March 10, 2025
Mental Models: Relativity
“Take your boots off now, you’re 80 yards away,” I speak into the radio. Josh is on the other side of a canyon trying to get within bow range of a bedded Coues deer. Killing one with his bow is the only dream I know he has. And now, he’s 80 yards away from making that dream a memory. Josh
September 4, 2024
How I would do my 2019 Archery Elk hunt over again
n 2019 I had a Unit 10 archery elk tag. It is one of the top 5 archery elk tags in Arizona. I waited 13 years to draw it. I did not fill the tag. I passed bulls I should have killed. I missed bulls I ranged wrong. I blew stalk after stalk after stalk. I picked up broken antler
August 29, 2024
Half Of The Harvest
he herd of elk stopped feeding peacefully and started running across the cholla filled desert flat. I wondered what spooked them. Chase and I had been watching them feeding safely half a mile beyond the private land fence. Now, suddenly, they were running toward a lone island of state land—the nearest cover of junipers. Could I be that lucky? From
October 2, 2023
Right Now Is All There Is
I‘m sitting above a deep canyon with my eyes buried in glass. I’m panning left and right, while Josh and Ricky are panning right and left. We’re looking for fuzzy antlered mule deer. Josh has a tag and his bow. The three of us have been in this exact spot doing this exact thing at this exact time of year
April 3, 2020
Shoot Or Pass?
In September 2019 I had an archery tag to hunt elk in one of Arizona’s best unit. During the season, several hunters killed bulls that we near or over 400″. On day 3 of the hunt, I maneuvered into 40 yards of what I thought was a 330″ type of bull (see image). I came to full draw but had
