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Congratulations. Awesome animals. Appreciate you sharing with us.

congratulations Clay, thats awesome.

Dale, great work as always.

Thank you , awesome tents. We are using one in a month for a deer hunt in 13B.

Congratulations to all of you. It doesnt get any better then that.

Congratulations to you guys. That is awesome. How far was the shot?

That is so awesome. Congratulations

Yes Good luck! We have 3 boys in 23 tomorrow.

Good for you that is awesome. Congratulations on your hunt.

Great video and awesome bull congratulations to all

I have a large padded pouch on both sides of my belt for my radio, knife and headlamps, I can even put a little snack in there if needed. Good luck.

I know you are looking for info also on the Full Curl, sorry I haven't used it but I have used the J34. All I can say is it will carry more then most men and is very comfortable. Good Luck. Eric

Thanks for sharing we will be up there in a few weeks hunting them!!!!!

We dropped off our elk last week, thanks Dale for jumping right on it. Eric

Happy Birthday Bill. Hope you have an awesome one and a great year. Thanks for being a part of this site.

Awesome bears. Congratulations!

Congrats on a great bull. Thanks for sharing with us.

Early Rifle tag during the rut. Here is a few photos of Stevi (my daughters) first bull. I will have a video latter. We had an awesome time. We knew that there was a 390 bull in the area and was excited to know that she had a chance. I saw him on Wednesday morning but not on Thursday. We got out there early on opening day. We have been watching bulls in this area for weeks and not too much traffic so I was thinking we had it all t ourselves. We get out to where we were going to start hiking at 4:30 in the morning and there was 2 trucks already there a guide said he had a hunter close to where we were going since 3am. We'll we told him we were also going to be out there and asked where he was so we didn't get in each others way, at first he was reluctant to tell us. Then he said he was to the east side of a mile long area. So we headed to the west. Got out to our knoll about 1/2 hour before daylight we have at least 30 bulls screaming all around us. Some as close as 50 yards. As it got daylight we did not see the big bull. But saw a very nice bull and Stevi said she wanted to try and get to it. As we worked our way through the screaming bulls we finally got set up to check it out and see if she wanted to take it. After a few looks she said yes she wanted to shoot it. Mike ranged him at 550 yards. Since Stevi only shot at 300 yards we knew we needed to close the gap for her to feel comfortable. So we took off and dropped down off the point we were on and worked our way up the hill. We busted a few cows and dink bulls but there was so many they just ran off like it was nothing. We topped over the ridge and there he was at 250 yards, we got her set up and she hit it with the first shot and it hunched up and just stood there which gave her time reload and shoot again. Boom! He dropped in his tracks. It wasn't the big bull we were first after but she was so excited and to be able to spend weekends in the field with her glassing, camping and to have my son there and great friends was priceless. I still don't know if she was more excited over her elk or the pink gun and back pack she had! Eric

Thanks, appreciate all the comments. This hunt is suppose to be a hunt of a lifetime and I believe it was for all of us including Stevi. Thanks, Eric

Stevi my daughter got this bull. Video is not 100% cleaned up but close, here is 24 minutes of scouting and hunting Bull Elk during the rut in Arizona. Bulls screaming, family and friends, it just doesn't get any better than this! Video can be played in HD <iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JrN3qW5RTPY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Nice big bull, congratulations.

Our prayers go out to him and his family. Sad to hear this.

Wow! awesome bear, video and story. Congratulations.

Awesome bull and story, thanks for sharing. Congratulations to everyone involved.

Thank you for all the comments. She got a cow elk when she was 12, this was Stevi's first opportunity to experience hunting Bull elk in the rut. That morning we were in the middle of them before day light and she couldn't believe it. There was over 30 bulls screaming and about 100 cows in this area. Plus we saw other head lamps coming into the area which bumped up the need to become more aggressive to get to the elk. It really upset us when the hunter stopped on the hill where our other guys were and they told them we had a young gal already on that bull but they sent in his hunter anyways. She had practiced out to 300 yards so our first set up was about 500 yards and we had to move quickly before they got into the trees. Her shot was at 250 yards. Here is a photo that I put in a different post if you haven't seen it yet.