glacial21

Love those scenery shots. It would be amazing hunting turkeys in country like that.

I'm a brand new member who stumbled across this site while doing some research for an upcoming AZ elk hunt. I was recently surprised with an archery bull tag for unit 6A west. Since I live so far away (S.Dakota) I am going to have to rely on long-distance research and some help from others to make the most of this tag. There's lots of info on the web about 6A N and 6A S, but not so much on 6A W. I'll be hunting and camping solo and will be in the unit for the full 14 day season. I'm going to give this tag 100%. Is there any chance a couple of you might be willing to share some general tips or answer some questions? I've already bugged Redrabbit and JLW, but thought I'd put this out for the whole group. I've been going through a lot of old posts here and it looks like there are a lot of good people on the site. Any help is greatly appreciated. thanks Sam

PM sent bwhntr. Thanks for the offer! RAM, I can definitely post a few photos after it's over. I've never been accused of taking too few pictures on a hunt and my camera is always within reach and ready to go if something interesting pops up.. Hopefully I'll have a shot of myself with a big bull, but if not there should be plenty of other photo ops. If you run across an Outdoor Life Magazine in the next few weeks, check out the closeup of a mountain lion I got on last year's elk hunt. It's a finalist in their photo contest and will be printed in the May/June Issue. Getting that photo more than made up for coming home with yet another unfilled elk tag!

Thanks for the tip, RoughCut. I've definitely heard that the elk density is high in 6A, but I am having a hard time confirming if that is the case in the "West" part of the unit. Are the visibilities great enough that bringing a spotting scope would be worth the trouble? Very little of my previous elk hunting has been done in a place where anything more than binoculars are needed, but I've never hunted pinion/juniper.

Thanks for the reply stanley. Good luck in 6A North. I've sure read a lot of good reports about that part of the unit over the past month. I don't think a scouting trip will be possible. It's just too far. I'm going to need to use a lot of vacation time just to hunt the full 14 days of the season.