Cleveland National Forest, RAW questions

[GUNDOGLOVER]

Hrmm...$160 for non-resident license. Damn, now you put some thoughts in my head. Know a place where a bunch live.


You'd be surprised. My first one I shot (which unfortunately I didn't recover, even though I tracked him far), he meandered in after I'd finished using a mouth-call and gathered my pack and dropped down into this draw and was en route to next spot. Was going up this draw when "Doh!" I see him bopping along in the bottom of this draw trying up ahead of me trying to get himself down-wind of where I just had been at while blowing the call.

So: Wait a bit after you finally decide to stop calling, in case he's straggling on the way in. AND... most importantly... if you shoot him and he goes down, if he moves AT ALL shoot him again! It's INSANE the amount of pain they can take and still run! I shot him... he barrel-rolled mid-air... fell to the ground... was rocking back-and-forth a little bit, figure YES! I'd finally done it... then S.O.B. if he didn't get back up, turn to look back at me... then take off running. I figured yeah whatever like 40-50yds. Nope! I tracked his blood trail like 250yds! Down into a ravine! Even found where he'd hidden himself and laid down within a gnarled up Juniper. Until the trail finally just ran dry. So if you hit him? Hit him AGAIN!

in Az. I can buy licences by the day $20

 

[TheGDog]

Very interesting GDL!

Hrmm... do they have the ability to acquire those day-use licenses online before you go there? So you're not burning time during your trip trying to acquire it? Just thinking out loud here.

 

[GUNDOGLOVER]

Very interesting GDL!

Hrmm... do they have the ability to acquire those day-use licenses online before you go there? So you're not burning time during your trip trying to acquire it? Just thinking out loud here.

You can go on line and pick the dates you want to hunt then pay and print your license. With a annual license you can pick any start date you want. AZ. fish and game. Just follow instructions.

 

[Jackpot]

Which part of CNF? Northern or Southern?

I guess I would be considered the northern part of Cleveland National Forest. Temecula area.

 

[TheGDog]

Yeah, ok. For the most part? It's very thick in there. Very thick. So if you can't take your R.A.W. in with you, I wouldn't be too bummed about that.

 

[HATCHET1]

AZ really does not have much to offer for the sportsman...CA has much better hunting..D16 is loaded with critters to hunt...i start there.

 

[GUNDOGLOVER]

AZ really does not have much to offer for the sportsman...CA has much better hunting..D16 is loaded with critters to hunt...i start there.

Agreed, in all my hunts in Az. I have only seen two deer and 11 dove. And the deer where sick looking.

 

[TheGDog]

Rabbits and Dove and Quail and Coyotes all over the place in Golden Valley. (Along with Meth, but whatever)

 

[GUNDOGLOVER]

Rabbits and Dove and Quail and Coyotes all over the place in Golden Valley. (Along with Meth, but whatever)

meth I've never seen that in the regs.

 

[TheGDog]

meth I've never seen that in the regs.

Oh I'm pretty sure it's in the water supply out there, along with all the missing teeth.

 

[Jackpot]

Ya I’ve seen coyote out here we’re I am too but they always seem closer to town we’re you can’t hunt. I’ve got a spot in mind, hopefully they are out that far though. Only one way to find out.

 

[TheGDog]

BTW, It's likely that I regularly go into where you're planning on going. Send me a PM and we'll discuss.

 

[HATCHET1]

Agreed, in all my hunts in Az. I have only seen two deer and 11 dove. And the deer where sick looking.

Exactly..pretty scrawny..id drive the 5.5 hours from scottsdale to hunt the 16 in a new york minute though!..just waiting for a invite from one of the local pros. I can shoot..i promise..i practice alot. (from the truck!)

 

[Deleted member 27310]

Ya, that’s what I’ll probably do. What’s the odds of a newbie like myself getting coyotes close enough for a shotgun?

It's possible.. yotes are dumb this one busted me while I was still driving the truck....10 minutes later he was napping.

 

[Amir.fabrizzio]

What size shot did you use


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[HATCHET1]

Love me a good truck dog!! Nice job dude.

 

[GUNDOGLOVER]

Exactly..pretty scrawny..id drive the 5.5 hours from scottsdale to hunt the 16 in a new york minute though!..just waiting for a invite from one of the local pros. I can shoot..i promise..i practice alot. (from the truck!)

Yes, with good sound sage advice from the likes of us, hunters won't waste there time and money traveling to AZ.

 

[TheGDog]

In AZ can you take Burros? Or are they protected?

 

[Aeon]

@Larry are you missing them from that time in TJ?

 

[Snake Charmer]

In AZ can you take Burros? Or are they protected?

Read the reg's and know the law.... Also 380's are not allowed as a legal method of take in AZ with or without camera's for any big game animal . Burros are Federally protected and have been fo longer than most of us have been alive, check the post from the past where I explained the history of the burros and miners and meeting a man that met Wyatt Earp as a child and grew up eating them when he was young. He told me that the colts were very good eating.