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Notify the owners of the Boquillas, ORO, X-One, AHA, or Fort Rock ranches before you do it, with time and your way points, and we will cheer you on with popcorn ready to see how she goes!

The game and fish office in Kingman has told me that it is NOT allowed. The unit by unit hunt area suggestions on game and fish website also kind of support this, essentially calling every checkerboard ranch area private and inaccessible without permission. Not sure if it has ever been legally tested here though. It’s a shame that the way to find out is to get a citation and go to court. I can think of many places in northern AZ where corner hopping would be very very nice to be able to do.

AZ has the best system out there. The old guys in town swear it doesn't work, not fair, but that is just because they don't understand all the nuances or math, they "never get drawn", yada yada. But it is just all flat basic statistical chance once you understand the whole system. You just have to play the game the correct way if you want to hunt more or in better places, just have to adjust you apps accordingly. Its a thing of beauty really. May the rain fall and the odds be ever in your favor!!!

I'll be honest, this thread makes me want to cry a little inside knowing I won't be getting any more scouting trail cam pics to share with you all, and visa versa. All cell phone "from the Road" and backyard pics only from now on boys and girls!

$580

Still looking bbaaadddd for moisture 👎👎👎

$620

Draw length is quick adjustable from 23.5 to 30.5 by just moving the set screws. 34” axel to axel

Bump, this guy could kill your 360" bull this year for you!

You guys are brutal. Cut the man some slack. Innocent until proven guilty. Not all guides are cheats just because they are guides or because they are successful. Unless someone has some first hand knowledge, let the man deal with his own personal business and the results will be made public if there are serious items. I have only heard and seen good things from him, but nobody is perfect.

Also, if they are over a year wait, in normal times, it means they are behind. Because of the hunting cycle, if they only took in what they could complete in the annual cycle, things would never get much past a year theoretically, if it gets past a year, that means they haven't finished all the Elk for instance from the prior year, and are taking on more elk now, and it can cascade very fast from a 12 months wait to a 3 year wait. I can appreciate a taxidermist that only take repeat customers work and have high prices because they are managing their work flow to keep times down and customer service high with what they know they can handle.

Sure hope so! My personal opinion: the most critical time for moisture for antler growth for elk is March-May, an anything after the first week in July is probably too late to do anything. But for health of the herd, we will take it any day and time!

Those antlers being that color with those darker stain purple spots means that he died still in the velvet = archery hunter did not find his buck.

Wowzers

Did anyone go on Saturday? It was my first time and wow, some guys really like to throw down some coin haha. Actual purchases are tax deductible after all! The statewide Elk Tag went for $255k to... Dan Adler?? Or a client of his maybe that had him set up the bidding on his behalf perhaps? Couldn't really tell, was really strange actually at the end of the bidding on that one because it was kind of a secret until they were finished and then said the winner is Dan, and I couldn't tell what was going on exactly. Maybe those hunting shows pay better than I thought. Dan was the emcee of the whole thing so it made it even more confusing and my conflict-of-interest hairs stand up lol. I'm sure it was all fine, highest bidder wins so not all that complicated of a process but our whole table was confused. Some of you will notice the "not Dan" in his Linkedin profile photo...

You have to use a Rez guide, it is only 16 days long, have to find one on the limited land the Rez has in that window. Statewide is just has so much more opportunity and forgiving and a year long hunt obviously and you can have your guides taking info from everyone they know and “searching” the whole state.

Sorry it was a rambling post. The working-on-being-famous Dan Adler both was the emcee of the banquet and the purchaser of the auction tag at the same time. It confused us all. Then I went on a tangent about bonecollector777 being in Dan's Linkedin profile picture, the "not Dan". Or maybe its his brother and I'll be eating crow and get banned for the profiling.

I am pretty sure for quotas they are going with starting the count in August, which makes sense based on the "regulations year" but doesn't make sense for the hunters OTC tag which starts in Jan obv. Going to be very few Jan hunts available if they don't increase the 20% cap (which by definition means taking away a few rifle tags, which the department apparently recoils at).

I have argued this for a year. They have used the same 20% archery number for at least 30 years since I was a kid, but archery demand is much higher now that it was then, so they need to shift tags from rifle to archery and bump up the percent archers are allowed to kill. I sent the department some spreadsheets and historical graphs about it with rifle applicants Vs otc tag purchases but they just replied and said “we disagree” lol.

So Jan 2023 will fall under the regs that will be coming out soon then, and therefore likely still have a lot of the old archery opportunities closed?

I recently bought some property in Golden Valley near Kingman. There is a long broke-beyond-repair cement style game water catchement on it. Its must be 60+ years old. Game and Fish looked into it and were told to tell me that the higher ups said its my issue to remove, they won't help remove it. The area is now surrounded by houses and roads and there is no big game for many miles. I wonder how it got to this point. Maybe it was public land back when installed? I have a bunch of different properties in the mountains that I would LOVE to randomly have an old catchement on hahaha. Doesn't look like there was ever any type of easement or dedication done related to it. Anyone come across anything similar in AZ?

Us too, Wells Fargo Alert: Purchase of $405.00 at AZ GAME & FISH DEPT exceeds preset amount for credit card ending 0740. Questions? Call number on card.

Most of the 15’s are very brutal

If they are very vocal, there is no need for you to do anything else but sneak in on them. If you call, you just alert them and risk them not liking your sound or them not being receptive to whichever type of call you chose and at least half the time the walk or run the other direction. If you are having trouble closing the distance, some soft cow calls can sometimes help draw the bull in once you are close. So pray for a good rut, that you can find the elk and that they are calling and you will have a blast just trying to keep the wind right and sneaking in on them and working the angles to avoid the eyeballs and get a shot. Location bugling can be good when they aren't really fired up and you can't find any elk, sometimes that will help you at least find the direction of a bull since often they can't resist responding to another bull that is far away. If they are NOT calling and it is very hot and has NOT rained in a month, then sitting water can be your best bet. Hiking and Glassing are always a good fallback if the terrain is conducive to it. Trail cameras are now illegal to use for hunting so you can't use those to help you decide what water you may want to sit.