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Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast

490: New Mexico Elk Season Update-AZ Unit 1 and 27 Elk Season Update with Jeff Lester of Hunt Hard Outfitters

Jay Scott Outdoors Western Big Game Hunting and Fishing Podcast

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Sports & Recreation, Outdoor, Sports & Recreation:outdoor

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Listen as Jay Scott and Jeff Lester of Hunt Hard Outfitters breakdown the New Mexico and Arizona Elk seasons. More Info on Jeff Lester https://hunthard.com/ Sponsors of the JSO Podcast https://www.gohunt.com/ Cody Nelson "Glassing Guru and Optics Authority" Optics Manager at goHUNT.com Gear Shop-Call Cody directly for info and sales at (702) 847-8747 Ext #2 or email at [email protected] http://www.kuiu.com/ or http://www.kuiu.com/blog/ https://canyoncoolers.com/ Use the "jayscott" promo code to get 10% off all orders https://www.instagram.com/sold_az/ Send Email to [email protected] to get $500 gift certificate for using their Real Estate services More on host Jay Scott www.JayScottOutdoors.com Instagram @JayScottOutdoors http://gouldsturkeyhunt.com/ http://www.colburnandscottoutfitters.com/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZbc2dA3sjOzWKdSxnyuz9g https://www.facebook.com/JayScottOutdoorsPodcast/

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0:00.0

Welcome to the J. Scott Outdoors podcast. Today I have my friend Jeff Lester of Hunt Hard Outfitters and Hunt Hard Gear on the line. Jeff, how you doing?

0:21.0

Great, great Jay, how are you? Good. I look forward to... you do it

0:24.0

I look forward to speaking with you on last time we talked it was before the

0:28.4

season and let's start out talk about New Mexico.

0:33.0

How was the archery hunts in New Mexico?

0:38.0

Pretty terrible.

0:40.0

I mean, it was...

0:42.0

I've heard that across the board uh... tell us about it

0:47.2

probably

0:49.7

quite possibly the worst elkunning season to date in my career.

0:57.0

From what standpoint, Jeff?

0:59.2

Well, let's back up here now.

1:01.5

I had my own tag also that I hunted in New Mexico and so in

1:12.3

El-Cunning terms it wasn't it wasn't that the

1:14.6

El-Kunning was just terrible it was just the size is really bad so

1:18.0

horn growth is probably one of the lowest I've ever seen. I mean not to say there isn't a good

1:26.4

bull here and a good bull there I mean I've seen a couple of really good bulls

1:29.3

killed but as a whole it is really down. I'm guessing 40 to 60 percent. And I'm one guy.

1:40.0

So I mean like I said I know of a number of really solid elk that were killed in the archery season

1:46.2

but as a whole the bulls that we were hunting you know we had a couple of decent solid elk that we were hunting but the days of or you know passing

1:57.2

you know the 320 330 kind of bulls to hunt the 350 plus bulls that was

2:02.4

almost not existing in most of the units we were hunting.

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