Arizona Hunting Club & Outdoor Adventure Group

Deer and Elk Game Trail Photographs

The most important place to start your scouting field trips is stock tanks. The reason being is that every stock tank has at least one game trail leading to it. The key is finding the stock tanks with the most tracks and the most game trails leading to it.

This picture shows where elk are jumping a low lying fence to get to a stock tank. A good place to set up a tree stand because you know they will stop here for a second before jumping over.

This picture shows where the elk are coming up and over the earth berm from the forest to get a drink of water.

This picture show a game trail going uphill toward a wooded bench where the animals like to bed down.

This pictures shows some mule deer that we spooked walking down one of the game trails in the areas behind the earth berm. Many animals will bed down behind these hills when they cannot been seen from the road. The berm provides a shield for their departure should some hunters show up to scout the tank.

The next two pictures are headed downhill to giant grassy meadows under the powerlines where the deer and elk love to feed at night.

This game trail leads to a canyon where the elk take cover after feeding all night. The other thing to note about this picture is that the animal are entering the stock tank through a gate that is no longer there. A great place for a tree stand because you know they will be traveling through this chokepoint.

This stock tank is dynamite. In addition to the other game trail coming through the open gate. This fenceline has a game trail on both sides of the fence leading to the tank. Instead of jumping over, there are numerous signs of hair from deer crawling under the fence. Note how the rancher has raised the bottom smooth wire to allow them to crawl underneath.

The rest of these pictures show you why you need to go with us on some scouting field trips. Every one of these game trails had tons of tracks and fresh droppings on them. If you go scouting with us, you are bound to trip over deer and elk numerous times over the weekend.

This game trail probably shows a buck or a bull which is walking beside the main trail. Instead of walking the main trail, they walk 10-20 feet to the side.