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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
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It has been rumored that Arizona will cease selling over-the-counter mule deer archery tags and, instead, issue tags via drawing. For me, this is bad news - one more loss that will probably never return. The general trend here is to take from hunters and give to […]
Arizona Archery hunt changes
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
Garth Goodrich of http://arizonahuntingtoday.com also has this to say about the upcoming archery mule deer hunt changes for 2008:
Well, I got a little more information about the new archery deer draw that will start in 2008 in Arizona.
Units going to a draw and # of tags (+/-): 1 - 200 tags, 3A/3C - 150 […]
Arizona heading South (further South)
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007Garth Goodrich of http://arizonahuntingtoday.com has this to say about proposed Arizona bowhunt changes:
The end to what we, as Arizona bowhunters, once knew, is coming to an end.
Earlier, I wrote a blog titled, “bowhunters under attack”. Today, the Commissioners of the Az Game and Fish Department passed the hunt recommendations for archery deer.
This means that units […]
Arizona pushes for low-harvest hunts
Tuesday, October 30th, 2007There is an undercurrent, cutting across state boundaries, to sell hunting tags while discouraging or eliminating any harvest. Taking this notion to an extreme, here is a comment made by a DWR representative at a Utah Dedicated Hunter meeting in Ogden, Utah - regarding hunter ethics: “if you go into the field expecting to […]
Saskatchewan Open Plains Monster Bucks
Monday, October 29th, 2007Saskatchewan Monster Bucks
Montana Record Book Muley
Monday, October 29th, 2007Montana hunter places buck in Record Book using a muzzleloader.
This story originated with the Billings Gazette. I discovered it at buckhuntersblog.
Killing coyotes for fun
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Since this site is about mule deer, not coyotes, it is a stretch to quote coyote stories. Nevertheless, I have to do this because anyone who kills coyotes not only saves mule deer, but also deserves respect. I think you will enjoy the stories.
These stories come from arizonahuntingtoday.com:
A recent blog by Desert […]
Roping your wife into a deer hunt
Thursday, October 25th, 2007This story was told to me by a co-worker just after his first and only hunt for mule deer:
(paraphrased)
I took my wife hunting on some land adjacent to her parents’ property in central Utah. I hiked some distance from camp and saw a buck - so I shot it. When I approached the […]
Just in via email - The great Sacrifice
Thursday, October 25th, 2007Two deer hunters were standing on a ridge near a highway in rural
>> > Texas on
>> > the opening day of deer season.
>> > They both spotted a large trophy class buck meandering […]
Grizzly and Wolf Invasion
Thursday, October 25th, 2007While hunting in Wyoming this year, we talked to the local warden who informed us that there are now 50 grizzlies and 2 packs of wolves in and around the Green River Basin area in West Central Wyoming.
He said that the wolves were, at first, decimating the antelope herds by hunting them at night when […]