Mike Miller ,

13323 N. Goldfield Rd. ,
FT. McDowell, AZ 85264 ,
602-538-7003 ,
Hunts in Mexico for Mule Deer and Coues Deer.

Mike takes a very limited number of hunters to Mexico for trophy coues and mule deer.

1305 N. Grand Ave. # 334 ,
Nogales, AZ 85621 ,
chairababi@hotmail.com ,
US- 520-980-6834 ,
MX- 011-52-631-320-0854 ,
Coues and Mule Deer in Mexico on beautiful private ranches. Specializing in bow hunts for Coues deer.

Kyler Barton, Joe Barton, Tim Tanner and John McClendon,

My daughter Kyler really enjoys hunting. She started hunting big game when she was 10 years old.The first tag she drew was a mule deer doe tag. That was a lot of fun to see my daughter glass for deer. It was incredibly impressive for me to watch as she shot her deer with a Remington 270 at 246 yards. It was her very first kill and she took it with one shot!  Then to be able to dress out the deer with her younger brother and her great uncle, what a great memory it made. As a father at the time, I thought this might be the best hunt ever, to be outdoors with my daughter and having the time of our lives.

This year 2009 she drew a junior’s deer tag and a bull elk tag. Her elk hunt was a great from the start, we scouted for four days and hunted for five. On this hunt she really got to experience what it means to say, early to rise and late to bed. Every day she met great people and made new friends. It just happened that we camped next to John McClendon and he had finished his hunt by the fifth day. John offered to go with us and call bulls for Kyler and we accepted his offer. The morning of the fifth day, after about a one mile walk in the dark, we found ourselves surrounded by bugling bulls. John was going to do the calling, Tim was running the video camera and I would be with Kyler as her coach. Kyler and I set up with her rifle on a bipod, Tim set the video camera up and John started to call. It wasn’t long and a nice 6×6 came to within 50 yards and Kyler made a perfect shot, she was tickled and so were we. Tim captured all the action on film for a lifetime memory, it was a great experience for all.

I will tell you it is hard to beat a day hunting with your kids! A big thanks to Tim Tanner and John McClendon for helping us out on Kyler’s  first elk hunt and also for hauling out the bull.

Joe Barton

Robert Barnes and John Mcclendon.

I wanted to do a short recap of my Arizona elk hunt with John McClendon. I was fortunate enough to draw an early rifle elk hunt for the northern part of Arizona. This area is known for producing giant bull elk and I was very excited. The trick in this unit was to find one with all his antlers intact. The weather was unusually warm for the first few days of the hunt. This probably had some affect on the rutting activity in the area. The rut was much slower than usual for this time of year. John has hunted the unit for many years and said it was definitely a strange year, as far as rut activity went. What bulls did bugle, quickly quieted up after sunrise. Without John’s experience and calling ability it could have been an extremely tough hunt. I have killed a number of mature bulls in the past and have done some calling on my own but I was amazed at John’s ability to call and mimic elk sounds. Several days into the hunt John was able to call this nice bull out of some thick cover, with all his antlers intact. I was able to put a 200 grain Nosler Accubond from my 8 MM Remington Mag. in the right place. I just wanted to thank John and McClendon’s guide service one more time for the excellent bull and the great hunt that I had in Arizona.

Bob Barnes