I'm roadless' dad and just got back from Juan. Great country down there. I have hunted there 4 times myself and a few other times with the kids when they have drawn out. My youngest son drew out with only one point the last time he drew, the lucky buggar. The herd is down this year and big bucks are really hard to find. Even does and small bucks are more scarce than in years past. I only saw the one great buck in 4 days and maybe 10 others good ones pushing 30 inches wide, but nothing over 30.
The buck in question is the first drop tine buck I have seen in 50 years of hunting, and had the most points I have ever seen on a buck. He could be a cactus buck. I didn't get a very good picture of him, but you can see the two drop points on one side just fine in my picture. I sent the picture to my son so he can post it. I don't know how to do it myself. The top points are party obscured by tree branches in my picture, but it was the best I could get.
My friend was down there for 5 days before I arrived and didn't see the non-typical until I found it and told him where it was. Both of his vidio cameras were not working, so when he found it he got a short video clip of it with his still camera set on video mode. We froze some frames and from the front you can only see about 8 points per side, but on a frame with a side view, we counted at least 16 points on the side with the drop points, not counting the drop points and the brow tine. He thinks he can see a third shorter drop point on that side and a short one on the other side. but I couldn't see them. The other side had a few less points, but more than 12 I think. He also has super massive bases on his antlers.
I may have seen you and your daughter there Sunday morning. If so, I appologize for spooking the big boy away from the road a few minutes earlier. He was right next to the road when I drove up on him on my 4-wheeler. I was looking down over the side into the trees and didn't see him until he took off from the side of the road. If that was you, you were down over the side of the hill a little ways looking at 5 bucks, and walking back up to your truck when I came by. If that was you and your daughter, you were in the right place for the big boy. He was just 200-300 yards farther south. There is also a 30" 4 point and a 30" two point and a bunch of smaller ones in that same area, but hardly any other bucks and few does for miles around.
There was a dead cow 100 yards east of the cattle guard north of the Bears Ears and we saw a dozen buzzards and several bears feeding on it the last two days I was there. My friend got some pictures from 20 yards and kept going back because he said he wanted some closer ones. He finally got a picture of a diferent and bigger bear a mile from the dead cow. He got ahead of it's path of travel and got a picture from about 10' away. That was a lot closer than I want to get to a bear. He'll probably get et' by one someday if he keeps that up.