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Great buck and write-up Jack. A well deserved buck. Congratulations!

Awesome buck and great shot. Way to make it happen!

Wow! Love seeing big Bulls in trail cam photos. Thanks for posting and good luck finding some of those Bulls again during hunting season!

Definitely. A cow bugle is part of the sequence that must be performed at the RMEF Elk Calling competitions

Very cool pictures. Some nice Bulls there - and they look well fed - look how big the body is on that bull in pic#7 - wow!

Awesome photos! Thanks for posting

I need to invest in better binos and a tripod but in the mean time here is my attempt to take a picture through my binos laying on a rock - sorry for the quality. This is from 6/20/15. I know there is another month of growing season but I would think with some of the photos posted recently that the bigger bulls must be ~90% of what they will end up. Anybody have any thoughts on how much more they'll grow?

Great pics Bonehunter. He definitely added a lot from 6/30 to 7/20 and interesting to see how much his fifths grew that last week.

Interesting thoughts. I don't have good picture support but it has seemed to me anecdotely that the big Bulls finish growing earlier than the smaller Bulls. I would have guessed in the next 2-3 weeks tops they would be pretty much done. Bonehunter, when you said you saw Bulls growing the entire month of July were some of those big Bulls that continued to add inches?

Just curious, are you putting them in security boxes? Is that the standard now? I'm considering getting some and putting them out but fear I'm just donating them to whoever comes by first if they're not locked up?

Awesome looking Bulls. Love to see them. Thanks for posting

Wow! Sure does look dry in those pictures but they must be getting some good feed somewhere. Will be interesting to see how much more they grow

Very nice photos. Thanks for sharing!

Fantastic photos! Thanks for posting them. It's fun to watch them grow. It will be interesting to see if the "crooked horn" looks any bigger this year than at the same time last year given he's a year older and the better moisture

Congrats on the tag. I have the archery tag this year up there as well. Hopefully there is one less elk for your hunt Heres hoping we get some rain soon; it's already looking pretty darn dry up there.

+ card hit for me. I'm excited as I know it's either 23N early rifle bull or 23N early archery bull for me (most likely archery). I had 17 BP this year and had considered holding out for early rifle but I think I was still ~5 years from a tag and I couldn't stand to keep waiting. I decided instead to change mentality and put archery as second choice and I have no regrets, it's going to be fun to chase them again. Now I have a few months to Scout and learn the unit - should be fun. Congrats to all that drew and better luck in the next draw to those that didn't!

Yotebuster I think you nailed it right on. I have 17 BP this year and when you look at the points carefully and try to account for point creep I think I was still 3-6 years from a guaranteed tag for an early rifle unit that I would want. I decided to go for archery and go have a fun hunt- big bull or not - and get more chances to hunt. Hopefully not too any people were thinking like me or I'll be out of the bonus pass with only 15 tags.

Sorry for the question but I have read the AZGFD website and still am confused. I plan on putting in for an early rifle bull tag that I do not have enough bonus points for draw in the "first pass or 20% bonus Pass round" with my first choice. For my second choice, I plan to put in for an archery bull tag that I do have enough points to draw in the "first pass or 20% bonus pass round". My question is do I even have a shot at drawing my first choice or am I allocated a tag in the "first pass 20% bonus pass round" before I have a chance to draw my first choice in the "second pass - first and second hint choices round"? Thanks for any insight that you all may have on this.

Interesting that it's set up that way. Thank you all for your input

Looks like a great hunt for you guys. Congratulations!! I was up there with my dad who had a tag. We didn't hear any shooting. I thought the fog and rain made it a bit tougher. We couldn't hunt some areas we wanted because the roads were too bad in the rain. We did see one real nice bull but couldn't get it done. Always fun to get up there and try, though. Again, congrats to you guys.

Gorgeous bull, congrats. I enjoyed watching your videos of the "the rookie". Any plans to download some videos of this hunt? Again, big congrats.

Never owned a trail cam and sure haven't ever touched one but I could understand being concerned that a flash going off while an elk is watering could frighten it and change it's behavior. I don't know enough about these. Are they supposed to be infrared flashes that the animals don't see or are they white light flashes? I agree your equipment shouldn't have been tampered with but I sure wouldn't want to have a bright light flashing at all the animals that come into a water hole that I'm hunting. I'm still not convinced these cameras are as innocuous as many of you think. I don't think he was entirely unreasonable by simply disabling it and leaving a note explaining why. I would have thought much more of your response if you had done it with class and asked for a number to speak with the other hunter or left your own explanation as to why you had placed the camera.

I know there seem to be 1000 of these a year, but I've got another one to add. I know how to look up the latest BP breakdown as far as the number of applicants with a certain number of bonus points. My question is this, is there a way to determine how many applicants in a BP pool are residents vs non-residents. For example, I have 13 BP for elk currently, G&F website says there are 286 applicants with that many BP. Is there any way to know how many are in state vs out of state. Thanks for any info any of you might have on this.

Thanks Tony! I hadn't seen that breakdown before. Very good to know. Also a little disheartening to see that there are a lot of people out there with a lot of bonus points. Some year these should pay off. Thanks again.

Congrats on a nice bull. That sure looks like rocky country. Was he hard to get out?