I am looking at adding a second state to hunt in, I drive way out into the desert already in California a few hours further wont make a difference. You guys that hunt in these states, which one offers the most bang for the buck?
Both, Start building points in every state you can and after some years of putting in you will be able to have choices then watch the harvest counts and do some unit homework and you are in for some good times.I am looking at adding a second state to hunt in, I drive way out into the desert already in California a few hours further wont make a difference. You guys that hunt in these states, which one offers the most bang for the buck?
I shot a bull in a low density unit in AZ 2 years ago I am pretty sure none of the AZ units are OTC. Even though it was a low density unit my draw odds were still less than 20% with one point. Took me 6 days of non stop hunting and he was the only elk I saw. If you want to go elk hunting you would be much better off OTC in Colorado. Or if you dont care about shooting a bull UT has some pretty good cow opportunities late season.Been crunching the regs for both states and found Arizona has some low density elk hunts OTC, might be worthwhile to do some non-resident fish/upland/waterfowl 1 days $24 in those units to see if I can locate anything elkee, About the same success rate at getting drawn as it is to find an elk in one of those units.
I am liking the trapping laws in Nevada over the two, Arizona is box traps only on public land like California was unless I can find some landowners that will allow me to trap.
Nevada seems very broad in their regs for method of take, but non residents cant take bobcat or grey fox, in a trap anyway. Nothing like releasing pissed off bobcats from a leg hold trap.
AZ also offers the bonus point field day to get me jump started and there seems to be a non resident class that will get me the point instead of the field day. I think the NR class is done in Jan so will have to check back, don’t see it on their schedule yet. Any one ever done one of these?
Getting pretty good at crunching out of state regs, so much opportunity out there its just all spread out. I want a Mountain Goat now. I should just buy an Alaska license and call it a day.
A backpack full of snares sure is a-lot lighter than a box trap.Nevada hands down.