elkhunter

I saw more game cuz i invested my money in quality optics As for unit 27 elk, I agree...saw plenty of bulls and most elk herds consisted of 4 to 6 cows, nothing more than that. Most units we should see atleast 10 cows per herd or so. I believe they're trying to make 27 a trophy bull unit because they keep dropping the # of archery tags each year for bull

Spent the weekend in unit 27, my roomate's brother had an archery cow tag out there. The rut was off the hook!! Since I couldn't hike much (crushed my knee in June...been in wheelchair/crutches for 3 months and JUST started walking 2 weeks ago) I spent the whole weekend glassing from one vantage point and saw many many elk, I couldn't get many pictures because the sun was beaming right at us and the camera just doesnt cut it. I did happen to glass up the biggest 5x5 bull I've ever seen, I'd give him a 320+ for a 5x5! We also picked up a shed that could possibly be from the same bull, cept the bull now has a g-3 while the shed does not, also we picked up matching coues shed and my buddy actually saw the same coues while hiking and took pictures of him from 30 yards. During the weekend we glassed up 6 different herds of elk with each having it's own bull, glassed up plenty of turkey, one dandy mule buck and a bobcat. One of the smaller bulls we saw, 6 pt but on his right side he busted his bone off right by the g-3 Here's my buddy with the big 5 pt shed, the 5th point is towards the end, probably 1 inch long Shed from the weekend Then yesterday I decided to give it a try in 7E for my cow tag, got to my area in the afternoon after classes and glassed up elk right away. Sadly they were in rough terrian whereas I couldn't hike in quietly with a bum leg, so I sat back and watched them the whole time. This bull was bugling pretty well..getting all rowdy, i'd give him a 300 flat, after watching this herd I headed back to the truck and stopped in a thicket of Fir and decided to cow call for some randy lil raghorn, sure enough 20 minutes later a 5x5 came along to 50 yards He's bulging in this picture The cow I wanted but I can't really shoot 700 yards with a bow I got to see a whole bunch of game...more than I've ever seen before, I am picking out parts of animals, ears, legs, head, noses way before I actually find the whole animal, all I gotta say is I love my Swarovskis!!!! I really miss the archery season this year, i had a blast last year...lesson learned...don't ride a bike off a ramp again

Bryson- I knew you looked really familiar and I hit up my year book and found ya in there, Buena high school. My name's Jacob (tyler) Weiss, graduated c/o 2004, congrats on your kills, I take it you're good friends with Brett smith right?

with 11 bonus points you can draw 5bn or 7e or 7w archery bull tag REAL easy! It's about 15% draw out there and with 11 bp you'll have a real good chance. If you put in for 1/27/3's/9/10/8 then you should expect atleast 13 years between drawing a tag, play with the stats smart and you can greatly increasae your odds of getting drawn

My buddy that picked up the matching coues shed this past weekend saw the exact same buck in the EXACT same spot while he was hiking to a glassing point, the buck was 30 yards out!! he took pictures of him and we confirmed that it was his shed that we picked up, if you're lucky that buck you're chasing has his very own wonderful spot and will never leave....salt his a$$ and trail cam him to confirm if he's using the salt and stick him with an arrow!

There's oh so many coues bucks out in the open down at Ft. huachua and they're super vulnerable right now, BUT those mule deer are bigger targets...overall I'll choose whichever is cheaper

preferably a camo t-shirt and some nice minty breath, OR a silk sheet with nice minty breath

this summer was super wet, almost 10 inches of rain on average along the huachucas, they're still getting rain up to now so there should be plenty of water in oct

Because they're the most vulnerable deer after the rut I did have a job over the summers working as a camp counselor...even though i crushed my knee...i still got paid for the whole summer, I was never a spender until recently

there's one on the way to bisbee, it's on highway 90 I believe and it heads east. Just get on Fry Blvd and drive straight east past san pedro river and the turn off is to the right and there's a white pole and if it's open then there will be a red flag on it. Hope that works, if not...head down close to the boarder and unload some shells for practice...the shots is sure to keep a few illegals from coming over

I rather chase girls around

no job for me....I like to call it this, ditch the bitches and go hiking, that's how i do it!

my best day was a couple of rabbits, a doe and a covey of quail....nah I just don't remember the exact numbers...but it would have to be recently during Jan where we chased two different herds of pigs in one day and got to see ruttin deer all over the place, bucks galore!!!

those canyons get hit pretty hard year after year by hunters...i suggest you to try else where if you can...or hike all the way up the canyons away from everyone and you might see a spike or two

But that picture came from Ft. Huachuca, if you have 35A tag then you're no good hunting within ft huachuca...sucks!

I'm really happy you have your priorities straight....money on hunting being first and chicks and beer is second...AMEN brother!

yeah i spent a couple of hours checking out the same website...dang neat man...all i gotta say

wow, for the first time I saw coues deer and didn't think about them being food...

I neededed these silly binocs, you wouldn't believe how tight the girls shut their blinds around here if you know whata i mean man!

did ya steal it from rodeo night and now tryin to sell it bro?

I saw the picture of the buck you took this past season and it reminded me of a lion kill pick up I have, it's pretty close to your buck, big ole forkhorn

The biggest difference is that the Swaros are the best you can get...once you buy the Zeiss (like I did) then in the back of your head you'll always remember that you just don't have the best binocs available. So that's why I got myself a pair of Swarovski's this summer Right now my old man has my Zeiss and when we go out to glass, I notice a pretty decent difference between both binocs in field of view, brightness, clarity, comfort, weight and focusing easiness....we glass right at sundown so the brightness makes a difference in that case. But if it was midday there wouldn't be much difference between the bincos. Lets just say the difference between the Zeiss and Swarovski is the same as the difference between a 80 inch buck and a 95 inch buck...not much difference BUT you would much much rather have that 95 inch buck! The Zeiss would work best for people who are concerned about weight.

The roads are wiped out in my area BUT I LOVE IT, i say we need another 6 inches of rain....the wildlife is far more important than "hunters access" besides those quads go everywhere anyways

We got hit by a little rain storm yesterday and I headed up in hope of finding the bear and cub I saw a couple days ago and ended up with 32 deer instead and a herd of javelina, unfortnately it was low light and the pigs were in knee high grass and well over 1500 yards away it's kinda tough to view them but I atleast got pictures of 2 dink bucks and sunset pictures This spot ain't no secret so if you guess it right...head out there cuz there's tons of deer in this area and I can't hunt em here's the pics of the pigs...hope you can kinda see em with my markings The pigs were in the red circle in this picture

Tha dude knows everything!! I spoke with him and he offered glassing lessons to me as well and I asked him if he could give me the lessons in my unit during my Dec hunt....he turned me down but anyways a great guy...by the way does he still have the long hair?