17 with one monster we named the "Wrangler". He definitely had good jeans. It was warm and it seemed that the elk were mainly up in the higher areas off the 300 towards the West, but you never know. We also had the pleasure of seeing many deer on the hunt with one group of around 18. The dominant doe in that group was chewing on little bones. Wierd. All told, we saw more does than bucks, but we definitely saw a few nice bucks including a real nice 4x4 standing broadside just looking at us from ~100yds one day. Finally, on Wednesday, the day before last day we were able to shoot a nice cow that was 284lbs hanging on the scale at Malapai Packing in Taylor- we worked the math backwards and estimate 530-540lbs on the hoof. Thanks for everyone's help. Not the greatest shot, but:

Great bull!

Anyone have the typical measurements found here? I know the work has been done but searching for measurements proved useless and maybe we can consolidate the info here. Thanks for the help!

Someone's going to have my ugly mug on their trail cam haha. I was quail hunting/whitetail scouting for the upcoming hunt in 31 and came up on a trail cam so I said cheese and smiled.

Thanks man. I'm really excited to get out and scout. I would like to stay away from the yahoos so thanks for the heads up on that. Hopefully we can scout up a good place to camp from all the recommended areas and we'll have a successful hunt. Seeing all the downed trees though, I'm not so sure, but just getting out in the hills with the fam trying to find some elk for a week will be awesome so a successful hunt or not, I'm way excited! Getting some work done on the rifle- ordered a new laminate stock and a brake for it, getting ready for load development. Need to find a gunsmith to screw the brake on for me.

That is an excellent resource! Thanks!

Thanks guys. I really look forward to getting out this year. Work has prevented me the last several years. Last year I drew a whitetail tag and only got out for 1 day. Couldn't put horns on anything! As far as area, I was eyeballing the area straight south of the Overgaard area on Google Earth. Looks like a lot of it burned though, and it appears there are a lot of downed trees. I'm wondering if there were any good camping sites in the mountains down that way for a tent or two. Something else, is the Mogollon Rim Rd the Southern border of the unit? It appears that way and I don't have a map for the area yet to more accurately determine it.

Hello all, got a quick couple questions for you. Wanted to put in for elk the same units as my uncle this year as who knows how long we'll be able to hunt together. He usually hunts cow in 3a-3c. So I put that as first pick and got it in October. Unfortunately, my uncle got 2nd pick unit 27 so we will not be hunting together anyway, unless one of us tags out early, then we'll crash each other's party. Anyway, can anyone recommend a good place to set up camp? I've never hunted this 3c unit before, but we tent camp so if you have experience with the area and would like to help a fellow hunter out, I'm all ears! It's pretty far from home base so we'll probably scout in September (just for the bugling ). I'm really excited for the hunt, it's been a while and it's been even longer since filling the freezer. Thanks in advance for your compassion. Tim. Micah 6:8

I am tellin ya, just move up here. Buy a license for 25 bucks and the tag is free!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have 5 legal rams picked out this year already. 2 of them are ready to keel over from old age at any time. Charlie has 7 picked out. Its gonna be a good year for sheep. I will be gunnin for my 7th ram and 5th mount. I know that is more than my fair share but it is one of the few things that keep me putting up with these aweful winters and in most cases aweful summers as well. This summer so far though has been a dream come true. Lots of sun and warmth without the freakin smoke. BTW, as far as AZDBHS is concerned, enough points I do not have but the ones I do have are better than nothing at all. Do they have any railroads up there!!?? My sis has a friend who just moved up there and has an open invite to go hunting with a place to stay. M U S T R E S E A R C H ! ! !

Oh YEAH! hunt 1093 draw!

A buddy has the Swaros and they're nice, but not for the price difference between them and the Kaibabs. I do think a 15 power is in order. I think a 20 power would be nice, without doing math, maybe like a 20x65. I wonder why Zeiss stopped making the 20X60 they used to offer.

This is exciting!

I have a paintball tournament in Phoenix on Saturday or I'd definitely be there! Bummer...

Not Drawn. They have my bonus points messed up. I wasn't drawn last year either, but it still says 1 bonus point...