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You can if you have enough to get in the max point pool. Then you are guaranteed the tag.

Last year 14 woulda got you the tag. I’d expect it to go up this year as a lot of people will have the same idea this year and a lot likely held off last year due to drought. I’m gonna guess 16 or more will be required due to the small tag numbers on that hunt.

This is awesome!!! I’m on board for the whole trip here!!! Thanks for putting this up! Is this unit short range only?

Be careful in Mexico. I went to dental school in Glendale and saw some really bad stuff come out of Mexico. Their cost per procedure is going to be lower but they are gonna make it up in volume. I can’t count how many times I saw someone who needed one crown and a couple fillings and they came back with 4-5 crowns. Yes they probably spent the same or less for those 4-5 crowns but the thing about dental work is that if you do 4-5 crowns poorly you’re setting yourself up for a really really expensive future. Everything dental goes up exponentially each time you mess with it. A sealant is $30 (sealing a crack before a cavity) a filling is $200 (cutting the cavity out and filling it back up) a crown is $1000 (cutting the tooth into a top hat shape and recovering it with a new ceramic top) a root canal and crown is $2500. Taking the tooth out and replacing with an implant is $3500. All of these prices will be lower in MX, but I can promise you they don’t stay in business at the prices they charge without doing volume. If someone comes into my office for a $1000 crown my overhead eats up pretty quick. If I do two the second one has much much higher profit and so on. That’s how they make money on a $300 crown. The other thing to keep in mind is the dental lab work from down there is atrocious. I saw stuff in dental school that I know I could have done better on when I was 8 yrs old. Just for reference, my dental lab charges me $250 to build me a crown. That’s what it costs for quality work. If I charged $300 for crowns I would go out of business in a hurry. Im betting they get their crowns from Mexican labs for $15-30. Scary thought if you ask me. When you think about the stuff a tooth has to go through, acid, hot coffee to cold ice cream in the same bite, hundreds of PSI of pressure. The thought that a $15 piece of lab ceramic made by an underage worker in a lab mill in Mexico is gonna make it more then a few years is not happening. That’s my two cents on it. Get a dentist you trust. Spend the money. You won’t regret it. I wish I were closer I could get you set up.

Don’t forget that if you are in the max point pool for your second choice you will draw that prior to ever having a chance in the random draw at your first choice. If I had to guess the 10% NR cap won’t be too critical in a coues hunt but I could be wrong.

Mine came out of Idaho. It’s probably on the larger size then average. He was 42” wide. Didn’t score great because of narrow palms and kind of a weird layout but I didn’t care. I wanted a mature moose and he was. Biologist said 6.5-7.5yr old. Best eating wild game I’ve ever had. I actually got lucky and pulled a Montana moose tag the following year. Not near the hunt quality and actually a way way way tougher tag to draw. Killed a 2.5 yr old bull and it was the only moose we saw in 6 days. Biologist told me there were only 10-15 moose in the unit and to shoot the first one I saw, cow or bull.

Couple of pics of my bull!

Nice!!! What unit?!? I drew a few years ago and if I remember correctly you said you had lived in the unit I had? I can dial you in if that’s one (assuming you’re all over it though!). I’m jealous. I’ve done a lot of hunts and my Idaho moose tag was the most fun I’ve ever had on a hunt!!! I switched to sheep and got a dear John letter again this year of course.

I don’t know what they’re worth but I’ve been wanting one of these for years!! If you decide to sell it PM me. That being said I’ll start the bidding at $500

Did you sell the .243 and the 101 yet?

I definitely think there’s always a chance of a good one but it’s not a unit that if you scout all summer and don’t find the giant you’re looking for you can expect one to randomly show up. What’s there is there and he might have to be happy with just a nice buck if that’s all that around.

Looks like quakies!!!

What bipod is that?

You should be able to look at just about every buck in the unit. I’m not much help on spots as the places you listed are all the places I’ve seen them in there. Pick the biggest one out and keep your finger on him and pray an archery hunter doesn’t kill him before you get a chance. Kill him at opening light. I could be wrong but there haven’t been a ton of huge bucks that came out of there. Someone posted one on here years back that was a toad but I’d be real surprised if there’s an 82” buck in there. Never know though!!

Great pics! Looks like fun!

Going off of what flatlander said, yes it is one of the lower tier units in the state but a low tier AZ unit is better then a high end unit in just about every other state. I’d take the tag you have over all but the best NM tag, and I’d take it over almost all Utah tags. You’ll have a great hunt. Lots of elk in there, essentially every where you look.

A coues with a glock has to be some kind of record. Let alone a giant coues! Count me impressed!

Nice work Scott! I’ve always heard you had to shoot them out of a roost tree in the dark!?! Do they actually call in? What kind of noise do them make? Anyone run hounds for the jags or are they protected?

Contrary to popular thought, open sights will be much harder to line up on moving game. You not only have to track the animal with a moving rifle but you have two things to line up instead of one with a scope or red dot. I would look into a 2-12 scope or similar if you’re gonna a shoot at running game a lot.

Smokin deal. I want one of these!!

Mine is waaaayyyy in the red right now!!!

I have an inreach. They allow contracts that you can turn on and off on monthly increments. $20-60 a month depending on your amount of texts. It blue tooth’s to your phone so you can type through there. Also has the SOS feature in case you get hurt. I really like it. Saved my sanity when I had my kaibab buffalo tag and sat in a blind for 10 days straight.

All. Red.

I see where you’re coming from, but maybe it’s just one of those because you can kinda guns. I see a 6-700 yard HAM gun there with the right optics and a good rest.

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