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05-31-2007 | 08:45 PM

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AZBear

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From: Mesa, AZ

RE: Getting Tags in Arizona

All the OTC tags are for Archery deer and that is any antlered deer. Remember there are drawings for special permit tags as well and they can be specific as to what animal can be taken. We have a sub-species of White tail deer here call a Coues (pronounced cows[/i]) and it is considerably smaller in size than what you are probably familiar with. In the record books they have their on section. That doesn’t make them any less difficult to hunt and having hunted both I personally feel the Coues deer is much harder to hunt but that is my opinion and I’m sure someone will take me to task on that.

The hardest thing about eating one will be getting the tag and then making the kill, surviving the heat while hunting and on and on and on…remember its desert out here. As far as mounting one you would be proud to hang on the wall just go to Cabelas here in Phoenix and take a look at all the record Coues deer they have on display and I think it will answer your question. I think you will find hunting in AZ to be a real joy and very interesting and it can take you a life time to get around to hunting it all. Take a look at the Game and Fish web-site http://www.azgfd.gov this site has a ton of information on it.

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