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How many guys on here are not going to hunt the ranch now that you have to pay?

Awesome photos.

So if I read this right we can not scout again until August 15. Was this just posted today?

You will still have some bulls with the cows at the start of the hunt but for the most part they will be already back into their solutary mode and starting to bunch up. Water can be a big key if it stays dry but glassing big country and spot and stalk. I had the tag 4 differnt years and found the 2 weeks before were the best as the bulls were in the process of moving into their suclusion mode.Any earlier it seemed the bulls were just to hard to pin down and count on them staying put. The other issue is the rifle deer hunts really psuh the elk around also. I hope these rambles help.

Wow I live in Round Valley for 15 years never draw 27 dec whitetail and now that I live in kingman I draw 27 dec whitetail go figure. It should be a blast, just a long drive..

Up north you have to have sunflowers that are drying up. The last few years the rain has hit late and the sunflowers are not dry enough to seed soon enough to bring in the birds.

Good job passing it and welcome to the hunting world.

Binos and tripod.

I don't think Adam will ever be up before an alarm goes off. It takes a lot of hey it's time to get up to get him out of camp. He is actually famous for sleeping right up to the rest of us getting in the truck to head out. (lol)

Congrats again Adam. Nice write up.

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Wow it's got a lot better than it was 4 years ago. When I moved from Eagar I could catch a couple every once in awhile but not those type of numbers. I think it being closed off for those couple years really helped.

Congrats Amanda this is my favorite site.

We saw this one in Unit 10 in June. They are cool lizards.

Well Adam doesn't have a way to type his story so I will try and get it right. It all started last night when he told me he was taking the day off and going up to mount ore to bear hunt. As normal he slept in and went to work with the plan to get off early and go up in the afternoon. He had called me and told me his big plan as he was leaving town so someone new where he was going in case he got ate by a bear. Well standard operating procedure with adam he changed his plan on the way up and called me to let me know where he was headed. He called me at 4:52 to tell me he was at his new spot and there was only 2 really old bear tracks and that he was going to try and call in the canyon above because he just knew there had to be a bear in the canyon. I told him to have fun and not to die from heat stroke. Well at 5:23 he calls back and is freaking out telling me he had just shot a bear. He said he had set his alarm for 20 minutes because that was all he was going to be able to sit still for. At 8 minutes in he heard the brush breaking and the bear came into view at 100 yards. He said 30 seconds later it was at 10 yards ands he made the shot with the bear quartered to him. At 5:32 he called back and it was bear dead. The funny par is Adam Has never tried to call a bear in by himself this was his first stand and 8 minutes in he shot his first archery bear. Way to go Adam congrats you can fill in anything I left out.

I just posted his picture on another post.

I was just talking to Big Browns a couple minutes after he shot the bear needless to say he was really stoked> I will leave the details to him. I will post a pic in a little bit.

That story should be in a magazine someplace well written. What a adventure. Awesome Bear.

That is awesome.

We did have fun.The Last couple years we could catch stripers with ease from around 6 to 10 pm just trolling rattle traps. This year that bite has not been happening.

Just some other photos from the trip.

It was a fun trip I hope you guy's enjoyed it. Next time I will break down and get some chovies to try and get more bites.

Good job Adam.

I really like mine. It shoots really smooth and has has not given me any hassles in 2 years.

My vote is in.