V-man Side Look

Largest Arizona Pronghorn taken in 2021

Dave holding his big buck
Dave took this awesome buck with us in 2021.

Arizona is known for it’s large scoring pronghorn antelope but over the past 30 years human enchroachment, drought & predation have taken their toll on the over all herd.  The now shrinking herd is at near RECORD lows & Arizona is offering just 378 General Pronghorn Antelope permits for the 2022 season.   

In 2021 Dave Seno purchased one of Arizona’s Pronghorn Antelope Governor Tags for the 2020-21 season. His tag purchase funds went directly toward helping our pronghorn antelope populations that desperatly need all the help they can get.  

We scouted all across the state & ultimately picked out a big buck we called V-man.  This buck was the largest scoring buck we guided & found in 2021.  We can’t thank Dave enough for his tag purchase & for hiring Team EPO to assist him on his hunt.  

Big Pronghorn Buck Head on Look

V-man Side Look
V-man live photos

If you don’t have the funding to purchase a governor’s tag there are still two great ways you can apply for Arizona pronghorn hunts.  You can apply for the state draw tags via the Arizona Pronghorn Draw & the Arizona Big Game Super Raffle.  

We don’t promote family & friend success photos

Just like so many industries today, the guiding & outfitting world is a very competive market place.  It’s very easy to get caught up in the hype & just go along with what all the others are publishing but as a professional guiding business we want to set a higher standard.  

100% Paying Client Success Photos

Outfitter logoed success images are being published daily & being marketed as a client’s success photos.  It may seem innocent to some but it’s definetly unethical & possibly illegal to market friends & family photos as paying client success photos. With that stated, we want you to know that the grip-n-grin/trophy photos you see on our website & social media pages are 100% paying client images, unless other wise stated.  

Larry's Giant Ram

40×40 Arizona Desert Bighorn Ram

Larry Irvin waited over 30 years before drawing his Arizona Desert Bighorn Sheep Tag. Larry drew Unit 15DS, which is right in our backyard & home of some of the largest nelsoni desert bighorn sheep in the world!

After Larry’s decision to book his once-in-a-lifetime desert bighorn sheep hunt with us we made it a priorty to find an old record book desert bighorn ram. We originally focused our efforts on relocating a very long ram we called “LR” but unfortunetly LR broomed both horns off, which eliminated him from the top of the list. As the hunt begin we decided to keep looking for another target ram but those plans changed after the team located a NEW giant ram.

Back View

Right Back View

40x40 Bedded

Immediatly we knew that this insanely long desert bighorn ram was special.  The excitement grew as pics & videos were shared of this awesome ram & we knew he was the one. Lee Murphy & Hunter Haynes bedded the giant desert bighorn ram & the long sleepless night was all that seperated Larry from his once-in-a-lifetime goal. 

Larry Rok-Stedi

The next day we found the ram tucked into a big cave to avoid the long night of steady & increasing wind.  After a short discussion we made up a plan to get Larry within range.  We setup to shoot on a small rock ledge with Larry’s .270WSM (while mounted to a Rok-Stedi Bipod). The ram slow got up to check on his ewes & Larry made quick work of the 9.5 year old ram we called “40×40”.  

Larry's Giant Desert Bighorn

Hunter, Larry & Lee

Larry holding 40x40

40x40 Scoring
Larry’s ram officially aged at 9.5 years old & scored 178 6/8″ Gross 177 2/8″ Net