dakotakid

$50 charge last Friday morning to AZGF!

The breaks. Assuming you want a DIY public land hunt.

That’s amazing! I’ve never been so lucky when it comes to drawing tags, but I’ve been fortunate to harvest some good deer, a few elk, and lots of pheasants. So I won’t complain. That gives me hope though!

That’s awesome! Definitely looking forward to it.

Thank you. Good advice.

Thanks! I appreciate the advice. I’m somewhere in between wanting to burn my points or gathering more over the next several years. If I burned em, then I could just go for a cow tag in the hopes of hunting every other year at least. My son is just turned 10, so I’m trying to think about how that could play into things as well. I’d be happy just to let him fill the freezer with cow elk over the next few years as well. Limited time and limited hunting budget requires more planning!

Totally understandable. I feel like a nonres when it comes to hunting here. I do live in the valley and I’ve been a res. Since 2017. Definitely a lot harder to draw a tag here than what I’m used to in the North country. Based on the geography and vegetation, it’s definitely a lot harder hunting here than I’m used to as well! I did get to join a friend of mine on a cow elk hunt near Heber in 2017. It was a humbling and educational experience.

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It is! But, I’m in point purgatory in CO right now.

Thanks! I appreciate the advice! I still haven’t decided what I’m going to do yet. Leaning toward applying for a late season rifle hunt and crossing my fingers.

I moved here in July of 2017. Joined in 2012, because I figured I’d hunt AZ someday and I liked what I had read on the CW forum. I’ve got kids, all in sports, so I get out when I can, which isn’t often, and I still go back North at least once a season to hunt there, so I’ve got little knowledge to offer about hunting AZ, that’s why I haven’t said much!

Facts! I knew I would get it from someone about my low post count, so I figured I’d start it off with a good laugh. I’m going to try and be more active here.

You draw it and I’ll do my best to be there to help you pack it out! And I’m a pretty good cook as well, if I don’t say so myself.

Hi, Anyone have any suggestions for a decent unit that I stand a chance to get drawn for with 3 points. Not asking for any “honey holes”, but would appreciate long and lats to your second favorite spots, with trail cam pics and/or past harvest photos, so I can decide if it’s right for me. Hoping for a 350 class bull, but I’d be happy with a 330ish. Thanks in advance.

Interesting thread and one I can actually contribute to. 1st post for me! Once saw a long dead cougar whos entire head - eyes, nose, and mouth was full of quills. Died from starvation or infection. Several pheasants over the years hitting power lines or barbed wire fence when flushed. Wild hawk whacked a hen pheasant I flushed. Found a Barn owl electrocuted on a transformer. I spooked a whitetail doe when pheasant hunting that ran across a frozen pond and broke through the ice. She didnt make it out, but thankfully went down quick.