Welcome to San Francisco River Outfitters. We take only a limited number of hunters each year to insure individual attention and trophy quality opportunity. Our specialty in the industry is that we offer true pack-in wilderness hunts using well trained mountain horses and mules to get you back where the big bulls live!

“Tom Klumker and his crew helped me and my son Ty on my son’s first archery elk hunt in 2013. We did a hunt with San Francisco outfitters into the Gila wilderness and it could not have been better. Tom has good stock animals; he’s honest, hard-working and knows the wilderness. I would highly recommend Tom and San Francisco outfitters to anyone wanting a wilderness experience. I can’t wait to do this again! Sincerely Jeff and Ty Taylor”

“We 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.”

While we offer the best trophy bull elk wilderness hunts in America, we also offer hunting trips for Coues Deer, Bighorn Sheep, Antelope, Javelina, Merriam’s Turkey, Mule deer, Mountain Lion, bear, Ibex and Oryx in both New Mexico and Arizona.

OUTFITTER & GUIDE

Tom Klumker, your outfitter guide. We use some of the top guides in the West, which enables us to consistently harvest trophy class animals. I have owned horses and mules and have been packing into wilderness areas all of my life. In recent years some outfitters whom have no livestock opt to put some of their clients in for the wilderness hunts and then try to farm out the packing and camps to unqualified operators or they try to hunt from the trail heads. We operate in The Gila National Forest, the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico and the Coronado and Apache/Sitgreaves National Forests in Arizona. If you want a true traditional wilderness pack-in hunt where knowledge and experience count, give us a call.

SPORTSMAN CHANNEL OUTFITTER

San Francisco River Outfitters has been selected to outfit and guide the hosts of “Relentless Pursuit “ which airs on Sportsman Channel and “Extreme Desire” airing on the Dish Network starting July of 2014. We have enjoyed guiding on multiple successful trophy bull elk, Couse deer and more hunts over the years.

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 in sleep tents and a cook/dining tent with full time cook and using a full-time wrangler and 1×1 guide service. We are also expanding outside of the wilderness into the greater Gila for more opportunity and potential of harvesting more trophy class bulls with option of horseback hunting. We use knowledgeable guides with considerable experience hunting in the wilderness. We operate in the Gila National Forest (16B primarily plus units 23, 16A, 16E, 16D and 15), and Apache/Sitgreaves (Units 27 and 1) National Forests in Arizona.

2025 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 39th year hunting this unit and with a reduction in rifle bull tags in this unit in 2023 we had a much better success ratio the past few years. With less rifle hunters overall in 2025 it should make for good hunting into 2026. We took 4 bulls this year, 1 in archery and 3 on the rifle hunts with all of those in the 360 plus range. Archery season was tough with our drought conditions the bulls bugled late in all units. Rifle season we had some health issues with hunters and they were
not able to join which resulted in our low numbers of bulls being harvested. All in all we had a good a season. We encourage and highly recommend our clients to be in the best shape possible and be prepared to put in some miles horseback in some really rough country. We put you on good gentle mountain horses and are guided by our professional and competent guides.