zslayer

Crazy the amount of rain you guys have been getting down there! Has anyone heard if AZ is officially out of drought yet?

Deer should be great! Especially Coues. Perfect timing for fawns too! Give the does lots of feed and give the fawns lots of cover for better survival.

“Whitetail deer are found in every us state except Alaska”!?😕

😂 just had this sent to me on social media.

Expensive but if you can find it Milestone. Kills everything, slow killer but gets way down into the root system and kills it for good. I know I paid like $130 for a quart last time.

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You are correct on the 10% non resident cap for draw tags only. Where it has hurt is the OTC archery tags that are unlimited and caused such crowding that AZGFD now has to start eliminating that option. I’m guessing in the next 1-2 years OTC tags will be eliminated completely as result of overcrowding.

That’s a good idea and I think I may give that a try just to see what they say. I’m a non resident of AZ but I used to a resident and have hunted the southern desert for more than 20 years. I feel your pain as a resident with the flood of non resident hunters, I have experienced the exact same thing here in CO. We just lost our OTC elk tags because we got pounded by non residents. Even this years archery elk draw with limited tags we had 61% of the tags go to non residents. As far as AZ goes my days of drawing a coues tag every year are now coming to an end even with two points. This is in units and hunts that had leftovers 3-4 years ago before the sellout!

I’ve been watching the radar daily and AZ has gotten some great rain! Haven’t seen the big wide spread storms but powerful smaller storms. I would imagine about every tank in the southern desert is about full now.

It’s true! I’m just curious to see if there is way to find out how much AZGFD paid these guys? Also curious if it was a one time deal or have they been paid annually?

I assure you, there are plenty of Texans here! Lol

So with all the confusion with sheep tags being overcharged, possible youth tags charged for adult general tag fees does anyone know when results will be posted? Are they gonna wait several weeks to get everything hashed out before they do? if I remember correctly when G&F overcharged youth during the elk draw they still posted results before they refunded.

Unreal! On the 36b tag

They are up!!

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I can see your point to an extent but, I also think these guys are selling out to pad their own bank accounts and ruining what a lot of people have enjoyed for years by doing their own research. Units that used to have leftover tags every year are now taking 1-2 non resident points to draw. If you look at the amount of non resident apps there was a HUGE spike about the time these guys started promoting! Not only that but the biggest unit was the exact unit Randy Newberg was hunting! I personally could never except money to blow my area up and cause it to become a tough to draw hunt when I used to be able to hunt it every year. AZGFD is wrong to use our money to to destroy our hunts! This has been going on for at least 3-4 years now and for it to just be surfacing makes me think they All were trying to hide it because of the backlash they would receive!

Is that your prediction?

I believe Randy Newburg mentioned getting paid by AZGFD in one of his YouTube videos also.

I just listened to a new jay scott podcast and the same question came up about AZGFD paying utubers to promote OTC tags in AZ and jay said he had personally talked to several of them and asked them straight out if they were paid by AZGFD and the answer was yes.

Looks like several charges for guys on here over the past couple days. That’s good! Congrats.

I’ve seen $80k-$85k

So I was also charged correctly for my youth but I only put in for youth tags so it makes sense.

So what I’m seeing is youth that applied for a general tag first choice were charged the general tag prices no mater what, even if they drew a 2nd choice youth tag. And I did see that exactly happen with the elk draw to a buddies son. He was pumped up and thought his son drew his 1st choice with 0 points which was a unit 10 early rifle bull tag. He was later refunded the reminder of his youth cow tag cost which he actually drew.

This happened to a friend last year. When he couldn’t find his results he called and they had no record of him at all!! No app, no account, nothing! He had his receipts and even his receipt from elk draw so they created him a new account and gave him his bonus points. Bad part is he applied for a coues tag that was 100% and nothing they could do but give him a point.

So are we gonna be a week out for deer results too?