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Drive south from Fredonia on the big dirt road for about 90 minutes...

Now that there is a BULL.

We have trail cam pics of him. Sending you a PM Lance.

+1. Depends on where you hunt. Around Kingman it's not in the genes, on the Kaibab I see them, young and old, that have droppers of various sizes/configurations pretty frequently.

My brother is out doing some final scouting and checking cams so I'm getting updates from home! Sorry about the green...

Both were basically spot and stalk bucks in the rain on different herds, 13 hours apart. Found a decent 3 point deadhead the same day I killed my buck.

Brother and I both missed some tough shots at some good mature bucks, but ended up each taking younger bucks at the end of our hunt.

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Trumbull itself basically does not have roads, so unless you are a serious mountain man, you will never know what Trumbull holds... That being said, most would say Logan.

You hunting spot and stalk, water, or other? Forecast this week looks tricky.

It will likely be tough if he is not really lucky. With the rain they are getting again the last few days and this week, you likely will not be able to rely at all on any water sources for hunting or leads since every pond and mud hole will have water... Maybe it will dry out by the end of the hunt. It depends on what type of buck he wants to hold out for, if he just wants a mature buck, I would just go hunt Mt. Logan. Alot of deer there, but other hunters will be too. If he wants a buck of a lifetime, which is possible this year based off of the three strip monster bucks already killed, you are going to have to do ALOT of glassing. It sounds like from your post he has located some bucks already, so I would start there. Deer densities are very low in most of the unit, so it is very likely you will not even see a buck some days while hunting, so prepare mentally now for those glorious days:) These guys don't pattern or stay local to tight area too often, so don't hope for that.

As it has been said many times before, it still rings true, if you are putting your cam on a water source, the likelihood of it being stolen eventually are very high. Hike a few miles into the middle of the wilderness and hide it, then you're pretty safe. It really is pretty simple, and pretty sad.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mossback-Arizona/548237525187517?ref=stream

The website is very well put together and worded in my opinion. These new rules and permitting with make the Big Bo in unit 10 a very premium "spot and stock only" location for Arizona. You have to pay extra to play, and you have to play by strict and old school rules: no hunting on water, no attractant, no cams, no atvs, no large envoys of guides for one hunter... Success will obviously go down for several reasons, but there will be more mature trophy animals that live longer as well. I think I like it for this one special ranch circumstance.

This is a tough one. Sounds like its pretty certain the person in question did it, since the tracks went to the tree where your's was at, and then to the tree where theirs now is, and it was only three days... I would be pretty tempted to take theirs as my replacement at minimum.

Welcome to the site. Stay awhile, its nice. How old is your son? If it is dry(some of the Kaibab has received more than 5'' of rain in the last the 30 days though...) blinds can be effective on water. It is popular, especially with guides, to establish salt licks several months before the hunt that they will sit a blind on. Spot and stock is the way to go I would say if you have a young kid with you. That's what I did all growing up, and it was tons of fun. You see tons of deer(mostly does), and if he would be excited with any antlered buck, you should have no problem at all finding bucks(more often than not a group of does will have a small spike or two point buck with them). Most of the deer this time of year are up on top of the plateau east and west of the highway, and they have liked the large burn(2006 Warm Fire) the past several years. Alot of the plateau is pretty dense, even alot of the burn is also getting that way now, so I find it requires a mix of spot and stalk and still hunting to get to a spot that you can actually see them through all the trees and under brush. If you are looking for good bachelor herds, start hiking:)

Love the bucks, but I have to echo the sentiment above, I don't think your clients could sit any further back behind their game, its like they are afraid of touching them.

EBB, that would be right after the feeling you get with a successful hunt, correct?

2nd choice for me

If you can get someone to tell you an area that has some bucks, do several scouting trips without going bankrupt or losing your family, then I would try going alone!

That is cool.

If you have Cabelas you can call customer service and ask for them to tell you your pending charges. I just did, and low and behold, AZ Game and Fish charge!

If you have ever hunted the strip, you would know the answer is no, it is not bad ethics lol. Every water has multiple cams up there when season gets close. I think the ethics of the area come into play when "who gets to hunt it" comes up. Should you yield to a letter (or have a strong case for writing one)before the season saying someone will be hunting there on the opener? Should you yield to a sign on the nearest road stating that a hunter is on water, please be considerate? Or should you play the letter of the law and just show up as early as possible to call the early bird gets the worm card?

I say "stick it to the man" by jacking up non-res tag fees and leave residents' lower. These proposed fee changes result in the following: Residents would need to pay 300% more for a premium deer tag than a res general tag while non-residents only have to pay 66% more for a premium tag than a non-resident general tag. Residents pay the taxes, fund and complete wildlife management projects, and collectively as a state own the wildlife, let the non-residents make up the shortfalls if they want to come hunt our great state.

The license part seems fine to me, the tag changes on the other hand can use some improvement. I plan on being at the Kingman meeting.