Awesome family adventure! Congrats on you and your son's success. You may owe your wife some sort of vacation where you two sit in the truck and watch her do something :D
Thanks for taking us along. I enjoyed reading your write up.
If she has a short draw length, a ladies bow may fit her better. Mathews uses the switch weight mods now so if she wanted to move up out of the ten pound range she starts with, she would just need to get a new set of mods rather than a new set of limbs. Personally, I started with a Diamond...
Advice for 2023 is to check in on the harvest quotas as 2022 progresses. Quotas are new this year for the OTC hunts and the 2023 January season could close if the quota is reached in the August or December 2022 seasons. The quotas run from August 2022 through January 2023 and re-open again in...
For those interested in the numbers vs LY...
2021
By the numbers:
50,258: The total number of hunt permit-tags issued.
191,182: The total number of those who applied for hunts or bonus points.
148,409: The total number of applications submitted.
2022
By the numbers:
45,666...
For general tips and tricks for hunting coues deer. I would reccomend the following resources:
-Jay Scott Outdoors Podcast. Search coues deer and a ton of episodes will come up and you can listen for hours on the subject. Find episodes with Duwane Adams, Phil Cramer, Creed Cristainat, Ben...
I'm guessing they need to come up with a way to generate more funds to offset the decrease they are going to have in nonres otc deer tags this year. Lots of the units are going to hit the quota and close on the aug/sept hunt. Not much will be open in January when all the non residents show up to...
Some updates on OTC deer opportunity in Arizona and the new harvest limits.
https://www.azgfd.com/archery-deer-hunters-changes-coming-to-over-the-counter-nonpermit-tag-opportunity/