This is a fascinating unit. Unit 28 is actually enormous — it spans from the New Mexico border westward across the Gila River country, including the Peloncillo, Whitlock, and Gila Mountains, and it is primarily known as a bighorn sheep unit rather than a Coues deer unit. The Coues deer presence is real but limited.Continue reading “Hunting Coues Deer and Mule Deer in Arizona GMU 28: Complete Guide to the Gila and Peloncillo Country 2026”
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Arizona Deer Draw 2026: The Deadline Is June 2nd and Here Is How to Use Every Day Until Then
Published April 2026 | Arizona Deer Draw The Arizona deer draw deadline is June 2nd, 2026. If you have already submitted your application, this guide is your gear prep checklist and your planning resource while you wait on results. If you have not submitted yet, you have about five weeks and you need to getContinue reading “Arizona Deer Draw 2026: The Deadline Is June 2nd and Here Is How to Use Every Day Until Then”
Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 35A and 35B: Complete Guide to the Huachuca Mountains 2026
The Huachuca Mountains rise abruptly from the San Pedro River valley in southeastern Arizona to Miller Peak at 9,466 feet — the second highest summit in Cochise County. They are compact, dramatic, and loaded with Coues deer at the middle and upper elevations. Units 35A and 35B divide the country surrounding the Huachucas and theirContinue reading “Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 35A and 35B: Complete Guide to the Huachuca Mountains 2026”
Best Optics for Coues Deer Hunting in Arizona: What You Actually Need and Why
Coues deer hunting is a glassing game. That is not a figure of speech. It is the literal description of how successful hunters find these animals. The grey ghost earns that name honestly. A mature Coues buck can stand in open country in broad daylight and disappear against the rock and brush in a wayContinue reading “Best Optics for Coues Deer Hunting in Arizona: What You Actually Need and Why”
Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 33: Complete Guide to the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains 2026
Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 33: Complete Guide to the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains 2026 One experienced Arizona hunter described unit 33 as Coues Deer Utopia and that description holds up to scrutiny. The Santa Catalina Mountains rising dramatically north of Tucson and the Rincon Mountains to the southeast form the geographic backboneContinue reading “Hunting Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 33: Complete Guide to the Santa Catalina and Rincon Mountains 2026”
Arizona Deer Draw 2026: How to Pick Your Unit and Not Waste Your Tag
The Arizona deer draw deadline is June 2, 2026. If you have not submitted your application yet, you are running out of time. If you have submitted and you are still second-guessing your unit choices, this guide covers which units to target and what gear to have ready when your tag arrives. If you wantContinue reading “Arizona Deer Draw 2026: How to Pick Your Unit and Not Waste Your Tag”
Hunting Mule Deer in Arizona GMU 10: Complete Guide to the Aubrey Cliffs and Kingman Country 2026
Unit 10 does not carry the name recognition of the Strip or the Kaibab. It does not appear on lists of Arizona’s top trophy units and it does not draw the kind of application pressure that makes hunters wait a decade for a tag. What it does offer is something genuinely valuable and increasingly rareContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer in Arizona GMU 10: Complete Guide to the Aubrey Cliffs and Kingman Country 2026”
Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 27: Complete Guide to the Eagle Creek Country 2026
Unit 27 occupies a corner of Arizona that most hunters from the Phoenix metro area have never seen and that most out of state hunters do not know exists. Tucked into the eastern edge of the state between New Mexico’s famous Gila country to the east and the San Carlos Indian Reservation to the west,Continue reading “Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 27: Complete Guide to the Eagle Creek Country 2026”
Hunting Mule Deer on the Arizona Strip: GMU 13A and 13B Complete Guide 2026
There are deer tags and then there are Strip tags. The Arizona Strip — units 13A and 13B in the northwestern corner of the state — occupies a category of its own in the world of mule deer hunting. Bucks over 200 inches Boone and Crockett are taken here every single year. Not occasionally. EveryContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer on the Arizona Strip: GMU 13A and 13B Complete Guide 2026”
Arizona Deer Draw 2026: What to Do While You Wait (Scouting and Gear Prep)
The Arizona deer draw deadline for 2026 falls around June 9th and draw results come out in late June or early July. If you have already submitted your application you are in the waiting game right now and there is nothing you can do about the draw itself. But there is plenty you can doContinue reading “Arizona Deer Draw 2026: What to Do While You Wait (Scouting and Gear Prep)”