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LAST EDITED ON Aug-03-17 AT 09:31PM (MST)[p]Drew the 1st archery elk tag for 16b this year. Went scouting for 4 days this past weekend. Just letting any of you know that have the same unit that the gila is getting slammed with rain this year. It's like a rain forest down there. There's literally water everywhere. And as of now highway 152 is closed from Kingston to mimbres because of flooding. So if you're coming from the north you have to go the long way around. Good luck hunting!
 
I wasn't out before light or til after dark like i would be if I was hunting but yes I did see some elk and some sign in a couple different areas.
 
Didn't get an elk but had one of the craziest experiences I've ever had. I only had the 1st-10th to hunt because of work. I Hunted the high country for 7 days and saw a little bit of sign but didn't see or hear any elk. I also had a deer tag so I decided to head to the low desert country and look for some deer and if I happened to see an elk (unlikely) but great. That afternoon around 2pm I saw the biggest elk I have ever seen in my life tearing apart a tree and bugling his head off in almost 100 degree weather. He was a 7x7 wasn't super wide but had a very tall rack. Absolutely no expert on scoring size so not sure what he was. Tailed him and his small group for 3 hours through the pj but never got a shot. The crazy thing was at one point walked in on a couple cows with 3 calves and froze for a good 20 min so they didn't know I was there and the calves were running in circles around where I was standing jumping and playing just like a group of puppies would be. Never seen let alone ever experienced anything like that.
 

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