1936 Resident General Hunting License, Arizona.w/Stubs

[billrquimby]

Heck no Bill! That thing is all yours! You have a much better reason for wanting it, I just thought it was cool but I really don't need it. I would rather see you get it for sure, just let me know if you stop bidding on it. I won't bid anymore. Good luck! Thanks, JIM

 

Thank you, Jim. When I go after things on e-bay I never go more than my first bid. In this case it was $32.40. If you see the price go above that you'll know I'm out of it.

 

Bill

You both are good people...Bill, back in them days were the tags good for the whole state? Huntin around Tucson could of been some what of a chore for turkey Did they have turkeys around Tucson back in them days?

 

25-06:

 

By 1948, when I first hunted a deer (12 years after that 1936 license was sold), the limit was one deer and one turkey per year. A general hunting license cost $4, and tags for deer and turkey cost $1 each. The tags were metal. You could buy them anywhere licenses and ammo were sold.

 

Turkeys were reintroduced to Mount Lemmon, and elsewhere in southeastern Arizona, long before I moved to Tucson to attend the UA in 1954. I shot one up in the pines in about 1955 near where they later built Rose Canyon Lake and another in the ocotillos just above what now is the Burney Mines a couple of years later. Both were in the fall, and I shot both with my .303 Savage. Spring turkey seasons are relatively new. Quite a few hunters fought the game commision when it wanted to open spring hunts, claiming it would "wipe out a limited resource." Hunters also fought the commission when it wanted to open Mearns quail seasons in the late 1960s.

 

We hunted the eastern slope of the Galiuros a lot for whitetails in the late 1950s and early 1960s and we found turkeys way out into the oak and brush-filled canyons on the flats between the Galiuros and Pinalenos. The turkey season and the deer season did not overlap, however. Today most of this country is inhabited with mule deer. In the mid-1950s, we saw mostly whitetails.

 

The deer tags were valid for either mule or white-tailed deer, but the limit was only one buck per year. The deer season opened on the last Friday of October statewide and ran about a month. To encourage people to hunt whitetails, the season south of the Gila River was open a bit longer so if you didn't use your tag up north you could always hunt down south.

 

80,000 to 90,000 deer tags were sold every year until about 1969, when the number passed 100,000. "Hot" units might have had hunter success rates of 18-19%. There were a lot more roads and damned few locked gates, so we could hunt just about anywhere we wanted. Also, the season was so long that if you waited a week or two before going hunting you would see few other humans.

 

Bill

[billrquimby]

"My question is how to do you affix that small square, which appears the size of a postage stamp to the deer? or even a turkey? Pretty funny when you think about it One goes back to game and fish and one on the animal... Might be a good thread to start - Arizona Vintage Hunting Memorabilia? - Just a thought! - I'd like to see some pictures of the old metal tags and such.."

 

AZP&Y:

 

By the time I began hunting Arizona had dropped the tear-off stubs on the license and we had metal tags. In the 1970s and 1980s I hunted the Texas Hill Country a lot and their licenses were similar...with four deer and four turkey tags printed on the same piece of paper. Each time we shot a deer, we would cut off a tag and tie or tape it onto an antler. For does (two of the four deer limit had to be females), we simply stuffed the tag deep in an ear. The Texas wardens seemed to not care how many deer someone shot, or if a deer was tagged or not, just so nobody trespassed on somebody else's land. That was a major violation over there in those days and my friend who owned the ranches we hunted made a point of telling us every year that we were not to cross his fences onto his neighbor's property, even to retrieve a wounded deer. I hunted there for 12 years and shot 48 whitetails and maybe a half dozen turkeys with rifles and muzzleloaders.

 

Bill Q

[More D]

Thanks again Bill, very interesting stuff!

 

 

 

 

 

[AZP&Y]

Jim you scored the 1917 Az Hunting license- way cool.

 

I'd like to see some better pictures of it when it's in your posesssion. The pics on ebay are 2 much flash photography. i see it only cost 1.25 back some 89 years ago.... -WOW

 

bet that will look fantastic in a wood frame..

 

Doug

AzP&Y

[COOSEFAN]

Yeah, thankfully no one got crazy with the bidding and I got it for a good price, can't wait to get it though. I will post better pics. JIM

[BASS]

Might be a good thread to start - Arizona Vintage Hunting Memorabilia? - Just a thought! - I'd like to see some pictures of the old metal tags and such..

 

 

Ask, and you will receive! I found this set over at my great grandfathers house after he died. After reading your post I went and dug them out. I got some paper to try and get the info off of them and found out my house might be getting raided soon for illegal possession!

 

 

 

 

The info on the metal tag reads

 

"1968 JAVILINA AG&F 3073"

[COOSEFAN]

I bet that was the best tasting "Javalina" ever! Very cool though, definitely a keeper! JIM

[KGAINES]

He probably stuck that on there after an unsuccesful javelina hunt, maybe?

[BASS]

I sure hope so!