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Anyone know if they are out, and where you can find them(looking for 2013 harvest numbers). 2014-2015 General regs came out with last year's Deer harvests in there, and they have December hunts obviously, so wouldn't they have the 2013 elk numbers by now too? Too late to call the office, can't find anything on line.

Those two green nocks at 88 in the heart are quite impressive. I am not near as sure a shot at that distance.

It doesn't look like the rut is kicking in, haven't heard any calling, and its supposed to be hotter than average in the Kingman area for most of the hunt. I was hoping I could at least hunt some of the good waters if the rut wasn't good, but its been raining up here for a couple hours now, with 90% chances of more tomorrow. So I guess, bring on the spot and stalk! Just worrying...

Wow

I've always followed and heard that if its a maintained road, and has a fence, you have to cross the fence first. If no fence, get off the shoulder.

Surprised nobody has heard of anyone who lost one there...

We ate them in the Philippines, pretty tasty. So if it doesn't work out, you can have some expensive bbq meat.

What would possess someone to do that to your stand? I could see "hey, I saw this stand, nobody was here, and figured I would use it, ended up shooting a decent buck. Sorry but thanks? If you find this call me..." but what that guy did was just about beyond belief... Nice end of the story though

What do you mean exactly by horn quality? Like how large are the antlers, or how dense or some other qualify you consider optimal for horns? I think it is pretty much common knowledge that there has been much more rain at better times this year for horn growth than last year, but I have a feeling you may be wanting something else? It is an above average year for horn growth for most of the state. All the ungulates I have seen the last few months in northern Arizona have looked quite plump around the belly as well. No lack of feed.

Heidi at the department says they should be out within a week, and also that she would try to have someone call me that could provide specific elk numbers.

So you are saying the results from 2013 hunts should be posted by March 2015, or that they should have been posted by March 2014? Thats a two year lag. Deer are posted much much quicker. I just want to see what the success was on my hunt last year.

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How did the first weekend go? Who tagged out?

Ton of rain. Guys are having to spot and stalk and no easy pickens at good water sources? Give them a few more hours to kill the bedded bucks they've found...

Still it looks like we don't have last year's hunt success results. Is this how it is every year? The hunts are starting in a few weeks now...

Yes, I just bought the standard price app, and there are 15 or 20 maps that you can use for free, you just go to the maps section and add them, including google earth/satellite view, google terrain, road maps, bunch of government maps, and the property map. Then you just save map sections onto your phone for areas you will be out of service in, and after that it works as a gps even without cell service.

That is a tough spot right there. I'd say turn your tag back in and get your bonus points back, but AZ doesn't do that, currently anyway. You can turn it back I think, but you lose any points you may have had. Sounds like maybe you didn't have many? My advice, broker a deal with the wife to skip the elk hunt, and go on a Dec or Jan deer hunt once the baby is a few months old. If she has that baby early when you are out of cell service, you will probably never go hunting ever again.

This is suspect A for September 12. He finished out much nicer than I thought he would.

This is in Kingman = probably around 100 miles from the nearest coues deer by my estimation, maybe even further.

One auction and one raffle tag.

My real question, when do you normally start hearing bugles? When you hear pre-rut/early calendar bugles are they only early morning or more after dark?? First year hunting bulls. Hunting 16A, low density elk area, but have found some pockets of elk and a shooter or two but i'm still trying to expand my scouting area and add some backup plans in case A and B don't work out. Wondering if I'll be able to hear anything in my scouting before the hunt starts in Sept. I've been out probably 10 times since the draw, and never heard anything. Is there a correlation between velvet drop and bulging? When do the mature bulls start dropping velvet? Thanks all

It really seems like there should be higher deer concentrations than there are, and at the same time I keep finding stuff like this on my hikes and cameras:

Its my favorite hunt. I have hunted it for the past three years, and its been phenomenal every year. Find places on top that no longer have passable roads going through it, hike in, and have fun. I've only seen a couple other guys in three years in my hiking area, and none of them were all the way into the sweet spots of the hunting areas. There are still alot of road hunters like there used to be, but I like that, because it pushes all the bucks to my honey holes even more:) I have an elk hunt this year, so I let you have my tag this year Last year it was the rain forest hunt, raining every day it seemed like for large parts of the day, but don't let that keep you in camp, its only rain(until it hails, that hurts a little bit.) There is no better time to stalk a deer than in the rain!! The deer literally did not appear to be bothered that it was raining, fed right through it.

This site says it was outlawed in 2005? http://www.unitedbloodtrackers.org/state-regulations/?state=az And nobody replied to this question a few months ago: http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/49862-dogs-for-tracking-deer-and-elk/