azbugler

Map and google Earth and GPS. I'm now 100% certain that I have every water source pinned and logged! And glassing ridges, and fence lines, and well trees for that matter. But I should probably go over it again tomorrow just to double check!

Bring it!

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Found a nice brownie last Sunday. But this was all after 2 days of looking.

Nice bull. Definitely above 320 and maybe as high as 350. Narrow spread will hurt him some and I'm not sure of his mass. I'll give him 340 as a best guess.

Already got my four tickets

Nice!

I want one!

I've never entered a turkey either but may do so with my next.

Thanks for your service! Welcome!

Bought my tickets earlier this week! Looking forward to it.

Agreed we've had a good winter so far but we definitely need another couple of storms to round out the season in Feb/March. If not, we'll be dry as a bone in early April. Hopefully this infamous made up fable "el Nino" shows back up!

Great book for hunting AZ! I've got mine coming any day now!

Hunts like the early rifle/muzzy fill on the bp round? Particularly the early 3B muzzy hunt as I put that in for 1st choice with only 5bp. :-( No, what they're saying is that the second choice doesn't do you any good at all if it's the same unit. Only 20% of the tags are drawn in the BP round, so you always have a chance! It used to be that all non resident allocated tags were gone by the end of that round. Now it is not that way as only half of the non resident allocation can go in the BP round.

We're all in and I should be elk hunting this year!

Put my dad in this morning with zero problems. My three boys and I put in (all separately)on Saturday with no problems.

This becomes a double edged sword as you start to creep up in points. You have to decide if you are going to hold out, or burn the points on a less premium guaranteed hunt. But yes, be cautions of that second choice hunt as your points start to creep up. The position I was in this year exactly. Points burned! Life's too short.

Lol, I thought I was the only one to build graphs and spreadsheets on elk data! It's an illness.

with 8 points?Yep! The unit I applied for took 7 to draw last year.I'd venture to bet it's a unit that starts with a 4 and ends with a B Lol. You don't know! It could be 19a or the 6's.... Haha

Left my response on your other post lol. Yes they are factors to consider but no they don't keep me from applying for a hunt. Pluses and minuses to both.

I forced myself to take the plunge and make a decision. I feel so much better now!

Me too finally

with 8 points? Yep! The unit I applied for took 7 to draw last year.

I'm in! Tough decision this year. Guaranteed to be hunting elk this year.