The End of the 2012 Bowhunt

Well, here is the final chapter on our archery season. We started the season off with a bang with Gary Galford's huge 6x7 on opening morning. His story is below this one.  As season rolled on, the hunting got tough. This was expected and we had prepared for it. We started the season spottin and stalkin, as water was everywhere. We hunted hard for a couple giants that we had seen preseason as well as we had numerous back-up bucks. Overall we experienced 4 missed shots total. The hunters that missed these shots were rightfully heartbroken. Shots are few and far between when you are focused on the biggest of the big and often one or maybe two opportunities is all you can expect on these big mature bucks. The hunters that missed had a tremendous amount of grit and persistence and stayed the course until season closed. My hat is definitely off to them!

The grand finale came at 2:00 pm on the lsat day of season. Brian had used our scouting service and spent the entire season hunting a true giant! Nobody knows how challenging this is until they have spent 20 days straight hunting one old smart buck. Brian is as knarly a bowhunter as there is and when the final day of season finally came, he made short work of the awesome back-up buck below. Brian stalked into spitting distance and placed a perfect arrow into the bucks vitals. Brian's wicked typical buck was 30" wide and grossed over 190" One heck of a last day consolation prize!

I want to thank all of our valuable clients for trusting us with their tags. Each and everyone of them hunted their guts out. Some connected and some didn't but the whole ride was awesome and already has us looking forward to next bow season. Also, to the entire AZSB crew. Another hunt in the books and many more to come. Thanks to all!...Matt