Late hunt question

[idgaf]

29 minutes ago, Huntnfish said:

That's an awesome area. We used to stay at the ranch house with the cowboys 50 years ago. Great memories from there. Good luck.

Thanks!  If its the ranch house I'm thinking about,  an old family friend was born in it 80 years ago. 

[AZcountryboy520]

16 hours ago, idgaf said:

Will do.  Most likely,  though, i will stick with king anvil. I still want to do some exploring. 

Right on! Good luck on your hunt

[Ed67]

Just got back down here, waiting on my son to do a quick evening hunt then 3 1/2 more days!  It’s definitely 10-15 degrees cooler than last week. 

[zenoida771]

Cooler temps should make for a great hunt! Good luck out there!

[PRDATR]

2 hours ago, Ed67 said:

Just got back down here, waiting on my son to do a quick evening hunt then 3 1/2 more days!  It’s definitely 10-15 degrees cooler than last week. 

Good Luck.

[idgaf]

3 hours ago, Ed67 said:

Just got back down here, waiting on my son to do a quick evening hunt then 3 1/2 more days!  It’s definitely 10-15 degrees cooler than last week. 

I just got to my camp spot 47 degrees and more than a few road hunters.  500 am can't get here fast enough.  I figure i have a 2 hour climb to get where I want to go. 

[Ed67]

Glassing some hills now where I saw a big one last week. So far only two smal 2 points this one is at 494

[trphyhntr]

Shoot it 

[Ed67]

3 minutes ago, trphyhntr said:

Shoot it 

Tried talking my son into shooting but he refused 

[trphyhntr]

2 minutes ago, Ed67 said:

Tried talking my son into shooting but he refused 

Good kid 

[idgaf]

This mornings count. 18 does. Two bucks. One was decent. 

[Ed67]

On another bedded buck. Been on him 2 hours 15 min so far. Hasn’t moved 

[CatfishKev]

Pulling for you guys. Let's see some dead animals. 

[Ed67]

Ok we are hunting 36A which has really been kicking our butts and for only 75 tags it seems everyone else had the same gameplan. Oh well, public land all good. Needless to say the bucks have been few and far between. 

This past Monday we saw a great buck in an area that takes quite a bit of time to get to so we went back this morning before sunup. Two other pairs of hunters had the same plan, probably looking for the same buck, if he’s still alive. Again, public land all good. 

We glassed up several deer, one small two point then watched this one bed at about 750 yards around 0900. We decided to make a play for him and moved to abiut 390 where we sat and watched him for the next 3 hours. We could only see eye, nose and antler. 
Finally he stood and my son dumped him with a Savage 110 Ultralight 6.5 PRC, handloaded with 123 grain Hammer Hunter bullets at 3250. He took a step and was done. 

Not the biggest with expectations on a late hunt but with work and family calling he’s happy and so am I. Grateful to spend time with him and thinking back to the first deer he shot on a 33 youth hunt at 11 years old 17 years ago. 
Back at it in the morning. 
 

[trphyhntr]

Right on