If you could any unit, any time of the year.....

[buffhunter]

33 last week of december first couple weeks of jan!!!!!

[creed_az_88]

Not surprising that everybody is choosing January because it can be fun and the weather is generally nice but if a person wanted to kill the biggest buck possible I would hunt the deer while they're in velvet. I believe that its the absolute best time to kill a monster. Early September. I'll let everybody else recommend the unit but for a giant hunt them in velvet. And you can kill a hard horned deer on any other rifle hunt but unless you archery hunt you can't shoot a velvet coues in very many places.

[lovehuntin11]

January in 36a

This is funny I don't care who you are.

Why is that?

[Lucafu1]

Not surprising that everybody is choosing January because it can be fun and the weather is generally nice but if a person wanted to kill the biggest buck possible I would hunt the deer while they're in velvet. I believe that its the absolute best time to kill a monster. Early September. I'll let everybody else recommend the unit but for a giant hunt them in velvet. And you can kill a hard horned deer on any other rifle hunt but unless you archery hunt you can't shoot a velvet coues in very many places.

 

exactly

 

i would also be hunting when no one else can.

[reganranch]

36A is the most over hunted unit in the state for coues. It would not even be considered once to hunt there for a raffle tag.

[jeremiah lindsey]

i would just hunt hunt hunt i wouldnt leave the hills

[pwrguy]

I would not rule out any time of year, I have seen some of my best bucks in Sept and Oct while scouting for later hunts. Whatever time you glass up a great buck is the best time of the year to go:) That being said I would avoid May through July

[lovehuntin11]

Well i guess everyone has different opinions. I know where some big deer are at and have never seen anyone in the area i hunt, that isn't to say people don't hunt it but its where I like to hunt. but I see where your coming from considering it is the raffle tag.

[Big Browns]

What is he looking for?

[200"mulie]

29, 31, 32, 33, 34A, 35's, 36's, first 2 weeks in Janurary or middle to late Sept.

[SunDevil]

sept is a good time of year. the grass is still green, the deer are in their brown summer coats. the bucks are in velvet. IMO these things make it a little easier to find bucks.

[Seldom Drawn]

34A and 29 if you could stay safe.

 

Seldom Drawn

[CWpredator]

15b west in July!!! That is the most ideal IMO!! Maybe 36a as a backup...

[arizonaelitefreak]

I like 22 23 and 24a in january last year i saw a bunch in 22 with 3 in 22 well over 100" and 4 or 5 in 24a in the 110 to 120 range! Big bucks are every where you just have to know the area and put in Some time!

[firstcoueswas80]

Seen some realllll nice bucks along the Tohono O'Ohdam reservation fence line...

 

If I had that tag, it would be really tempting to take a big ole buck in full velvet, of course when he is basically done growing though.. Not many people can say they killed a big old, full velvet buck with a rife. But, being out there in January or later with a rifle would be pretty spectacular. I have seen them in late December where they didn't have a care in the world... That is what I would be going for.