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Archery next week.

Man sorry to see this too. RIP brother.

This place just popped up on my Instagram feed…hadn’t heard of them before. Anyone used them or familiar with them? Anything good or bad? Southwest Game Processing https://www.southwestgameprocessingaz.com/

I do miss him now…

Dickmans is still open, they just aren’t processing wild game anymore. Long live their ugly steaks! edited to add…that’s what they told me when I asked them a while back. It may very well have changed since then. I had one deer processed there and wasn’t impressed. WGP was much better, but I agree he can’t handle all the volume of Tucson by himself.

Their website lists a Tucson location open every other Thursday. Sounds it might be more like a pickup/dropoff location with those hours, but not sure. I think my friend may have used them for his coues last year…I’ll ask him.

Nice to see more AZ names this time…at least I think there’s more.

Wow…crazy. Sad news.

Yeah that’s what I was thinking…you’d probably heard of Miller’s Southwest. Hopefully this one is as good since I’ve always heard great stuff about Miller’s.

Great hunt in a great unit. Lots of great areas and definitely doable without ATVs. PM incoming with more specifics.

Awesome report…thanks for sharing. One of these years…

Other than paying the day use fee to get into the state park there was no permit required when I was there a couple years ago.

But you don’t even like hunting. 😂 OTC archery mule deer in 36a used to be a lot of fun…

One thing I don’t think you can practice enough with kids is target acquisition…hard enough for them to find a bullseye in the scope. Much harder to find a deer or javelina. Practice shooting at rocks across canyons and other realistic situations.

Lots of big bucks in food plots…just have to have access to the private property.

Location?

Funny when I see a dad post about his kids drawing a tag and mentioning both coues and mule deer I assume he’s talking about a youth hunt with any antlered deer…but with my two kids and youth hints that’s probably just where my head is I’ll PM some info on 35a starting points. I’ve seen coues and mule deer in the same areas and also javelina.

100% or Lark

Pics of the Alpine? this post with the Alpine and the Polaris earlier with Rockford Fosgate…my teen years all over again. LoL

Miss who?

Look into the AZSCI youth camp. Good place to camp and they also have folks that can help with areas to hunt.

But if you’re driving there and could road hunt a turkey wouldn't you get a leftover tag?

Depends on what you’re calling southeast. Around Tucson (36s, 34s) I think there are a lot more OTC hunters, especially from out of state. But that’s not the southeast corner either…I hadn’t really noticed any you tubers specifically over in the southeast corner but I haven’t watched a lot either. I think it depends on the specific area. Based on the 36s there are places I used to hunt that I won’t bother anymore because there are now several outfitters with out of state clients and not a lot of spots there to really hike into. Other areas you could hike over a couple of hills and not see anyone.

Got it. Another bump for a good deal.

Subject says SPF but you bumped it up? Either way free bump for a good deal…wish I’d seen this before I bought mine.