BackwoodsHunter

Sorry guys i was talking early archery elk is in the books.Good luck to all the gun hunters and late archery hunters!

Thanks everybody, it was a great hunt! A hunt ill probably never draw again, but ill keep trying

Thursday night I was able to get it done and harvest my first Arizona archery bull. Being unsuccessful the first weekend I got back up to hunting Thursday afternoon. I got out to a new spot I hadn't hunted yet and set up. I blew a bugle to see if there were any bulls in this canyon. Right away I got 5 different bugles so I started to hike deeper into the canyon. I kept calling to the bulls, a few sounded close but the others were pretty far. After a hour or so of going back and fourth with this bull I began to pack up because it was getting pretty dark. Up the hill my buddy who had been raking a tree whistled at me and I looked up, through the trees I could see antlers moving. I drew back and could see the bull perfectly except his vitals were behind a tree. After being drawn back for about 30 seconds he stepped out at 12 yards and I stuck him right where I thought I should have. He took off crashing through the trees for what seemed like a long ways then went down. I marked the spot on my gps and decided to back out for awhile and wait for my dad to show up. When we got back in to begin tracking I didn't find any blood so we started to follow tracks. After about 10 yards we got on the first blood! We Kept following it and it thinned out again. After going another 20 yards, we found my elk piled up! While my bull wasnt a giant I was happy to kill this 6x6 that scored 321 7/8". Thanks to my buddies and dad for all the help as well as dale and heather at wild heritage taxidermy for all they did for me. Happy hunting!

Thanks guys! It was a great experience to finally tag my first elk with a bow.

Any big bulls come out of there in the archery hunt yet?

Same exact thing happened to me in August with my deer...looked for 3 days and never found it.

18 hrs till I'm headed up to 23n! Can't wait. Good luck to all, may your arrow fly straight.

Didn't hear any bugles in 23n this weekend. The high for Friday is 87....looks like no bugles?

If you plan to drive the backside, plan to see about 20 other people doing the same thing.....

Went to check a cam today for my deer spot and boom! Cam stolen....second one this month...people suck

Planned to sit water in 23n but it has been raining so much I don't think I'm going to do that now. Anybody else gonna sit water with all the rain?

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Congrats on a nice bear!

I have a brand new cmmg Ar lower that I'm not in need of. Wanting to trade for a pair of 15x glass if anybody is interested.

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Just got my 35b tag ,and my sisters first deer tag!

Got a cam stolen in June, had it up for a month. I was bummed.

Does north open for bears on Friday?

Only looking to spend 200-250 what are my best options?

Great story!

Considering trying to backpack into one of the wilderness areas in august. Anybody ever hunted any of the wilderness areas? What would the quality of the bow hunt be? Not asking for secret spots, just suggestions on places people think would be a decent spot to try to get off the road and chase deer.

South opens this weekend right?

Haven't received mine

Looking to spend no more then 400, no preference on brand.

Did some scouting this past weekend and found a matching set and a single shed.