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Hello, I have the tag for the season before you. Did you attend the clinic? If so you should have received an email from the Department with the list of other hunters who will also have the hunt you do. If you don't have this information or the handout from the clinic, send me a PM with your email address and I will send you some info. Good Luck, Nick

Great Decision! Congratulations! I'm still proud to say I am Wildcat Alumni even after the butt kicking they took last night!

Adam you must have something VERY special in mind to let this baby go! TTT for one gun that has some great mojo...

Congrats Jim, Annette, and Cody! Well deserved!

I highly encourage anyone who has any interest in hunting in this state to write a simple comment letter to the Park Service. One or two line will suffice if that is all you got.

What difference does it make if it was on a Rez? I could care less about where it was killed as long as it was fair chase. Records are more about the animal than the hunter anyway, which is why they allow pickups and deadheads in the books. Congrats to Terry!

Share your memories or favorite quotes or whatever you got on Fred Bear

No doubt, "shooter" for this bowhunter! Edited to update with a score guess...330 ish

I believe that is the case with the current rule. You may want to call Amber Munig with the Department and do a little more research for sure. It seems like I read something recently that the Department was considering a rule change to eliminate Javelina from the up to 10% NR rule.

That was a very rude thing to say to a really great guy! Tom deserves a public apology in my opinion.

I don't think there is any way to withdraw your app, but you might want to consider what they are saying about bad credit card info. If you have your bank issue you a new credit card with a different number on the account that you applied with, IF you get drawn, the Department will contact you letting you have the opportunity to correct the bad card info. If you decline at that time you will lose any loyalty point for that year and not accrue a new point, but that is better than getting drawn and forfeiting your hunt altogher where you lose the money you paid for the tag and all points you earned for not drawing a tag. No brainer for me, I would just change it.

Highway 67 is closed until late April or May'ish. You can still access the Kaibab Plateau by going past Jacob's Lake to the FS RD 22 or West Side Game Road and heading south. That should take you through a lot of good country if passable. While you have the legal right to access all of the National Forest in the Unit for your hunt, I would strongly encourage you to avoid the roads down by the border with the National Park in spirit of cooperation with the guys who drew what is likely their once in a lifetime opportunity to take a bison. Those roads in case you aren't familiar are the 223, 270, 268. This really is a tiny area in comparison to the rest of the plateau and quite frankly isn't the best turkey habitat anyway. I would be looking for Oak trees and following the snow line if there still is one. Good Luck!

Great stuff ya'll! Thanks for sharing!

That was awesome! I think I've met or hunted with all of those guys, LOL! LOTS of 1 Bird Per Box guys come to Yuma every year for Dove Season. They have made Richard Sprague a rich man!

I've had quite a few of the ones mentioned here and currently running the Cooper ATP. So far, so good. BFG is a darn good tire, just wears a bit faster than I would like for the money. If you are off road enough though they are worth it IMO.

Congratulations Mom and Dad!

Need some help guys on estimating what I might need to be prepared for when I kill a cow bison. My tag is for a mature cow bison so I guess that animal might weigh somewhere between 800-1200 pounds alive. I figure maybe similar to a very large bull elk or a beef steer. I currently have 2 100 quart ice chests and that has been enough for a cow elk or small bull. I know for sure I am going to need either a few more big ice chests or a large chest freezer. If I go the chest freezer route, what size would I need if I was putting boned out meat in it that was not cut and packaged yet? Figure I will be using game bags and some sort of method to keep them separated somewhat. Would a 10 cubic foot freezer do it or should I step it up to something like a 15 cubic foot freezer? I little extra room is fine but I don't want something twice as big as what I will need. Any thoughts from those of you guys who deal with large quantities of frozen meat or who might have messed with a cow bison before?

Thanks for all the responses. I have a pretty good feel now for what is going to be required.

Does anyone know offhand when the last time someone killed a buck on the 6B archery hunt? I know there are some in there but with all that timber it has to be one of if not the most difficult archery pronghorn hunts. When I was still just a kid hunting elk, I remember watching a few bucks chase each other around the waterhole where I was sitting in a tree and thinking to myself it would be hard to hit one of those with an arrow because they never stopped moving, ever! LOL!

" that said, how does having a lot of bonus points help you get a low "random" number? because if it did, it wouldn't be random." One random number for the application plus an additional random number for each group bonus point (which includes the Hunter Education and Loyalty bonus points) is generated for that application. The lowest random number generated for an application is used in the drawing process. An application receives a new random number for each Pass of the Big Game Draw.

The Department operates the draw in 3 rounds. Random numbers are assigned during each round of the drawing. 1st is the Bonus Pass where only those applications with bonus points are considered for tags. 20% of the tags for each hunt ( or species for bison and sheep) are given to those with the most points during this stage of the drawing. If you have more bonus points than anyone else that applied for that hunt number, you get drawn. The computer will look at your first two choices in this round, as mentioned above. If there are less tags in the Bonus Pass remaining than there are applicants in the next point group, then they look at the ones with the most points and then lowest random numbers amongst that point group and gets tags until the entire 20% has been issued. The next phase or the One, Two random pass is where the computer looks at your First and Second choices and the remaining 80% of the tags are available to be drawn. The Department's computer looks at lowest random numbers for that hunt number and the applications the lowest random number get drawn regardless of bonus points, however more bonus points in this round still gets you a better chance to have low random number. The computer will finally look at the 3-5 choices if there are still tags remaining after looking at all of the applicants first and second choices. The applicants with the lowest random numbers for each hunt with tags remaining will be issued tags until there are none left. Non-residents are limited to up to 10% of the tags. A max of half of that can be issued in the bonus pass, with the remain tag up to the 10% cap will be available in the One, Two pass.

Nice to see you on here too Chris! Great job brother!

This is in no way, shape, or form of bowhunting!

Check with Jim Hartsock at Southwest Wildlife Taxidermy. He has a thread on here with some great looking javelina mounts. http://www.coueswhitetail.com/forums/topic/45595-javelina-season-is-near/

I am going to need a ground blind for my bison hunt this summer. My treestand is what I normally take on hunts in the woods but the long hours in the blind that this hunt requires along with the anatomy of the bison make a ground blind a much better choice. I want one that is durable, will keep me relatively dry during heavy rain, and able to shoot both a gun or a bow from without a lot of trouble. Room for two is probably a huge plus but not an absolute requirement. Same goes for one that I can stand up and shoot in, maybe a cool option but not a must. Quality and dependability is the most important feature I am after. I would just go buy a Double Bull but since Primos took over from them, it seems like maybe the quality has gone down based on the reports from current models. The old ones are great but you can't buy them anymore. How about Ameristep or Barronet or maybe the Cabela's models? Any advice from you guys that have used these a lot. I have never owned one so I am basically clueless about them other than what I can read on the net. Thanks for your suggestions! Nick