Desert Dan
Lil-Rokslider
Hello everyone.
So here's the deal. I live and primarily hunt in Arizona - coues deer mostly until I pin down the muley habitat nearby. It is my goal to make one away hunting trip each year to a western state to hunt mule deer. Like many of us, I have limited vacation time and income so making a scouting trip to an OTC area puts a strain on both departments but I easily have enough to do a solid week - 10 day trip.
I'm sure this idea has been tossed around on here before but I'll bring it up again to see if there is any interest. What I would like to do is offer an invitation to hunt coues deer down here in Arizona unit 34a where we have the draw for rifle but also the OTC for the December and January rut. I just moved to the northern area or 34a where there are plenty of deer and more than enough public land. I will scout and put in the time and leg work to hopefully find some shooter bucks. If you like you are welcome to make a trip down here to hunt and I will happily go with you, whether I also hunt or not. I won't mind sitting behind the glass since I'll either be hunting with you or in a couple months myself anyway. I hunt archery while I'm building up some points so even if you draw one of our rifle tags I'm happy to get you on your way and accompany you at least part of the hunt if I can't get away from work for the whole thing. In return I would be looking for someone to hunt mule deer with in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming, or wherever it is you are. OTC would be great but since not every state has OTC I would take you up on that once I get drawn. I figure it would be a great way to get familiar with some new areas, let someone else get familiar with and hunt my backyard (70 degrees in January during the rut really is pretty awesome) and make a few new friends in the western hunting community at the same time.
So if there is any interest in hunting with a complete stranger down here in the Arizona desert by all means let me know! Send me a PM and we can kick around a few ideas. Take care!
dan
So here's the deal. I live and primarily hunt in Arizona - coues deer mostly until I pin down the muley habitat nearby. It is my goal to make one away hunting trip each year to a western state to hunt mule deer. Like many of us, I have limited vacation time and income so making a scouting trip to an OTC area puts a strain on both departments but I easily have enough to do a solid week - 10 day trip.
I'm sure this idea has been tossed around on here before but I'll bring it up again to see if there is any interest. What I would like to do is offer an invitation to hunt coues deer down here in Arizona unit 34a where we have the draw for rifle but also the OTC for the December and January rut. I just moved to the northern area or 34a where there are plenty of deer and more than enough public land. I will scout and put in the time and leg work to hopefully find some shooter bucks. If you like you are welcome to make a trip down here to hunt and I will happily go with you, whether I also hunt or not. I won't mind sitting behind the glass since I'll either be hunting with you or in a couple months myself anyway. I hunt archery while I'm building up some points so even if you draw one of our rifle tags I'm happy to get you on your way and accompany you at least part of the hunt if I can't get away from work for the whole thing. In return I would be looking for someone to hunt mule deer with in Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Wyoming, or wherever it is you are. OTC would be great but since not every state has OTC I would take you up on that once I get drawn. I figure it would be a great way to get familiar with some new areas, let someone else get familiar with and hunt my backyard (70 degrees in January during the rut really is pretty awesome) and make a few new friends in the western hunting community at the same time.
So if there is any interest in hunting with a complete stranger down here in the Arizona desert by all means let me know! Send me a PM and we can kick around a few ideas. Take care!
dan