Shhhhh……..don’t tell outa staters….Decided to take this “random” photo while reading the “I hate all the outsiders moving here” thread :-). I did not move to OK (yet), just bought a quarter section for hunting. The photo shows a 2022 OK 6-point shed found by my gravity feeder vs the mounted 8-point rack of a Coues deer my son shot in 2021. Blame this outsider’s interest in OK on the deer and hogs. In OK, I can show up and hit the rifle limit in about 3 days (unless I shift from being a meat to a trophy hunter). Whereas in AZ one has to put in for a lottery draw even if you are a land owner (heck with that), so public land it is…where one has to hike and glass for days to spy a Coues buck “ghosts of the desert”. Save for the challenge Coues hunting provides, I like the “sure thang” of OK Whitetail hunting much better; FWIW I harvested an OK fork-horn and a large doe in the first three days of rifle season. Hoping for a bigger buck and another doe in 2023.
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