Arizona Hunting Club - Arizona Hunting Workshop for Unit 12A

The Arizona Hunting Club invites you to attend a hunting workshop for Unit 12A. This workshop will teach you things that no other hunting organization in Arizona will teach you. We will show you how to predict that areas that are most likely to hold animals in this unit using a topographic map. Yes, you will need to buy your own U.S. Forest Service Quadrangle Topographic map, which can be bought at any map store for about $3.

Part two of this course is the actual scouting trip that will take the group to game unit 12A armed with a digital camera and GPS. The purpose of this trip is to find good places to hunt the following week. The group will scout the areas using the scouting map they prepared in class to see if what they thought on paper turned out to be real or full of surprises. Each day every team will scout during the morning and evening and report back to the group what they saw via digital cameras and waypoints recorded on their GPS units. Working together is the best way to find the animals.

The group will leave from Gilbert on Friday at 7:00 pm and camp in Unit 12A.

The workshop will cover the following topics:
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- Game Unit Tours and Campouts
- Game Unit Managers
- AZ Game and Fish Scouting Reports
- Topographic Scouting
- GPS Navigation
- Real World Scouting
- Mapping Way Points
- Aerial Scouting
- GPS/Topographic Software
- Finding Water Resources
- Finding Bedding Areas
- Finding Feeding Areas
- Finding Staging Areas
- Salt Licks/Molasses/Game Feeders
- Evaluating Game Trails
- Animal Travel Patterns
- Game Cameras/Trail Timers
- Camping Equipment
- Animal Calling/Game Calls
- Scent Covers/Wind Patterns
- Sound Covers/Sound Patterns
- Choosing a Weapon
- Rifle Practice Makes Perfect
- Archery Practice Makes Perfect
- Scouting Before the Hunt
- Still hunting/tree stand hunting/trail hunting
- No pressure vs. heavy pressure
- Where to camp
- How to Get Drawn
- Where to hunt
- Using Optics to Increase Your Odds
- Single Hunting vs. Hunting Drives
- Using Radios to Communicate
- Should I use a hunting guide?
- Scouting maps from guides?
- Retrieving Downed Game
- Taxidermist