Happy New Year & New Name Announcement!

There is change in the New Year’s wind. Great change—a monumental change that will mark the beginning of something epic and lasting in the outfitting industry in Arizona! Two companies that have firmly established themselves as the highest performing guides for Arizona’s big game is Chad Rhoton and Jay Lopeman’s “Mossback Arizona” and Matt Schimberg and Bryon Goswicks’s “Arizona Strip Bucks”. These two very successful companies have been the top producing outfitters for mule deer, elk and coues deer for most of the last decade. While AZSB has focused primarily on mule deer, MBAZ has focused mainly on elk and coues.  No other competing outfits have been able to match the number of trophy- caliber animals taken by these two top quality hunting companies  . . . year after year after year.

Born from friendship and deep professional respect for one another, Arizona Strip Bucks and Mossback Arizona are stoked to announce a full partnership and full merger of the two companies. No longer will we compete against one another but will mesh together and move forward as the greatest hunting company in Arizona! The combined knowledge of species and years of hunting and guiding experience will be unmatched in Arizona. The highly qualified and experienced seasoned guides that come from joining our companies will be unlike any other team ever assembled. Both outfitters owe their success to the dedicated quality guides that have been the beating heart of each organization. This philosophy will carry forward as we have both learned the key to finding success lies in the quality of our guides, and we are darn proud and thankful to have each and every one of them as part of our new organization.

This new company, starting January 1, 2014, will be known as A3 Trophy Hunts. We will be offering a full array of options in all of Arizona’s units for all species. Both companies bring private land elk hunting to the table and our control of even more private land for huge bucks and bulls continues to grow annually. The harvest records of the two combined companies are, simply put, untouchable by any other outfitters available in Arizona. If you look at sheer numbers of game taken by A3’s clientele,  you will find it to be vastly superior to even our closest competitor:  44 bulls over 375” with 15 of those over 400”, 25 mule deer over 200” with 14 of those over 220” and 3 over 240” and 52 Coues bucks grossing over 110” with 17 over 120” and 6 over 130”! In 2013 alone, we were able to harvest 4 bulls scoring over 400”, our top 6 coues deer averaged 132”,  and 2 bucks over 225” including one that gross scored an amazing 246”.  This record is a testament to our passion and dedication to preseason preparation and the quality of our guides. A short time period spent looking through our photo galleries will back up these numbers as fact, not just boasts recklessly thrown out via Face book or text message that seems to be the fad these days.

We are not becoming a booking network that clings desperately to the success of several different struggling outfitters operating under one umbrella. No sir, we are one company, with exclusive guides, that consult, book, outfit and guide your hunt under one roof with your personal success and satisfaction as our number one priority. Not just any success, but a preplanned, prescouted and precisely executed plan to put your tag on a trophy worthy of it. A3 will continue to treat each tag as if it was their own.  We understand that there is never a guarantee of harvesting an animal, but rest assured there is an understanding by our team of the value and importance of each and every hunt.  These are special times that don’t come around often and deserve to be treated as such.

The founding members of A3, both owners and guides, have made Arizona trophy hunting a way of life. “We live this job we love and love this job we live.”  We are not part timers that like to hunt. We are a fulltime professional hunting company hell bent on becoming the best that this state has ever, or will ever see. We take being number #1 very seriously and keep this goal in focus at all times. We know reputation is what makes or breaks outfitters in Arizona and we guard ours very closely. Any amount of research into either of our original operations will reveal a history of impeccable work ethic, professional guides and happy clients. Both of our reputations are rock solid gold and we intend to keep it that way. Our guides are men with integrity and are committed to your success. Arizona is a highly competitive place for outfitters and several of the very best in the world operate here. We are dedicated to forever etching out our place in history at the top of this rock pile. Call it pride, call it obsession, call it whatever you like. We call it life...Welcome to A3 Trophy Hunts, please buckle up…

To contact A3 Trophy Hunts, please email us at a3trophyhunts@gmail.com. Head over and like our new awesome Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/pages/A3-Trophy-Hunts/665394283503735?fref=ts We look forward to hearing from you!  Our website will be up soon at www.A3trophyhunts.com.