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I backpacked in and hunted both uphill and downhill from my base camp. With no bugling, by Sunday and Monday mornings I was working on intercepting them downhill from camp. It was not an easy pack to the truck by any means. Have you ever hunted the Peaks Hunt area?
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Beautiful bull and great story, I aspire to get out and hunt Elk like this next year. How long have you been backpack hunting elk and if you could give one piece of advice to someone doing it for the first time what would it be?
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Beautiful bull and great story, I aspire to get out and hunt Elk like this next year. How long have you been backpack hunting elk and if you could give one piece of advice to someone doing it for the first time what would it be? ....be in top physical shape! Seem obvious but can't be underestimated when chasing those smelly critters up and down the topography they like to escape to when the pressure hits.
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You should feel real good about taking a nice bull that way - private land, DIY, spike camp - there are just not a lot of guys capable of doing that.
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That's a really nice bull.
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I backpacked in and hunted both uphill and downhill from my base camp. With no bugling, by Sunday and Monday mornings I was working on intercepting them downhill from camp. It was not an easy pack to the truck by any means. Have you ever hunted the Peaks Hunt area? Not since 1991. It was all unit big unit then. I killed my bull clear over by dog knob but chased a big bull all the way to 10,000 feet!
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Great bull! My wife will be chasing cows up there tomorrow and next week a friend has an any elk tag in there. Can't wait for morning.
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Good luck! That last weather front may have them bugling by now.
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Great bull! My wife will be chasing cows up there tomorrow and next week a friend has an any elk tag in there. Can't wait for morning. Dang, you folks are making me jealous. I didn't put in for any deer. elk, sheep etc this year as we had household size moves and new jobs etc to deal with. And today I was just trying to find a way to show my brother, who's moving to Flag 1-Nov, with online maps where our spring javelina camp is as he may decide to hunt or maybe just come for a visit. I sure miss AZ. Good luck to all you AZ folks this fall. I'll be putting in for elk and deer next year, I've got a nice new to me 9.3 to take along for a walk in the woods. Geno
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Great bull! My wife will be chasing cows up there tomorrow and next week a friend has an any elk tag in there. Can't wait for morning. Dang, you folks are making me jealous. I didn't put in for any deer. elk, sheep etc this year as we had household size moves and new jobs etc to deal with. And today I was just trying to find a way to show my brother, who's moving to Flag 1-Nov, with online maps where our spring javelina camp is as he may decide to hunt or maybe just come for a visit. I sure miss AZ. Good luck to all you AZ folks this fall. I'll be putting in for elk and deer next year, I've got a nice new to me 9.3 to take along for a walk in the woods. Geno Where did you live in AZ? what are you thinking for next year (elk)? PM if necessary
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Mike, what bullet did you use? powdr
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Very nice bull you got there, well done.
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Mike, what bullet did you use? powdr Barnes 127 LRX w/ H4831 for 2980 FPS @ muzzle.
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Great work and fine hunt!!! Thanks..
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Awesome bull and from what I can tell nice rifle as well. Good shooting and congrats!
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Not sure what that means, you backpacked in and then pose a bull on a logged tree. It was a legit question. I hope it was easy to pack to the truck where you killed him. dennis, stump might be fairly old, or might be from cleanup of a fire. sometimes they get permission to use motors (chainsaws) in wilderness. lot of the land around the peaks is wilderness now, but hasn't always been. Sycamore
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