My eyeballs are sore from the glassing, I'm still picking cactus spines from my calves, and the AZ pinstripes will take another week to dissapear from my forearms, but I'm already thinking about next year's hunt. This year we experienced very warm temps for the late hunt which combined with the normal pressure made for a tough hunt. We still hammered away all seven days of the hunt looking for an AZ giant, passing on a few bulls in the 330's. On the last day of the hunt, the front edge of a winter storm came barging in and that got the bulls on their feet. The final morning we glassed up 14 bulls, which was as many as we had seen over the prior four days. We decided to send Rick after them and after four hours of stalking, an hour of sitting through a blizzard, and a couple of well placed shots we had a bull down. I'd like to thank Rick for being such a trooper, we guides love clients that can hike and start every day of the hunt with a positive attitude. It was a pleasure to lead you through some of AZ's worst manzanita and catclaw thickets!
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| Rick down climbing off of the rim to start the stalk. |
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| Hunter Rick Snellstrom and Darr Colburn |
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| With 30 minutes left in the hunt, we near the end of the packing job. |
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| Darr trying to stay warm and steady during the 40mph gusts. |
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| At 2:00pm on the final day it finally gelled. |
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