OUTFITTER & GUIDE
SPORTSMAN CHANNEL OUTFITTER
ABOUT SF RIVER OUTFITTERS
We take only a limited number of hunters each year to insure individual attention and trophy quality opportunity. Our specialty or niche in the industry is that we offer true pack-in wilderness hunts using well trained mountain horses and mules and hunt from quality wall tent camps with cots and pads in sleep tents and a cook/dining tent with full time cook and using a full time wrangler and 1×1 guide service. We use knowledgeable guides with considerable experience hunting in the wilderness. We operate in the Gila National Forest (16B primarily plus units 23, 16E, 16D and 15), the Lincoln National Forest (Unit 34) in New Mexico and the Coronado (Unit 33) and Apache/Sitgreaves (Units 27 and 1) National Forests in Arizona.
2024 HUNT REPORT
San Francisco River Outfitters continue to offer our Wilderness pack-in by horseback and pack mule, hunting the rugged and remote Gila Wilderness. This was our 38th year hunting this unit and with a reduction in rifle bull tags in this unit in 2023 we had a much better success ratio this year and with less rifle hunters over all again in 2024 it should make for good hunting into 2025. We took 9 bulls this year, 3 in archery and 6 on the rifle hunts with some of those in the 330-350 range.
We encourage and highly recommend our clients to be in the best shape possible and be prepared to put many miles on horseback in some really tough country. We put you on good gentle mountain horses and are guided by our professional and competent guides.
This is our 38th anniversary of guiding hunters as San Francisco River Outfitters mostly in the Gila Wilderness. Our many years of experience gives our hunters an advantage over our competitors. Over the years we have done our very best to keep our prices as low as possible and provide outstanding value to every one of our hunters. With the high cost for everything the
last four years our prices have gone up but we still are competitive especially for wilderness hunting.