Author: Craig Steele

Arizona Youth Mule Deer Hunt

My daughter was blessed to get an Arizona General Mule Deer Tag this past fall.  She passed her hunter education class just a few days before her Arizona Mule Deer Hunt started.

Exclusive Pursuit Outfitters is not a giant outfitting business in Arizona. We pride ourselves on taking a limited number of clients and treating your hunt with a sense of purpose. We believe guiding and outfitting is more than just a score on a piece of paper, although just like you, we want to kill the biggest animal on the mountain.

Hunting with our clients and family is not something we take for granted! We did not get into outfitting to boost our own egos’; we got into guiding because we feel we can provide our clients with something others cannot.

This was a very special moment for my family and I would like to share it with you.

Arizona Elk Hunt Scouting?

In our minds, there are 3 different types of scouting when it comes to Arizona Elk.

    • Historical Scouting– where you know of different bulls and you know the unit from past experiences.  Each year you check different areas that have held a certain bull or bulls during a certain time period.
    • Early Season-this type of scouting is to just get a grasp on what caliber of bulls are growing and where the cows are pocketed up for the rut seasons.
    • 1 week-the week prior to any Arizona Elk hunt is critical.  Especially, prior to the early Arizona Elk Rut Hunts.  Big bulls will rub of their velvet in mid-August.  These bulls will then travel 5-30+miles while searching for cows.

Below is a big bull we filmed in 2010, this footage was taken during the Early Season scouting phase.  We never found this bull again!