StickFlicker

If you apply for a species for five consecutive years, you earn a loyalty point for THAT species. If you miss a single year, you lose it and it won't come back until you apply for five consecutive years again. I believe that you can miss a year, now and then, and still retain the points you earned by being rejected in a drawing, but if you miss five in a row for a species all but your hunter's safety points go away.

Flatlander, "Consider splitting archery elk hunts into 2 separate hunts, 1 week each, while maintaining overall permit numbers in lieu of the current 2 week season structure. (I.e. A hunt with 100 tags would now be split into 2 hunts, each with 50 tags). This will result in increased revenue for the department..." How does selling two hunts with 50 tags each going to bring in more revenue for the department than one hunt with 100 tags? Also, you must really feel strongly about the antelope proposals, since you list the same full list of suggestions two different times!

Unit 27 is recommended by G&F for a complete closure of OTC deer hunting and to become a draw-only unit. For those not paying attention to what G&F is doing, they are recommending the closure of tons of December and January OTC hunts for this year, and will likely continue to close more and more OTC deer hunts each year until the OTC deer hunt opportunity is largely gone in Arizona unless hunters voice their concerns this week. Christian Hunters of America AZ OTC Deer Survey

As was said, they water any time of day. They also don't necessarily water every day or in the same place, so sitting water requires days of patience. This time of year, you're probably better off hunting them by calling or locating them by their calls.

I'm not sure what you classify as an "insane" amount of tracks, but I've often found that extremely high numbers of "deer" tracks in an area eventually turns out to be domestic sheep (especially when all the old tracks were probably washed-away a couple of weeks ago by rain). A number of times in unit 6B, 8, 10, 21 and others, I thought I'd found great deer areas, only to run into a big heard of domestic sheep within a day or two...

You forgot to post the rules that were included with the code, such as "Code can be shared but DO NOT post on social media or on forums"...

Phillips Ranch?

I believe they rotate which unit(s) have the rifle or muzzy hunt before the archery hunt each year.

Awesome ram! Thanks for coming back to update us on the results of your hunt.

I too had no idea there was a hunt in AZ where an adult could kill a doe, and also that there was such a hunt open in December.

Great looking ram, congratulations!

Absolutely awesome! Congratulations Taylor!!

That's a great bear, congratulations!

http://bowhuntinginarizona.com/purchase-record-books.html A copy of the new "Bowhunting in Arizona" book for $25! Great to ask as a gift for yourself, or a great gift to buy for your hunting partner.

Bowhunting in Arizona - Facebook Page Lots of big bucks taken with bows this year. The Facebook Page for Bowhunting in Arizona is the best place to look to see what large bucks were taken with a bow in Arizona this year. Scroll past all the huge bulls and you will get to the bucks!

That's one of the most informative summaries I've seen written on the G&F website. Kudos to the wildlife manager that wrote it.

Congratulations! That's a great first buck.

Delw, What makes you think that's a (peg) leg hanging down from that skirt?

What would have been wrong with UAZ? It would have rolled off the tongue better than UArizona.

John F. Kennedy, November 23, 1963?

If they live in an area with snow, they obviously have to be somewhere in the snow. However, like most animals, they will seek out the warmest area within the habitat in which they live, which is usually the areas the sun it hitting.

There's a train ride from Williams to the Grand Canyon. During the winter in the snow, that might be nice.

Good info 654321.

Javelina are not fans of cold weather, so they can often be seen on the slope the sun is hitting in order to stay warm.