mp_moody

You mean you found one down there in the Paseo Park drainage? I'm about 1/2 mile from there, and very skeptical.

I hunted there for the very first time last year. Only saw one buck (a spike), but found a nice pickup head and saw one other hunter with an amazing buck. Plan on hiking up mountains, it seems that the good bucks won't come down because of the heat.

Between finishing college and starting a full time job, I haven't had much time to do any predator calling this year. Late Saturday night, my buddy and I headed up to the Mormon Lake area (I'm guessing 6A is where we were) to do some calling on Sunday. We woke up Sunday to nice weather but some gusty winds that we surely thought would ruin the day. Stand number two produced this guy, who charged in at fifty yards upwind: Stand number three brought two muley does in at a full run! That is a first for me. Nearly had to change my pants when I heard twigs snapping five yards behind me! And a question for you guys: how common is it for elk hunters to cut the antlers off and leave the skull/rest of the body? We found a few skeletons missing only antlers, but I didn't bother to take any pictures.

Someone should copy those pics over to this forum; I don't want to register to be able to see the photos.

Nice? What unit and how was the weather?

Do you guys think chaps would work for snakes also? I spent too much of the last year picking out jumping cactus spines from my legs. Snakes are of really no concern because I can just work around them. What about the extra heat? Having a pair of gaiters or chaps on top of heavy boots/wool socks/cotton pants is going to make it pretty soupy down there.

Hunt 1093, which I believe is a late October Unit 29 hunt.

Hunted Unit 29 last year and learned that hiking up and down those mountains twice a day to get back to camp was a pain. We ended up caching most of our gear in a decent glassing spot and coming back to it before sunrise/sunset. I would love to backpack hunt, but my only concern is setting up camp in a good coues area and scaring everything away. That and having to haul enough gear to sustain myself for a few days. Sounds exhausting!

I have it as well. I still need to do a little more load testing, but this year I am confident I will be able to make that five hundred yard shot (the one my buddy missed last year).

First two choices are the Kaibab hunts, next two are for unit 29, and the last is for 20B. While I wouldn't mind a nice Kaibab muley, I hunted coues for the first time last year and I'm hooked.

A buddy and I ended up getting leftover tags in 29 last year. We hunted hard for four days, ran into a mountain lion, missed a few shots on the only buck we saw, and chatted with several Border Patrol agents. There were plenty of other hunters down our canyon, and I have no problem going back this year (unless those Kaibab tags come through). It was a heck of a time. This year we will bring ARs and more people and hopefully we'll bag one of those monster coues.