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Elk, Antelope Draws 2023

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Its That time again next month:

Ok Guys- Its time again to apply for Elk and Antelope. So for elk, do you hunt an area that you know well but the elk get to hiding on first day, or do you put in for an area you have tagged in but dont know it as well but is loaded with elk ? Or put in because of number of permits or draw percentage or success rate? Alot to think about. Now speed Goat, last year a buddy put in for a hard to draw unit, took 16 points to get drawn, Im not waiting that long, so I guess Im only going to put in for 2 choices and pray I get lucky, who knows maybe I will. Last time I got drawn it was a choice area and it took 12 points to be drawn, again to long to wait. So what does everyone else think, Late hunts are easier to draw but I hate the cold and weather, so Im doing early hunts.
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Still waiting. Season must of been canceled for all the injured elk to recover
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Sooooooo I think AZGFD forgot to publish the regs LOL. They sent an email to update your portal account and blah blah to prep for the draw. BRO, i cant prepare for a draw that i dont know what the rules are!
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Let's hope this weeds out the non hunters who take tags away from people that'll put in more than 30 minutes of their time
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Interesting. People can now enjoy their turkey not frozen in the woods hahah
Wow check out the archery hunts!!! I chose the wrong year to cash my points in haha
Maybe we are over thinking it and it's just how the weeks liked up. I seem to remember maybe 7 or 8 years ago early archery ran almost into October
We are starting to see the number of covid hunters drop off. There were some spring left overs.
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That was true in the far part of history and they even had dayes but recently they had been opening the draw as soon as the the regs dropped. They had it all together recently and then started changing stuff again
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The gates are open. Let's go!
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Got mine submitted. I sure wish there was an overlap with deer and elk with seasons and units. Two years in a row now. Had a deer tag, saw elk and not deer. Then last year, had cow tag and saw lots of mulies, no elk.
But then there would be too many people in the field :ROFLMAO:
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Maybe I'm looking in the wrong places, but is there a way to find the draw odds of units without paying a membership to some other site?
Azgfd publishes these
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It's a lottery. Odds are odds. Randomized winner
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