1936 hunting regs

[billrquimby]

HERE'S WHAT I FOUND ON BACK OF THE 1936 ARIZONA HUNTING LICENSE I BOUGHT ON E-BAY. I USED SAME SPELLING, PUNCTUATION AND CAPITALIZATION WHEN TYPING IT. ENJOY. NOTE NO MULE DEER HUNTING SOUTH OF GILA RIVER, NO JAVELINA HUNTING AT ALL, ETC. ETC.... BILLQ

 

The Commission has the power to regulate and change seasons and bag limits. Keep yourself posted.

 

OPEN SEASONS

 

Deer, Wild Turkey, Bear -- October 16 to November 15; Muskrats, Raccoons, Opposums and Otters -- November 1 to March 1; Gambel, Scaled Quail (except in Apache and Navajo counties -- November 1 to November 30; Whitewings -- July 15 to August 31;

Cotton Tail Rabbits -- (Yavapai, Navajo, Coconino and Apache counties) November, December, January; Migratory Water Fowl and Migratory Birds -- seasons and bag limits subject to federal regulations each year. Trout, all kinds -- June 1 to September 30. Other fish may be taken year around. Open seasons both dates inclusive.

 

BAG LIMITS

 

One buck Deer having prongs on both horns; 1 grown Bear; Cotton Tail Rabbits 6 per day or in possession; 2 Wild Turkeys in season; 15 Whitewings; 12 Quail per day or in possession; Trout 20 per day or in possession providing total weight is not over 15 pounds; Not over 60 trout may be taken in a seven-day period. Bass, 10 fish providing total weight is not over 15 pounds and one fish per day or in possession. No bag limit on carp and suckers. Other fish 20 per day not to exceed 20 pounds and one fish per day or in possession. Legal length of trout seven inches. Bass ten inches. No length limit on other fish.

 

Trout fishing prohibited between the hours of 9 p.m. and 4 a.m. No fishing allowed in waters containing protected Trout, except during trout season.

 

No fishing allowed within 100 yards below the following dams: Horse Mesa, Mormon Flat, Stewart Mountain, Coolidge. No fishing allowed within one half mile of Roosevelt Dam.

 

No fishing allowed within 100 yards above Coolidge Dam.

 

The use of live bait in all Coconino County lakes is prohibited.

 

The bag limit on Trout in Oak Creek and Grand Canyon National Park is 10 fish per day.

 

No open season on Elk, Antelope, Mountain Sheep, female Deer, Fawns, Spike Bucks, Bear Cubs, Javelinas, Tree Squirrels of all kinds, Grouse, Pheasants, Mearns or Fool Quail, bullfrogs, song and insectivorous birds.

 

Closed season on blacktail or Mule Deer, Bear and Wild Turkey south of the Gila River.

 

Closed season on Wild Turkey in Yavapai County west of Big Chino Valley and Verde River, in Coconino County north of Highway 66 between the Old Grand Canyon Road running north from Bellemont and Highway 89.

 

Be sure to mail your deer and turkey stubs to State Game Department as required by law.

 

No shooting allowed from or across any public highway or from any automobile or power boat.

 

No hunting allowed on game refuges.

 

If in doubt in regard to seasons, bag limits or other laws, consult with any Deputy Game Warden or State Game Department, Phoenix, Arizona.

[AZP&Y]

Hey Bill,

 

"One buck Deer having prongs on both horns; 1 grown Bear; "

Wonder what kind of optics they had in 36' to verify if it's a deer having prongs and one grown bear?

especially if they're shootin a long distance...

 

Thanks for posting- glad that you won the license and some real interesting stuff there..

 

AzP&Y

Doug

[25-06]

Bill, That is somethin else...Thanks for sharin, I really like the mearns or fool quail bit Dont hear them words much anymore. Terry

[billrquimby]

Bill, That is somethin else...Thanks for sharin, I really like the mearns or fool quail bit Dont hear them words much anymore. Terry

 

 

Funny story about today's Mearn's quail hunting.

 

These birds remained off limits to hunting until the late 1960s and sportsmen's clubs opposed opening the season when Game and Fish proposed it. Avid quail hunters testified that these were dumb birds that could be whacked with rocks and sticks and hunting would exterminate the poor little things.

 

After brothers Jim and Seymore Levy of Tucson, along with Steve Galizioli of the game department, gathered info that proved "fool quail" were more abundant than anyone believed the game commission approved the department's recommendation with only game commissioner Jack Mantle of Tucson, one of the avid quail hunters who opposed opening a season, voting against it.

 

Wouldn't you know it? When the first season opened Mantle hunted Mearns quail at least every weekend that year and every year thereafter until he died.

 

This is the same Jack Mantle who, along with an Amado rancher and a state senator from Globe, forced permit-only deer hunting upon us.

 

BillQ

[BRYCE CANYON]

Thanks Bill, neat stuff!

[billrquimby]

"Wonder what kind of optics they had in 36' to verify if it's a deer having prongs and one grown bear?

especially if they're shootin a long distance..."

 

I was born in 1936 so I was too young to know what kind of optics they were using that year, but when I started deer hunting 12 years later in 1948 no one I knew carried binoculars or had scopes on their rifles. Lever action Winchesters in .30-30 and .32 Win. and Savage 99s in .303 Savage, .25/35/ and .300 Savage were what 99% of deer hunters used. I guess there were a few enlightened hunters with Model 70 Winchesters chambered for .257Roberts, .30-06, and .270, but I didn't know any personally. A long shot was 200 yards for most of us with our iron sights. The old timers with years of deer hunting experience all told us that bolt action rifles were too slow and that nobody could hold a rifle with a scope steady enough to keep it on target. 2.5X was about as powerful as a scope should be, if you had to have one, but 1X was better. We hunted by climbing and walking, rolling rocks into the little canyons, or riding horses on the ridgelines, hoping to get the deer up and moving. The more hunters around the better because they often ran deer to us.

 

BillQ