Jr elk and Jr deer hunts set for same week.

[HuntKaibab]

In the Paradise Valley School District, High Schools have not had a day off in October in years. I'm a counselor at one of the high schools and my kids are students. I always try to work my hunts around days off - but Thanksgiving and Veterans day are really the only options. Except this year, the bull elk hunt is after Thanksgiving - no good for high school kids. We do have 3 days off at the end of September - would have helped if I got drawn for early bull.

 

I think the original intention was to have youth hunts centered around school holidays. However, there are so many districts now and they all have different calendars, it just doesn't work. They call our 3 day break in September a Fall break - school just started! Fall is in October last I checked. It is really there for Yom Kippur. Which is fine, but call it what it is - not fall break.

 

The youth hunt for deer this year in 3C is after the general adult hunt. This will be tough for the kids.

 

Agreed, I think I had 6 Jr. Deer tags and 1 elk tag when i was an eligible junior and don't recall every having a holiday or day off school during the hunt. Had to have something down by Sunday morning or it was tag soup.

[down2hunt]

What about the unit 18B youth deer hunt? It starts in the middle of Nov, after the early and late general deers hunts! I always thought that the youth hunts started before all the general deer hunts so that youth would have a better chance of harvesting a deer before their all either shot or spooked alway into no mans land.... "Go figure"

 

JD