Steelhead31,

The only OTC deer hunting we have in AZ is Archery and the only other big game animals that are OTC are Bear and Cougar. There is lots of public land in AZ but since your question is specifically about Phoenix I’ll have to tell you that you will have to travel some distance from PHX to do any really good hunting since the area around PHX covers about 70 miles East to West and about 50 miles North to South. You can go generally in any direction and find good hunting but it does take a bit of getting used to since we go from real tough SW desert to mountains over 10,000 ft. If I was coming out here to hunt for the first time and didn’t have any contacts then I would look into getting a guide or making a long summer vacation trek out here to check things out. Hope this helps…