Dear Game and Fish. . .

[HEADACHE]

Please explain to me the reason for making 11M a draw hunt for the archery season....

 

I've been hunting that small unit with my bow and arrow every single year since I was a kid....

 

its not known for any trophy monsters for sure!

 

Not any houses to really bother in there.....

 

what could possibly be the reason for making it a draw????

 

 

sincerely, and irrationally irritated, Steve

[azelkhunter2]

Why don't you call and ask....

[trphyhntr]

Please explain to me the reason for making 11M a draw hunt for the archery season....

 

I've been hunting that small unit with my bow and arrow every single year since I was a kid....

 

its not known for any trophy monsters for sure!

 

Not any houses to really bother in there.....

 

what could possibly be the reason for making it a draw????

 

 

sincerely, and irrationally irritated, Steve

They did it to piss you off bruh. Time to go postal

[nateNAU]

Wow! Glad you pointed this out. I might have made a mistake this year. If your a die hard 11m fan this could be great. No more 10,000 Phoenicians every single week and 11m does hold some monsters.

[HEADACHE]

I saw it in the regs and went rushing to find last years regs to make sure I wasn't being a criminal last year ha ha ha ha..... whew close one! I'm good.

[Explorer]

I thought they based the archery draw off of success rates..

[nateNAU]

A lot of road hunters tag a bunch of smaller bucks in 11m. Doesnt surprise me. Dont know how many deer are harvested in 11m but I bet its quite a few.

[rossiranch]

I saw that too! Had me scratching my head as well

[mattys281]

I'm sure it's to increase opportunity.

[Flatlander]

A lot of road hunters tag a bunch of smaller bucks in 11m. Doesnt surprise me. Dont know how many deer are harvested in 11m but I bet its quite a few.

Wait, you can road hunt and kill deer in this state?! Count me in!!!

[nateNAU]

 

A lot of road hunters tag a bunch of smaller bucks in 11m. Doesnt surprise me. Dont know how many deer are harvested in 11m but I bet its quite a few.

Wait, you can road hunt and kill deer in this state?! Count me in!!!

Only if you take questionable shots at ranges you've never practiced

[Flatlander]

 

 

A lot of road hunters tag a bunch of smaller bucks in 11m. Doesnt surprise me. Dont know how many deer are harvested in 11m but I bet its quite a few.

Wait, you can road hunt and kill deer in this state?! Count me in!!!

Only if you take questionable shots at ranges you've never practiced

That's perfect cause I don't have a rangefinder anyway, where do I sign up? I'll bring a minivan with a set of those rolling doors, we can get a shooter on each side.

[missedagain]

The AZ G&F has a record of setting seasons to appease anti-hunters. If you live in Flagstaff you probably saw in the local news last year about residents having deer run through the neighborhoods with arrows flopping out of them. It was pressure from these residents that caused the game and fish to create a new rule that you have to be more than 1/4 mile from a residence to fire a bow. This publicity last year also caused 11m to go to a draw.

[yotebuster]

The AZ G&F has a record of setting seasons to appease anti-hunters. If you live in Flagstaff you probably saw in the local news last year about residents having deer run through the neighborhoods with arrows flopping out of them. It was pressure from these residents that caused the game and fish to create a new rule that you have to be more than 1/4 mile from a residence to fire a bow. This publicity last year also caused 11m to go to a draw.

Sounds more like hunters that screwed themselves rather then G&F doing anything. I'm as hardcore of a hunter as the next guy but the sight of a wounded animal with an arrow in it makes me sick too. The game and fish has very simple rules about the archery harvest in relation to the aug dec and jan hunts. If success goes up they drop the dec hunt. Its that simple. No conspiracy theory.

[missedagain]

 

The AZ G&F has a record of setting seasons to appease anti-hunters. If you live in Flagstaff you probably saw in the local news last year about residents having deer run through the neighborhoods with arrows flopping out of them. It was pressure from these residents that caused the game and fish to create a new rule that you have to be more than 1/4 mile from a residence to fire a bow. This publicity last year also caused 11m to go to a draw.

Sounds more like hunters that screwed themselves rather then G&F doing anything. I'm as hardcore of a hunter as the next guy but the sight of a wounded animal with an arrow in it makes me sick too. The game and fish has very simple rules about the archery harvest in relation to the aug dec and jan hunts. If success goes up they drop the dec hunt. Its that simple. No conspiracy theory.

There was never a December or January hunt in 11m and the ratio of archery harvest to rifle doesn't apply here either since 11m has never had a rifle season. I'm not trying to conspiracy theory anything just giving the answer to the original question.