I was luckily enough to draw an early rifle elk tag for unit 10 (9/27 to 10/3). I'm a newbie who has never been elk hunting but I live in Phoenix so i should be able to do a fair amount of scouting before the hunt. May be a long shot but if there's anyone else with a tag in that unit or from the area and needs a hunting buddy hit me up.
Unit 10 elk
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Droptyne outfitters are good guys. Alex (Stew) is a coworker of mine and a good dude. Not sure how booked up they are yet.
JJ - Congratulations on drawing the best tag in the state!
I would check out Hillcrest if you're going the guide route. Hillcrest website
You are welcome to use my elk camp that is in the middle of unit 10. It is on 40 acres and is 3.2 miles off pavement about halfway between Ash Fork and Seligman. It would be a great spring /summer scouting base, while you figure out what your strategy and plans are.
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Let me know if you are interested. Otherwise, good luck with the hunt and enjoy the whole process.
-Patrick
I would check out Hillcrest if you're going the guide route. Hillcrest website
You are welcome to use my elk camp that is in the middle of unit 10. It is on 40 acres and is 3.2 miles off pavement about halfway between Ash Fork and Seligman. It would be a great spring /summer scouting base, while you figure out what your strategy and plans are.
Let me know if you are interested. Otherwise, good luck with the hunt and enjoy the whole process.
-Patrick
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Good for you! I finally managed to draw this year, getting the late bull in 10. Spent a lot of years chasing them in WA and ID, but first AZ elk tag I managed to draw.
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Depends on the price tag you’re looking for. Just from what I’ve seen online there is the main “group” of guides that always get the biggest bulls (average around 370-380). But they’ll charge accordingly unless you want to do a scouting package only. And it seems like their prices aren’t going down, especially for elk. I’d say if you aren’t worried about money, some to check out are Arizona Custom Hunts, A3 outfitters, Drop Tyne outfitters, Shadow Valley, or Big Chino even (big chino is EXPENSIVE). All of them shot close to 400” bulls from what I saw this year. There is also plenty of others out there that exist as well, some probably better than the ones I’ve mentioned, but at least now you can do your own research which I HIGHLY recommend doing if you’re serious about getting a guide, usually they’ll work something out with you personally.
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I was gonna say, after A3's helicopter shenanigans they probably won't be a guiding company for much longer, lol.
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I didn’t hear about this. Wild what lengths some of these outfitters will go to
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Big Chino, A3, and other guides in AZ have a history. Like Ranger said, do your research on any guides if you ever decide to use one.
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Just read up on not one but TWO allegations from A3, moving on to Big Chino! I can’t believe they’re still guiding as a service! And how easy he got off for that, yet if some random shmuck did the same thing that guy did and shot a bull on the rez, he would go to prison. Thats insane to me they let stuff like that go. I guess maybe then reach out to the game warden of unit 10 and ask him for outfitter recommendations, if these are the things being put online, imagine what they did that didn’t get found out
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yep. There's plenty of others. You can PM me and I can send you some more people. Don't need to be making this thread about that.
Plenty of good outfitters out there too I'm sure
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