A lot of people contact us about the hunt. The caliber of bucks was there. Here are a few to consider. They can look at their statistics and their odds and that we take their bonus points, what they have and we take a look at what their plan is. Put it in a framework. It’s become a very popular hunt. They come and see us, and we provide some scouting packages for them. You can draw that permit in Arizona and you can be hunting elks. You’ve got a lot of scrub buck, you’ve got a lot of Pinyon-Juniper but you’ve got a lot of grasslands. Hunters who are frustrated by the low probability of ever drawing a moose tag in the Lower 48 should consider Alaska. The word is getting out. JP, tell them about the secret. There’s been a generation here of folks that grew up during that drought time. Licenses can be picked up here.. The message I want to get out is that I want people to know that you don’t have to wait twenty years to come here and hunt a great mule deer or great Hoosier bucks. When a deer gets pressured from the public and a lot of people start pressuring them, they’re going to move to spots where they’re not going to be pressured. 11, 2020: 36: DB1528: Youth West Desert, West: Archery: Aug. 15–Sept. I could show you videos, pictures, bucks that we’ve killed, 180, 200. We’ve got a nice clientele and we’ve got a great hunting facility. Oftentimes, even if buck or bull tags aren’t available. We have some pretty great guys. You can still do it with archery hunt for $1,000. Known for calling in monster bulls and shooting trophy bucks, JP reveals the biggest secret in western Arizona as he uncovers how to hunt deer in the area and the opportunities to get over the counter tags. That’s an incredible opportunity. Tag fee: $250 Season: late August – early January Public land: 1,976,000 acres Boone & Crockett trophy ranking: 19th . That’s only 44 cents a day! Here’s what’s cool about that. You might be doing this in the morning but the afternoon it might become somewhere different. A fact of the matter is that there are a lot of hunting opportunities out there in Arizona that you can actually draw an elk tag. There’s granite, there’s cinder, it tears your feet up. You hunt them when it’s colder than back East, in the Midwest, be here in Arizona in December, January, when it’s 60, 70 degrees or hunting deer in the rut. We’re invested into this OTC hunt and what it provides. You can email me at BigChinoOutfitters@Gmail.com or get on Instagram and look at our Instagram, become a follower there and just private message us. It is not a blizzard. Baiting and hound hunting aren’t legal here, so hunters have to rely on spot and stalk methods. There are some other great opportunities down here. Is it still spot and stalk where I’m setting up on water and I’m waiting to come in or am I calling it? Arizona Hunting Seasons, 2020-2021. You’ve got to put your time in but I know guys that are applying. Colorado has got a 200-inch deer, Georgia, Wyoming and all these other states. We’ll provide you great hunting opportunities there in hunting. Spend your money on your bow or in the arrows and bow heads but that’s my two cents. April 1 SD ** $884. We have trail cameras running, we have a very good sense of where these deer are at. We would put in long-range shooting schools on there as well as hunting cabins. You’ve got to think outside the bubble. That’s a late season rifle hunt. Feel free to contact JP direct at any time. Let’s talk about the opportunities that you wanted to bring up. Here’s what the benefit is when you hunt with somebody who has been doing it for 30 plus years, who grew up here. There’s no surprise there. Montana has a spring and fall season for bears; tags for both seasons are available over-the-counter. Now you’re hunting not in the blizzard. It’s so expensive. The mule deer and all the wildlife benefit from that habitat. Let’s talk about DIY techniques. If it’s regular season here, we’ve got great water, they just stay right where they’re at. It sounds too good to be true but you’ve got a reputation. In nowadays world, there are so many archeries. You’ll jump, there are knobs all over the place. We pay them, which is common in the West as everybody understands. Tell the folks how to get ahold of you to make the call and say, “I’ve got about $2,500 to spend. Knowledge is power if you share it. You talk about Sonora mule deer. In theory, everybody has been told that it takes twenty plus years and a lifetime to draw an elk tag. Late Season – Arizona has a long archery deer season that runs mid-December through January. The northwest portion of the state has pockets of country with decent numbers of antelope. That’s the over-the-counter archery tag. You can’t hand hold them. Prices may change slightly for 2020 but this is one of the best priced mule deer hunting opportunities in the nation! You’re 100% right and that’s a great statement to make because wherever the does are, it’s where the bucks are going to go. Yes, you might have to compete with other hunters to find animals, but hunters who work hard to separate themselves from the crowd often kill mature bucks and bulls on over-the-counter tags. First of all, I want to shout out to goHUNT too. I stopped him from going into the other species and everything. It’s what most of the country is. You could be drinking coffee. In Alaska, tags for caribou and moose can be purchased over the counter and both species can often be targeted on the same hunt. Potential of 465 elk and 30 deer tags up for grabs. Note: the majority of these permits are for the minimal occurrence zone/low density (general) hunt. The OTC archery deer tag is valid for mule deer or Coues deer in a number of hunting units. Before you can put an arrow in them. You have to sort it out. Click here for the 2020 Firearm Deer Season Hunting Regulations Information Sheet for CWD-Testing Counties. North Dakota Game and Fish Department 100 N. Bismarck Expressway, Bismarck, ND 58501-5095 Phone: 701-328-6300, Contact Us Caribou and Moose No draw. If you’re hunting January in the desert that’s where it’s about 80 degrees out there too. You’re looking for pieces of the deer then it takes skill over the years. 2020–21 over-the-counter (OTC) license types, including game-hunting licenses and game-hunting & fishing licenses, are available online, by telephone and at NMDGF offices and license vendors. It’s the first time she applied and that typically happens but it takes about two or three bonus points. JP and crew has countless days be hind glass as in the southwest spotting and stalking is by far one of the most successful tactics. Around August 23rd, it opens through September 12th. They’ll find a place to be, caliber bucks. The caliber of bulls on average, we’re killing 330, 340 caliber bulls on that hunt. He lives out in Nevada and he figures it out. The myth out there is it takes twenty years to get a tag in Arizona for an elk, antelope, mule deer and obviously a lifetime to get a sheep tagged or something, but there’s really incredible hunting opportunities. I know all of you our audience, you talk to me all the time when I see you in the fall or at shows and you say, “I don’t want to hunt the West too. There weren’t supposed to be elk here in the first year that they opened it and they killed seven bulls over 400-inches. But, remember, a DIY Alaska hunt requires a lot of pre-trip planning. Some of the most popular whitetail states in the country, like Kansas and Iowa, employ a draw-only system for non-resident hunters. You have to have the best optics you can afford. We offer 5, 7 and 10 day hunt packages depending on your hunting needs. You can download the flatline map. If you’re one of those hunters who missed out, there are still plenty of big game hunts available that require nothing more than purchasing an over-the-counter tag. Those are the hunting opportunities that we have and everything, all of the above. It is true that some areas with over-the-counter tags have tougher hunting due to less animals and more pressure, but this isn’t always the case. There are great bucks in all that. You might spend up to $8,500 to $10,000 depending on how many days would come. Kill one deer a year but you could come hunt deer with your bow and you can hunt them in velvet, you can hunt them during the rut; pre-rut, full-rut, post-rut. You don’t have to draw the 19A tag or the 19B tag. Let’s talk about where these deer live. We’re going to talk to Big Chino. These licenses can be purchased at sales agents, by phone and online through Oct. 11. You think about Arizona, you think about everybody’s in flip flops and shorts. We harvest 180 to 200-inch mule deer every year. In some cases, you buy two buck tags. A lot of questions get asked to me, “Are the bucks better on the private than they are on the public?” I’m going to tell you collectively across the board, no, but where are the bucks going to go if they get a lot of pressure? In Arizona, you can come and buy the over-the-counter mule deer tag for Coues deer tag. A hunt that has flown under the radar in Arizona for decades is now beginning to surface. In a previous article, we talked about the best colleges to attend if you’re an angler. Definitely, it’s not big, thick, dark timber that you’ll see like New Mexico and even the Eastern part of Arizona. We provided accurate information. They can give you the spit out exactly where your best opportunities are to draw the tag. First of all, we are humbled and we thank you for the opportunity. You’ve got to find the animal. First of all, we have no problem sharing information there. Over-the-counter nonpermit-tag information web page TAG TRANSFER PROGRAM Under Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S. I can show you tons of phone scope footage, phone scope picks with just phenomenal bucks. That’s a shout out for Lorenzo and the crew there. This is an extremely exciting time of year for us Arizona residents. You hit a deer bleat and you’d be surprised those deer would come running. 11, 2020: 32: DB1525: Youth Wasatch Mtns, East: Archery: Aug. 15–Sept. There were a couple of bull tags, believe it or not. They could email me at BigChinoOutfitters@Gmail.com. Are you going to shoot 200 in every single unit in Colorado? Hunters interested in pursuing blacktail deer on over-the-counter tags can find plenty of public land hunting opportunities in the coastal rainforests of Oregon and Washington. Some guys would rather hunt on the public because they can’t afford or don’t want to spend the extra money. I wrote that... It’s hardly necessary to explain the appeal of fire; as a species, our appreciation for controlled... Rifle calibers are kind of like craft beer (hear me out). Four of us are going to jump into trucks and roll.”. What my goal here is to get some information out. 170-inch mule deer on average, you can expect it if you put your time and effort in. FWP resells these returned licenses through our “Alternate’s List.” Sometimes over-the-counter big game licenses are issued because animal populations in some areas are high enough to sustain unlimited hunting. Anywhere in Arizona, you can come here and hunt elk and shoot a 300-inch caliber elk. Let’s say you don’t harvest one then, you can turn around and hunt that tag again in December because the hunt opens back up around mid-December until December 31st. He allows people to come and have an experience that maybe it could be once in a lifetime but maybe once they experience they go, “I can do this every couple of years. When you have that water dispersed those deer and elk are going to be dispersed further. What you’re saying, you’re sharing it to thousands and thousands of people but if somebody called and said, “I don’t want to wait ten years. I walk into Walmart and get a tag. I had a guy come and do it yourself. Antelope tags are very difficult to draw. I tell you, I have not talked to one person that hasn’t come out on that OTC hunt that said, “I cannot wait to come back and do it again.” It’s a great place to be in January. Arizona offers over-the-counter (OTC) archery mule deer and Coues deer hunts during prime hunting times in prime hunting units. I remember I hunted in Unit 2 the first time and along the creek bottoms and stuff, they were in cedars. Black Bear This is our trail. In many of Idaho’s game management units,  archery and rifle hunters can chase muleys on over-the-counter tags. We sure can make that happen. It all depends on what the hunters are looking for. There’s public land and private land. If we’ve got a drought a year, they’re going to move to where the water is. That’s crazy. In January, it’s 65 degrees in Arizona. Get what is best affordable for you. Baiting and hound hunting aren’t legal here, so hunters have to rely on spot and stalk methods. Even then, understanding the terrain, understanding the country, knowing where the glassing points are, we set up our hunters phenomenally. It’s not a problem at all. That’s the only thing that’s going to be over-the-counter for deer, archery only. Cameron Hanes is going to be coming. I think even the Mogollon Rim is a little bit more difficult at times in some spots because of the plateaus here. Thanks for everything you do and support us. It’s got the Navajo Nation on one end. If you draw an elk tag, you want to come hunt on our private, it could be in the upwards up to $10,000. 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