Arizona Elk and Antelope Draw 2013. Make the right choice!

With the Arizona Draw out and all the hype of the Coveted AZ elk tag make sure you pick the right outfitter for your hunt.  These tags dont come easy and it could be another 10-20 years before you get this opportunity again.  Koury Guide Service only hunts the White Mountains area and all my guides live in the area.We start scouting in July and scout all the way through your hunt.  When booking with a local outfitter that has a proven track record to be the best in the area you know you are getting the most for your tag.  We see every year people book with outfitters from out of the area or even out of state and then those outfitters call guides in the area and try to hire them to hunt with there clients.  All of my guides have guided with me for over 10 years and all live in the area and know the units inside out and backwards.  Many outfitters out there let you shoot a small bull on day one or two of your hunt because you get excited and have never witnessed all the rut activity.  At Koury Guide Service we help you kill the biggest bull possible.  The phrase we never use that many other guide services use is "The client is happy does it really matter how big it is".  Yes it matters...... Here are some of the bulls we killed in the White Mountains area just last year...

 

All the bulls shown above were all killed in the 2012 season in the White Mountains Areas of unit 1, 3a-3c, 3b, and 4b.

 

Here are some more elk we have killed inthe past couple years in those same units.  Whe you talk units 1,3a-3c,3b,4b no one compares period. 

 

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And lets not forget the largest elk to ever be killed in unit 3A-3C and is still #2 in the World Non-Typical Archery. Scoring a gross 442 inches and killed with a bow and at under 20 yards.

 

Here he is prior to shot.

Congrats to all that drew. And always remember these tags dont come every day.

 

Give me a call to talk about your tag!!!

With only 48 Hrs left in 2012 Archery Deer Hunt!

With only a couple days left in the 2012 over the counter archery deer hunt, I received a call from Andrew to see if we could try to harvest a deer in a couple days. Me and my oldest son Steffen met Andrew down there and started the two day quest. Day one was a little slow but day two was awesome. After passing on two small whitetails that thought they were way bigger than they were. Steffen looked over at me while watching the coues deer bucks and said "that tree has to hurt that deers head cause his horns are not big enough to protect his head from that tree as he attacks it. Next we made a move that proved to be a great move, within minutes Steffen said "I have deer". On one ridge we had three bucks and six does that were in full rut, what a sight it was. We watched the two bigger bucks rake trees and posture at each other along with lip curling every doe on the hill. Finally one buck chased the other off and he went and laid down, the hunt was now on. After a short stalk with Steffen lineing us up straight below the bedded buck we were within 47 yards of the bedded buck. The wind made a quick circle and gave the deer that little sniff he needed to let him know we were there and he left in the only direction we did not have a shot. Now we are hunting Mountain Lions and Javelina. Good luck to all in the up coming Javelina hunts.

Rocky Mountain Sheep Down!

A big congrats goes out to Tommy Z. for harvesting this awesome looking sheep.  He hunted very hard in some big road less country before finding this awesome ram up on a rock perch with his ewes.  The area he drew did not have a lot of sheep in it at this time, maybe due to the very warm weather we have been having.  After watching this ram for a long time trying to decide if he was a shooter the decision was made and Tommy made a great 400 yard shot across the canyon to anchor his AZ Rocky.It looks like these sheep are just starting to rut when in most years they should be done already.  The Game and Fish aged it at 8 years old and right at 170 inches B&C.  Awesome job Tommy and CONGRATS again.

Late Elk Hunt Part 1!

The AZ Late elk hunt in unit 3A-3C was a little tough.  We talked with many hunters that were struggling to see a bull period.  We looked at a lot of bulls before Jim made a 350 yard shot on this awesome bull.  This bull had a very unique extra horn on the left side of his head, check out the picture below.  You have to watch the video of Jim's hunt and the nice bull that walks up the Reservation fence and then just stands there until it got dark and then jumped the fence to our side, that's what pressure does.

Here we are ready to make the shot as soon as the bull jumps onto our side of the fence.

Here is Jim's bull when we first found him on the opposite side of the canyon.

Check out the extra horn on the left side of this bulls base.

Check out the video of Jim's hunt!

Sheep and Elk!!

Thanks to the Game and Fish moving back every elk hunt in the state, now the late elk hunt and the AZ sheep hunts start a day apart.  That is a big issue if your trying to guide hunters in both hunts.  With the long weekend we got out and glassed a couple different Rocky Mountain Sheep units and also some of the elk  units we will be hunting this coming weekend.  The late elk hunts are just not as fun as the early hunts by any means! The quality goes way down and it is way colder and the biggest reason it is not as fun is they are not bugling.. Enjoy the pics and check back to see how the elk and sheep hunts went!  Good luck to all that have elk and sheep tags that start this weekend, shoot straight or shoot often what ever works better for you....

The picture of the ram that is blurry and a little farther away is a different ram than the one with the one ewe.. Some good rams and a couple smaller rams.