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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Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 24A: Complete Guide to the Pinal Mountains and Globe Country 2026
Unit 24A is centered around Globe, Arizona and encompasses hundreds of square miles of Coues deer and mule deer habitat across some of the most diverse mountain terrain in central Arizona. The unit is well known among Coues deer hunters for producing trophy size bucks — older age class animals have been harvested from thisContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 24A: Complete Guide to the Pinal Mountains and Globe Country 2026”
Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 21: Complete Guide to the Verde Rim Country 2026
Unit 21 stretches from the northern outskirts of the Phoenix metro area north to Camp Verde — a geographic position that makes it one of the most accessible quality deer hunting units in central Arizona for hunters based in the valley. It is also one of those units where proximity to population creates a predictableContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 21: Complete Guide to the Verde Rim Country 2026”
Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 23: Complete Guide to the Sierra Anchas and Canyon Creek Country 2026
Unit 23 occupies a unique position in Arizona’s Coues deer landscape that most hunters outside the dedicated grey ghost community do not fully appreciate. The Sierra Ancha Mountains and Canyon Creek country south of the Mogollon Rim are not the first place most hunters think of when they picture trophy Coues deer. That instinct pointsContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 23: Complete Guide to the Sierra Anchas and Canyon Creek Country 2026”
Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 22: Complete Guide to the Tonto Basin and Mogollon Rim Country 2026
Got everything I need. Here is the full article: Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 22: Complete Guide to the Tonto Basin and Mogollon Rim Country 2026 Unit 22 is one of those Arizona hunting units that rewards hunters who understand its character and punishes hunters who underestimate it. The terrain hereContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer and Coues Deer in Arizona GMU 22: Complete Guide to the Tonto Basin and Mogollon Rim Country 2026”
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”
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”
Chasing Mule Deer in the Wasatch: A Hunter’s Guide to Park City, Utah
There’s something about the first cold morning of October in the Wasatch Mountains that gets a hunter’s blood moving. The aspens have turned gold, the air bites with just enough edge to make your breath visible, and somewhere in the timber above Park City, Utah, a big mule deer buck is working his way throughContinue reading “Chasing Mule Deer in the Wasatch: A Hunter’s Guide to Park City, Utah”
Hunting Mule Deer on the Kaibab Plateau: Arizona GMU 12A and 12B Complete Guide 2026
If the Arizona Strip is the most famous mule deer address in the world then the Kaibab Plateau runs a very close second. Units 12A and 12B sit on the North Kaibab Plateau north of the Grand Canyon and have produced more Boone and Crockett mule deer than almost any other unit in the AmericanContinue reading “Hunting Mule Deer on the Kaibab Plateau: Arizona GMU 12A and 12B Complete Guide 2026”