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Ha ha, I knew I'd get a pm calling his BMW a Mercedes...

Just checking to see if he was reading.

Kent

I wouldn't know how to hunt in all that flat!

Some for now and some for tomorrow out in the field.

Kent

How I miss these...

That looks good!

Great pics again.


I was thinking about you and your hunt today when a herd of about 20 pronghorn skirted around the edge of a field that I was swathing. They were too far away for any pics.

Pronghorn are finally making a decent comeback after the horrible 2010/11 winter.

You aren't in AZ anymore, right?

Kent

We have few lopes here, only 10 archery and 15 rifle tags in this huge unit, mostly it's fawn retention, some units will have zero, coyotes get them. I've seen 30 animals and 1 fawn.

Kent

Storm coming

Correct. I still come down to help etc during Fall and winter.

Regards

And for tacos...

Kent

I'll be eating as much Mexican this October as I can!

😉

You won't go hungry. They're crossing the border by the thousands.

I'm totally striking out on antelope this afternoon... but I'm seeing elk everywhere, one herd had 12 with cows and spikes, another 4 cows and these 2 small bulls.

Makes me remember my first deer hunt. All alone, southeast Idaho somewhere a little west of Pocatello. Drove out there and up a few dirt roads, took turns by-guess-and-by-gosh, left the pickup when I reached a place I could go no further. Started walking up a mountain in the dark...got about a mile up there, didn't even know where I was but found a place to sit with my back against a tree. As it began to get just a little bit light, I could see forms moving all around me but had no idea what they were. A little more light and I realized they were all elk. Everywhere. A damn wonder I didn't get trampled---they were everywhere. Didn't see a single deer all day long.

Don't get trampled, Kent. Them suckers are blind.

My nephew had killed a couple cow elk as a Jr hunter, aways with me along. He was 21 or 22 and not long out of the LEO academy, was a police officer in showlow. He was able to get an associate cow elk tag on the rez. I hunted the archery tag and knew the area, some big herds there.

We drive in and up on top of a flat. Tanner is walking ahead of my brother and I when a herd runs up from below, about 60 head. They split around him, he was swinging his gun back and forth as the flew by and couldn't get on one, finally when the stragglers came by he picked one out and shot her.

Brother and I were laughing our ass off. I walked up to him and said, you have hoof prints on your chest... he could only shake his head.

Kent

Thanks for the added photos Kent - and hang in there - archery antelope is so tough.

Your account here reminds me of several years of frustration trying to get a tag up in 19A - would drive up over Mingus rather frequently going to another campus and almost EVERY time on the way East early morning would se a very nice buck north of the road. he looked bigger and better every year - there were very few available tags in that unit and I could not draw one. Rats!!

Finally drew. It was rifle - I had not the needed skill for archery - and then never saw him from the road. Walked and crept a lot on that plain and in those foothills - he fell to the 25:06 on the last morning. Have not hunted antelope since.

I forgot you were in Prescott Paul. My great-grandfather owned the Winsor hotel late 1800s to his death in 1915, on corner of Montezuma and Gurley st

Great-grandmother was the school teacher, taught in all the schools around the area. Was Yavapai County superintendent. Her son my grandfather was also. He taught Grammer school in Clemenseau which is now Cottonwood, he was instrumental in getting a high-school in Clemenseau as the kids had to go to Clarkdale high. My mom was born in Clarkdale and went to the high-school there, it's a copper museum now, my daughter found a picture of my mom in some class pictures they still display there.

Anyway I ve had one rifle tag and killed the first morning. Cheryl was along and had to help drag it over a mile to the truck. She tells people I don't mind helping gut or drag, but I won't chew the hide...

Kent