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just returned last nite from an elk hunt on the reservation in NM. My buddy paid $1000 for an archery elk tag in unit 5-A where we were told that the elk were underhunted and there was a 30 percent archery harvest. He paid a guide $400 (Tom Yazzi ) to point us in the right direction and semi-guide us. we met the guide and followed him to a campsite in the forest where he drew us a crude map on a piece of paper and then left saying he would return in a few day's to camp out with us for a while and help us get an elk, we never heard from him again, we were there 9 day's there were virtually NO elk in the area that we camped in. We drove about 20 miles each morning to other areas where we finally found some elk , my buddy passed on a spike and then a cow thinking that there were large bull's in the area and we had plenty of time to score.We finally hooked up with a local young man with fish and game who told us that we had better shoot the first legal animal that we found because bull's were few and far between, he hunted with us and my buddy called in a 6x6 for him and we quartered it out and packed it out, our new found friend had to leave for a youth hunt but sent his friend William to hunt with us and help us out, William hunted with us for 3 days and managed to put us into elk but my buddy couldn't get a clear shot so we came home empty handed but with great memorie's of 2 super young men who went out of their way to help a couple of abandoned hunter's. They invited us back next year for elk and deer if we can get drawn, thank's again to the Navaho nation resident's for their generosity (with the exception of Tom Yazzi)
