okay guys welcome back uh we are talking arizona draw application strategy arizona deer draw and
arizona coos deer draw specific strategies if you are someone that wants to hunt koozier which
is me every single year um with any weapon i don't care if you are looking to hot koozier
a couple things you should know for this really it doesn't matter if you're resident or non-resident
there are a lot of units that you can draw as a resident or a non-resident you can draw every year
or every other year that being said there are units that are very have a lot of private land
um have a lot of land that's locked up in cooster country there's a lot of rugged units
and there's a lot to know before you try to draw koozier tag so
let's just say you want to try koozier hunting for the first time you want to try to draw a tag
um typically there are two to three seasons you can choose from not the trophy late season
typically there's an october season and november season and early december season so you have three
of those seasons and i just want to break those seasons down for you the october season number one
and this is like i said this is almost like
anywhere there's koo's deer i'm talking about these units so any unit that says white-tailed
deer only which is koozier in arizona there's no eastern whitetail in arizona
first season is typically very warm and it can be very very hot it can be 100 degrees
where these kids you live um that's not to say they're not out and about that they're they're
they still get up they still feed they still go to water they still do all these things
i have found that it's very hard to hunt in really hot weather it's hard to maintain
it's hard to stay out there from myself or my clients or my guides so that's something that
you need to take into account and that needs to be part of your approach when you're trying to
draw one of these tags um are you okay with really warm weather do you have the necessary equipment
are you gonna have a cooler ready or you have all the stuff ready to make sure that you can
be successful and be safe it sounds silly but safety is a big deal especially when
you're it gets really hot you go on an hour hike or you go on this a chase where
you shot at a deer you see a deer and he went over a ridge and you keep going and you're like man
i only brought two water bottles all this stuff it can get pretty serious pretty fast
so i want everybody to understand that hunting in the desert is the real deal especially when it's
hot especially when you gotta hike so be careful safety is number one um and i'm not talking
about immigration that's not a huge concern of mine it's more of hydration that is a big deal
food you can live without food but make sure that if you're going hunting in these early seasons
that you carry enough water and also that you have an ice chest in your truck car whatever
waiting for you to get back that water's cool down because if you are overheated it doesn't
take long to get heat exhaustion doesn't take long to get fatigued it doesn't take long to
get dehydrated which are serious and they only happen quicker the next time you go out hunting so
sorry for the safety plug there but that goes into hunting and drawing these first season tags
uh an advantage of these first season tags i kind of just list the disadvantages
some of the advantages of drawing an october tag is hey you're the first typically you're
the first one out there you're the first hunters to get to hunt some of these bucks
you um you know you get the first crack i mean that's the bottom line you it's hot but
you know um the most bucks exist during that october season because after that october season
the bucks get cut down by how many people are successful and then we segue into the november
season so um there it's definitely a calculated risk and a calculated um you know approach to the
to the first season because um you get the first crack at these deer and if you're capable physical
um it's a great opportunity and i like these these uh these first season hunts um
you know in what we do we spend a lot of time we'll come home or not come home but we'll come uh
come into camp in the afternoons and stuff i mean it's kind of one of those hunts hunt the morning's
pretty hard hunt the afternoon's pretty hard we're at camp typically in the middle of the day
unless we're like waiting on a deer to get up or something like that um and we bedded him
down it's kind of that can be a tricky deal too guys if you find it a buck in this october season
it may take him all day to get up that's i've had numerous situations where we've had to do
water runs or i've had bodies get severely dehydrated because they've been they're
waiting in the exposure of the sun this exposed heat and they're waiting for these bucks to get
up so they can shoot them meanwhile their body is is overheating dehydrating all these things that
they were not ready for they weren't prepared for so know that shade is your best friend and water
is your best friend and and just being prepared is really important um unlike some of the later hunts
where a buck may get up in the middle of the day it gets cloudy or whatever he'll feed it's october
hunts there's more of a chance where he will say better the entire day and you're going to sit for
eight hours under a tree waiting for you know him to stand up this is real that actually does happen
um a brief unit breakdown um they said it's it's pretty pretty equal across the board
um every unit that has a whitetail only or cruz only um season i mean it's it's pretty straight
across i mean there's some great potential in every koozier unit i mean 30 a 30 b 29
24 36 a b c 34 b 34 a 35b35a21 22 23. um that's just to name a few 27 you know that's
they have um some good opportunities out there too but um and you know
6a like some of the there's some of those higher elevation units are great on the on the mogyon rim
but you're really going it's the same thing whether you're hunting uh you know northern
arizona or you're hunting southern arizona um it's gonna be warmer you're gonna get first crack at
these deer and it just kind of depends on what your style is and how fit you are and you know
what type of level of hiking or access you prefer you know some guys like i want to go
in the wilderness some guys are like i got a bad hip i need to stay a little bit close to
the road all things there are units to accommodate each and everybody's goals
for coos to get a nice trophy representative koozier so yeah if you have any questions on
that on anything before i go any further if you have any questions on the koozier
unit specific questions um feel free to hit me up i don't care i'm not looking for your um
for your uh i'm not looking to sell you a hunt or anything like that um if you want to call
me about booking a hunt do it but if you just want like some general advice hit me up anytime
i have had guys do it quite a bit so i'm cool with information i'm not going to give you like
obviously exact spots but guys you know you don't need there like i just want to be
help people get to the right areas on their own and part of the problem with sending somebody
to a certain spot is that when those spots don't produce it you know there are so many
spots out there and and it's there's plenty of opportunity guys for you to make your own spots
and have your own hunting areas and and to kind of develop an understanding of certain areas and
drainages and creeks and ridges and stuff so there's not that many secrets out there um there's
just boots on the ground and that's kind of where we're at so before i get any farther i'm going to
talk a little bit more about um the various coup seasons but that just goes right there don't be
afraid to hit me up don't be afraid to comment uh below and let me know if you have any questions
below just hit me up um i'd like to spread some knowledge without pissing too many people off
um i like to help everybody it's all public land we're hunting arizona and you gotta draw it so
i'm all about it um i'm a resident i like to hunt coos here it's my passion so i my natural
reaction is to help people do that and maybe down the line sure yeah you might want a guided hunt or
you might want to buy us a scouting package or an outfitted deal or whatever it is cool
if not cool um let's go to that next hunt so you have typically a first hunt and this isn't like
totally unit or statewide like some some units they only have a couple hunts so they all have
a first hunt and a second on which that second hunt is right after the first mule deer hunt
so early november so you have a koozier hunt you have a mule deer hunt and then you have
another koozier hunt that hunt is it's kind of like to me it's it's it's a good hunt to draw
uh for your first time there's already been a thousand people pushing deer around starting
with kind of the disadvantages but they're kind of advantages as well so you already have a thousand
people pushing you around koozier have already been shot out of there so it's the second round um
that's pretty much the disadvantages the advantages to us are the weather cools off
a little bit so within those two weeks typically that second week of november the weather still
cools down um it'll be in the 80s during the day could be cooler we've had some cold snaps
a little bit cooler um the deer have been pushed so that may seem like a bad thing sometimes it's
a good thing sometimes these deer go into these areas that um we more commonly find these bucks
versus bucks scattered abroad they're kind of condensed in certain areas that we like
to focus on um hopefully not all the big deer are shot that first october hunt
i haven't seen that yet um it seems like we always end up finding big bucks on every hunt
part of the advantage for that second hunt if you're going guided or scouted or whatever is
that we've already been in there for two weeks so we kind of we keep finding more and more deer
um and have a better idea of where certain bucks are if you're going unguided or just diy um
it's a another great opportunity to go a little bit farther go a little bit deeper than where you
normally would go maybe just a little bit farther off a road and see search into spots that are just
that much uh more remote maybe where the bucks are hiding just that next ridge if you're if
you're a solo hunter diy guy um again season's a little bit cooler uh typically another advantage
is it's around veterans day so for the working guy it can be a little bit better that way um not
all the time but sometimes you have a an extra weekend day that you can take off and hunt um
and it's not really in a busy time you know the third hunt is right after thanksgiving which
doesn't work out for a lot of people especially if you're traveling that early mid-november hunt
is a cool hunt just because it's it's you know um it's a good time here to hunt deer i mean they're
hunting deer pretty much all the united states is hunting deer during the first week of november so
we might as well do that too in arizona um the third hunt is first of november or no
first of december kind of like right after thanksgiving so whenever thanksgiving falls
that friday black friday is the beginning of the late rifle elk and it's also beginning of the
third coo season in 80 of the units in arizona for that that have accused your only season again it's
the same kind of factors as that second season it's even cooler um but there are more bucks that
have been shot so the population of big shootable bucks is decreased just a little bit more
one factor that's a very very clutch in that third season is it's a 10 day season so the prior
mentioned seasons are typically seven day seasons well that third one is 10 days so that gives you
two weekends that comes in handy when you have thanksgiving on thursday and you have a family
and or prior obligations on thanksgiving and you can't quite make it that full thanksgiving weekend
you can always hunt that second half of that hunt so great opportunities doesn't take a bunch
of points to draw i don't care what unit we're talking about i went over them pretty much all
these units they have the same opportunities great great time of year great weather um
and again there's still a good chance of killing some nice bucks um just from a weather standpoint
you know what i've seen throughout the years is that sometimes you have like a season accuser
season that just gets slammed with the weather so say the second week just gets hammered with wind
and rain and the the deer literally maybe bedded the whole hunt right so you don't have as much of
a harvest during that second hot so it could be some cool bucks hanging around that third hunt
just waiting you know that never got seen never got shot at um or there's just phenomenal weather
that third time where it's cool and kind of rainy or whatever it is you know and it gets these bucks
on their feet so um in my opinion each koozier hunt has disadvantages and it has advantages and
i haven't seen one hunt produce bigger bucks than the other i have just seen
consistent different style of opportunities on each hunt um weather dependent and
you know that that type of deal i hope that makes sense and all these hunts are not like
i said before i mean they're not crazy to draw i mean you don't need a ton of points to draw these
hunts whether you're a resident or non-resident so if you just want to try a koozier hunt
listen to maybe some of the advantages and or time of year that these are happening on and
then make that determination on what's what fits your personal schedule better
not oh i'm gonna hunt the third season because it's you know where all the tro whatever it isn't
really the the trophy quality or bigger but all that doesn't really differentiate from each season
it's more of what fits your schedule as like a diy hunter or a guided hunter if you want to
come guided know what fits your schedule first before so you have an opportunity an idea of
what's going to work for you so i hope that helped again if you have unit specific questions hit me
up in the comments below or or personal message dm me or personal email me message me whatever
you want to do call me um and i'll help you out if you want a guided hunt of course i'll help you out
if you want some information on uh what i think would be your best opportunity of course i'll help
you i don't care if you're buying a hunt or not we do scouting packages we do outfitted packages
which the difference in those is outfit is like hey we'll put you we'll get your camp together get
all the stuff you need um all the all the stuff you need that you don't have to go out and buy
and you know we help guys out like guys with group of buddies two three six friends that all want to
come out they're like dude i don't really want to go buy a bunch of canvas wall tents and all this
stuff like can we just can we you know get an outfitted package typically that coincides with
a scouting package because that usually will set you up in a good area and then be like you need to
hunt here here here and here and so it's like and it doesn't cost as much as a fully guided
outfitted han and it's really good for diy guys that want to get after by themselves and not have
to worry about you know trailer loads of gear and crap and forgetting stuff and going to the store
and blah blah so we're here to help you out in any way shape or form again koozier hunting is such an
awesome experience so unique to the sonoran desert um north of the border it's fantastic hunting
and we'll go over a little bit in another video about the cruiser hunting approach
and some of the good approaches basically if you're a first timer or you've hunted koozier
all your life some of the approach that we take to um we have better success um from glassing certain
areas more so than others or just starting in different spots so i hope it's helped guys i
hope it encourages you to apply for the draw get a deer point try to apply for a hunt if you
have a desire to hunt coos deer do your research hit me up look online there's plenty of good stuff
gohan.com has cool research on draw statistics and there's a bunch of other resources as well but uh
we're here to help guys i appreciate you tuning in and good luck this season talk to you later you