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Well last year I did daily updates and pics with my son’s bull tag. This year I have my own archery bull tag the next two weeks. Will post my own story. Hope u guys follow along. Rut has been tough, but seen some great action tonight with one great bull. 3 am we begin.

In 2023, I had an archery elk tag, which my brother from IN joined me. We had a great time, but the rut was very lackluster. While riding the sxs back to camp, my brother wrote this "article" regarding the poor rut, in Paul Harvey fashion. Elk Times Article Stand by for Mews On 15 September 2023, Elk Hunting Season kicked off as it has year after year as far back as anyone can remember. Hunters had anticipated this event all year and couldn’t wait to get started. What they didn’t know was... the rest of the story. In August there was an Annual Meeting between the Board of Bulls and the Council of Cow. President of the Board of Bulls Benjamin Bullwinkle made the following statement. "Every year we go through this ridiculous mating season which creates lots of fighting amongst our whole community. It seems as though we are stuck in a rut of some sort. Now, this may rub some of you the wrong way, others may get a chuckle but I am going to propose the following solution. I propose that Cows be divided equally amongst all Bulls that register prior to the Fall Equinox. This will eliminate the need for all the bugling, showing off, etc. There has been a Spike in noise complaints lately, so this should help. Ladies, you don’t always have to have the hunkiest Bull. Guys, you don’t have to have the hottest cows. I think we can all agree that this solution is best for our community." After this, a vote was taken and the proposal passed by a majority. Grunts, barks, glunking, and chuckling filled the room as they departed. Now you know, the rest of the story.

Burned most of my vacation time in Alaska so had only 4 days to get it done. Covered in bulls everyday and this bull came on a string to some estrus cow calls. Shot him at 18 yards and again at 32. Magical morning in the elk woods. 30” dead pine he ran past after shots 👊

Pretty bad when someone feels safer and thinks prison is easier than being free.

I went to Wells Fargo at Baseline and Lakeshore this afternoon to get two pages notarized. The teller took me back to his desk to sign and stamp the docs and after the first page was signed and stamped someone walked by his desk and whispered something to him. I couldn't hear it but he seemed a little flustered. He started shuffling the pages and slid them over to me with my driver's license and said he couldn't do the other page right now . I was kinda confused until he followed that with "We're being robbed". I was kinda shocked and asked him if i should leave out the back door or what? He took me to the back room that had a pass key lock and I waited there for about ten minutes with the poor gal that was the one that he had approached. She was pretty shaken up. I started hearing sirens and pretty soon a slew of unmarked cars pulled up. I heard a loud bang but it didn't seem loud enough to be a gun but I wasn't sure. Turns out they tazed his butt and we could see him being taken to one of the cars through the side glass door. Going back tomorrow to get the other page notarized.

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Hunter Ed classroom class in Flagstaff Nov 20-23. 100% attendance of every session is required to pass and receive credit. Due to instructor availability and the necessary instructor-student ratios set by AGFD, we can't take online students. We always have a fun class, though, so get your spot while you can, especially after the spring results are posted. As always, holler with any questions. https://www.register-ed.com/events/view/234802

My 13 year old was lucky enough to get a Antelope Tag in unit 1 this year. I headed up Tuesday without my boy before the hunt to check the rifles at the range and then continuing up to unit 1. I ran into some issues with 2 of the 3 rifles I brought up. On Tuesday evening I found 4 bucks, 1 really nice shooter that I could see pushing 80" plus. These dang things are so hard to judge though, so I could be off. Always remembering what a old timer told me to use the eye ball and the ear to help feild judge them. This buck had good hookers and was definitely a double eared buck. He had about 19 does with him so I knew he had to be king. Wednesday I woke up early and headed out to another spot and spent the morning trying to locate a buck I seen in April. I did not find that buck, but finally turned one up This would be #2 buck and thinking he would push close to 80". He had about 5 does with him and the area had alot more cover for my boy for a stalk. This Wednesday I had located 23 bucks all over the unit. Out of the 23 bucks there was a bachelor herd of about 13 bucks all together. This bachlor herd was in a different area than the other bucks with does. I ran into another hunter that was trying to find a shooter. He had seen lots of bucks but he was wanting something bigger than what he had been seeing. This guy was a super good guy and was willing to show me some areas to help my boy tag out. In turn I let him know I found a decent shooter and could show him the area where this #1 buck was. We had about a 2 hours or so left of light so we headed over there and I ended up locating the buck just before dark. Thursday morning I headed home to pick up my boy after his game. We got back up the area around midnight. With what felt like a few hours of sleep we woke up and headed out Friday morning to #2 buck. With no luck locating him we moved to another area and turned up a heard with a good shooter, super thick but not really tall. We started the pursuit and bumped them over a hill about 500 yards away. We headed up were we last saw them and decided to sit and call with a antelope fawn call to see if the does would come in as I have had success with this before. In turn we called in a coyote at 389 yards. It was at that time to get some more confidence in my boys shooting. We dailed the rifle in and I told the boy to go ahead and let him have it. He shot and dropped the coyote in his tracks. As we went over to check on the shot placement of the coyote we glassed up the heard of Antelope down the hill from us about 1000 yards away. We moved closer and watched the buck from about 800 yards away chasining the does all over the flats. We decided to move in closer for the shot. As we worked our way down we got busted and the herd took off about another 1000 yards off. Again the buck was going crazy chasing the does all over as they settled in thier new spot. We backed out decided to head back to see if there was another angle we could approach them. On the way back we ran into a prairie rattler. We took some pics and let it be. Well the rain came down pretty hard on our hike out so we decided to head back and dry out. So we decided try that herd later on in the evening. After a few hours of getting back rested, we decided to hit that #2 buck spot again. It took a bit to find him but the does gave him away. At 350 yards away the herd was content feeding. We set up for the shot and then a doe started feeding just to the left and another right behind him. I told my boy to hold off on the shot. What seemed like forever the does walked away leaving the buck wide open. I gave the ok to shoot and he let off a shot. The buck and does all ran about 30 yards. The buck stopped while the does kept going another 50 yards stopping wondering why the buck wasn't catching up. It was at that moment he tipped over with high 5's and hugs. What a shot!!!! So proud of this kid!!! Also earlier that afternoon I recieved a text message from the other hunter that was going to after that #1 buck. He was able to locate the buck and was able to get on him. It was a awesome text message with epic picture of the downed buck. He thanked me for helping him finding a good buck. It was well deserved for sure. Rough taped my boys buck at 76". Stud and very pleased with my boys hunt.

Congrats, that's a nice one!

I heard 22lr

Maybe his name was Brooks.

Stand by for mews lol. Nice.

Free if anybody wants them; some old shooters bible, firearms catalog, and western books. located in tempe and pass through peoria often

Lets put this turd to sleep, not worth the time.

Ok, Yoko

Just got back from Alamo. Ranger told me they removed 1100 burros from there. I have heard rumors of farmers that have failed getting anything done about crop damage that take .17's and gut shoot them. They wander a long way from the farms before dying. But it's just rumor.

For the last 3 weeks I've only seen bulls together. For the first time this morning I seen bulls pushing cows. If only this hunt started tomorrow........

Did he tip You.😁

I've never understood why people without faith can't just keep it to themselves. They have to go out and trash the beliefs of people who actually do have faith and belief that religion makes their lives better. I hope it made you feel better about yourself.

When I was a kid I remember my grand dad telling me on a couple occasions shore fishing at Lake Pleasant shooting burros that came to water, opening them up and dumping the guts off shore and having phenomenal catfishing. Ahh the good ol days!

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I've got video from this year of two bulls waaaaay beyond 370".

I went back today to get the other page notarized, and the same notary was there. He said the guy walked in and went up to the teller and said this is a robbery then went and sat down in a chair in the lobby. The teller pushed the silent alarm and he came back to the window and handed her a note saying this is a robbery, I guess just to make it official. Seems like he just wanted to go back to jail. never pulled out a gun and was calm. At least it wasn't suicide by cop. That would have really sucked for everybody.