[depenzz]

I was glad to see you hunted the Gila Wilderness. I bow hunted there several years. I shot a nice 6x7 bull the last year I hunted there. That would have been in the mid 80s. I hunted out of Silver City, NM

[elkfersupper]

I hunted out of Reserve, drop camp set up East of Snow Lake. The rest on foot or horseback.

Sadly enough, roughly 300,000 acres either burned or burning near and around Whitewater Baldy right now.

Always rifle for me. Drew a permit 11 years running. Nothing the last 18.

Learned to keep the rifle within arm's reach, the .45 on my hip-along with a big knife.

There are numerous large creatures out there capable of killing and eating you; especially along the Middle Fork of the Gila. I had fun for the most part. Hope you did, as well. Only brought 2 big elk out of there in all those years. That is a LOT of work.