Should I ...

[sumpnz]

There a few leftover whitetail tags here in AZ. Most are for a late-October Fri-Mon hunt (4 day season) in the unit I went after mulies in last year (about a 5 hour drive from where I now live). Should I tempt fate and pick up a tag, or just be happy with the cow elk tag I've got for a 6 day hunt in mid-October? Keep in mind that I cannot take ANY vacation time for whitetail hunting, and the odds of success, even if I were there sunup opening morning thru sundown closing evening, are not that great. At best I'd give myself 1 chance in 5 of actually getting a buck.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Where are you showing the left over tags at? I dont see anything on the web site.

 

[Polishrifleman]

If you have the time, never ever miss an opportunity to get out into mother natures back yard and if a little itty bitty whitetail finds its way into your sights all the better. I get a spike elk tag (over the counter in wa.) every year and I would be glad at 1 in 5 (thats years ). Right now I am 1 in 8 and if I get lucky this year it will be 1 in 4.5 if my math skills serve me.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Nevermind, I just got off the phone with the AZGF folks and all the tags are gone. Friggin draw stuff sucks.

 

[sumpnz]

all the tags are gone

Well, that makes it an easy choice.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Guess you got my voicemail.

 

[sumpnz]

Yes I did. I would have called back sooner but was late getting back to my desk after lunch due to an incident while leaving the restaurant that required a call to the cops. I may say more in a new thread later, but I don't want to say anything else right now. Suffice it to say I was a witness, not a victim.

 

[scout26]

Yep, you should have. A bad day hunting is better then a good day at work.

Relieve to hear that you were just a witness. Hope nothing real bad happened to the victim.

 

[sumpnz]

scout26 - No real victim per se, but all I'll say is that I was asked to assist an individual in breaking the law, and refused (and then I called the cops on them). Had I not done that there was a distinct possibility of innocent bystanders getting hurt.

 

[Lennyjoe]

Wow, you will definitely have to fill us in on that one.

On that note, I'm gonna be a bowhunting fool this year if I want a deer here in AZ. I am also going ot Missouri for the rifle hunt in Nov.

The major bummer is not getting an elk tag but I now have 2 bonus points under my belt.

I'm changing camo patterns this year for bowhunting. I noticed that my Seclusion 3-D open country was fine for dove but a little light in the mesquite for deer. Here's the pattern I was using.


So now I'm gonna get a little greener with the 3-D Konifer.


I ordered them from Cabela's today and they should be here by the 17th. Enough time to prep them for bow season.

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/t...parentType=index&indexId=cat600823&hasJS=true

 

[killzone]

Cow Elk

IS there anything that tastes better that elk - I dont think so! Being from MN and not being able to get an elk tag is enough me to tell you that I think u should be just happy and do the best you can and get that COW for all of us and Have a wonderful time! :banghead:

 

[sumpnz]

Oh yes, elk is most YUMMY. In that sense, I'm a proud member of PETA (Pepole Eating Tasty Aminals).

I put in for that cow tag with a co-worker. He had hunted deer in the same unit last year, and while on a mid-October scouting trip for that deer hunt he saw a ton of elk. Our elk hunt this year is in mid-October. So I'm pretty confident that we'll both score.

Of course, the guy I deer hunted with last year told me the only time he got a cow elk tag he got skunked. He did see 5 elk come out into a clearing though, and easily within range. It was a bachelor herd of bulls. It had a couple older bulls with very large racks, a couple younger bulls, and a spike. Those were the only elk he saw the whole hunt.