I have found that when hiking around during my hunts in Arizona that a walking stick is worth it's weight. In the desert there is nothing holding the rocks on the ground other than gravity, all the dirt has been washed away and it is very easy to loose your balance when trucking across a side hill.
You need to get a binocular harness to keep them on your chest.
I don't use trecking poles but do use a walking stick that I got down in Arizona made from a yucca stem.
You have luck on your side.
When I drew mine I had 15 points which were max, I had max points the year before at 14 points but didn't luck out in the draw.
If you need any help let me know
What unit?
Once you find a bull you will find out that all the other hunters in the unit have found the same bull.
Best advise is to shoot it near a road.
Spoke too soon.
I got unsuccessful on my LE deer, pronghorn, moose, bison, and LE elk.
But due to having a lifetime license for deer hunting I have my muzzle loader deer tag for the Manti unit
The biggest problem that I have seen is hunters trying to hunt mule deer like they would whitetails. They try to pattern them and while that will work for a while it will get blown up quickly once that deer is bumped. And it usually doesn't take much to bump them. The last huge mule deer...
I asked my outfitter about them when I was on my grizzly hunt up in the southern portion of British Columbia and he told me that it had been a very long time since he had seen one in the area we were hunting. And we were 23 miles back into a wilderness.
We didn't even see any wolves but we...
Should also note that on the deer hunt out there is that there are only 2 tags issued. One for a resident that is drawn in the draws and one for the biggest bidder as KHSRanger mentioned. I believe that Denny Austed paid $430,000 for the first Conservation Permit which was offered a number of...