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As most here can imagine, the rain has done wonders for the forest up here. I drove through parts of unit 8 last night & the meadows that are normally yellow are all green! Some of the tanks are still down/low however. The second pic is of a small drainage near a main road & not a tank. This drainage obviously received significant moisture. edit---- Forgot to mention I also saw 2 badgers on the drive too. They were "frolicking" on the main road, but took off before I could get close enough for a pic.

btw.... if you get a tag I'll do my best to bring "glass" to your camp... both shot & 15x60s! haha

I'd really like to believe that

no, & know quite a few...

zero chance... only another bonus point for sheep.😒 The coues tag helps though! 😁 ...at 7:07am...

Nice... I'm sitting at 20 myself

Didn’t you just take a ram? That means in 20 yrs you'll have another "legitimate" shot at drawing a RM sheep tag! 😮 edit-------- or was that your dad's ram?

ours came today also, in Flagstaff. no bonus tag stuck to ours tho! 😮

everyone got their tags last week... 😯

If in Tucson I'd visit Lippert/Doyle taxidermy on Ajo way. I personally haven't been there for a long time, but knew Dean Lippert personally. John Doyle passed a long time ago, but he taught Dean the craft.

Congrats! heading out Sunday myself. BTW, for anyone coming up, its wet up here now so will likely be muddy this weekend... plan for it. The moisture is great, but...

Great show, & that FedMart is where one of my older brothers worked for a bit. I also remember the 19cent hamburgers at Sandy's on Kolb Rd. Now I'm dating myself! 🤣

5 or 6 years ago my kids & I were applying for a leftover deer tag. A week after the draw we got two of the 3 unopened envelopes back stamped saying we weren't drawn, but not the third. The portal never showed anything throughout the leftover tag process btw. I called the G&F and they wouldn't tell me anything either (said they didn't know). 2 weeks later, still no 3rd envelope back (with a money order in it), & the G&F wouldn't tell me anything saying that they didn't know what happened. A week later my daughter got that tag in the mail... Nothing surprises me any more...

Whats wrong with that? You have 2 points from not being drawn over the last 2 draws (2020 & 2021), a Hunter Ed pt. & Loyalty pt., totals 4 "bonus points".

was planning on going out to find sheds this weekend to match up with a November bull we plan on killing in 5bN, but this snow & rain will make it a mess! We need the moisture, but this is a mixed blessing! 🤔

Working in Williams now, I'd return the tag if I were you. There are not many elk in 10 this year, seems they've moved to 8 & 9. 😮 😉

The leftover tag list is out now, and it came out after hours or perhaps during the night. That said, given how leftover tag draw works, they take the mail bags & literally dump them out randomly picking out apps one at a time by hand on Monday. Apps MUST BE RECEIVED through US Mail only at first. The problem is unless you are able to physically drop off an app in the Phoenix area today at a US Mail drop-off location, your app won't be received in the Phx office until at least Tuesday. From Flagstaff, one has to drop off their leftover app in the mail the Friday before the draw... which wasn't possible. Two will get the leftover September Hopi tags in 4a (archery bull & cow, prime tags), but not anyone who drops off apps into the US Mail outside of Phx. Therefore, two leftover "Phx area" applicants will be dancing soon! Typically we have a week to schedule/time this, but this year had been... "different"...

Whoa, I have a log more bonus points for both elk & 'lope! Thanks to whoever donated theirs!!! 🤣

What doesn't make sense is this is entirely a programming issue. They could have/should have programmed the tag fee to go along with the type of tag be that youth, non-res, or multiple hunters etc. ...Unless they didn't want to give $s back based on a technicality.

IMO, that should be the case, but that's not what the rule states. In the past (going back to 2008), we never paid the "adult fee" when being issued youth hunt elk tags. We applied for a few of the September bull tags over those years btw. The one year we did pay the "adult tag fee", my son drew one of those highly coveted September rifle bull tags (he was 15). It was a great hunt too!

That's messed up... you should be charged for the type of tag issued!

lol... you'll probably be charged the $50 next week, plus you had the honor of paying for someone else's tag!

Moron, if you read the thread you'd see I was drawn & doesn't affect me personally. This is just another example of how screwed up this year is.

same here, but we'll never know.

I'd call, "FOUL!"