Call your shots!

[Never in Doubt]

Well the California drawing has closed and hopefully we'll find out soon what zones we'll be hunting. This is going to be a fun thread where we all try to call our shot, and then come back this fall and see how close we all were to getting it right!

Now's the time to year to get excited and make up crap about how good of hunters we are.

I'll go first. I probably won't draw an X-zone, so I'll hunting D3-5 and D6. I'm going to fill both tags. One will be a 4x4 and the other will be a 3x3. Both DIY on public land.

Oh yeah, it's gonna happen this year!



How about you guys?

 

[Drhorsepower]

I am not going to draw a Cali tag as much as I would like to.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

I have my D7 tag in hand. I'll be looking for a nice 4x4 too. Will be hunting in the Ansel Adams Wilderness on a packin hunt with 7 other friends and cousins. This will be our 67th year hunting the same camp.

Not too many Colorado residents will be buying Calif out of state lics & deer tags.Will get to catch a few Piute Cutthroats too. I'll be coming home to colorado afterwards and will probably hunt in the 4th season for a cow elk.

 

[Sawfish]

I'll bite. Put in for G3 as first choice (LOL); G38 (late season X-10) second; and D14 Third. Have a decent shot at G38, but looking to get D14. Bought a B2 Second Tag. Looking for a 3 X 3 and a 4 X 4. Will kill them both with a Handgun.

 

[Sawfish]

I have my D7 tag in hand. I'll be looking for a nice 4x4 too. Will be hunting in the Ansel Adams Wilderness on a packin hunt with 7 other friends and cousins. This will be our 67th year hunting the same camp.

Damn, Colorado. After hunting in the same place for 67 years, you should be on a first name basis with all of the Deer in D-7, as well as their Grand-bucks and Grand-does (LOL).

 

[Never in Doubt]

I'll bite. Put in for G3 as first choice (LOL); G38 (late season X-10) second; and D14 Third. Have a decent shot at G38, but looking to get D14. Bought a B2 Second Tag. Looking for a 3 X 3 and a 4 X 4. Will kill them both with a Handgun.

Nice!

Have you hunted X10 before? There were tags left over last year, which is rare for an X-zone.

 

[Never in Doubt]

I have my D7 tag in hand. I'll be looking for a nice 4x4 too. Will be hunting in the Ansel Adams Wilderness on a packin hunt with 7 other friends and cousins. This will be our 67th year hunting the same camp.

Not too many Colorado residents will be buying Calif out of state lics & deer tags.Will get to catch a few Piute Cutthroats too. I'll be coming home to colorado afterwards and will probably hunt in the 4th season for a cow elk.

That's quite a bit of experience for one zone! Did 4x4's used to be nothing special back in the day in D7? lol I can just imagine the good hunting California must have had 40-50 years ago.

 

[JMSZ]

I just checked the site this morning, I'm getting anxious already. I'm focusing on the hunt this year even more than I would otherwise, to keep myself occupied. The sooner I know whether I'll get to hunt something besides D-8, the sooner I'll be able to start planning and studying.

I applied for X-10, with X-9C as my second and D-8 as my third choice, plus got a D-8 second over the counter.

I'll take something with antlers on it... Set your sights low and you won't be disappointed.

I wish I would have checked for X-10 last year, I would have jumped on one of those.

Murphy's Law, since there were leftovers last year and I applied this year, there will be 10 times as many applicants as there are tags this year.

 

[Colorado Cowboy]

That's quite a bit of experience for one zone! Did 4x4's used to be nothing special back in the day in D7? lol I can just imagine the good hunting California must have had 40-50 years ago.

I have made about 35 trips in this area, Check my album for some of the bucks I've taken. I do know exactly where I want to be at legal shooting time on opening morning. Takes about 1 1/2 hour to get there from camp and a climb to about 10,000ft.

 

[Muleys 24/7]

I put in for a couple long shot choices for the first and second, and a local D tag I always end up with for third. This year I'm hoping I end up with a really big black bear I have my eye on, and a 3x3 or 4x4 in southern CA. I still have a good amount of meat left from last year so I'll be looking for something descent for what this local D zone can produce. I'm REALLY hoping to draw a random tag for sheep , elk , or antelope! I will also be looking forward to a Wyoming deer hunt this year. Good luck to everyone that put in.

 

[Muleys 24/7]

Nice!

Have you hunted X10 before? There were tags left over last year, which is rare for an X-zone.

yea that would be awesome to grab one of those with a 2nd choice!

 

[Muleys 24/7]

I am not going to draw a Cali tag as much as I would like to.

So what's the plan? Are you going with AZ archery again or nothing?

 

[Kevin Root]

Well the ranch I was going to get a deer hunting lease in C zone was sold resently and it's getting harder to pull the X zones I apply for so if I don't pull that I'll probaly try a D zone. My out of state plans this year to meet up with some out of state friends has moved from Wyoming to south Eastern Idaho and currently that's moved up a bit more north in Idaho to hunt deer and elk.

 

[m.mcolorado]

alright I don;t know what all this d and x stuff means. wierd californians. But here goes some cockyness!

Colorado-

Unit 13 Pronghorn- no less than 85
Unit 5 4th season Mule deer- Deer - no less than 185
Unit 5 4th season bull- Hmmm I will say I come out with a 280 6x6

pfft, that should get some laughs but i would wager i get it done!

 

[Drhorsepower]

So what's the plan? Are you going with AZ archery again or nothing?

We will see... I do not hold an archery tag this year and I thought I would have two. Colorado didn't pan out and I drew a muzzy tag in nv which I wasn't expecting(good thing). It feels weird because this was supposed to be my big archery year yet I do not hold an archery tag. I would like to go back down to Arizona. I am playing it by ear. We will see how the check book looks. My buddy called me today down there and they are getting ready to hunt archery bear! I wish I was down there with them that's for sure.

 

[Muleys 24/7]

We will see... I do not hold an archery tag this year and I thought I would have two. Colorado didn't pan out and I drew a muzzy tag in nv which I wasn't expecting(good thing). It feels weird because this was supposed to be my big archery year yet I do not hold an archery tag. I would like to go back down to Arizona. I am playing it by ear. We will see how the check book looks. My buddy called me today down there and they are getting ready to hunt archery bear! I wish I was down there with them that's for sure.

Well that's good, at least you got something going on. I think I would go crazy if I had to sit out a season!

 

[Muleys 24/7]

alright I don;t know what all this d and x stuff means. wierd californians. But here goes some cockyness!

Colorado-

Unit 13 Pronghorn- no less than 85
Unit 5 4th season Mule deer- Deer - no less than 185
Unit 5 4th season bull- Hmmm I will say I come out with a 280 6x6

pfft, that should get some laughs but i would wager i get it done!

Hey, I thought Colorado was the new California now with all your politics and gun laws! LOL. The X zones are premium zones here in cali. Good luck on your tags in CO!

 

[m.mcolorado]

LOL, Nice, thank you and good luck also. First draw in 7 years! Super stoked!

 

[Alabama]

alright I don;t know what all this d and x stuff means. wierd californians. But here goes some cockyness!

Colorado-

Unit 13 Pronghorn- no less than 85
Unit 5 4th season Mule deer- Deer - no less than 185
Unit 5 4th season bull- Hmmm I will say I come out with a 280 6x6

pfft, that should get some laughs but i would wager i get it done!

Ambitious much?

 

[m.mcolorado]

i know right, but i got to shoot high bud!