PHOENIX – You still have a chance to win one of the nation’s most prestigious hunts — the Arizona Big Game Super Raffle deadline for 2009 has been extended to July 12.
Here’s your chance to win one of Arizona’s 10 top hunts, while also contributing to wildlife conservation. It’s a win-win for [...]

Improve your chances for a Coues whitetail deer tag
The Arizona Deer Association is sponsoring the Great American Deer Raffle to benefit Arizona’s mule deer and Coues deer herds. The raffle features six unique items, five of them hunts, including one for an Arizona Commissioner’s Coues deer tag. This special big game tag offers [...]

PHOENIX — If the recent NRA convention in Phoenix got your American spirits pumping, or you just recently bought a new firearm to replace that old hand-me-down, then now is the time to join one of the summer recreational shooting leagues at the renowned Ben Avery Shooting Facility.
Beginning in June and running [...]

Lend a hand, wildlife projects need your help
Compiled by Doug Burt, public information officer, AGFD

If you are looking for a way to give back to wildlife or just to help out some organizations doing good work for Arizona, here’s a project that can use your help.
June 13-14: Elk habitat improvement project (water catchment & fencing)
Who: [...]

Outdoor learning flourishes
during youth turkey camps in the mountains
By Rory Aikens, public information officer, AGFD

Courtesy photo: Successful junior spring turkey hunters
COLCORD RIDGE, Mogollon Rim – The mountains, mentors, wildlife officers, volunteer instructors, gobblers, guides and even the wind had a lot to teach 180 or so camo-clad youngsters during the opening weekend of the spring [...]

New this year: Pheasant applications now due the same day as fall deadline

May 15, 2009
PHOENIX — It may be 100 degrees outside, but fall is right around the corner – the fall hunting application deadline, that is.
Sportsmen, women and children looking forward to hunting in Arizona this fall have until Tuesday, [...]

The first public use Cowboy Mounted Action Shooting Action arena (also refured to as action shooting or mounted shooting) has opened at the Arizona Game and Fish Ben Avery Shooting Facility.
The Arizona Game and Fish Ben Avery Shooting Facility is located at Carefree Highway and Interstate 17 just north of Phoenix, Arizona. The first [...]

Hunters can start applying for fall hunts now; draw deadline is June 9

April 30, 2009

PHOENIX —The 2009-10 Arizona Hunting and Trapping Regulations are available now at the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Web site at www.azgfd.gov/draw. Applications are now being accepted for hunting permits for fall deer, turkey, juniors-only [...]

Your input will help shape and preserve Arizona’s hunting heritage

April 29, 2009
PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is accepting public input for revising the state’s hunt guidelines now through the end of May. Comments may be submitted either electronically via email or mail them directly to the department [...]

April 27, 2009

A 3-D archery fun shoot will be held at the Ben Avery Shooting Facility’s archery range Saturday, May 9, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m.
This fun shoot is a 20-target course designed to be fun, exciting and challenging. All ages and skill levels are welcome.
No registration is required. The [...]

COLCORD RIDGE, Mogollon Rim – The mountains, mentors, wildlife officers, volunteer instructors, gobblers, guides and even the wind had a lot to teach 180 or so camo-clad youngsters during the opening weekend of the spring turkey season.
With a lot of able assistance from sportsmen’s organizations, the Arizona Game and Fish Department [...]

Enhances first-come, first-serve system for leftover permit-tags
The Arizona Game and Fish Commission approved the remaining big game fall hunting seasons for deer, turkey, javelina, bighorn sheep, buffalo, bear and mountain lion at its April 18 meeting in Phoenix.
The application deadline to apply for a hunt permit-tag is Tuesday, June 9 [...]

Got a Hunting Tip? Send it to us
Arizona Wildlife Views magazine invites you to share your best hunting tip with our readers.

Last minute submissions are being accepted through Sunday, April 19, and you can still win a free copy of “Hunt Arizona 2009.” The first 50 persons to send [...]

PHOENIX – The Arizona Game and Fish Department reports lab tests found no detection of chronic wasting disease (CWD) in any of the 2,343 testable samples from hunter-harvested or road-killed deer and elk during Arizona’s 2008-09 hunting season.
The department has tested approximately 12,500 deer and elk samples since beginning its surveillance program in 1998. None [...]

Juniors-only spring turkey tags now offered over-the-counter

PHOENIX — The Arizona Game and Fish Department is now offering juniors-only spring turkey hunting tags over-the-counter for the 2009 season. The change to the tag allocation method is in an effort to introduce youngsters to the American hunting tradition and wildlife conservation. [...]

PHOENIX – The 2009 drawing for Arizona elk and antelope hunt permit-tags has been completed, and the 117,873 applicants can now visit the Arizona Game and Fish Department’s Web site at www.azgfd.gov/draw or call (602) 942-3000 and follow the prompts to see if they have been drawn.
Be prepared to provide your department [...]

Volunteer opportunities for hunters
By Les Bell, volunteer coordinator,
Arizona Game and Fish Department

The Arizona [...]

Wildlife research may change deer management on the Kaibab
By AGFD research and [...]

Attention varmint and small game hunters:
New non-lead ammunition available this year
By Shelly Shepherd, information/education program [...]

Rabbits are very challenging [...]