I have some advice.
Stay out hunting all day, find, if possible, high places to glass.
Dont expect to see large numbers of elk, despite what you hear about Arizona there isnt big bulls behind every tree. Dont go down there with the expectations of looking over lots of bulls standing around in the open...you'll be disappointed.
Its not a physically hard hunt, but it can beat you up mentally as lots of the country is thick pinyon/juniper. The elk, at least when I hunted there, were not real active at all. The first couple hours in the morning and evening is when I found the most activity. But, even then, the larger bulls seemed to stay pretty close to their bedding areas. I had to pretty much look in every draw and spent A LOT of time behind glass. It will help having a couple friends along to cover more country and help glassing.
Most people I saw hunting were more interested in driving all over than they were hunting it seemed. If you get out of the truck, you've left at least half the hunters in the dust. Also, if you stick out the entire hunt, you give yourself a better chance. I saw quite a number of hunters taking off without elk after the first weekend. Not sure why you'd wait several years to draw a good tag, then take off after hunting a couple days...but to each their own.
I killed my bull about half way through the late hunt last year, first time I ever hunted elk in AZ, but I have to admit that I had some great advice from a friend who hunts down there a lot and is about as knowledgeable as any hunter I know.
I've pretty much shared his advice here...stay positive, hunt smart, hunt hard...good things happen.
Heres what the country typically looks like down that way:
For the record, the bull I killed is in that shaded draw in the center of the photo. The picture was taken shortly after my buddy glassed up the bull in the draw.
Heres a closer pic of that shaded draw and the bull I shot, bedded.
Finally the bull I took:
Good luck on your hunt and just keep at it...